After visiting the Phoenix Park the other day to watch the deer…
They were watching me as much as I was watching them
…I got a lift back into Dublin city centre by a man whose parents had christened him Stephen Dedalus; his sister Anna Livia. As we drove along Ellis Quay, we passed the James Joyce Bridge which spans the Liffey at the house on Usher’s Quay where ‘The Dead’ took place…
James Joyce Bridge
…and I suddenly remembered that Joyce’s major works, Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners and Finnegans Wake are scheduled to enter the public domain at 12:01am on January 1st 2012. I can’t wait to see what Joycean delights the coming year brings. To celebrate, I’m publishing this post as close to midnight Dublin time as I can, before cracking open my well-worn copy of Finnegans Wake. Happy New Year.
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Where's my backpack? 