Detail. Area illustrated is indicated within red rectangle (right)
This print encompasses the area in Dublin from Glasnevin Cemetery in
the north west, the scene of ‘Hades’ in Ulysses, to Connolly
Station (formerly Amiens Street Station), and ‘Nighttown’‚ reputedly the
largest red-light district in the British Empire and the location for
Bella Cohan’s brothel in the ‘Circe’ episode, in the south east. Included
among the references to Ulysses are No. 7 Eccles Street, the
fictional home of Leopold and Molly Bloom (now the site of the Mater Private
Hospital) and Bloom on his way to buy a kidney at Dlugacz’s butchers and
returning to No. 7 with Stephen Dedalus from the cab-man’s shelter. There
are a wide variety of drawing styles including cartographic ‘quotes’ and
extracts from 19th and 20th century maps.
