James Joyce’s Odyssey: a Guide to the Dublin of Ulysses, by Frank Delaney; photographed by Jorge Lewinski (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1981)Text and photographs take readers on a tour of “the Dublin of Ulysses.” Out of print,
James Joyce’s Odyssey is worth seeking out used or in a library. Consider it an invitation to a “bookpath.”
'Ulysses' may, if you wish, become a guidebook, a literary 'Baedeker', by which a trip to Dublin becomes enlivened… And after all, Joyce designed the novel from his own knowledge of the city, from details supplied by friends, relatives, books, newspapers – and from the information contained in 'Thom’s Directory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland – Dublin Edition, 1904'. Each year this tome gazetted, alongside government and commerce, the city of Dublin, street by house, house by occupant and Joyce, for the purposes of Ulysses, interrogated 'Thom’s'. The characters and their bits and pieces were in his head already – he used 'Thom’s' to find them rooms to live in, places to go. – from James Joyce’s Odyssey: a Guide to the Dublin of Ulysses, by Frank Delaney
Related WebsiteFrank Delaney’s Website – Author’s Note on James Joyce’s Odyssey