WORDLESS WEDNESDAY; IRISH COASTLINE, RUSH BEACH

Who knew rocks left actual human shaped footprints

It’s wordless Wednesday but it you are looking for words to read, visions to marvel at and a deep dive into poetry then look no further than Black Bough Poetry’s latest anthology, currently No.1 on Amazon for poetry collections and our WordPress muse Merril D. Smith is onside it, not literally but her wonderful poem is!

Cheeky selfie by one of the many Martello Towers, build as defensive forts along the coast in the 19th century in fear of Napoleonic Invasion

Inside #DeepTime, Volume 1 from Black Bough Poetry. And if you find it via @Blackboughpoems or its editor extraordinaire @MatthewMCSmith on Twitter then check out the link to the recordings the poets made reading their poems and the beautiful mind-blowing musical score to accompany this book by Stuart Rawlinson

Seals! Waiting for the sun to bathe! Seals. On the shore! Chilling! Go on!!!!

All photos by Damien B. Donnelly

BLOOMSDAY; A BIT OF ULYSSES TRIP AROUND DUBLIN

 

James Joyce Martello Tower, Sandycove, opening of Ulysses, Telemachus- with Stephen, Buck, Haines and the Milk Woman

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The Forty Foot, from the opening chapter

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The Door of Eccles Street, home to Leopold and Molly Bloom now in the James Joyce Museum

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Sandymount and Strand from Proteus with Stephen Dedalus

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Formerly the spot of Nelson’s Pillar, now the Spire in O’Connelly Street opposite the GPO where Bloom, under the pseudonym of Henry Flower ,collects a letter

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The General Post Office, O’Connell Street 

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The National Museum where Leopold Bloom escapes Blazes Boland in Chapter 8

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The National Library from chapter 9 featuring Leopold Bloom and Stephen and ‘Hamlet’

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Sweny, the chemist where Bloom buys Lemon Scent Soap and his wife’s lotion in ‘Lotus Eaters’

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Glasnevin Cemetery for Paddy Dignam’s funeral 

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The Wooden Bridge out to Bull Island which Stephen Dedalus crosses in The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, prior to the timings of Ulysses

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The James Joyce Center, Dublin

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Haiku at Jame Joyce Museum

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Joyce remembered at Moli, Museum of Literature, Ireland 

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All photographs of Joyces’ Dublin by Damien B. Donnelly