James Joyce 21k | Writing

Below are curated runs around places that relate to Joyce's writing. Each run has a different theme and they vary in length. The longest runs are 21k, hence jj21k and match each of his major works.

MAJOR WORKS

Dubliners

This run starts at Sydney Parade and runs westward, as does the flow of the collection, Dubliners

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The run, starts in Blackrock Park, where young Stephen Dedalus starts running

Ulysses

The Ulysses run starts, like the book, at the Tower in Sandycove

Finnegans Wake

The hardest run for the hardest book, whilst being the simplest run of the simplest book.

MINOR WORKS

Pride of Calpe’s rocky mount, the ravenhaired daughter of Tweedy

The backstory to Molly Bloom

Why are we on the move again if it’s a fair question?

This Joycycle goes round the houses.

Mr. Joyce’s Ulysses

An early review of Ulysses

Nothing happens in the public houses. People drink

A run past all pubs mentioned in Ulysses, that exist today.

At walking pace

A run along the route of Paddy Dignam's funeral procession.

Stephen was once again seated beside his father

A 7.5K run around significant Cork City sites in the writings of James Joyce

Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub

An 8k run across Dublin, without passing a pub

Every boy, he said, has a little sweetheart.

A run from the Bull Wall to Ringsend

I.AM.A.

A short run around the setting of Nausikaa in Ulysses

He knew the value of the name

The tastes of Dublin

Pprrpffrrppffff

The smells of Dublin

He’s up in Dottyville with Conolly Norman

A brief run around Grangegorman

Brown Imperturbable Faces

A brief look at James Joyce and Buildings

they found the grave sure enough

A brief look at the Joyce Family grave in Glasnevin Cemetery

Agonising Christ

A brief look at John Stanislaus Joyce

I’ve a thirst on me I wouldn’t sell for half a crown

A brief look at Barney Kiernan's Pub

Alice the Elephant and the Fox and the Chicken

A brief look at the Zoo

Don’t beat me, pa! And I’ll…I’ll say a Hail Mary for you.

A brief look at the story Counterparts

The most delicate and evanescent of moments

A brief look at Epiphanies

My good man is packing us off to Skerries

Flann O'Brien finds James Joyce living in Skerries

Now who is that lankylooking galoot over there in the macintosh?

A brief look at who the man in the Macintosh might be

That’s the music of the future

A brief look at Trams in Ulysses