ABSTRACT
In Ulysses, James Joyce remembers Dublin. It is such a simple point that it is easy to
forget. Not only is Ulysses an extraordinarily detailed portrait of Dublin life, it is one
created at a physical and temporal distance. The final words of the novel are actually
‘Trieste – Zurich – Paris’, reflecting the fact that Joyce had barely set foot in Dublin
during the seven years the novel took to write. Not only that, but by the time Ulysses
was published in 1922, the Irish capital had undergone radical political, social and phys-
ical change: it was now the capital of an independent nation, but a capital that had suf-
fered large-scale destruction during the 1916 rising and the war of independence.
