Christchurch, in the heart of Dublin

The interior of a spectacular church not even on the tour maps.

Charles Stewart Parnell, in his square.

       "Stately, plump Jean Hanuman came from the treetop, bearing a bowl of mashed bananas on which a spoon and a backscratcher lay crossed." Hanuman spent half the weekend quoting his own kind of mash-up of James Joyce passages, in which he always seemed to take the lead role. Some pics from the Joyce museum of the city's tribute to the great writer. (There are also brass plates dotting the city that commemorate the journey of Leopold Bloom in the course of the novel Ulysses).

A mural in a courtyard of the James Joyce Centre inspired by the novel Ulysses.

OK, just a wee bit morbid, but the museum features the death mask of Mr. Joyce.

In Ulysses, the home of Leopold Bloom is at 7 Eccles St., where Nora Joyce's family once lived. Here the door from that address, which was saved from a demolition by a group of Joyce admirers, and kept in a working pub for a dozen years or so until it was transported to the museum.