Seanad debates

Thursday, 16 October 2003

Will the Leader bring to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government's attention a small but significant point which has been drawn to my attention before, that is, the house on the corner of Lincoln Place with Sweny's chemist – a curious spelling – which forms an important point of Joyce's Ulysses and is visited by many people? The main part of the building appears to be deliberately left open to decay. Next year is the hundredth anniversary of Bloomsday and people from all over the world will visit. The Government has become involved in it. It would be a shame if tourists from all over the world came and visited one of the sites from Ulysses and saw classic inner city dereliction with the windows wide open inviting the building to fall down, although the chemist is still running satisfactorily underneath. It is something into which we need to ask somebody to look.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.