Author guide · Where the books are set
James Joyce's world
Every real place James Joyce's stories are set in — one guide across their books, verified against the text and mapped so you can read your way there before you go.
1 book · 3 real places · grounded to James Joyce
Where are James Joyce's books set?
James Joyce's 1 book are set in 3 real places you can visit: Dublin, Sandycove, and Sandymount Strand — each a location their stories actually unfold in.
- Dublin
- Sandycove
- Sandymount Strand
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Real places in Ulysses
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Dublin
Leopold Bloom's day threads the whole city - from the Freeman's Journal offices and Davy Byrnes pub to the funeral out at Glasnevin Cemetery - the most exhaustively mapped city in modern fiction.
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Sandycove
Dublin Bay
The novel opens at the Martello tower at Sandycove - now the James Joyce Tower and Museum - where Buck Mulligan shaves on the gun-rest above the "snotgreen sea."
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Sandymount Strand
Dublin
Stephen Dedalus walks the tide-line of Sandymount Strand in the Proteus episode; the same beach returns at dusk in Nausicaa, where Bloom watches Gerty MacDowell.
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