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Dublin in Books
Books with scenes in Dublin, each with places marked on the map. Plus books chosen for a similar mood.
7 books · 5 with Dublin scenes, 2 chosen for their mood · Dublin places on the map
What books are set in Dublin?
5 books on Storyland have scenes in Dublin: Dubliners by James Joyce, Ulysses by James Joyce, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, In the Woods by Tana French, and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle — each pinned to a Dublin location you can visit.
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
- In the Woods by Tana French
- Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
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Dubliners
Dublin scenes
Fifteen stories mapping the city’s streets, pubs, and lodging houses at the turn of the century.
Places: Dublin, north and south of the Liffey
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Ulysses
Dublin scenes
Bloom's single Dublin day — you can still follow his route past Davy Byrnes and Sandymount Strand.
Places: Sandymount Strand to O'Connell Street
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Conversations with Friends
Dublin scenes
Young Dublin intellectuals and tangled love, around Trinity College and the bookshops of Dawson Street.
Places: Trinity College & the city centre
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In the Woods
Dublin scenes
A detective returns to the suburban woods of his childhood in this atmospheric Dublin crime novel.
Places: Dublin's suburbs & woodland
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Dublin scenes
A working-class Dublin boyhood in Doyle's pitch-perfect northside dialect.
Places: Barrytown (north Dublin)
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Read for the mood
The inner life of the city that made Joyce — Dublin schooldays, sermons, and first ambitions.
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Dracula
Read for the mood
Not set in Dublin, but Stoker was a son of the city — Ireland's great gothic export.
Reading your way into Dublin
From Joyce's Liffey-side wanderings to Sally Rooney's Trinity set, Dublin is a city built out of sentences. The books below are drawn from Storyland's book↔place engine and checked against real locations, so each one points to a street you can still walk.
Frequently asked
What books are set in Dublin?
Storyland lists 5 books with scenes in Dublin: Dubliners by James Joyce, Ulysses by James Joyce, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, In the Woods by Tana French, and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle. Their Dublin places are marked on the map.
What should I read before visiting Dublin?
Before visiting Dublin, read Dubliners by James Joyce (Dublin, north and south of the Liffey), Ulysses by James Joyce (Sandymount Strand to O'Connell Street), Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney (Trinity College & the city centre), In the Woods by Tana French (Dublin's suburbs & woodland), and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (Barrytown (north Dublin)). Each has scenes in Dublin, with the places marked on the map.