Mosaics depicting famous artists based on paintings by Charles Rossiter. They were created between 1864 and 1875 for the South Kensington Museum (later to become the V&A) and were known as the Kensington Valhalla.
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outside the house where Sir William Wilde and his wife, Jane, lived, and where Oscar grew up. James Joyce arranged to meet Nora here on the 14th June 1904 but was stood up!
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on what was formerly the main road from Sligo to Donegal
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"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead [...] and mounted the round gunrest. He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding land and the awaking mountains."
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"God, he said quietly. Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks. I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta ! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look."
Ulysses James Joyce
View from the parapet of the Martello Tower in Sandycove, Dublin, Ireland. To the right can be seen bathers at The Forty Foot. Taken in 1988.
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Somewhere in France; taken in 1973.
Developed and printed at home in a make-shift darkroom.
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