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Thursday in Sweny’s. Photos from the evening reading of Ulysses. We read part of Circe, the Nighttown chapter set in Monto. The extra pic is PJ with a group of Lithuanian poets, as you do.

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-05-17

Wonderfully expressive Italian tour guide Fulvio Rogantin in Sweny’s yesterday with a group from Puglia in the south east of Italy. Joyce spoke Italian in the home with Nora, Giorgio and Lucia. Their kids, Giorgio and Lucia, grew up in Trieste i...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-05-10

The Monto, or Nighttown in Ulysses, or Circe. We’ll begin the chapter this evening at 7, and continue next week. In it, Leopold Bloom ends up in a brothel with Stephen Dedalus and has a surreal experience, in which the soap he bought in Sweny’...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-05-09

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In Kennedy’s pub (Conway’s in Ulysses) after the skype interview with Ally Findley of LitHub which we did in Sweny’s. All the ghosts are here. Top photo Max, Emmanuela, Brigid and myself Jack . Bottom photo Helena, Fionnán, Mitch and PJ (ba...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-05-04

This was Good Friday at Sweny’s. Most of these are Spanish women who came flying through the door and wanted our famous lemon soap, and bought about 25 between them. The man at the back, Okon Ubanga Jones, was an actor in The Verdict at the Gaie...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-04-24

Bloomsday Festival

Our very own Frederick W. Sweny and Eoin Rogers on Bloomsday! 🍋

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-04-17

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Here’s our new T-shirt! It was designed by Mitch VanAcker our volunteer from Milford Michigan seen here with PJ. It’s an amazing design, all the more so because Mitch is only 20 years old, and is a literature and arts student at Hope College i...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-04-15

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is read at 1pm every Wednesday by a very enthusiastic and committed group led by our volunteer Davy Doyle. This week they finished Chapter 4... She was alone and still, gazing out to sea; and when she felt ...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-04-11

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A fantastic night was had on Wednesday upstairs in the Palace Bar in Fleet Street! Thanks to the generosity of Willie Aherne of the Palace itself, one of the most beautiful and atmospheric of Dublin’s old Victorian pubs, and also the reps of the...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-03-30

“The young woman with slow care detached from her light skirt a clinging twig.” Fionnán O Connor reading from the Wandering Rocks chapter of Ulysses on Thursday evening. “God, he cried. I forgot to tell him the one about the earl of Kil...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-03-23

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After the Ulysses reading last Thursday evening (7pm). This week the chapter we read was Scylla and Charybdis which takes place in the National Library with Stephen Dedalus and the lads discussing the Bard. Buck Mulligan thought, puzzled: - Shak...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-03-17

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A volunteers fundraising meeting last night at Sweny’s. Our efforts are going well and we have to keep it up but it’s all worth it to keep this wonderful place alive! We have a whiskey tasting night at the Palace Bar coming up on Wednesday 27 ...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-03-14

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Our incredibly talented Ramona made a James Joyce outfit for her daughter. After Ruth Negga playing Hamlet at the Gate Theatre last autumn, the time might be ripe for a kindred production of the Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman?

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-03-07

Sweny's Pharmacy are creating the Joycean heartbeat. | Patreon

Some of you might already know this, but last year our rent has been increased by a whopping €1,500 per month. The good news is that more and more people are waking up to the reality that it is in our hands to decide the future of Dublin. Do we ...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-02-24

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🍋The new Friend of Sweny's Badges have arrived! Hand crafted by our amazing volunteer Ramona Agurkyte for our fundraiser. Get one of these beauties by becoming a patron here: https://www.patreon.com/swenyspharmacy

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-02-17

With Kenji Hayakawa on our way to visit the Museum Of Literature Ireland to which we were generously invited by Director Simon O Connor. It’s taking shape nicely and will be a wonderful addition to Dublin. Simon described his experiences at our ...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-02-14

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Last Saturday, Feb 2nd, was James Joyce’s birthday. He’s no spring chicken at this stage, having been born in 1882. Sweny’s marked the occasion by having the wonderful Marion McEvoy singing Joycean songs. The second photo L-R myself (Jack Wa...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-02-04

I’ve been very silent on Sweny’s FB page recently because I’ve been moving home, which takes a lot more time than you expect! So here we are back with a photo from Brazil. Fortaleza to be exact, and our volunteer and board member Bruno Ponte...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-02-01

The Triestine basketball team Alma's kit now features a quote from Joyce: "La mia anima è a Trieste/My soul is in Trieste", from a 1909 letter to Nora! (With thanks to Nick Sweeney)

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-01-15

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Back to basics after the heady night at The Dead Dinner last Sunday. Main picture, our 4 volunteers at the Ulysses reading last night (Thursday 7pm every week) L-R Milena from Germany, PJ, Bruno from Brazil and myself, Jack. If you fancy being a v...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-01-11

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Photos from The Dead Dinner last Sunday evening in Wynn’s Hotel. What a night! Just about crowbarred everyone in (two extra tables) and had a great time. A reminder of what Sweny’s and Joyce are all about - people Couple of notes, you’ll not...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-01-08

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