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PJ, Ramona, her daughter Evelina and the Lithuanian Ambassador, Egidijus Meilūnas, on Bloomsday. Also an evening shot on Lincoln Place , and PJ and myself in Kennedy’s. PJ is about to go on an adventure to Italy and the USA for 3 weeks.

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-06-20

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Bloomsday in Sweny’s and Kennedy’s pub (Conway’s in Ulysses, from where Bantam Lyons spotted Leopold Bloom coming out of the chemist). L-R main photo, volunteers Fionnán, Paddy, Helena, Milena and Bruno.

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-06-17

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Bloomsday! And what a way to celebrate it. We received news that the TS Elliot Estate has donated €5,000 to help Sweny’s stay open. What a wonderful gift. Photos of Sylvia Beach with Joyce in the doorway of Shakespeare and Company, and TS E...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-06-16

Busy wrapping our sweet lemony wax! We’re Bloomsday ready! 🍋

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-06-15

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Sweny’s today, wrapping many bars of lemon soap for Bloomsday! The day itself (Sunday) begins with PJ hosting a Bloomsday breakfast over the road in Kennedy’s pub from 10.30, with performances and readings, craic guaranteed. The chemist will a...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-06-14

PJ doing what he does so well, telling stories and bringing new people in.

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-06-07

Guess who’s back! PJ just after arriving home (newly tanned) from a week’s holiday in Barcelona. “Delighted to be back.”

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-06-05

Lovers of Joyce’s works will love this. Darina and Sinead have performed every year at Sweny’s ‘The Dead Dinner’ and their show is highly evocative of Joyce’s Dublin and of course very entertaining. They are playing in Bewley’s Cafe Th...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-05-29

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Heads down, immersed in the Circe chapter of Ulysses (it’s a long one) it’s also a surreal episode set in ‘Monto’ or Nighttown in Bella Cohen’s brothel (sensitive individuals may stop reading now) in which Leopold Bloom changes sex as do...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-05-23

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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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