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Fun and frolics from the last few days in Sweny’s. Including a birthday celebration for our wonderful volunteer Ramona, originally from Lithuania. Also pictured is Rita (with the fab hat) and Soyoung Lee from South Korea. Also PJ entertaining an...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-08-17

Irish Band Channels the Spirit of Punk, and James Joyce

‘They put on readings with other writers, including a soap salesman-poet they met in Sweny’s, the drugstore that features in Joyce’s “Ulysses.”’ The hippest band in Ireland, fresh off the Jimmy Fallon show, namecheck Sweny’s. They o...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-08-05

A photo from the 23rd Trieste Joyce Summer School, which was attended by our volunteers Cecilia Fox and Flora Dowling. And the wonderful singer Noel O Grady (not in photo). They attended the Ulysses seminar given by the extraordinary Fritz Senn....

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-07-28

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Images from before, during and after yesterday evening’s Ulysses reading (every Thursday at 7pm). We began the book again and read the first two chapters Telemachus and Nestor, set in the famous Martello Tower in Sandycove and the school Stephen...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-07-26

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No rest for the wicked. On Wednesday it was poetry at Sweny’s, last night as part of the Flann O Brien conference held by UCD, our own Fionnán O Connor presented an evening to raise awareness of Sweny’s in academic circles in the old Lillie�...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-07-19

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What a fantastic evening we had last night at Sweny’s! Massimiliano Bianchi and François Nédel Atèrre reading their own poetry in Italian, French and English, with Yeats, Louis MacNeice and Joyce poems read by myself (Jack Walsh) and Brigid C...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-07-18

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An eventful time at Sweny’s. Main photo is of a statue of James Joyce donated by the sculptor Edwin Ryan to raise funds for Sweny’s. What a wonderful gesture! Also shown are Grégoire Poirier preparing his music for Wednesday evening’s poet...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-07-14

He’s back! Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. PJ, back from Tallahassee Florida and Verona Italy over the last 3 weeks, kicks back into action today

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-07-13

Wednesday 17th! A great evening at Sweny’s. The poets Massimiliano Bianchi and François Nédel Atèrre together will sail with the audience for a poetic journey with readings from their own work and writers such as WB Yeats, Baudelaire, Rimbau...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-07-08

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Sweny’s on a summer’s evening, Rita our volunteer who makes our hats, me with my son Seán (who is a neuroscientist home from New York, where he works at NYU, proud Dad!) and visitors Cemil Yildiz from Kurdistan and Madison & Sherri Deraedt fr...

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-07-01

Pride Parade passing outside Sweny’s. Great excitement. They’ll all be needing lemon soap after with all the sweating! 😎

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Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin @ 2019-06-29

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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 Eliot 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 El...

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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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