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Sample from the College Green VR, looking west toward Dame street
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Fusio Ltd in Dublin has created ten Quicktime VR views of Dublin, each 370k, that give a scrollable 360-degree view from ten different points in the city. [map&info]
This page will give a Joycean's-eye tour of each of these. (Links marked '[qv]' are to the text of Ulysses.)
For each one, the 'tour' will start from the same angle-of-view that the VR opens with, and then pan right in a clockwise circle. (To pan, you have to hold down the mouse button and drag the mouse a little to the right at the same time. You can also hold down the SHIFT or CONTROL keys to zoom in or out, if you really want to.) [more help]
Links marked '[splitscreen]' use Javascript and frames to put the VR in the top half of the window, and this tour in the bottom half.
A half block down Earl on the north side was Nagle's pub, mentioned briefly by Corley in ch16 (Eumeus). Earl street turned into Talbot in the next block, and two more blocks down Talbot is where ch15 (Circe) opens. Across from Nagle's on the south side of Earl is Meagher's, where Bloom had lent Hynes three bob (see Eolus [qv]). (Just trivial stuff, sorry!)
Looking south down the east side of O'Connell street we should see Lewers, where Molly bought silkette stockings that have already laddered (ch18), and beyond it Clery's department store, and beyond it Abbey street and Mooney's pub (see below). Even zoomed in, I don't see the O'Connell statue where it ought to be...?
Still panning right, south of the imposing Post Office, on the west side of O'Connell, would have been Drimmie's insurance where Bloom worked briefly, and Manfield's where as an adolescent he dreamt of selling shoes (see Circe).
Looking west down Henry street, a few blocks down was the Volta theatre, where Joyce started Dublin's first movie-house in 1909.
On the northwest corner was The Arch, a pub where M'Coy last saw Dignam (see Lotus Eaters [qv]). And coming back around to the startingpoint we pass the Gresham hotel in the distance on the east side of O'Connell, as featured at the end of 'The Dead' [qv].
When it first loads, we're looking downriver towards the Customs House and Nighttown, and also the cabman's shelter under the Loop Line bridge, all on the left side of the image (north side of the Liffey). The dome we see is the Customs House.
Panning right to the south side of the river, out of our sight beyond the bridge is where Bloom starts ch5 (Lotus Eaters [qv]), sidling the long way round towards the Westland Row post office to pick up Martha's letter. The nearby block of buildings that we see on the southeast side of the river included the Scotch House bar, where Dilly thinks Simon Dedalus has been drinking in ch10 (Wandering Rocks [qv]).
Due south, where the street forks, there used to be a statue of Smith O'Brien, noted by Bloom in ch6 (Hades [qv])-- it's the second of a long series of ghostly statues (the shades of the dead) that they'll be passing. The lefthand fork is D'Olier street, up which the funeral procession had come. Probably this is where Boylan's typist will be briefly seen, in ch10 (one of the only ambiguous sites in the book! [qv]), for Martin Cunningham spots Boylan out the carriage window here [qv].
The righthand fork is Westmoreland street, where Bloom chats with Josie Breen in ch8 (Lestrygonians [qv]). At that point, he's just crossed to the east from the west side of the street, where he saw the ballastoffice clock and the HELY'S signboard men [qv]. (It's also where the Irish Times has its live webcam.)
The southwest side of the river here was of little or no interest to Joyce, until you got down a few more blocks to where all the bookstores were. You can barely see the Ha'penny footbridge crossing there, but beyond it is the dome of [].
This western side of the O'Connell bridge is where Bloom buys cakes for the gulls at the start of ch8, after dropping the 'crumpled throwaway' [qv] (which will seem to linger under the bridge for the next two hours).
On the north side of the river is Bachelor's walk, where Dilly catches Simon coming out of an alley behind Dillon's auctionrooms [qv]. Simon will mosey upriver this way to the Ormond hotel, for chapter 11 (Sirens). (This section is also very clear in the live-webcam view.)
On the west side of O'Connell street was Lemon's confectionery, where Bloom begins ch8 [qv], after his labors trying to sell the ad at the Freeman's offices a half block northwest, in the Eolus chapter (ch7 [qv]).
If you scroll up you'll see the looming statue of O'Connell in the middle of the street. Bloom's house at #7 Eccles is one mile north from here.
Until 1966, O'Connell was dwarfed by Nelson's 120-foot pillar, two blocks north and also in the middle of the street. This was the landmark visited by the two 'Dublin vestals' in Stephen's comic story, The Parable of the Plums, which he tells at the end of ch7 (Eolus [qv]) as he leads the newspapermen across O'Connell to Mooney's pub, not quite visible in Abbey street lower-- the side street one block northeast of our viewpoint. Mooney's is also next door to 'the Ship'-- where Stephen is supposed to be meeting Mulligan at that very moment [qv], but where he's sent an insulting telegram instead: "The sentimentalist is he who would enjoy without incurring the immense debtorship for a thing done. Signed: Dedalus." [qv]
That most-spectacular architecture as the VR opens is the Bank of Ireland, mentioned first in Ulysses in ch4 (Calypso [qv]), when Bloom pictures the sun 'rising' behind it in the northwest, as pictured on the masthead of the old Freeman's Journal.
Panning right we peer towards Westmoreland street where Bloom met with Josie Breen (see above), after which he walks up past Trinity [qv] towards his lunch.
Two hours later in ch10 (Wandering Rocks [qv]), we'll see Stephen chatting with Artifoni in front of Trinity, after which Stephen will disappear from the text until ch14 (Oxen, six hours later). Peter Costello suggests Stephen may be quietly keeping James Joyce's Bloomsday rendezvous with Nora Barnacle during that time!
Stephen and Mulligan may have come down to this point together after meeting at the Library although Stephen hoped to avoid this: "Part. The moment is now." (ch9, Scylla and Charybdis [qv]). Mulligan will have headed off the other way to the Dublin Bakery Company (DBC) to meet Haines [qv], when we see Stephen here.
(Nassau street, between the Library and here, is where Joyce first met Nora on 10 June 1904.)
Continuing right (south), the corner of Grafton and College Green is where the HELY'S signboard men will see the viceregal cavalcade (some 20 minutes after Stephen meets Artifoni), while on the opposite side of Grafton, with a rose in his teeth, Blazes Boylan is on his way to Bloom's house to meet Molly [qv].
The cavalcade is also seen by the Breens a half block down College Green, under King Billy's statue-- no longer standing-- which also featured in Gabriel's anecdote near the end of 'The Dead' [qv]. Behind where King Billy would be is the post office where Stephen had 'launched' his telegram to Mulligan.
Much further down on the south side, just out of sight, is the DBC where Mulligan and Haines are gobbling scones and gulping melanges [qv] as the Viceregal cavalcade passes (it's also following the route the blind stripling had taken ten minutes earlier).
Across the street from the DBC, the cavalcade is seen by Dilly Dedalus in Fownes's street, and by John Henry Menton in the doorway of 'Commercial Buildings' a half block this side of Dilly. And finally, on the corner just beyond the Bank of Ireland was Jury's Hotel, where Mr Power (Bloom's carriagemate in ch6 Hades [qv]) met his barmaid-mistress.
The Gaiety Theater is on the north side of South King street (the west view). And looking north along Grafton, where it angles to the right would be Thornton's, where Boylan buys the fruit basket for Molly at the start of ch10 [qv].
The small bridge upriver is the Richmond, and past it still on the south side is Adam and Eve's Church, where Finnegans Wake opens. A little further on, not really visible, are the offices of Plumtree's, of the potted meat.
The dome on the north of the river is the Four Courts. On this side of the Richmond bridge is the post office where Bloom mails his reply to Martha (with a money order) at the end of Sirens, and the Ormond itself is the yellow building.
The larger bridge 'below' us is the Essex (now Grattan), first mentioned when the viceregal cavalcade crosses it at the end of ch10 [qv], coming in along the north side of the river from Phoenix park.
And as we return to our startingpoint we see the corner where Reddy and Daughter's Antiques was, where Simon meets Father Cowley and Ben Dollard on their way to the Ormond, in ch10 [qv].
The building in the middle of the street is Peppercanister Church, but I know no points of interest in this view except that 270 degrees around, to the northeast, at the end of Fitzwilliam street (?), is where the Holles street maternity hospital used to be.
And while the cavalcade was passing that corner [qv], the blind stripling was nearby, with Patrick Dignam a block behind him and Macintosh a block ahead.
Circling around 180 degrees back to the river we see the Loop Line bridge, under which was the cabman's shelter (ch16, Eumeus).
St Stephen's Green doesn't figure in Ulysses at all, I don't think, and I can't tell which way is which in the VR. (There's one white building peeking thru-- what is that?)
And the Trinity view is an area we never hear about-- somewhere is the book of Kells, and somewhere Hornblower's back gate (Lotus Eaters [qv])...
The Christ Church view is also baffling to me. We're looking north in the direction of the Ormond, I think, and as we circle right eventually we see the dome of the Four Courts again.
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