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7 Eccles Street was a row house in Dublin, Ireland. It was the home of Leopold Bloom, protagonist of the novel Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce. The house was demolished in 1967, and the site is now occupied by the Mater Private Hospital.
The house at 7 Eccles Street, alas for Joyce pilgrims around the world, was demolished in 1967. But John Ryan, the Dublin artist and man of letters who organized the first Bloomsday in 1954, rescued the front door and its surrounding masonry and installed it in The Bailey pub which he had purchased in 1957 and made a hangout for writers.
No 7 Eccles Street is a mid terrace house in Dublin. During the early years of its occupancy, the street was a largely affluent area, though in later years the buildings were designated as tenements. The house features in the great Irish novel, Ulysses as the home of James Joyce's character, Leopold Bloom.
See a rare image of the real house that inspired Joyce's fictional home of Leopold and Molly Bloom in Ulysses. The photograph was taken by Phil Phillips in 1950, when the house was still occupied.
Entrance to 7 Eccles Street at the James Joyce Centre. The James Joyce Centre is a museum and cultural centre in Dublin, Ireland, dedicated to promoting an understanding of the life and works of James Joyce. It opened to the public in June 1996.
Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. This chapter analyses how the various styles of the later episodes shape a reader’s understanding of the impact of Molly’s affair with Boylan on Leopold and Molly as individuals and as a couple.
The history of No. 7 Eccles Street is. one of missed opportunities, neglect, and property speculation. This once-grand Georgian town house declined into a slum in which Clive Hart recalls finding seven families living, one to a room, when he visited it in the late 1950s. In 1965, the property was put up for auc.
