13 Şubat 2013 Çarşamba

Street names in Dubliners

James Joyce deserves to be remembered while we are pounding the pavement in Dublin streets. Here are the street names in Dubliners according to the short stories respectively:
The Sisters
Great Britain Street: street in North Central Dublin, north of the river Liffey, in a part of the city inhabited by many of the poor (still the same). Now Parnell Street.
Irishtown: A poor area of Dublin just south of the river Liffey.
An Encounter
Gardiner Street: street in Dublin's north side.
Wharf Road: road running along the top of a sea-wall which protects part of north Dublin from submergence in the waters of the river Tolka delta and of the tides Dublin Bay.
North Strand Road: a major thoroughfare on the north side of the city.
Araby
North Richmond Street: street on the north side of the city.
Buckingham Street: street on the north side of the Liffey in central Dublin.
After the Race
the Naas Road: the road from the town of Naas, County Kildare, to the south-west of the city.
Inchicore: a lower-middle-class suburb to the west of the city.
Dame Street: a main thoroughfare in central Dublin on the sound side of the river.
Westland Row: a street in central Dublin south of the river. It contained a railway station which served Kingstown harbour and the town.
Two Gallants
Rutland Square: now Parnell Square. A square on the north side of the river Liffey at the head of Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street).
Dorset Street: a main thoroughfare in north central Dublin.
Dame Street: a thoroughfare in central Dublin just south of the Liffey. In 1904 it was a business street (by the way salute Occupy Dame Street!)
Baggot Street: a street of fashionable Georgian houses and expensive shops in the south-east of the city.
down Earl Street: Earl Street is part of a principal east-west thoroughfare in central Dublin.
Nassau Street: They are walking along the railings of the street which runs east on the southern side of Trinity.
Kildare Street: street of fine houses and buildings which runs south from Nassau street to Stephen's Green.
Hume Street: street off the eastern side of Stephen's Green.
Capel Street
Westmoreland Street: street that runs from College Green to O'Connell Bridge.
Ely Place: a small street of fashionable houses off Baggot Street.
The Boarding House
Spring Garden: a street on the north side of the city between the Royal Canal and the River Tolka.
Hardwicke Street: street of respectable terraced houses on the north side of the city.
Fleet Street: street in central Dublin, off Westmoreland Street just south of the river. It was an office area in which many law firms and business agents operated.
Marlborough Street: street in central Dublin north of the river.
A Little Cloud
Henrietta Street: street in central Dublin leading to the rear of the King's Inns, which, at the time this story is set, was lined by tenement dwellings inhabited by the poor.
Capel Street: street in central Dublin north of the river which gives on to Grattan bridge over the Liffey.
Counterparts
Temple Bar: street in south central of Dublin which leads into Fleet Street.
Westmoreland Street: see above.
Shelbourne Road: street about two miles east-south-east of the city centre. In the early twentieth century it was a street of mixed lower-middle-class houses and slum tenements.
Clay
Henry Street: street in central Dublin running west from Sackville Street.
A Painful Case
George's Street: that is Great George's Street South, a thoroughfare on the south side of the Liffey in central Dublin.
Lucan Road: the road which runs along the south bank of the river from Chapelizod to the village Lucan which is about six miles west of the city centre.
Ivy Day in the Committee Room
Wicklow Street: street just south of the river in central Dublin. It is from here that Nationalist Party organises its campaign.
Aungier Street: a street in central Dublin just south of the Castle.
Dawson Street: street of offices and shops in central Dublin just south of the river.
Grace
Grafton Street: the principal shopping street in central Dublin just south of the river.
Westmoreland Street: see above.
Crowe Street: street in central Dublin just south of the river. It gives on to Dame Street.
Thomas Street: street in west-central Dublin just south of the river where Guinness's famous brewery is situated.
Moore Street: runs north and south parallel to Sackville Street.
The Dead
Bachelor's Walk, Aston's Quay: quays on both sides of the river Liffey immediately west of O'Connell Bridge where there were a number of booksellers.
Back Lane: street in central Dublin just south of the river.
Winetavern Street: street close to Usher's Island which gives on to the south bank of the river.

Source: James Joyce, Dubliners, introduction and notes by Terence Brown, Penguin Books, 2000.

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