{"id":32,"date":"2021-03-09T17:06:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T17:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:44:32","slug":"visit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/plaster-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#building\" uk-scroll=\"\">Our Building<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#maginni\" uk-scroll=\"\">Maginni Room<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#kenmare\" uk-scroll=\"\">Kenmare Room<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#door\" uk-scroll=\"\">Door of No. 7 Eccles Street<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#experience\" uk-scroll=\"\"><em>Ulysses<\/em> Mural<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>\n<h1>Our Building<br \/>\n<\/h1>\n<\/h2>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>35 North Great George\u2019s Street was built in 1784 for Valentine Brown, 1st Earl of Kenmare, who used it as his townhouse. In the eighteenth century, this area of Dublin was very fashionable but it fell into decline in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.<\/p>\n<p>By 1982, twelve houses on North Great George\u2019s Street had been demolished by the City Council, including the house next door. No. 35 was saved from demolition by Senator David Norris, a Joycean scholar who also lives on the street. With the help of many others (such as the North Great George&#8217;s Street Preservation Society) and with funding from a variety of sources, the building was renovated and the Centre was opened to the public in June 1996.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>The Maginni Room<\/h3>\n<p>The Maginni Room was originally the dining room of the house. Though Joyce never lived in this house, he has a connection with it through Prof. Denis J. Maginni who ran a dance academy here. Originally his name was Maginn, but he added an extra <em>i<\/em> to make it more Italian sounding in keeping with his exotic profession. Maginni was a well-known and colourful character in Dublin and appears several times in <em>Ulysses<\/em>. In the \u2018Wandering Rocks\u2019 episode he is described as wearing a \u201csilk hat, slate frockcoat with silk facings, white kerchief tie, tight lavender trousers, canary gloves and pointed patent boots\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The plasterwork is original, though the dancing figures in the medallions date from Maginni\u2019s time. Though damaged, the plasterwork was mostly preserved under layers of paint and dirt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/dance.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"caption\">One of several dancing figure medallions displayed in the Maginni Room<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>The Kenmare Room &amp; Old Library<\/h3>\n<p>The Kenmare Room is named in honour of the Earl of Kenmare, to whom the building belonged when it was built in 1784. The plasterwork had disappeared completely by 1982 and was restored using photographs taken by Constantine Curran. The &#8220;Charioteer with Winged Horses&#8221; that can be seen in the Kenmare Room is also found in the library at Belvedere College and was a favourite theme of Michael Stapleton, the stuccodore.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenmare Room is used for meetings, exhibitions, and lectures. Hung on the walls next to the room are reproductions of portraits of members of Joyce\u2019s family. These include Joyce\u2019s mother May Murray (sketched from photographs by her grandnephew Derek Joyce) and his father John Stanislaus Joyce (commissioned by Joyce himself from the Irish portrait artist Patrick Tuohy in 1923, one year after <em>Ulysses<\/em> was published).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Kenmare Room is adjoined by the Old Library, which was once used as a study space. The Old Library currently houses <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/events\/suzanne-freemans-ulysses-an-odyssey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ulysses: An Odyssey<\/strong><\/a>, an art exhibition by Suzanne Freeman. The exhibition is a visual introduction to the story, characters, and themes of <em>Ulysses<\/em>. Suzanne Freeman recreates each episode of <em>Ulysses <\/em>in a series of 18 display cases that reference prominent motifs, objects, and locations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kenmare.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"caption\">The Kenmare Room is used for meetings, exhibitions, and lectures<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_9471-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"caption\">The Old Library currently displays <em>Ulysses: An Odyssey<\/em> by Suzanne Freeman<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eccles.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"caption\">The door of No. 7 Eccles Street, the home of Leopold and Molly Bloom in <em>Ulysses <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Door of No. 7 Eccles Street<\/h3>\n<p>At the back of the ground floor of the building is our courtyard, which contains the original door from No. 7 Eccles Street. In <em>Ulysses<\/em>, this is Leopold and Molly Bloom\u2019s address. The house itself was demolished in 1982 to make way for an extension to the nearby Mater Private Hospital. Thankfully, the door was saved and is on loan to the Centre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ulyssesxperience.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"caption\"><em>Ulysses<\/em> Mural by Paul Joyce<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3><em>Ulysses<\/em> Mural<\/h3>\n<p>Around the walls of the outdoor courtyard you will find the eighteen episodes of <em>Ulysses<\/em> depicted in a series of murals painted by Paul Joyce, the great-grandnephew of James. 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