A Bloomsday PostcardTo celebrate James Joyce and the centenary of Bloomsday, Niall Murphy has assembled a dazzling selection of 240 postcards, all of them posted in the Dublin area during 1904, four of them sent on 16 June that year. In 1904, the sending, receiving and collecting of postcards had become an essential part of life in Edwardian Dublin. In an age of few private telephones, the postcard was a popular and reliable form of communication in Dublin there were six

The prose complements the poetry telling us things about Kavanagh that the poems do not tell

it is boom time in Dublin

where the river Liffey begins its last descent out to sea

modernist and intellectual

By honouring Ireland's forgotten dead on the centenary of the Great War

where he worked in advertising to support his theatrical career Ð and acted in The GaietyÕs production of his play ÔThe Cardinal and the CrowsÕ

They feel less good about themselves

A Dublin girl turns her back on a life of comfort and familiarity to drift in the anonymity of a large

reconciling them gloriously within the arc of his life

This book presents a distinctive Irish perspective on the evolution and persistence of family business

Taken together

Turtle Was Gone a Long Time: Horsehead Nebula Neighing