Clanbrassil Street
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Clanbrassil Street is a street in Dublin south of the city centre. It runs from Robert Emmet Bridge on the Grand Canal to New Street. It is served by several bus routes. It is divided into Clanbrassil Street Upper and Clanbrassil Street Lower.
Clockwise from top: Leonard's Corner post office; a bar on Clanbrassil Street; Upper Clanbrassil Street looking towards Robert Emmet Bridge
19th-century houses on the east side of Lower Clanbrassil Street
Leopold Bloom
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Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses. His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in Homer's epic poem: The Odyssey.
Plaque in memory of Bloom in his (fictional) ancestral home, Szombathely
Zero Mostel in costume as Bloom for the play Ulysses in Nighttown (1958)