Limited edition of 100 numbered copies, signed by the author,
clothbound and slipcased with a 1904 penny inset on the cover. 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 mail deliveries a day, and
one on Sunday. To 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. Here are the messages of
ordinary people who walked the streets of Dublin side-by-side with
the characters of Ulysses, with their words eerily mirroring the
novel's events. There is a rescue from drowning in Kingston; crime
and punishment in Grafton Street; the Great Storm of 1903; King
Edward's visit; and memories of a 'departed day' spent in Howth.
Among the many tales of love, three are enacted in varying degrees
of intimacy: Millicent and Francisque de Boissieu, Jack Miller and
Maud Tighe, and Ina and John McGregor - echoing Joyce's use of
postcards to establish the blossoming romance between Milly Bloom
and Alec Bannon. Published in association with the National Library
of Ireland, 'A Bloomsday Postcard' features the work of the
legendary postcard artists - Louis Wain's strange human cats; Lance
Thackery's satires of upper-class life; and C. Dana Gibson's
exquisite drawings of beautiful women. Here also are cards
depicting the Russo-Japanese War, Yukon gold miners, the Dublin
Horse Show, and life in Connemara - creating a mesmerizing
full-colour mosaic that brings to life the world of Bloomsday, 1904
like never before.
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