IanMoore300015 Usher's Island, reputed setting of James Joyce's brilliant short story "The Dead". A proposal to turn it into a hostel was blocked and now it appears to be falling into dereliction.
I remember people complained when there was talk of the Dead House on Usher's Island being converted into a youth hostel so now it is derelict with broken glass in some windowpanes and a far right poster in a window, which some people might consider a result.
AidanK ๐ต๐ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธAnyone who cares about #literature, #JamesJoyce or the historic fabric of #Dublin, should mind this:
A developer, who trousered โฌ130 million of public money by exploiting the most vulnerable people in Ireland, now wants to turn the Usher's Island house of Joyce's story "The Dead" (also the location of John Huston's film), into "mundane" apartments.
Write to the planning authorities and Dublin City Council.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50390837
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แแแแแแแThis house would be such a wonderful museum, if the State had the balls to do it - or even if a group of universities banded together to buy it and run it as a museum with a writer's studio on the top floor to be given to a different writer every year
#TheDeadHouse #UshersIsland #Dubliners #JamesJoyce
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2021/0616/1228387-actors-call-on-state-to-save-joyces-the-dead-house/
#TheDeadHouse #UshersIsland #Dubliners #JamesJoyce
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2021/0616/1228387-actors-call-on-state-to-save-joyces-the-dead-house/