A Saunter to Sandycove with Flann O'Brien

book_nowWith Paul O'Hanrahan

From Teddy’s to the Tower, this dramatised Flann O’Brien
walk is an inversion of the beginning of the
famous 1954 Bloomsday pilgrimage by Flann
O’Brien and other literary notables, with the Joyce
Tower as the goal rather than departure point.
Based on a running commentary on the ways of the
world from The Best of Myles, the walk is interspersed
with short readings giving a flavour of the novels,
particularly The Third Policeman, but also The Dalkey
Archive, The Poor Mouth and At Swim-Two-Birds.
The walk follows a surreal logic along the coastal path
from Newtownsmith to Sandycove, with detours for drinks
displaced - or deferred - by forays into the parallel universe
of Flann O’Brien’s colourful and whimsical imagination.
Meet at site of the old Dún Laoghaire Baths,
opposite the People’s Park at 2.45pm.
Duration of tour is one hour. E5

From Teddy’s to the Tower, this dramatised Flann O’Brien walk is an inversion of the beginning of the famous 1954 Bloomsday pilgrimage by FlannO’Brien and other literary notables, with the Joyce Tower as the goal rather than departure point.  Based on a running commentary on the ways of the world from The Best of Myles, the walk is interspersed with short readings giving a flavour of the novels, particularly The Third Policeman, but also The Dalkey Archive, The Poor Mouth and At Swim-Two-Birds.

The walk follows a surreal logic along the coastal path from Newtownsmith to Sandycove, with detours for drinks displaced - or deferred - by forays into the parallel universe of Flann O’Brien’s colourful and whimsical imagination.


Saturday September 3rd
Meet at site of the old Dún Laoghaire Baths, opposite the People’s Park at 2.45pm.
Duration of tour is one hour. 
€5 

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