In the heart of Dublin, you’ll find Trinity College, the alma mater of Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, and Bram Stoker, to name a few.

Mulligan’s, the pub where some of the Dubliners story “Counterparts” takes place, is still around and serving, and it’s just around the corner from Trinity.

“Weathers made them all have just one little tincture at his expense and promised to meet them later on at Mulligan’s in Poolbeg Street. When the Scotch House closed they went round to Mulligan’s. They went into the parlour at the back and O’Halloran ordered small hot specials all round.” – James Joyce, “Counterparts”

Also not far from there, you’ll find a James Joyce statue.

And another short jaunt away, in the Temple Bar area of Dublin, a hotel covered in paintings of characters from Ulysses.

Speaking of Ulysses, a museum outside of Dublin (about a fifteen-minute ride on the train, plus a bit of a walk) in Sandycove is dedicated to James Joyce, as well as the place where Joyce set the first scene of the novel. Pictured here is Scotsman’s Bay in Sandycove.

“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and razor lay crossed… Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs… Solemnly he came forward and mounted the round gunrest. He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding country and the awaking mountains.” – James Joyce, “Ulysses”

Venturing outside of Dublin: though he died in France, William Butler Yeats is buried at Drumcliffe Church, which is in County Sligo, on the west coast of Ireland.

Yeats wrote his own epitaph, and his wife, George, is buried on the same plot.