Protest held outside landmark James Joyce building set to become hotel

(Left to right) Irish actors Osaro, Katie O’Kelly, Donal O’Kelly, Marion O’Dwyer, Rachael Dowling, Stephen Rea, Maria Hayden, Madi O’Carroll and Sinead Murphy, protest outside 15 Usher’s Island, in Dublin, known as the House of the Dead, made famous by James Joyce’s story The Dead, in protest over the permission granted by An Bord Pleanala for the house to be turned into a 54-bed tourist hostel (Niall Carson/PA)

Actors and artists have held a protest outside a landmark building associated with James Joyce, over plans to turn it into a tourist hotel.

There were hopes that the ‘House of the Dead’ would be turned into a cultural shared space, however permission was granted by An Bord Pleanála for it to be turned into a 54-bed tourist hostel.