Irish Examiner view: Save historic house

Joycean legacy

Tom Blake from Rathfarnham with a James Joyce portrait by painter Tom Byrne at the Duke St gallery enjoying Bloomsday celebrations in Dublin’s city centre. Picture:Gareth Chaney/Collins

Bloomsday might be over for another year, but we should not forget the campaign to preserve the historic house that was once the setting of James Joyce’s short story The Dead.

On Tuesday, 10 actors gathered on the steps of 15 Usher’s Island on Dublin’s quays and read a letter from the star of the 1987 Oscar-nominated film The Dead, Anjelica Huston, calling on the Government to oppose development on the site.