Letter to the Editor: Prioritise the living over the house of ‘The Dead’

I am writing in relation to an intervention by Irish and international writers, artists and academics who signed a letter calling on Minister for Culture Josepha Madigan and Dublin City Manager, Owen Keegan to “save” the house at 15 Usher’s Island known as James Joyce’s house of ‘The Dead’.

The signatories to letter are of the opinion that turning the building into a hostel would “destroy the uniquely valuable interior” which still “maintains the character of the house so splendidly described in the story”.