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Sat 02 Feb 2009The finest place in the world?
Joyce may have put Enniscorthy in the wrong county, but he must have known a good town when he saw it, writes MICHAEL PARSONS
IN ULYSSES James Joyce referred to Enniscorthy, in Co Wexford as “the finest place in the world”. What a marketing dream. But there’s a reason why the quote hasn’t appeared on Irish tourism posters from Tokyo to Tallahassee. The eejit placed the town in the wrong county. The actual quote, from the Ithaca chapter, reads: “Enniscorthy, County Wicklow, the finest place in the world.” But the big-hearted people of Co Wexford clearly don’t bear grudges, and the novel is prominently displayed in Byrne’s Bookshop, on Court Street.
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