Talk:James Joyce's Dublin
Focus on Joyce's real life or his stories?
[edit]Thus far this article lists only places important to the real Joyce. Should this instead list places important to his stories? Hobbitschuster (talk) 23:09, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
- Definitely, positively, of course. If we were talking about Dostoevski, or Jack London, or some Brazilian writer, I could be of much more help, but in this case I unfortunately lack the necessary reading baggage to elaborate on it. Ibaman (talk) 21:17, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
- Well it should be easy, all we need is volunteers reading a famously unreadable novel with a city map of Dublin on their lap... Hobbitschuster (talk) 19:56, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
- Why not both? The Seinfeld Tour lists not only places depicted fictionally on the show but also places related to the real-life writing, filming, and the original inception of the show, as well as real-life places that inspired various plot points but weren't depicted in the show per se. -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 20:38, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
- Well it should be easy, all we need is volunteers reading a famously unreadable novel with a city map of Dublin on their lap... Hobbitschuster (talk) 19:56, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
Any Dubliners or James Joyce enthusiasts around here?
[edit]- Swept in from the pub
I created James Joyce's Dublin but while I have read like one of the stories in "Dubliners", I really have no idea about the urban geography of Ireland's capital (or how it has changed since the early 1900s) and I am not currently at liberty to spend much time getting into Joyce (a famously hard to read author) so any help you could provide would be much appreciated. Hobbitschuster (talk) 20:44, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
- We seem to have a dearth of Irish contributors full stop. I have been pondering this for a while, and now you've brought this up, I wonder if there's anything we can do to attract some; target requests at Irish Wikipedians, perhaps, or post in the W:Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland? It strikes me that we have at least one active Wikivoyager from every major English-speaking country, with the notable exception of Ireland, and this is definitely reflected in our Ireland articles, which are not in good shape on the whole.--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 21:02, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
- Start an Irish language WV? Hobbitschuster (talk) 21:15, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
- Again, that would need at least one (really dedicated) Irish Wikivoyager, which AFAIK we don't have. --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 22:30, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
- I think that's a great idea. And for the record, we do not have anyone to be the custodian for Irish English in our English language varieties article, so that person would also be useful for that article. Speaking of which, we don't seem to have any Scottish or Welsh Wikivoyagers here either. At least to my knowledge, all the British Wikivoyagers we have here are English. The dog2 (talk) 22:38, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
- Twll dîn pob Saes! Only kidding, I'm Anglo-Welsh really :-) But AlasdairW might have a few words to say about you calling him English! --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 23:44, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
@Hobbitschuster: Why don't you or ThunderingTyphoons! make a post on W:Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Requests and see where we can go from there? The dog2 (talk) 00:34, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
- Will do.--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 18:50, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
