Faithful Departed: The Dublin Of James Joyce's Ulysses

'How many! All these here once walked around Dublin. Faithful departed.' These were the thoughts of Leopold Bloom in Joyce's Ulysses when Patrick Dignam was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery. The day was Thursday, 16 June 1904.

In Faithful Departed, first published in 1982, the late Kieran Hickey has assembled a stunning collection of little known photographs by Robert French. In these haunting images the departed walk into our vision once again. Here are the spacious avenues and crowded backstreets of Joyce's Dublin, populated by every manner of person - the well-heeled professional classes; RIC constables and British army officers on parade women with perambulators; street vendors and gangs of urchins.

These photographs potently evoke the Dublin of 1904 - a city of trains and horse-drawn carriages, of sailing ships and barges on the Liffey, and of lively bandstands in summer. Complimented by Des Hickey's piquant introduction, they recreate the very atmosphere of Joyce's Bloomsday.