‘riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”
These are the famous opening lines of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. As Wake passages go, they are pretty clear; it is after them that the trouble begins. They have been recited in many places and on many occasions over the years. But it is something else to recite them, not just in the Environs, but in Howth Castle itself. In the… (View original article)