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Galway City Sights

Nora Barnacle House

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  • Address
    • 8 Bowling Green
  • Phone
    • 091-564 743
  • Hours
    • hours vary

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Lonely Planet review for Nora Barnacle House

James Joyce's future wife Nora Barnacle (1884–1951) lived here until shortly before they met in Dublin in 1904. It's now a privately owned museum displaying the couple's letters and photographs among period furniture. Looking all of its 100 years and not helped by a grim grey paint job, the house didn't have running water until the 1940s; instead the Barnacle family used a communal pump across the street. Joyce met his future mother-in-law here in 1909; for his part, Joyce's father said after learning Nora's surname: 'She'll stick with him'.

 

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