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   James Joyce Cultural Centre

   • Dublin, Ireland
   • Sights › Cultural centre

   Denis Maginni, the exuberant, flamboyant dance instructor and ‘confirmed bachelor’ immortalised by James Joyce in Ulysses, taught the finer points of dance out of this beautifully restored Georgian house, now a centre devoted to promoting and preserving the Joycean heritage. Although Jimmy probably never set foot in the house, he lived in the ‘hood for a time, went to a local school and lost his virginity a stone’s throw away in what was once Europe’s largest red-light district. We couldn’t imagine a more fitting location for the centre.

   The centre owes its existence to the sterling efforts of Senator David Norris, a charismatic Joycean scholar and gay-rights…

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