Dublin city of words

Joyce looking to the GPO Dublin

Dublin is a city of words, books, letters, literature. Every space in the city has a story behind, writers try to make sense of the magic that this land has for them, giving it a sense of place. Sometimes is a strange place that changes too fast or changes too little.

Professor Chris Morash, in a Lecture organised by Dublin Unesco City of Literature, explain that Dublin is a global city of Literature, he started the journey asking what make a city a city: it is a space or a place. Morash starting point is the Yi Fu Tuan book - space and place: The perspective of experience -. In which the main idea is that space becomes a place when we attached live on it when we experience it and make yours. Only then, when you narrated it becomes reality.

I haven't occurred to me, the idea of Dublin a globalized city is an old idea. For me, it was a more modern time. Morash said this concept occurred when it was possible to be here and somewhere else - similar that now we are in place and somewhere in our phones-. To explain this he talked about the oldest footage of Dublin for Lumière Brothers back in 1897, shot of O' Connell Bridge.

Dublin is a village and a modern metropolis is the city of Joyce and Patrick Kavanagh, contemporary writers as Sally Rooney, Benjamin Black, Paul Murray, and Anne Enright. It is the hub of tech companies and Irish culture. That overlap and build themselves every time in the imagination of their writers and the stories of their residents.