N’s for narrow Nassau Street, once named for Patrick’s Well,
Where Joyce met Nora Barnacle as she came from Finn’s Hotel.
– Catherine Ann Cullen
Head to the National Gallery there you’ll find Jack B Yeat’s easel and smock,
Enjoy the thrill of ‘The Liffey Swim’ as his swimmers surge for the Custom House docks.
– Mary B Shannon


N for old Neighbours in my Dublin 8 hood.
Still there, or now dead: all trees in my wood.
– Karen J McDonnell

N’s for Nora Barnacle muse and wife of James Augustine Aloysius Joyce,
Whose paths crossed on Nassau Street in 1904 and for that we should all rejoice.
– Mary B Shannon – with drawing below


N is for the old North Strand.
The name reveals it’s reclaimed land.
Where once ships sailed upon the main,
Now you can voyage in a train.
– Catherine Ann Cullen