The Joyce Project : Ulysses : Grosvenor
Grosvenor
Grosvenor
In Brief
In Lotus Eaters Bloom sees a jaunting car "drawn up
before the door of the Grosvenor." The Grosvenor was a small
upscale hotel at 5 Westland Row, directly across the street
from the train station that Bloom is standing in front of.
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As the 20th century wore on the hotel's opulent charm
decayed. The elegant railings on the front were removed.
Garish advertisements suitable to the neighborhood of a train
station were added to the ground floor façade in the 1950s,
and later removed. The windows of the bar and restaurant
looking out on the street were covered. Together with the
other houses and shops on this block of Westland Row, number 5
was demolished in 2005 to make way for the Naughton Institute,
also known as the Centre for Research on Adaptive
Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN). It is part of Trinity
College, Dublin.
