Name: James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882-1941)
Nickname: The Prick with the Stick
Where: North Earl Street
Coordinates: 53.3497;-6.2599Latitude: 53°20′58.92″N
Longitude: 6°15′35.64″W
Inauguration date: 16th June (Bloomsday) 1990
Sculptor: Marjorie Fitzgibbon
Story: Famous Irish writer that actually hated Dublin: "How sick, sick, sick I am of Dublin! It is the city of failure, of rancor and of unhappiness. I long to be out of it."^[1] Now his statue is situated centrally at the corner of O'Connell and North Earls Street literally facing the Spire. The statue came with the redevelopment of central Dublin streets into pedestrian-only areas. Also, Joyce was once a manager of the nearby Volta Cinema.

Joyce himself lived in many cities: Dublin, Paris, Zürich, London, Pula, Trieste: he must have known awaycities a lot!

Notes

1. ↑ In a letter from 22 August 1909