Davy Byrne's pub office. It is also mentioned in "Green Rushes", a short story collection by Maurice Walsh. Davy Byrne's pub Davy Byrne's pub at 21 Duke Street, Dublin, was made famous by James Joyce's novel "Ulysses". Leopold Bloom stops for a gorgonzola cheese sandwich and a glass of burgundy while wandering through Dublin. The pub is a pilgrimage point for fans of the novel, who, like Leopold Bloom, stop and have a cheese sandwich and a glass of wine. The pub is particularly popular on Bloomsday. Joyce also mentioned the pub in the short story "Counterparts" in "Dubliners" as a bar visited
Bloom (novel) Bloom (novel) Bloom, written in 1998, is the fifth science fiction novel written by Wil McCarthy. It was first released as a hardcover in September 1998. Almost a year later, in August 1999, its first mass market edition was published. An ebook reprint was published in 2011. "Bloom" is one of Borders' "Best 10 Books of 1998" and is a "New York Times" Notable Book. The premise of the book is how to handle human technology that has evolved beyond human control. "Bloom" is set in the year 2106, in a world where self-replicating nanomachines called "Mycora" have consumed Earth