Davy Byrne's pub 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 by the office clerk protagonist named Farrington following an altercation with his senior at the
Hyperion (Longfellow novel) Hyperion (Longfellow novel) Hyperion: A Romance is one of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's earliest works, published in 1839. It is a prose romance which was published alongside his first volume of poems, "Voices of the Night". "Hyperion" follows a young American protagonist named Paul Flemming as he travels through Germany. The character's wandering is partially inspired by the death of a friend. The author had also recently lost someone close to him. Longfellow's first wife, Mary Storer Potter, died in Rotterdam in the Netherlands after a miscarriage in 1836; Longfellow was deeply saddened by her death and noted in his diary: