Dublin Bay An Bord Pleanála. The Dublin Port Company has redrafted their proposal in relation to the SPA boundary and may resubmit an application for the project. Coastal flooding can occur at high tide at several points, notably the city side of Clontarf and Sandymount. James Joyce set much of the action in his novel "Ulysses" around the bay, from the Forty Foot bathing place—in which the character Buck Mulligan washed on Bloomsday morning—to Howth, where Leopold Bloom made love to his wife Molly under the rhododendrons. Dublin Bay Dublin Bay () is a C-shaped inlet of the Irish Sea on the
The High Road (novel) Chicago Tribune reviewer Maura Boland thought the novel failed at developing plot and character, writing " lyrical prose and striking metaphors are not enough. The book sags under the weight of literary and religious allusions, and its episodic structure at times almost obscures the narrative." The High Road (novel) The High Road is a 1988 novel by Irish novelist Edna O'Brien. The novel follows an unnamed Irish protagonist as she recovers on a Mediterranean island. It was O'Brien's tenth novel, published 11 years after "Johnny I Hardly Knew You." "Kirkus Reviews" was mildly critical of the novel's style, concluding that