At Christmastime I visited friends in inner city Dublin and noticed that there was a picture of Robert Emmet on the wall. It reminded me of Leopold Bloom in Ulysses. At the end of Episode 11 Bloom sees a former acquaintance and does not want to meet her. To avoid her he intently looks into Lionel Marks antique saleshop window and begins reading the text underneath the portrait. Perhaps the picture that Bloom saw was similar to this one.
(Notice the sprig of holly on top of the picture!)
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