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James Joyce is arguably one of the most famous sons of Rathmines and Rathgar Township. It's always important to remember he is not a Dubliner in the strict sense of the term. Dublin was, in the truest sense of the words, a new and complex sensation. https://twitter.com/fallon_donal/status/1248585722845675520
In his works he makes constant allusions to Rathmines and Rathgar Township, especially Finnegans Wake. His father was a water rates collector for the townships, while the woman on whom Emma Cleary is modelled, Mary Sheehy (later Mary Kettle) ...
proved largely responsible for the transformation of Rathmines and Rathgar Township into an Urban District Council; as acknowledged in Finnegans Wake. For more on these points see https://muse.jhu.edu/article/530796 (currently free to download).
Project MUSE - “Vartryville”: Dublin’s Water Supply and Joyce’s Sublation of Local Government https://muse.jhu.edu/article/530796#.XpB-rvXKV48.twitter
If you would like a copy of my Bloomsweek lecture on Joyce's childhood in Rathmines and Rathgar, and other townships (until the money ran out), for the @museumofCP, send me an email.
