Application from Brimwood for historic building is likely to cause uproar
15 Usher’s Island, the house made famous by James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’. Photo: Gareth Chaney/Collins
A company that has received more than €83m from the Government to house refugees and asylum-seekers, and which is owned by Monaghan’s former senior GAA football manager Séamus ‘Banty’ McEnaney, has applied for planning permission to covert the house where James Joyce’s The Dead was set into 10 apartments.
The house, 15 Usher’s Island in Dublin, is central to Joyce’s short story, part of his Dubliners series. The story is set in the home of Julia and Kate Morkan, who are hosting their annual dinner on January 6, the day of the Epiphany, and focuses on a married couple, Gabriel and Gretta Conroy.
