{"id":568691,"date":"2026-07-26T08:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/568691\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T08:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:54:10","slug":"we-went-inside-the-179-year-old-pharmacy-made-famous-by-james-joyces-ulysses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/568691\/","title":{"rendered":"We went inside the 179-year-old pharmacy made famous by James Joyce&#8217;s Ulysses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TheJournalVideo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Journal<\/a> \/ YouTube<\/p>\n<p>WHEN SWENY\u2019S PHARMACY first opened its doors in 1847, few could have predicted that not only would it still be standing 179 years later, but that it would also serve as one of the most active links to Dublin\u2019s literary history.<\/p>\n<p>Located at Lincoln Place in Dublin 2, the pharmacy was made famous by James Joyce\u2019s Ulysses, in which Leopold Bloom visits to collect a prescription and buy (well, it was more of an \u2018on credit\u2019 sale that was never repaid) a bar of lemon soap.<\/p>\n<p>The interior of the building has barely changed since Joyce\u2019s time \u2013 and it now operates as a volunteer-ran memorabilia shop that sells books, souvenirs and replicas of the famous lemon soap.<\/p>\n<p>We spoke to author Lee Sheridan, whose latest book titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.writing.ie\/members_blog\/soap-a-history-of-swenys-pharmacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Soap: A History of Sweny\u2019s Pharmacy<\/a> tells its story from when it opened right up to the present day \u2013 preserving a place that Sheridan describes as \u201cthe last of its kind\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Journal \/ YouTube WHEN SWENY\u2019S PHARMACY first opened its doors in 1847, few could have predicted that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[214717,615,4507,93,61,60,27195,239972,239973],"class_list":["post-568691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bloomsday","tag-dublin","tag-dublin-2","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-james-joyce","tag-lincoln-place","tag-sweny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}