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President Michael D Higgins unveiled a plaque at the graveside of the man whose early death is recalled in The Dead’s pivotal sequence
PRESIDENT Michael D Higgins has unveiled a plaque honouring the link between the iconic Irish author James Joyce and a graveyard in Co. Galway. The tribute was officially revealed in Rahoon Cemetery to mark the connection of the grave of Michael ‘Sonny’ Bodkin with Joyce, his wife Nora Barnacle and his short story The Dead.
Uachtarán na hÉireann, President Michael D. Higgins unveiled a plaque in Rahoon Cemetery, Galway, to mark the connection of the grave of Michael ‘Sonny’ Bodkin…
President Michael D. Higgins unveiled a plaque in Rahoon Cemetery, Galway, today to mark the connection of the grave of Michael ‘Sonny’ Bodkin with James Joyce, Nora Barnacle and the ‘The Dead’, which the President has said is one of the greatest short stories of all time.