Nora Barnacle

Norah Barnacle entered the world inside a Galway workhouse on March 21, 1884, before her family claimed her back and moved into a modest house at Bowling Green. That address still stands as a small museum, preserving the girl who lost two young men to fever and fled a dangerous romance for Dublin. She carried those wounds into every room she later shared with James Joyce, becoming the living heart beneath his written myths.