Sweny’s Pharmacy, the chemist made famous in Joyce’s Ulysses where Leopold Bloom bought a bar of the now famous lemon soap for his wife Molly. Dublin 1963.
On a rain-slicked street in Dublin, the chemist at Lincoln Place, immortalized by James Joyce as Sweny’s Pharmacy in his novel *Ulysses*. It was here that protagonist Leopold Bloom purchased a bar of lemon soap for his wife, Molly. In 1963, the shop operated under the name A. Flynn, M.P.S.I., its curved brick façade standing next to an E. Ryan betting office as a dark Volkswagen Beetle sits parked at the curb.
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