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Howth Head (Ceann Binn Éadair in Irish) is a headland
north of Dublin City. Originally an island, it is connected to
the mainland via a narrow strip of land, or tombolo. Howth Head
forms the northerly bound of the great crescent of Dublin Bay.
The earliest mention of the peninsula was on a map attributed
to Claudius Ptolemy, where it was called Edri Deserta or in Greek
Edrou Heremos. Here it was portrayed as an island, but it isn't
clear if this was due to actual separation from the headland
or inaccurate information available to the cartographer. Howth
head also happens to be the location where Leopold Bloom proposes
to Molly in James Joyce's Ulysses. In the short story Eveline,
another work of James Joyce's from the collection, "Dubliners",
Eveline and her family have a picnic at the Hill of Howth. |
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