Just a few steps from Shop Street is the Nora Barnacle House Museum. This tiny turn of the century house was the home of Nora Barnacle – companion, wife & lifelong inspiration of James Joyce Ireland’s greatest writer. It was here in 1909, sitting at the kitchen table that Joyce first met his darling’s mother. Letters, photographs & other exhibits of the lives of James Joyce & Nora Barnacle make a visit here a unique experience.