A chara, – I don’t think that James Joyce would have been put off by the orange algal bloom at Sandycove. In Ulysses, published on his birthday in 1922, he wrote, “God . . . Isn’t the sea what Algy calls it: a grey sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightenng sea.” – Is mise,
S O’CUINN,
An Charraig Dhubh,
Co Atha Cliath.