Sandymount Beach

This guide to Sandymount Strand in Dublin opens with a 2026 rescue, when two teenagers found themselves stranded on a sandbank as the tide raced back in behind them, and a lifeboat crew from Dun Laoghaire came to their aid. From there it turns to James Joyce, who sent Stephen Dedalus walking this same strand at low tide in Ulysses and later set Leopold Bloom on the rocks nearby for a scene so frank it helped get the novel banned in the United States. Best heard at low tide, looking out toward how far the water has gone.