Howth tram

Dredging up still more silliness from his past, Stephen remembers a younger self "On the top of the Howth tram alone crying to the rain: naked women!" He was doing this not in Dublin or its suburbs, but on a tram that took travelers to the relatively remote and wild Howth peninsula, which juts into the sea about ten miles northeast of Dublin. Indulging in sexual passion out of doors is not unique to Stephen. In fact it is a pervasive theme in Ulysses.

John Hunt 2014

"Electric Tramway to Howth Summit," a postcard printed in 1907. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

1959 John Sarsfield and James Maguire film, narrated by Cyril Cusack, showing one of the last runs of the tram. Source: www.youtube.com.

Cars of the Howth tramline in the Howth railway station, date unknown. Source: Wikimedia Commons.