Editing Ballsbridge (section)

==Popular culture==
The date of 16 June 1904, now commemorated as [[Bloomsday]], was chosen by the writer [[James Joyce]] for the setting of his novel [[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]] because it was the date on which he lost his virginity to his girlfriend [[Nora Barnacle]] - Joyce was renting a room at the time in a house at 60 Shelbourne Road.

In the 1940s and 50s, the writer [[Brendan Behan]] lived in Ballsbridge, as did the poet [[Patrick Kavanagh]], who lived at 62 Pembroke Road. Busts of Behan and Kavanagh are on display at two pubs along Pembroke Road, Searson's and the Wellington. Kavanagh wrote his famous poem [[On Raglan Road]] about a girl he met on that street in 1944.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/unsorted/features/the-beauty-who-inspired-kavanaghs-raglan-road-25912242.html|title=The beauty who inspired Kavanagh's "Raglan Road"|date=29 June 2004|work=The Independent}}</ref>