Forty Foot in Dublin remains a perennial favourite

JUMP IN: A TALE OF SEA SWIMMING

Hannah-Louise Dunne
7 min readJun 4, 2019

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There are few moments that compare.

Which may just be why so many of us make the pilgrimage each and every week to swim in the freezing waters of the Irish Sea.

Here in Dublin, the history of sea-swimming is a storied one. From the appearance of the Forty Foot in James Joyce’s Ulysses to the hardy perennial sea-swimmers, the coast has long held an appeal for locals and visitors…

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Hannah-Louise Dunne

A fan of brilliant writing, travel, podcasts and great story-telling.