James Joyce name drops not one but two Louis Werners, one in the Hades episode and one in the Clashing Rocks. The Werner spelled correctly is billed as the conductor and accompanist of the touring American actresss Mary Anderson at Ulster Hall on the night of 16 June- Bloomsday- 1904 performing Juliet’s Balcony scene, and the other Louis, misspelled as Lewis through a typesetting error, owns a house with cheerful windows at 31 Merrion Square North at the corner of Holles Street- just across from 39 Merrion Square where the British Embassy was fire bombed and burned during the Bloody Sunday protest- who according to the Dictionary of Irish Biography was a prominent Dublin ophthalmologist. I have never read Ulysses and probably never will, but it is nice to know that anyone cyber stalking me under either spelling will fall down that very deep rabbit hole.
31 Merrion Square, Louis Werner’s “cheerful windows”
