Still there was enough spirit amid the umbrellas, raincoats and bin liners here on Bloomsday - the day in 1904 in which novelist JamesJoyce set Ulysses - to make this a worthwhile event in a dirty old town.
Riley is to be the subject of a major retrospective at Tate Britain next year and Hamilton renewed his fame recently with the release of his illustrations for James Joyce's Ulysses, more than half a century after they were begun.
Radio 4's comedy series Cabin Pressure, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Roger Allam, has been nominated for best radio programme along with James Joyce's Ulysses, a Radio 4 dramatisation to mark Bloomsday, the day in June when the book's events take place.