We were delighted to welcome our James Joyce Centre Research Scholar Terence Killeen to deliver his talk “Universal Joyce?” on the evening of March 9th 2020 as the second lecture in our Spring/Summer series. James Joyce’s last work, Finnegans Wake, is meant to be a universal epic, covering the whole of world history, and operating at […]
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“Serial Encounters: Ulysses and the Little Review” – Dr. Clare Hutton
The James Joyce Centre was delighted to welcome Dr. Clare Hutton, Senior Lecturer in English from Loughborough University to begin the Spring/ Summer Lecture Series on Monday 3rd February 2020. It may be the world’s most notorious Irish novel, but Ulysses was first published in New York in an obscure avant-garde journal, the Little Review. The text, significantly different to […]
An Evening of Noras – Reading Event at the Joyce Centre
On the evening of Friday 31st January 2020 at 7pm, the Joyce Centre hosted a reading event with a difference, it sought to harness raw intimacy and frank sexuality in readings that delivered a modern take on the spirit of Nora Barnacle and her letters. We were delighted to welcome our three wonderful writers; Clíona […]
STEPHEN JAMES JOYCE 1932 – 2020
The Joyce Centre has learned with regret of the death of Stephen Joyce, grandson and last direct descendant of James Joyce. He was a doughty defender of his grandfather’s legacy and even though many of those subjected to the estate’s strictures in relation to permissions and fees actively resented them, Stephen was acting, as he […]
Bloomsday Festival 2020
The Bloomsday Festival is a world famous literary street carnival in honour of James Joyce and his famous novel Ulysses that was set in Dublin on 16 June 1904. Experiencing Bloomsday in Dublin puts you at the heart of a moment in the Irish psyche. Since Bloomsday was first celebrated in Dublin in 1954, the Bloomsday Festival […]