The Bloomsday Festival is Dublin’s week long literary street carnival that celebrates James Joyce’s iconic novel Ulysses. Joyce is known for writing about life’s intimate moments. When Ulysses was published, some thought it obscene and unreadable. Joyce responded “if Ulysses isn’t fit to read, then life isn’t fit to live”. This year we are toasting […]
James Joyce is known for writing about life’s intimate moments. When Ulysses was published, it was considered obscene and unreadable by some critics. Joyce responded “if Ulysses isn’t fit to read, then life isn’t fit to live”. On 12th June, The James Joyce Centre invited Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth and Dublin-based author June Caldwell for […]
Who was Lucia Joyce and how might we imagine her? Lucia has been portrayed in a number of ways: as Joyce’s muse, Samuel Beckett’s lover, an ill-fated dancer, and as clinically insane. On Tuesday 11th June, The James Joyce Centre hosted an evening discussing the merits and pitfalls of imagining who Lucia was, and how […]
On 10th June The James Joyce Centre was delighted to begin the week of Bloomsday 2019 with an exhibition of work by students at Ballyfermot College of Further Education. Students studying both Classical & Computer Animation and Illustration took James Joyce and his modernist masterpiece Ulysses as a starting point. The Animation students retraced the […]
The members of the James Joyce Institute of Ireland continue a tradition of more than thirty years by holding a pre-Bloomsday walk to read and reenact sections of Ulysses in their original locations. This year the walk starts at the Prince’s Street corner of the GPO and follows the action of ‘Aeolus’ and ‘Laestrygonians’ as far as […]
