Written by James Joyce Adapted by Dermot Bolger Directed by Graham McLaren Bloomsday may be over but the Joycean fun doesn’t have to end just yet. The Abbey Theatre’s acclaimed production of Ulysses is running until 21 July, so you’ve still got time to catch this energetic and hilarious production. We’ve got FIVE free […]
July
On this day…31 July
On 31 July 1906 Joyce and his family arrived in Rome. Joyce had left Trieste and his work at the Berlitz School to take up a job in the correspondence department of the Nast-Kolb Schumacher Bank in Rome. Joyce’s early favourable impressions of Rome soon changed, but his seven-month stay in Rome marked an important […]
On this day…30 July
On 30 July 1904 a poem by Joyce was published in the Speaker. The poem, now Chamber Music xviii, had been sent earlier in the summer, and was published on 30 July 1904 in the English magazine, the Speaker. When Joyce was about to leave for Paris late in 1902, Yeats suggested that he could […]
On this day…29 July
On 29 July 1935 Joyce wrote to the Librarian of University College Galway about his gift of a copy of Pomes Penyeach. Through Nora Barnacle’s uncle, Michael Healy, Joyce had made a gift to University College Galway of a copy of Pomes Penyeach. He wrote to John Howley, the College Librarian on 29 July about […]
On this day…28 July
On 28 July 1924 John Quinn died. New York lawyer John Quinn was an important supporter of Joyce who also acted effectively as Joyce’s representative in America for a time. Though they had been corresponding from August 1916, they didn’t meet for the first time until 14 July 1921 while Quinn was visiting Paris. Though […]
