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 […]
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 […]
