On 14th June, visitors prepared for Bloomsday with Dubliner and Joycean scholar Caroline Elbay and street carnival fan Maite López from At it Again! where they were taken on a whistle stop ride through the 18 episodes of Ulysses and learned about Joyce’s life and times. They discovered the origins of Bloomsday and heard stories […]
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“Go and Create Something” Creative Panel
In the final chapter of Ulysses, Molly Bloom reflects “I wouldnt give a snap of my two fingers for all their learning why dont they go and create something”. Joyce has inspired not only writers, but people working across the creative arts, from music and dance to visual art and theatre. On 13th June, actor […]
On Joyce and Intimacy with writers Vigdis Hjorth and June Caldwell
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 […]
How to Imagine Lucia Joyce.
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 […]
A Vision of Joyce: Exhibition Launch
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 […]
