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 […]
Category archives: Special Events
Book Launch The Necessary Fiction: Life with James Joyce’s “Ulysses” by Michael Groden
On Thursday 28th November attendees, Joyce fans, friends and family joined us for a glass of wine and a stimulating discussion of The Necessary Fiction: Life with James Joyce’s “Ulysses” with author Michael Groden and James Joyce Centre Research Scholar Terence Killeen. The James Joyce Centre celebrated the publication of an unusual exercise in “biblio-memoir” or “autobloomography” that answers the question of how one […]
Dublin Celebrates the Wake’s 80th Birthday: “Finnegans Wake at 80” by Derek Pyle
James Joyce Quarterly, Volume 56, Number 1-2, Fall 2018-Winter 2019, pp. 10-17 (Article) Published by The University of Tulsa DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2019.0029 Dublin Celebrates the Wake’s 80th Birthday: “Finnegans Wake at 80”; “Lucia Joyce: Perspectives”; “Text/Sound/Performance: Making in Canadian Space”; and “Finnegans Wake-End,” 11-13 April, 25-27 April, and 3-5 May, 2019 . 4 May 2019 marked […]
Finnegans Wake-End
From the 3-5 May, the James Joyce Centre is delighted to host the Finnegans Wake-End. To mark the 80th anniversary of the publication of Joyce’s novel, a number of events will take place across key Joycean locations, including the James Joyce Centre and Sweny’s Chemist. Over the course of the weekend, attendees will take part […]
“Finnegans Wake at 80” and “Lucia Joyce: Perspectives.”
April 2019 will see the launch of two Joycean events at Trinity College Dublin, one event focusing on Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake, and the other Joyce’s daughter, Lucia. “Finnegans Wake at 80” is a symposium organised to celebrate 80 years since the publication of Joyce’s most infamous work. The aim of the symposium is to encourage […]