Festival

19 September 2025 at 6pm

The James Joyce Centre was pleased to celebrate Culture Night/Oíche Chultúir 2025 on Friday, 19 September 2025 at 6-8pm.

The evening was open to the public. It included such exhibitions as:

• Bloom, Haiku, and the Turning of Peace: A new art exhibition by Nickie Hayden.
• Mamalujo: A history of the publication of Finnegans Wake.
• Film screenings.
• Ulysses VR: A virtual reality headset based on scenes from Ulysses.
• The door from No. 7 Eccles Street, the home of Leopold and Molly Bloom in Ulysses.
• Various manuscripts and materials from Joyce’s time.
• The beautiful plasterwork by 18th-century stuccodore Michael Stapleton, a beautiful example of high-Georgian architecture.

The Joyce Centre offered free guided tours of the house every half-hour.

Culture Night/Oíche Chultúir is sponsored by the Arts Council. The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.