Course
2 October – 6 November 2024
The James Joyce Centre is proud to offer once again its popular six-week Dear, Dirty Dubliners course this autumn!
Dubliners, James Joyce’s debut collection of short stories, is considered one of the finest short story collections ever written, laying bare the intrigues, dirtiness, and indignities of life in Dublin at the turn of the 20th century. Joyce got at the “heart” of Dublin with penetrating insights into its denizens, using innovative styles and techniques that would come to define the Modernist movement and beyond.
Dear, Dirty Dubliners is a unique, six-week course that will guide you through the stories in great detail. Starting on Wednesday, 2 October 2024 at 6pm, the course will be held both in the James Joyce Centre and on Zoom. Particular focus will be paid to issues of gender, poverty, colonialism, nationalism, globalization, the Catholic Church, and sexuality, just to name a few. The course will also go over its troubled publication history as well as its enduring legacy and adaptations, such as John Huston’s 1987 film The Dead.
The characters in the 15 stories vary in many ways but one quality they all have in common is paralysis: not physical paralysis per se, but rather emotional, financial, familial, and spiritual. His struggle to get the book published (it took more than seven years) would shape Joyce as a young artist: a man who challenged the literary and cultural establishments both in and outside of Ireland.
The course will be led by Dr. Josh Q. Newman, an academic and assistant at the Centre. The course will consist of readings, group discussions, presentations, and guest lectures. Students will be provided with contextual and scholarly materials via Moodle. You do not have to be an academic or so familiar with Joyce’s work to enjoy the class!
Course Details:
-Location: Zoom & The James Joyce Centre (35 North Great George’s Street)
-Start Date: 2 October 2024
-End Date: 6 November 2024
-Time: Every Wednesday, 6-8pm GMT
-Registration: €80
Each session will be recorded and available for view on Moodle. Recordings are done with the consent of the attendee in accordance with GDRP. If you do not wish to be recorded, you may still enjoy the class but your video and microphone will be disabled. Please email [email protected] for more information.
Spaces are limited to be sure to register soon.
We look forward to welcoming you to Dear, Dirty Dubliners!
The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
Artwork by Frank Kiely.