Bloomsday Festival 2025
Thursday, 12 June 2025 at 7.30pm
Anna Livia Creative in association with The James Joyce Centre brings you ‘Strings in the Earth and Air…’ The Musical World of James Joyce with Nicole Rourke (actor-writer) & Benjamin Dwyer (guitarist-composer) on Thursday, 12 June 2025 at 7.30pm.
Join us in a celebration of Joyce’s fascination with music. With excerpts from the early poetry collection, Chamber Music, through the melancholic stories of Dubliners, to the ornate worlds of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, Rourke and Dwyer offer a captivating programme of Joyce’s musical obsessions.
The show includes excerpts of ‘raw sensuality’ from Nuala O’Conner’s celebrated book Nora: A Love Story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce. It features a fabulous text by Nicole Rourke exploring the sensual worlds of Nora, Molly and Joyce, called The Lingerie Queen of Dublin. Wine will be served following the show.
Tickets are €20. Doors open at 7pm.
“The Bloomsday 2024 sell-out performance of Strings in the earth and air… was an exquisite celebration of Joyce’s fascination with music and one which the audience adored.” Darina Gallagher, Director of the James Joyce Centre
The Bloomsday Festival is organised by The James Joyce Centre in partnership with Fáilte Ireland, Olhausen’s Sausages, and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media