During the month of August the James Joyce Centre hosted an exhibition celebrating the 40th anniversary of the North Great George’s Street Preservation Society. The exhibition celebrated the work the society has done with the preservation of Georgian buildings on North Great George’s Street including the James Joyce Centre itself, which dates back to 1784.
Review: “David Norris Reads from Finnegans Wake.”
The James Joyce Quarterly have published a review of Senator David Norris’s reading of Finnegans Wake. In Volume 55. Issue 3-4 of the journal, Dr. Michelle Witen of University of Basel reviewed Norris’s one-take reading from Joyce’s final novel. The reading is available to listen in the Maginni Room at the James Joyce Centre and […]
Bloomsday Bus Tours and Walking Tours
On Bloomsday this year Joycean visitors hopped aboard the Bloomsday Bus for a whistle-stop Joycean sightseeing tour around “Dear Dirty Dublin”. They were whisked around for a 2 ½ hour tour of some of the city’s key Joycean landmarks in the company of our local guide, who kept them informed and entertained during their explorations […]
Bloomsday Breakfasts and Afternoon Teas
James Joyce’s Ulysses features what is perhaps one of the most famous breakfasts in literature, the fried pork kidney enjoyed by Leopold Bloom in the ‘Calypso’ episode of the novel. Over the years, the Bloomsday Breakfast has become one of the festival’s most established traditions. This year, on the morning of June 16th, The James […]
The Bloomsday Interview: David Norris in Conversation with Anne Doyle
Every Dubliner has their own story about James Joyce, and no one more so than our best-known Joycean, Senator David Norris. Senator Norris has been at the heart of Joyce’s Dublin for nearly sixty years. For our Bloomsday Interview, Senator Norris sat down with Irish journalist, RTE presenter and former newsreader Anne Doyle to discuss […]
