October 2019
“Making Joyce – translating Joyce for live theatre performance” – Sinead Murphy and Darina Gallagher.
For our second instalment in our 2019 Autumn/Winter Lecture series we are excited to welcome Sinead Murphy and Darina Gallagher. This lecture will look at their process of translating Joyce for live theatre performance and will include musical and textual extracts from Joyce’s work. Over the last 9 years, Darina Gallagher and Sinead Murphy have devised over 8 music-theatre shows exploring the work of James Joyce. Originally developing performances before copyright restrictions were lifted, they initially focused on evoking…
Find out more »Old Bottles, New Wine: Re-Tasting Irish Literature – Autumn/Winter 2019 Course
Join us this Autumn/Winter at the James Joyce Cultural Centre for our Lifelong Learning Programme led by Dr. Caroline Elbay. "Old Bottles, New Wine: Re-Tasting Irish Literature," is a twelve week course which will address identity, politics, memory, and hidden histories in the writing of James Joyce, Sean O’Casey, Brendan Behan, Marina Carr and many others. Over the duration of the course, we will consider themes such as identity, politics (including class and gender), memory (personal, cultural, and inherited), and…
Find out more »“The Dubliners Dilemma” – Declan Gorman Event.
On 16th October, as part of the 2019 Autumn/Winter Course, the James Joyce Centre will be hosting a performance of Declan Gorman's "The Dubliners Dilemma." It begins in London shortly before WW1, in the basement workroom of publisher Grant Richards, who had previously rejected ‘Dubliners’ out of worry it might breach strict obscenity laws. Now he re-reads the manuscript and recalls his uncomfortable correspondence with the truculent young genius. Should he reconsider and publish now? In all their magical glory,…
Find out more »Friday Ulysses Reading Group
Join us every Friday lunchtime at the James Joyce Centre from 1st February to take on Ulysses, the big blue book of Eccles. We’ll start reading at page one on Friday 1st February and progress through the book each week. If we’re lucky, we’ll get to the end by the December of 2019. It will be a unique experience to read this iconic work of fiction together. Copies of Ulysses are available to borrow each week, or bring your own well-thumbed favourite. Participants…
Find out more »Introducing Joyce’s Dublin Tour
Though Joyce lived most of his life outside of Ireland, Dublin would provide the backdrop for virtually all of his work. On a stroll around the north inner city, our guide will explain the real-life inspiration behind some of Joyce’s most celebrated writing and will show just how central the streetscape of the ‘Hibernian metropolis’ is to the author’s life and art. The tour visits stops such as Joyce’s alma mater, Belvedere College; Hardwicke Street, the setting of the short…
Find out more »Old Bottles, New Wine: Re-Tasting Irish Literature – Autumn/Winter 2019 Course
Join us this Autumn/Winter at the James Joyce Cultural Centre for our Lifelong Learning Programme led by Dr. Caroline Elbay. "Old Bottles, New Wine: Re-Tasting Irish Literature," is a twelve week course which will address identity, politics, memory, and hidden histories in the writing of James Joyce, Sean O’Casey, Brendan Behan, Marina Carr and many others. Over the duration of the course, we will consider themes such as identity, politics (including class and gender), memory (personal, cultural, and inherited), and…
Find out more »Friday Ulysses Reading Group
Join us every Friday lunchtime at the James Joyce Centre from 1st February to take on Ulysses, the big blue book of Eccles. We’ll start reading at page one on Friday 1st February and progress through the book each week. If we’re lucky, we’ll get to the end by the December of 2019. It will be a unique experience to read this iconic work of fiction together. Copies of Ulysses are available to borrow each week, or bring your own well-thumbed favourite. Participants…
Find out more »Dubliners Tour
Joyce once referred to Dublin as the ‘centre of paralysis’, a city that he felt was backward and repressive in contrast to the modern capitals of Europe. This idea found its expression in Dubliners, a short story collection that illustrates the effects of this restrictive atmosphere on the city’s population. Join our guide on a walk that visits some of the key locations from both the collection and the author’s life, discussing all the while Joyce’s critical portrayal of the social,…
Find out more »Old Bottles, New Wine: Re-Tasting Irish Literature – Autumn/Winter 2019 Course
Join us this Autumn/Winter at the James Joyce Cultural Centre for our Lifelong Learning Programme led by Dr. Caroline Elbay. "Old Bottles, New Wine: Re-Tasting Irish Literature," is a twelve week course which will address identity, politics, memory, and hidden histories in the writing of James Joyce, Sean O’Casey, Brendan Behan, Marina Carr and many others. Over the duration of the course, we will consider themes such as identity, politics (including class and gender), memory (personal, cultural, and inherited), and…
Find out more »November 2019
Friday Ulysses Reading Group
Join us every Friday lunchtime at the James Joyce Centre from 1st February to take on Ulysses, the big blue book of Eccles. We’ll start reading at page one on Friday 1st February and progress through the book each week. If we’re lucky, we’ll get to the end by the December of 2019. It will be a unique experience to read this iconic work of fiction together. Copies of Ulysses are available to borrow each week, or bring your own well-thumbed favourite. Participants…
Find out more »Introducing Joyce’s Dublin Tour
Though Joyce lived most of his life outside of Ireland, Dublin would provide the backdrop for virtually all of his work. On a stroll around the north inner city, our guide will explain the real-life inspiration behind some of Joyce’s most celebrated writing and will show just how central the streetscape of the ‘Hibernian metropolis’ is to the author’s life and art. The tour visits stops such as Joyce’s alma mater, Belvedere College; Hardwicke Street, the setting of the short…
Find out more »“Throwing Shapes: The Morphing Feminine in Joyce” – Dr. Caroline Elbay
In the Modernist literary context, the term ‘metamorphosis’ elicits immediate associations with Franz Kafka’s novella The Metamorphosis (1915) in which the protagonist, a travelling salesman, Gregor Samsa, awakens one morning to discover that he has been transformed into a bug. From the ‘bird girl’ and ‘bat-like soul’ of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, to the ‘cold nightsnake’ of Giacomo Joyce and the feminised Bloom in ‘Circe’, this lecture will explore how, through metamorphosis – a shifting…
Find out more »Old Bottles, New Wine: Re-Tasting Irish Literature – Autumn/Winter 2019 Course
Join us this Autumn/Winter at the James Joyce Cultural Centre for our Lifelong Learning Programme led by Dr. Caroline Elbay. "Old Bottles, New Wine: Re-Tasting Irish Literature," is a twelve week course which will address identity, politics, memory, and hidden histories in the writing of James Joyce, Sean O’Casey, Brendan Behan, Marina Carr and many others. Over the duration of the course, we will consider themes such as identity, politics (including class and gender), memory (personal, cultural, and inherited), and…
Find out more »Friday Ulysses Reading Group
Join us every Friday lunchtime at the James Joyce Centre from 1st February to take on Ulysses, the big blue book of Eccles. We’ll start reading at page one on Friday 1st February and progress through the book each week. If we’re lucky, we’ll get to the end by the December of 2019. It will be a unique experience to read this iconic work of fiction together. Copies of Ulysses are available to borrow each week, or bring your own well-thumbed favourite. Participants…
Find out more »Dubliners Tour
Joyce once referred to Dublin as the ‘centre of paralysis’, a city that he felt was backward and repressive in contrast to the modern capitals of Europe. This idea found its expression in Dubliners, a short story collection that illustrates the effects of this restrictive atmosphere on the city’s population. Join our guide on a walk that visits some of the key locations from both the collection and the author’s life, discussing all the while Joyce’s critical portrayal of the social,…
Find out more »Old Bottles, New Wine: Re-Tasting Irish Literature – Autumn/Winter 2019 Course
Join us this Autumn/Winter at the James Joyce Cultural Centre for our Lifelong Learning Programme led by Dr. Caroline Elbay. "Old Bottles, New Wine: Re-Tasting Irish Literature," is a twelve week course which will address identity, politics, memory, and hidden histories in the writing of James Joyce, Sean O’Casey, Brendan Behan, Marina Carr and many others. Over the duration of the course, we will consider themes such as identity, politics (including class and gender), memory (personal, cultural, and inherited), and…
Find out more »Friday Ulysses Reading Group
Join us every Friday lunchtime at the James Joyce Centre from 1st February to take on Ulysses, the big blue book of Eccles. We’ll start reading at page one on Friday 1st February and progress through the book each week. If we’re lucky, we’ll get to the end by the December of 2019. It will be a unique experience to read this iconic work of fiction together. Copies of Ulysses are available to borrow each week, or bring your own well-thumbed favourite. Participants…
Find out more »Introducing Joyce’s Dublin Tour
Though Joyce lived most of his life outside of Ireland, Dublin would provide the backdrop for virtually all of his work. On a stroll around the north inner city, our guide will explain the real-life inspiration behind some of Joyce’s most celebrated writing and will show just how central the streetscape of the ‘Hibernian metropolis’ is to the author’s life and art. The tour visits stops such as Joyce’s alma mater, Belvedere College; Hardwicke Street, the setting of the short…
Find out more »Old Bottles, New Wine: Re-Tasting Irish Literature – Autumn/Winter 2019 Course
Join us this Autumn/Winter at the James Joyce Cultural Centre for our Lifelong Learning Programme led by Dr. Caroline Elbay. "Old Bottles, New Wine: Re-Tasting Irish Literature," is a twelve week course which will address identity, politics, memory, and hidden histories in the writing of James Joyce, Sean O’Casey, Brendan Behan, Marina Carr and many others. Over the duration of the course, we will consider themes such as identity, politics (including class and gender), memory (personal, cultural, and inherited), and…
Find out more »Friday Ulysses Reading Group
Join us every Friday lunchtime at the James Joyce Centre from 1st February to take on Ulysses, the big blue book of Eccles. We’ll start reading at page one on Friday 1st February and progress through the book each week. If we’re lucky, we’ll get to the end by the December of 2019. It will be a unique experience to read this iconic work of fiction together. Copies of Ulysses are available to borrow each week, or bring your own well-thumbed favourite. Participants…
Find out more »Dubliners Tour
Joyce once referred to Dublin as the ‘centre of paralysis’, a city that he felt was backward and repressive in contrast to the modern capitals of Europe. This idea found its expression in Dubliners, a short story collection that illustrates the effects of this restrictive atmosphere on the city’s population. Join our guide on a walk that visits some of the key locations from both the collection and the author’s life, discussing all the while Joyce’s critical portrayal of the social,…
Find out more »Old Bottles, New Wine: Re-Tasting Irish Literature – Autumn/Winter 2019 Course
Join us this Autumn/Winter at the James Joyce Cultural Centre for our Lifelong Learning Programme led by Dr. Caroline Elbay. "Old Bottles, New Wine: Re-Tasting Irish Literature," is a twelve week course which will address identity, politics, memory, and hidden histories in the writing of James Joyce, Sean O’Casey, Brendan Behan, Marina Carr and many others. Over the duration of the course, we will consider themes such as identity, politics (including class and gender), memory (personal, cultural, and inherited), and…
Find out more »An Evening with Brendan Behan
As part of Dr. Caroline Elbay's Autumn / Winter Course "Old Bottles, New Wine" we are delighted to announce extra public tickets are available for Wednesday 27th November 2019 with Peter Sheridan and his performance of 'An Evening with Brendan Behan'. Brendan Behan has been dead for over fifty years now but it doesn't feel that way. He is one of those characters that people talk about like he is still alive. Every taxi driver in Dublin had him in their car at one time or…
Find out more »Book Launch The Necessary Fiction: Life with James Joyce’s “Ulysses” by Michael Groden
The James Joyce Centre celebrates the publication of an unusual exercise in “biblio-memoir” or “autobloomography” that answers the question of how one person can spend an entire life with one book. During more than 50 years of reading, teaching, and writing about Joyce’s Ulysses, Michael Groden has often been asked why he has devoted so much time and energy to Joyce’s novel. Ulysses made an indelible impression when he first read it at the age of 19 – and the…
Find out more »Friday Ulysses Reading Group
Join us every Friday lunchtime at the James Joyce Centre from 1st February to take on Ulysses, the big blue book of Eccles. We’ll start reading at page one on Friday 1st February and progress through the book each week. If we’re lucky, we’ll get to the end by the December of 2019. It will be a unique experience to read this iconic work of fiction together. Copies of Ulysses are available to borrow each week, or bring your own well-thumbed favourite. Participants…
Find out more »Introducing Joyce’s Dublin Tour
Though Joyce lived most of his life outside of Ireland, Dublin would provide the backdrop for virtually all of his work. On a stroll around the north inner city, our guide will explain the real-life inspiration behind some of Joyce’s most celebrated writing and will show just how central the streetscape of the ‘Hibernian metropolis’ is to the author’s life and art. The tour visits stops such as Joyce’s alma mater, Belvedere College; Hardwicke Street, the setting of the short…
Find out more »December 2019
“Universal Joyce?” – Terence Killeen
For our final installment in our 2019 Autumn/Winter Lecture series we are delighted to welcome James Joyce Centre Research Scholar Terence Killeen to deliver his talk "Universal Joyce?" James Joyce’s last work, Finnegans Wake, is meant to be a universal epic, covering the whole of world history, and operating at a level of generality that seems intended to transcend all previous efforts of this type. Does this universality, however, come at a price, in that individual struggles and sufferings, both of…
Find out more »Old Bottles, New Wine: Re-Tasting Irish Literature – Autumn/Winter 2019 Course
Join us this Autumn/Winter at the James Joyce Cultural Centre for our Lifelong Learning Programme led by Dr. Caroline Elbay. "Old Bottles, New Wine: Re-Tasting Irish Literature," is a twelve week course which will address identity, politics, memory, and hidden histories in the writing of James Joyce, Sean O’Casey, Brendan Behan, Marina Carr and many others. Over the duration of the course, we will consider themes such as identity, politics (including class and gender), memory (personal, cultural, and inherited), and…
Find out more »Friday Ulysses Reading Group
Join us every Friday lunchtime at the James Joyce Centre from 1st February to take on Ulysses, the big blue book of Eccles. We’ll start reading at page one on Friday 1st February and progress through the book each week. If we’re lucky, we’ll get to the end by the December of 2019. It will be a unique experience to read this iconic work of fiction together. Copies of Ulysses are available to borrow each week, or bring your own well-thumbed favourite. Participants…
Find out more »Dubliners Tour
Though Joyce lived most of his life outside of Ireland, Dublin would provide the backdrop for virtually all of his work. On a stroll around the north inner city, our guide will explain the real-life inspiration behind some of Joyce’s most celebrated writing and will show just how central the streetscape of the ‘Hibernian metropolis’ is to the author’s life and art. The tour visits stops such as Joyce’s alma mater, Belvedere College; Hardwicke Street, the setting of the short…
Find out more »Friday Ulysses Reading Group
Join us every Friday lunchtime at the James Joyce Centre from 1st February to take on Ulysses, the big blue book of Eccles. We’ll start reading at page one on Friday 1st February and progress through the book each week. If we’re lucky, we’ll get to the end by the December of 2019. It will be a unique experience to read this iconic work of fiction together. Copies of Ulysses are available to borrow each week, or bring your own well-thumbed favourite. Participants…
Find out more »Introducing Joyce’s Dublin Tour
Though Joyce lived most of his life outside of Ireland, Dublin would provide the backdrop for virtually all of his work. On a stroll around the north inner city, our guide will explain the real-life inspiration behind some of Joyce’s most celebrated writing and will show just how central the streetscape of the ‘Hibernian metropolis’ is to the author’s life and art. The tour visits stops such as Joyce’s alma mater, Belvedere College; Hardwicke Street, the setting of the short…
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