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This year we celebrated Joyce's epic Ulysses from 12 - 16 June 2010 at venues across the city with some great events:
TRADITIONAL BLOOMSDAY BREAKFAST
READINGS, SONG & DANCE IN MEETING HOUSE SQUARE
ONE-MAN SHOW ‘JIMMY JOYCED’ (DONAL O’KELLY)
TALKS BY DANIS ROSE & BARRY MCGOVERN
ROUNDTABLE WITH THE ORDER OF THE FINNEGANS
'BLOOM' AT CINEWORLD
BUS ODYSSEY
WALKING TOURS
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THE EVENTS BELOW HAVE NOW PASSED
WALKING TOURS
12 – 16 June starting at the James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s St.
Join us for one (or all!) of 4 tours of Joyce’s Dublin. Be sure to book ahead: the Bloomsday Walk is €8 per person; all others are €10 per person (€8 concessions).
‘In the Footsteps of Leopold Bloom’ – Saturday 12/1pm; Sunday 13/2pm; Monday 14/11am; Tuesday 15/2pm
This tour explores the background to Joyce’s Ulysses and to Bloom’s thoughts as he crosses the city in search of something to eat in the ‘Lestrygonians’ episode. A humorous contrast of well-fed and under-fed citizens is mixed with a commentary on city buildings, and the presence of police constables reminds us of the realities of Dublin as a colonial city. In these footsteps, food becomes the central issue of social, cultural and political life in Dublin in 1904. The tour starts from the James Joyce Centre and finishes at the National Museum.
‘Joyce Circular’ – Saturday 12/11am; Sunday 13/12pm; Tuesday 15/11am
On our andante dander around the Hibernian metropolis, we take in North Earl Street; the house where Oliver ‘Buck Mulligan’ Gogarty was born; the setting of the ‘Dubliners’ story ‘The Boarding House’; the house in which Sean O’Casey was born; the site of 7 Eccles Street, home of Leopold & Molly Bloom; and Belvedere College, which Joyce attended in the 1890s. The tour starts from and returns to the James Joyce Centre.
Dubliners – Saturday 12/2pm; Monday 14/2pm
Join our guide on a ramble through the city of Joyce’s first and most accessible work, ‘Dubliners’. Completed in 1907, ‘Dubliners’ skilfully treats both turn-of-the-century Dublin and Joyce’s surroundings in continental Europe where the stories were written. The tour examines Joyce’s life in Dublin and the Dublin he created in his stories, as well as looking at how the city has commemorated its famous son. Joyce’s Dublin was a city of politics and intrigue, of religious devotion and disaffection, as well as a city in which the pressures and ties of family and society were never far off. The tour starts from the James Joyce Centre and finishes near Trinity College.
‘Bloomsday Walk’ – Wednesday 16th 10am/11am/12pm/1pm/1.30pm/2pm/2.30pm/3pm/3.30pm/4pm
This special Bloomsday walk features some of the most important Northside locations from Joyce's Ulysses. Our hour-long wander will take in Belvedere College, Eccles Street, Leopold and Molly Bloom’s residence, and a variety of key locations along Parnell Square and O'Connell Street.
Please click on the following link to purchase tickets online: http://store.jamesjoyce.ie/merchant2/
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 12-13 JUNE
DONAL O’KELLY’S JIMMY JOYCED!
Saturday & Sunday 12-13 June, 7pm in the James Joyce Centre.
Jimmy Joyced! looks back at 1904 through the eyes of JJ Staines, a stallholder in Dublin's Rathmines Market with a dangerous obsession for all things Joycean. JJ drives like a man possessed through the full gamut of 1904 James Joyce: his battles with his mad dad; his bronze medal win for singing in the Feis; a crazed night of gunfire in the Sandycove Tower; his rescue from redlight Monto mayhem by the man who became Bloom; and above all his passion for Nora Barnacle and their fabled walk on 16th June. Donal O'Kelly is an actor and playwright. He has performed Jimmy Joyced! all over Ireland since its première in 2004, and in Los Angeles, Paris, Porto, Lisbon and Trieste for the Trieste Joyce School. His previous solo plays include the award-winning 'Catalpa' and 'Bat The Father Rabbit The Son'. Jimmy Joyced! was nominated for a Best Actor award in the Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Awards. 'Everything about this tantalising performance is memorable … nothing short of 'genius inspired by genius' says RTE GUIDE & 'A truly worthy theatrical celebration of the centenary of Ulysses … 'Roller-coaster' has been a term applied to Donal O'Kelly's acting in the past; it's true again with this great kaleidoscope of word power, energy and insight' says SUNDAY INDEPENDENT.
Tickets €20; limited seating, booking strongly recommended.
Please click on the following link to purchase tickets online: http://store.jamesjoyce.ie/merchant2/
SUNDAY 13 JUNE
BARRY MCGOVERN
‘shall I wear a red yes’ – SEX AND MUSIC IN ULYSSES
Sunday 13 June, 2pm at the Dublin Writer’s Museum, 19 Parnell Square North
Come along for a titillating exploration of music in Ulysses. Barry McGovern is a great Joyce enthusiast, prolific actor and native Dubliner. He is world-renowned as an interpreter of Samuel Beckett, has been a member of the Abbey Theatre Company and the RTÉ Players, and holds an honorary doctorate from Trinity College. McGovern joins our Bloomsday Festival for the third year running.
Free event. Limited seating, booking recommended. Call or email the Joyce Centre: +353 1 878 8547 / info@jamesjoyce.ie
(Also of note: In keeping with his own Bloomsday tradition, Barry McGovern will be atop The Martello Tower in Sandycove on the 16th, where he will this year read ‘Ithaca’, the penultimate episode of Ulysses).
MONDAY 14 JUNE
JAMES JOYCE BUS TOUR
Monday 14 June, 10am-3pm beginning at the James Joyce Centre
Jump aboard our bus and take a sojourn into Joyce country. Delving deep into Dublin’s suburbs, we’ll explore Joyce’s early formative years alongside the locations that became so central to his fiction. Stops will include Chapelizod village, Dublin’s old Jewish quarter (popularly known as ‘Little Jerusalem’), early family homes at Rathgar and Rathmines, the Martello Tower and museum, Mr. Deasy’s School at Dalkey, and Sandymount Strand. The tour will stop for lunch in the picturesque village of Glasthule. Tickets €28 (includes entrance fees, but not lunch); booking recommended. Call the Joyce Centre: +353 1 878 854.
Please click on the following link to purchase tickets online: http://store.jamesjoyce.ie/merchant2/
TUESDAY 15 JUNE
BOOK LAUNCH WITH 'THE ORDER OF THE FINNEGANS' & ROUNTABLE DISCUSSION
EDUARDO LAGO, ENRIGQUE VILA-MATAS, ANTONIO SOLER, JORDI SOLDER, MALCOLM OTERO, JOSE ANTOIO GARRIGA VELA & SPECIAL GUEST
Tuesday 15 June, 4.30-6pm at Cervantes Institute, Lincoln House, Lincoln Place, Dublin 2
Midway between humour and solemnity, between the most rigorous of disciplines and the most playful of spirits, a society was born with the sole purpose of venerating James Joyce’s Ulysses. And thus its members formed La Orden del Finnegans (“The Order of Finnegans”). Join us for the launch of La Orden del Finnegans (The Order of the Finnegans) and roundtable discussion with this reknowned Spanish literary collective and special guest. Simultaneously translated. Reception to follow. Free event; booking recommended. Call + 353 1 631 1500. See http://dublin.cervantes.es/FichasCultura/Ficha60904_16_2.htm for more information.
DANIS ROSE
ON THE FIRST/LAST SENTENCE OF FINNEGANS WAKE
Tuesday 15 June, 7.00pm at the James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s St.
Dubliner and Joyce scholar, Danis Rose will outline Joyce's method of constructing his great epic and discuss the place of Finnegans Wake in Joyce's view of the human condition in a spiritual context. Rose is editor of the new critical, limited edition of Finnegans Wake (Houyhnhnm Press, Cornwall, 2010), to be published for the general market by Penguin Books. Rose is also editor of the Reader's Edition of Ulysses (Picador, London & Lilliput Press, Dublin, both suppressed, revised, and re-issued by Houyhnhnm Press). Copies of Rose’s editions will be available for purchase at the event. Reception to follow at the Centre, generously sponsored by The Ormond Wine Bar.
Free event. Limited seating Fully Booked
WEDNESDAY 16 JUNE
DENNY’S BLOOMSDAY BREAKFAST
Wednesday 16 June, 8, 9.30, 11am at the James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s St.
Our breakfast is the hallmark of our Bloomsday Festival. Partake of a ‘full Irish’ at the James Joyce Centre whilst actors entertain with readings from Joyce's Ulysses. Feel free to come in your own c.1904 costume! Generously sponsored by Dennys.
Book now for one of 3 seatings, €18 per person. Call the Joyce Centre at +353 1 878 8547
Please click on the following link to purchase tickets online: http://store.jamesjoyce.ie/merchant2/
READINGS, SONG & DANCE IN THE SQUARE
Wednesday 16 June, 11am-3pm at Meeting House Square, Temple Bar
Alan Stanford, our Master of Ceremonies hosts a star-studded afternoon of readings and songs from Ulysses. Joyceans of all ages and backgrounds are welcome to join in, so come one, come all, and read your favourite few words from the book of the day! We’ll be treated to music of the era as soprano, Deirdre Masterson, pianist, Dearbhla Brosnan and other guest soloists sing a variety of songs drawn from Ulysses, while Eileene McLoughlin performs a neo-classical dance to ‘Marble Halls’. And don’t miss Senator David Norris perform an extract from his marvelous one-man Joyce show, ‘Do you see what I’m hearing?’ at 1pm.
Look who's coming so far...Minister of State, Dr Martin Mansergh, Senator David Norris, Lord Mayor Emer Costello, Councillor Mick Rafferty, Maureen O’Sullivan, TD
Lynne Parker, Phelim Drew, Gavin Fullam, Donna Dent, Marty Rea, Louis Lovett, Aoibheann O'Hara, Eamonn Owens, Mark O'Regan, Beth Cooke, Andrew Whipp, and others...
Free and open to the public, limited seating available, no bookings.
'BLOOM' FEATURE FILM AT CINEWORLD
Wednesday 16 June, 4pm and 6.30pm screenings, Cineworld, Parnell Sq
Enjoy Bloomsday on the big screen in Sean Walsh's recent adaptation of Joyce's love story of Molly and Leopold Bloom. ‘... bawdy, irreverent, lyrical, compassionate, anguished, earthy, profound and deeply humane ...’ (The Sunday Tribune)
Book tickets with Cineworld http://www.cineworld.ie
(For Press Information on the Joyce Centre’s Bloomsday Festival: Gerry Lundberg Public Relations Tel: 01 679 8476 / 087 259 1070 / 086 259 1070)
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