Bloomsday’s Revival of James Joyce’s Exiles, 15-25 June
Exiles (1919), James Joyce’s only play, explores questions key to his masterpiece Ulysses (1922). What is love? If love is constrained by conventional bonds of fidelity, is it love at all? This surprisingly modern take on polyamory and its dark side, jealousy, is a rare dramatic gem that must not be missed in its Victorian premiere. Recently remounted in the West End and Broadway, it was widely praised for its contemporary themes and exploration of love and sex. A rarely performed Joycean collector’s item, this is its Victorian première.
When: 15-25 June 2023
Where: fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne.
More information: About Exiles, Bloomsday Lunch and Seminar at http://www.bloomsdayinmelbourne.org.au
2nd Global Irish Diaspora Congress, Durban South Africa, 19 to 23 July 2023
The venue of the congress will be at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. This attractive campus is astride the top of the Berea Ridge with spectacular views over the city, Africa’s largest commercial harbour and the Indian Ocean beyond. In the 1820s this area was thickly forested and King Shaka kaSenzangakhona maintained a lookout post here to keep a check on the small hunter-trader settlement of Port Natal which fringed the coast and the elephant and hippo swamp and bush lands below.
GIDC 2023 offers an excellent range of papers and the package also includes a tour of Durban City Hall (1910), a building modelled on that in Belfast; a dinner beside a tank of sharks; an Embassy of Ireland reception; launch of a new book on the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement; an evening of Irish and traditional Zulu dancing (accompanied by Durban’s culinary delight – bunnychow); and a two-day expedition along dirt roads to visit the unspoilt battlefields of the Anglo-Zulu and Anglo-Boer Wars, where so many young Irishmen fell in battle.
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Global Irish Diaspora Congress Durban 2023
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College Campus (Shepstone Building), Durban: Wednesday 19 to Sunday 23 July 2023
1. Congress Paper Section
- Three lunches and 6 tea/coffees
- Congress paper sessions
- Three social evenings
Congress papers
Guest keynote speaker: Dr Guillermo MacLoughlin, Argentina: ‘The history of the Irish press in South America’.
At present (17 May 2023) the Congress Paper Section will include papers delivered by scholars from:
- Beijing Foreign Studies University, China
- Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA
- Georgetown University, USA
- KZN Provincial Museum Service
- Murray State University, Kentucky, USA
- National University of Ireland, Galway
- Queen’s University Belfast
- Trinity College Dublin
- United States Naval War College, Rhode Island
- University College Dublin
- University of KwaZulu-Natal
In addition there are Independent Scholars from:
- Argentina
- Australia
- Ireland
- United Kingdom
- Zimbabwe
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Professor Donal McCracken
e-mail: mccrackend@ukzn.ac.za
Global Irish Diaspora Congress July 2023: https://2023globaldiasporacongress.co.za/
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