Bloomsday in Zurichbegan with a tram trip to Fluntern Cemetery …. Continue reading
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It might be nonsense, but at least it’s clever nonsense
A novelist, a bolshevik, and a dadaist walked into a bar, is one way of getting the joke that is Travesties. Or it’s a demonstration of how The Importance of Being Earnest is a Marxist tract. Continue reading
It might be nonsense, but at least it’s clever nonsense
A novelist, a bolshevik, and a dadaist walked into a bar, is one way of getting the joke that is Travesties. Continue reading
Bloomsday in Brisbane
Readings, music, Irish literature more generally, and eating and drinking – Bloomsday at the Queensland Irish Association in Brisbane. Continue reading
Brilliantly Inventive Stoppard Play for Bloomsday
Screwball eggheads tear up the Library in ‘Travesties’, Tom Stoppard’s brilliant comedy about Joyce, Lenin and Tzara. Continue reading
New Joyce Course
A new course focussing on the Ithaca chapter of Ulysses, Joyce’s own favourite. Continue reading
A Day with a Chapter of Ulysses
Bloomsday in Melbourne mounts a course, one day’s immersion in James Joyce’s most Irish chapter of Ulysses, Cyclops. Continue reading
Slow Reading of ‘Ulysses’ in Brisbane
Reading Ulysses slowly and in a community. Continue reading
James Joyce’s Ulysses – Taking The Next Step
at the end of the day you WILL feel inspired to explore this wonderful book further… that’s a promise!
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A Feast of Clarification
In Holy Cow!, pathos was blended with comedic bombast, prolixity with wordless groans, and irony with genuine feeling. The ending was incredibly moving, reminding us of Joyce the man and the writer. Continue reading
