Nature of Event: 1916 Centenary Seminar – Visions Past and Present. This is a two-day weekend seminar featuring local and interstate speakers and more. This is a once-in-a-century programme that will be of compelling interest to everyone with connections to, or interest in the modern Ireland with a view to the future. Featured speakers include Dr. … Continue reading
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Populated by Minnows and Whales in Effusion: Joyce’s Dublin 1904
A BOOK REVIEW by Frances Devlin-Glass Vivien Igoe: The Real People of Joyce’s Ulysses, a Biographical Guide, University College Dublin Press, Dublin, 2016 ISBN: 978-1-910820-06-03 RRP: €40 This is a book that few lovers of Joyce will be able to resist, and they should be urged not to resist. We’ve known since the Linati schema was … Continue reading
Staking Sovereignty as an Artist
The production took a sensual, carnival-like approach, with music and costumes pulled from many different eras, the actors quickly swapping roles and scenes as Stephen observes and reacts. Continue reading
Bloomsday in Melbourne 2016 Festival
a rebel without a pause, a rebel with a cause. Continue reading
Bloomsday 2016 Seminar
Young men and their autobiographical fiction and poetry…. Continue reading
Bloomsday 2016 Annual Dinner
Nature of Event: Kick back before the show or after the Seminar at Papa Goose Restaurant. The annual Bloomsday Dinner will follow the seminar and is designed to flow into the evening Opening Night performance of Bloomsday in Melbourne’s adaptation of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, directed by Wayne Pearn. When: 16 June 2016, … Continue reading
Intensive course on Joyce’s Portrait on 12 March 2016
Intensive course on James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Continue reading
Two courses on James Joyce
demystifying and enjoying a master….
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Pure and Sublime Poetry: A conversation with visual artist Robert Amos
Sara Jewell, of Waywords and Meansigns, interviews a Canadian Visual Artist. Joyce aficionado Robert Amos has had a copy of Finnegans Wake since 1969. One of Victoria’s best known artists talks frankly to us about Finnegans Wake, decorating the entirety of the James Joyce Bistro in Victoria, British Columbia, and writing out (by hand) one of … Continue reading
A Song Cycle for Nora Barnacle
Nora Barnacle was known to be a plain speaking woman, practical, stoical, yet with as much mettle in her as there was in Joyce. Continue reading