‘What’s all this talk about ‘Ulysses’?…’Finnegans Wake’ is the important book.’ – Nora Joyce, 1941. Continue reading
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How did Joyce get entangled with Charlie Chaplin?
What if Chaplin and Joyce, an inveterate consumer of cinema, had met by chance in Paris, and Chaplin had taken it into his head to make a silent film of ‘Ulysses’? Continue reading
‘The Racker’ in Melbourne for Bloomsday
Nature of Event: pReJoyce: Joyce, Dublin and Beyond. The Racker is a Dublin-based entertainer, poet, raconteur, singer. Fresh from the Joyce Tower at Sandycove, where he has often performed his own brand of Dublinesque comic poetry, Racker has been lured to Melbourne to warm us up for Bloomsday. He will perform his sequel to Ulysses, THE TRUTH … Continue reading
(Very) Short Joycean Film Showcase
Invitation to make a (very) short Joyce film, or act in one. Continue reading
Seán O’Faoláin: Literature, Inheritance and the 1930s,
..his study covers what could arguably be the most significant and influential period of O’Faoláin’s writing and fledgling political and journalistic life. Continue reading
An Irish-Speaking Island
The 19th century is commonly regarded as the century in which the Irish language suffered a calamitous collapse: a century in which it survived on the margins, largely irrelevant in politics, in law, in education. English (it is argued) was the vehicle of modernisation, Irish increasingly the language of the poor, the old, the ragged tellers of ancient stories. Continue reading
Recital of unique Irish Litany.
The celebration will include readings from the early Latin and Irish accounts of Carthage’s life, Continue reading
Remembering St Mochuda (Carthage) and all the Saints of Ireland
It includes the first public recitation from a Litany of the Saints, in an Irish language prayer-book, Continue reading
Poetry
No new life here and ancient yellowing receipts
hung on rusty nails in the long black rafter beams. Continue reading
ISAANZ Maynooth
this conference will also have a specific focus around the idea of diversity. Continue reading
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