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Diving deep into Joyce at the Martello Tower
Diving deep into the opening of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Continue reading
A Melbourne Joycean seeks out Bloomsday in Zurich
Bloomsday in Zurichbegan with a tram trip to Fluntern Cemetery …. 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
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
Holy Cow! Bloomsday’s 2018 Festival
Holy Cow! Bloomsday in Melbourne’s 25th season celebrates women, fertility, the uses and abuses of tradition. Continue reading
Behind the Scenes at Bloomsday in Melbourne
While the setting and the craic is unmistakably Dublin, the literary tour embraces some Irish writers (Swift, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan) but mostly lashes out at English classics – the revenge of a supremely gifted Irish writer on English letters. Continue reading
Joyce and Divorce
Kuch has succeeded in opening Ulysses a little further, and, in giving us another option to consider in the fictional future of the Blooms, offered us another opportunity to read Joyce’s magnificent book once more anew. Continue reading
ULYSSES FOR BEGINNERS
We think Ulysses is the funniest, the wisest and the most human book, Continue reading
