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The Bloomsday Festival 2023 takes place all over Dublin but the James Joyce Centre is at its heart. This year we are providing a venue for a variety host of lectures, theatre shows, live podcasts, and children's events. Here are just a few of the events on offer - for our full programme see - www.bloomsdayfestival.ie
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Falling Through the Universe:
A Play by Declan Gorman
TICKETS: €15
TIME/DATE: 19:30, 7th June
An acclaimed interpreter of Joyce’s early works, Declan Gorman will give a series of “intimate” club performances within Ireland, prior to the London premiere on Bloomsday. Catch the only Dublin city performance in the evocative surrounds of the James Joyce Centre - the nerve centre of all things Joycean this Bloomsday season! On January 6th 1982, a young Irish emigrant borrows an English language book from a library in Munich. He reads “Dubliners” over one evening, culminating with “The Dead”. The course of his life changes: slowly but irredeemably…Forty years later, he walks onto a stage to recreate the night he discovered James Joyce’s miniature masterpiece and perform one of the greatest short stories ever written in the English language.
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The Cat and the Devil
TICKETS: €5
TIME/DATE: 14:30, 11th & 17th June
The people of the French town of Beaugency, a tiny town on the bank of the Loire, are weary. They have no bridge, and so must travel by boat every time they want to cross the river. When the Devil (who looks suspiciously like James Joyce) appears in Beaugency, offering to build abridge for the people himself, the Lord Mayor finds that his offer comes at a high price: the soul of the first person to cross the bridge. Can the Lord Mayor outsmart the Devil himself?
Originally written as a letter to Joyce’s grandson Stephen, The Cat and the Devil has lately been made available for young readers after a prolonged period out of print. With gorgeous illustrations by Brazilian artist Lelis, Little Island made this children’s story by Ireland’s greatest author available once more in 2021, for children and for Joyce enthusiasts of all ages.
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Blooms & Barnacles Live Podcast:
A Reign of Uncouth Stars
TICKETS: €10
TIME/DATE: 19:00, 15th June
What was Joyce’s connection to the occult? How did occultism influence the creation of Ulysses? From Renaissance hermeticism to Victorian spiritualism, Kelly Bryan and Dermot O’Connor of the Blooms & Barnacles podcast and special guest Conner Habib explore the weirder side of Ulysses in this live event. Blooms & Barnacles is a non-academic podcast discussing all things related to James Joyce’s Ulysses. Conner Habib is host of the podcast Against Everyone with Conner Habib and author of Hawk Mountain.
This event will also be available to watch online via live streaming.
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Bloomsday Lecture 2023 | Strength & How to Obtain It by Dr. Conor Heffernan & Strong Woman Ireland
TICKETS: Free (ticketed)
TIME/DATE: 13:00, 16th June
Leopold Bloom, like thousands of his generation (and ours), was captivated by the desire to sculpt and shape his physique. Inspired by Prussian strongman Eugen Sandow, the "father of modern bodybuilding." This inclusion speaks to Bloom’s physical dissatisfaction and, as some have argued, professional envy. So, if you ever wanted to learn about Ulysses, Edwardian physical fitness, muscular nationalism, and pump some iron at the same time, this lecture might just be for you.
Join us in the James Joyce Centre on Bloomsday, June 16th at 1pm as Dr. Conor Heffernan (Ulster University) shreds -- excuse us, sheds -- some light on Sandow’s system, Bloom’s physical health, and the cultural significance of strength and fitness in Joyce’s work.
You may want to bring your gym shorts. Unlike most lectures about James Joyce, this one is going to get physical. Not only will audience members be treated to a display of strength from a professional athlete, they will have the opportunity to measure their body against Bloom's (or Sandow's, depending on one’s confidence) and indulge in those Sandow exercises Bloom so neglected.
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The James Joyce Centre is a registered charity committed to providing equal opportunity education to all. Your donation helps support our year round programme of events, exhibitions, outreach and educational activities and the annual Bloomsday Festival. Thank you!
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