Two Gallants film!

Behind the scenes at filming of Dubliners short story "Two Gallants"

Centenary of publication of Dubliners next year !

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.

The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses.^[1] The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity.

January 2014!

Exciting and innovative Joycean event in Limerick City and Bruff, Co. Limerick in first week in January 2014. Watch this space for further news.....      there will be a very restricted number of tickets (due to nature of event )

A pause in celebrations for this year!

I am sorry to have to inform all, that the major celebration of Bloomsday in Bruff will not take place this year.  We are pausing this year. There are various reasons for this, some way out of our control. This does not of course mean that we will not return.
We WILL return next year as Limerick City starts to celebrate City of Culture status.
There may well be some small events in and around 16th of June, both public and private.
The absence of Bloomsday in Bruff this year creates some space in a crowded community calendar; this will allow time, energy and finance to be targeted  to other festivals, in particular the Gathering celebrations starting on the 1st July. The Bloomsday group will return with energy and vigour in the new year with a major event in January 2014!

Great source !

The Internet Ulysses by James Joyce

edited by Jorn Barger, updated Feb2001
 Bloom by Joyce

click here to get to this source

James Joyce in Bloom with help of Limerick National School!

James Joyce in bloom!

Next spring, when the bulbs bloom at the National Botanic 

Gardens, they will reveal a portrait of James Joyce six 

metres across made with 23,000 tulip and grape hyacinth bulbs.

Dutch experts worked alongside the staff of the Botanic 

Gardens to build the portrait over four days, jointly 

sponsored by the National Botanic Gardens, the Irish 

Museums Trust, James Joyce Centre in Dublin with the

 support of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the 

Gaeltacht, Beechill Bulbs from Co. Offaly, 

Jac. Uittenbogaard & Zonen from the

 Netherlands and the Embassy of the 

Kingdom of the Netherlands.

A planting ceremony of the first tulip bulbs took place

 with the Dutch Ambassador Paul Schellekens and

 local school children from Scoil Mobhi primary 

school in Glasnevin Dublin and also from 

Saint Michael's National School in Limerick.

Check back for......

Details of Reading Group next Monday