On the Nail Literary Gathering in Limerick City

On The Nail
Tuesday 3 December @ 8.00pm



Limerick Writers' Centre presents 'On The Nail Literary Gathering' with guest poets Gene Barry and Joe Sweeney. There will also be an open-mic session.

The Loft Venue, at the Locke Bar
Georges Quay, Limerick

Bloomsday 2014

We are in the middle of planning for next years Bloomsday! If you are a Joycean, or have dramatic qualities......     In any way, we would be delighted to have you involved. This will be our 6th year . We will have main events in Bruff, but also hope to have some pre events in Limerick City. Maybe some exciting news soon about a a film premiere as part of festival . Short film now in production of modernised version of "Two Gallants"

Listen or Sing check Limerick Writers Centre for report!

Limerick Writers' Centre Presents

'On the Square' Songwriters & Open-Mic Music Session
8.30pm @ The Square Bar,
John's Square, Limerick
Thursday 14th Nov 8.30pm
The ‘On the Square’ Songwriters & Open-Mic Music Session, upstairs in The Square Bar, St John’s Square, Limerick is situated in the heart of Limericks new artistic quarter. The session, hosted by Sean MacLeod, takes place every second Thursday at 8.30pm and welcomes musicians and singers to perform either their own original material or their favourite songs.
Special guest this week is Chris Wood. Chris Wood has been playing the guitar and writing songs for nearly 20 years. Absorbing musical ideas from rock, folk, flamenco, blues, classical and African music he has developed his own intricate style of guitar playing and composition. Chris has taught the guitar in various formats for seven years and three years ago founded the Three Songs open mic night in the White House, Limerick.  More recently he has been involved in the Limerick Songwriters sessions in the Locke Bar and The Blue Frog in Ennistymon.
We welcome a wide variety of musical styles, from folk to alternative to spoken word. So if you want to take part come along early and sign up for the open-mic.

If you wish to play contact Dominic Taylor at limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com to book a spot or turn up on the night.

Work in progress finished on this day

On 13 November 1938 Joyce finished writing Finnegans Wake.

Bord Gais Book Club Review of The Goldfinch

Bord Gáis Energy Book Club reviewed the long-awaited novel by Donna Tartt…find out if it was worth the wait.

The ‘Goldfinch’ by Donna Tartt

In The Goldfinch, we enter the world of Theo Decker who we find holed up in an Amsterdam hotel at the beginning of the novel. Why he is there is hard to tell, though we can guess that the painting of the title has something to do with it. Taking us back to where it all went wrong and to what Theo describes as “the dividing mark”, we hear of the fateful day when he came to have the painting in the first place but also, crucially, to lose the only person in the world who truly loved him.

After his Mother’s death, his alcoholic father who had previously disappeared is un-traceable and he is sent to the house of geeky friend Andy Barbour, who he had once saved from bullies. Though the upmarket Barbour family are kind and interested hosts, it seems they have taken him in more for the adulation of society pages and when Theo’s father eventually returns, new white trash girlfriend in tow, he is immediately packed off to Vegas. In a new house in a deserted estate, Theo is largely left to himself despite being only 13 – his father and new girlfriend (“Xandra with an X”) spending most of their time in the city where, Theo later finds out, they earn their new-found money from drug-dealing and gambling. His loneliness and longing for home are only eased when he meets Boris, a boy in his school with a dead mother and similarly neglectful, but violent father. They strike up a very close bond that soon has Theo involved in Boris’ self-destructive ways with shop-lifting, drugs and alcohol filling their after-school evenings and hot desert nights. It’s only when Theo’s father dies, drunk after piling up bad debts and ploughing his car into a truck, does Theo decide to get back to New York and to the antique store which offered the only stability after his Mother died. But further tragedy awaits; the worry of the painting re-surfaces, and his return home fails to put him back on the right track.

Though Theo’s story is tragic – full of guilt, regret and unhealthy obsessions – we are swept up so vividly in Tartt’s descriptions that it never becomes maudlin. Though we lose hope in his family, we see that the kindness of strangers could rescue him from the “brackish wreck” that his grief places him in and we leave our narrator in the philosophical acceptance that “fate is cruel” but “life – whatever else it is – is short”.

With vivid characters, settings you can see and almost feel, and layered descriptions that immediately convey the pictures of Tartt’s imagination (“The breeze was as heavy as teakettle steam”, “flat-pad fingers”), The Goldfinch is a fast-paced novel that immerses you in Theo’s world from the opening sentence and will stay with you long after you’ve finished. This long-awaited novel from the author of bestselling novels The Secret Historyand The Little Friend does not disappoint.

HARD TIMES-song and spoken word, Flannery's Bar, Catherine St, Limerick, 1st Dec

HARD TIMES - A commemoration in song & spoken word of the 1913 Dublin workers lockout. Sun 1st Dec Flannery’s Bar Catherine St, Limerick 4pm

Irish Book Awards

Two to vote for in Bord Gais Book Awards, Rachel English,
(Going Back) and Donal Ryan, (The Thing about December). Both have Limerick connections!

Listen or sing!

Limerick Writers' Centre Presents

'On the Square' Songwriters & Open-Mic Music Session
8.30pm @ The Square Bar,
John's Square, Limerick
Thursday 14th Nov 8.30pm
The ‘On the Square’ Songwriters & Open-Mic Music Session, upstairs in The Square Bar, St John’s Square, Limerick is situated in the heart of Limericks new artistic quarter. The session, hosted by Sean MacLeod, takes place every second Thursday at 8.30pm and welcomes musicians and singers to perform either their own original material or their favourite songs.
Special guest this week is Chris Wood. Chris Wood has been playing the guitar and writing songs for nearly 20 years. Absorbing musical ideas from rock, folk, flamenco, blues, classical and African music he has developed his own intricate style of guitar playing and composition. Chris has taught the guitar in various formats for seven years and three years ago founded the Three Songs open mic night in the White House, Limerick.  More recently he has been involved in the Limerick Songwriters sessions in the Locke Bar and The Blue Frog in Ennistymon.
We welcome a wide variety of musical styles, from folk to alternative to spoken word. So if you want to take part come along early and sign up for the open-mic.

If you wish to play contact Dominic Taylor at limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com to book a spot or turn up on the night.

Next Tuesday, 12th November

EigseMHartnett in County Limerick

@EigseMHartnett: The dates of the 2014 Èigse Michael Hartnett Festival  are the 10th to 12th of April 2014.

Poetry Music, Theatre , Literature

ON THE NAIL' LITERARY GATHERING TUESDAY 5TH NOVEMBER @ 8PM

The Loft Venue @ The Locke Bar, Georges Quay, Limerick. Organised by The Limerick Writers' Centre this popular monthly reading and open-mic continues to attract audiences with a mix of poetry, prose and music.Everyone is invited to take part in the open-mic after the main event, poets, storytellers, musicians and writers. Come and commiserate if you did not get a grant from City of Culture!

Even if you don't write you are welcome to bring something along to read. The night begins at 8.00pm and admission is free. So join us on the night and make this event something special.
This month the guests are Simon Ó Faoláin, Maggie Breen Plus an excerpt from Cafe Talk performed by Claire Sadlier and Frances O'Brien followed by the Open-Mic.
Click here for further information

Launch of 'The Stony Thursday Book'

ONE of CUISLE Limerick City International Poetry Festival’s several highlights was the launch of ‘The Stony Thursday Book’ compendium on Thursday 24.

Edited by Paddy Bushed, he chose 116 poets for inclusion and at The Stony Thursday Book event in 69 O’Connell Street, at least 30 read their works, among them Robin Parmar and Justin McCathy.

Painter John Shinnors had officiated at the relaxed opening the previous evening in Jerry Flannery’s Bar. Poets who participated in the four day festival included Anthony Cronin, who along with the late Seamus Heaney, is one of only six member of Aosdana elevated to the status of Saoi.

Dominic Taylor, Barney Sheehan, Louis Mulcahy at the international festival’s opening night in Jerry Flannery’s Bar







Although the launch night appears to have been well attended, it was sad to see the very poor audience for Anthony Cronin at The Belltable, for the closing function of the festival.

Finnegans Wake

“They lived and laughed and loved and left.” 
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

A special place.......

Visit this unique place and collection and rekindle memories and spark your creativity
http://www.oldirishways.com

Donal Ryan: The Thing About December: Review

A review of Donal Ryan's (Tipperary,Limerick!) latest book
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books-arts/review-donal-ryan-the-thing-about-december-29672764.

IRISH writer Nicola White has won the 2013 Dundee International Book Prize,

IRISH writer Nicola White has won the 2013 Dundee International Book Prize, the UK's most lucrative award for debut novelists.

She receives the £10,000 (€11,720) cash prize and a publishing deal for 'In The Rosary Garden', a crime thriller inspired by a true case of infanticide in Ireland in the 1980s.

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books-arts/irish-writer-wins-10k-for-debut-novel-29705016.html

Desmond O'Grady : The Great Outsider of Irish Poetry

Great article about Desmond O'Grady

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books-arts/the-great-outsider-of-irish-poetry-26709201.html

Anthony Cronin... Connections between two Bloomsdays

Thursday, 24 October 2013

Donal, Director of Bloomsday in Bruff, with Anthony Cronin at Cuisle in Limerick on 26th October 2013.

Don't miss the wonderful video at the end of this post: scroll down!

Anthony Cronin (born 1928 in Enniscorthy, County Wexford) is an Irish poet, novelist, biographer, critic, commentator and arts activist. He received the Marten Toonder Award (1983) for his contribution to Irish literature.

He is a founding member of Aosdána, was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 2003 and is a member of its governing body, the Toscaireacht. From 1966-68, he was a visiting lecturer University of Montana and from 1968–70, Poet in Residence at Drake University. He had a weekly discourse, 'Viewpoint', in the Irish Times from 1974–80. He has written biographies of Brian O'Nolan and Samuel Beckett. Arts activist who persuaded Charles Haughey - he was cultural and artistic adviser to the former Taoiseach - to found Aosdána and support struggling writers, composers and artists with the annuity known as the Cnuas. Involved in organising the first ever Bloomsday celebration. Produced television programmes including ‘Between Two Canals’ and ‘Flann O’Brien - Man of Parts’.

Bloomsday (a term Joyce himself did not employ) was invented in 1954, on the 50th anniversary of the events in the novel, when John Ryan (artist, critic, publican and founder of Envoy magazine) and the novelist Brian O'Nolan organised what was to be a daylong pilgrimage along the Ulysses route. They were joined by Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, Tom Joyce (a dentist who, as Joyce's cousin, represented the family interest) and AJ Leventhal (Registrar of Trinity College, Dublin). Ryan had engaged two horse drawn cabs, of the old-fashioned kind, which in Ulysses Mr. Bloom and his friends drive to poor Paddy Dignam's funeral. The party were assigned roles from the novel. They planned to travel round the city through the day, visiting in turn the scenes of the novel, ending at night in what had once been the brothel quarter of the city, the area which Joyce had called Nighttown. The pilgrimage was abandoned halfway through, when the weary pilgrims succumbed to inebriation and rancour at the Bailey pub in the city centre, which Ryan then owned, and at which, in 1967, he installed the door to No. 7 Eccles Street (Leopold Bloom’s front door), having rescued it from demolition. A Bloomsday record of 1954, informally filmed by John Ryan, follows this pilgrimage.
Watch the wonderful short film clip here

Limerick Writers' Centre Tuesday 5th September

Joyce and Poetry and also short story writing competitions in UK

Joyce’s first published book was Chamber Music, a collection of 36 love poems. His poetry was noticed by Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot and included in Pound’s influentialImagist Anthology of 1914. Pound wrote of Chamber Music: “the quality and distinction of the poems in the first half … is due in part to their author’s strict musical training … the wording is Elizabethan, the metres at times suggesting Herrick.” Known as a lyric poet, Joyce based some of his poems on songs. His poems have been set to music by composers including Geoffrey Moyneux Palmer, Ross Lee Finney, Samuel Barber, and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd, as well as the group Sonic Youth. Despite his poetic success, Joyce is better known as a novelist, and by 1932 he had stopped writing poetry altogether.

List of Writing competitions in UK
A list of short story writing competitions in UK with links and full detail

http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books/adults/short-stories/prizes/

An early Bloomsday in France!

An early Bloomsday celebration was the Déjeuner Ulysse at the appropriately named Léopold Restaurant in Les Vaux de Cernay, near Versailles. It was organised by Sylvia Beach, publisher of Ulysses, and her partner, Adrienne Monnier, in June 1929, to celebrate the first French edition of Ulysses. Among the guests were some of the most prominent figures in French literature at that time: Léon-Paul Fargue, Eduard Dujardin, Paul Valéry, Jules Romains, and Philippe Soupault. Also in attendance was Samuel Beckett, though he does not appear in the photograph.

Eden by Eugene O'Brien at Lime Tree

EUGENE O’Brien, the man who wrote  ‘Pure Mule’, really wrote this  sensitive play of a love story undone, ‘Eden’. It was staged at  The Abbey Theatre and  ‘Eden’ won Best New Play at The Irish Times Theatre Awards. For one night only this Friday 18th October

'On the Square' Music Session Thurs 17th Oct 2013, The Square Bar, John's Square, Limerick

'On the Square' Music Session Thurs 17th Oct 2013

October 9, 2013 at 9:41am

Limerick Writers' Centre Presents
'On the Square' Open Mic Music Session
8.30pm @ The Square Bar,
John's Square, Limerick
Thursday 17th  Oct 8.30pm
The ‘On the Square’ Open-Mic Music Session, upstairs in The Square Bar, St John’s Square, Limerick is situated in the heart of Limericks new artistic quarter. The session, hosted by Sean MacLeod, takes place every second Thursday at 8.30pm and welcomes musicians and singers to perform either their own original material or their favourite songs. 
We welcome a wide variety of musical styles, from folk to alternative to spoken word. So if you want to take part come along early and sign up for the open-mic.



Each session we present a special guest performer who will entertain the audience, this week, Thursday 17th October, we welcome Limerick singer/songwriter Niall Quinn, former drummer with The Hitchers.


If you wish to play contact Dominic Taylor at limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com to book a spot or turn up on the night.

All are welcome those who wish to perform or just listen. Free admission

Cuisle Limerick City International Poetry Festival Launch this evening

This year the Cuisle Limerick City International Poetry Festival will feature evening performances by Anthony Cronin, Biddy Jenkinson, Macdara Woods, Hugh Maxton, David Wheatley, Adam Wyeth, and Jo Slade.

We especially welcome poets from our partner festivals, which this year is extended to Italy. Veronika Dintinjana (Slovenia), John Davies (UK), and Marco Viscomi (Italy) will be bringing their talents to Limerick.

First Bloomsday Celebration: Bloomsday(a term Joyce himself did not employ) was invented in 1954, the 50th anniversary, when John Ryan and the novelist Flann O'Brien organised what was to be a daylong pilgrimage along the Ulysses route. They were joined by Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, Tom Joyce (Joyce’s cousin and the only family representative that Ryan could find) and AJ Leventhal (Registrar of Trinity College, Dublin). A Bloomsday record of 1954, informally filmed by John Ryan, follows this pilgrimage.

for full detailsof Cuisle Festival click here

Limerick City of Culture 2014 funding

Limerick City of Culture 2014 funding to the tune of €6 million in Budget.

Finance minister Michael Noonan said he was “very pleased to announce that €6 million funding has been provided to the Limerick City of Culture 2014 project”.

“Limerick city was chosen as Ireland’s first ever City of Culture and I am sure that the project will be a resounding success,” he explained.

“The Limerick City of Culture 2014, together with my decision to reduce VAT to 9% in the tourism and hospitality sector and to reduce the air travel tax to €0 will attract thousands of new visitors to the city.

“I would like to wish all involved with the City of Culture project every success over the next year and I look forward to attending many of the events in 2014.”

The announcement draws to a close months of speculation about funding for the project, which was announced by arts minister Jimmy Deenihan in July 2012.

Click here to read full article in Limerick Leader

Man Booker Prize

• Man Booker gets youngest winner NEW

  New Zealand author Eleanor Catton becomes the youngest ever winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for her novel The Luminaries, which is also the longest to win in the prize's history.

Arthur Griffiths and James Joyce

Historian and biographer Anthony Jordan, delivered a talk entitled ‘James Joyce and Arthur Griffith’ at the James Joyce Centre on Monday 14 October .

Anthony is the author of fourteen books of which many are first biographies of important Irish historical figures such as: Major John MacBride, Sean MacBride, Conor Cruise O’Brien, Christy Brown, WT Cosgrave, Eamon de Valera, and John A Costello. He also written two books on the relationship between WB Yeats, Maud Gonne and John MacBride, and published an autobiography The Good Samaritans – Memoir of a Biographer. His latest book is called Arthur Griffith with James Joyce & WB Yeats: Liberating Ireland.  He has also written pieces for publications such as the Irish Times.

He lives in Dublin but is a native of Mayo and holds an All Ireland Football Colleges medal. He also organises an annual celebration of WB Yeats in Sandymount.

What Happened Bridgie Cleary

What Happened Bridgie Cleary
Another superb production from Bottom Dog Theatre! Do not miss your chance to see this atmospheric production. Innovative location for drama, superb production, great sound and lighting and great performances from Myles Breen, Pius McGrath and particularly Joanne Ryan as Bridgie  Cleary


http://www.limerickpost.ie/2013/10/04/what-happened-bridgie-cleary/

Bloomsday in Bruff 

13th to 16th June 2014 

Put it in your Diary

Joyce and Trieste

http://youtu.be/2uDYidKsnrY
Joyce and Trieste

Write like Joyce

Write in Joyce's own handwriting! Download this wonderful font by following link below

https://twitter.com/dftwaterfall/status/387374682347151361

Joycean ‏@dftwaterfall5h

http://www.classicreader.com/book/353/1/ . Ivy Day October 6 is the anniversary of the death of Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891), Irish statesman. Ivy Day

Ivy Day (Irish: Lá an Eidhneáin) was formerly observed on October 6 in Ireland, in memory of the prominent nationalist politician Charles Stewart Parnell (June 27, 1846 – October 6, 1891). James Joyce's short story, "Ivy Day in the Committee Room", features several Irish politicians who fail to live up to Parnell's memory. A small ceremony still takes place at Parnell's graveside in Glasnevin Cemetery on the Sunday nearest 6 October. It is attended by a small number of devotees of Parnell and a brief oration is delivered in his honour (at midday. The day to read from Dubliners....

Committee Day in the Ivy Room

Writing in the sand at Dollymount Strand

What would you write.... Follow link

On the Nail by Limerick Writers Centre

Great evening on Tuesday. Some intense and personal prose and poetry contributions. If you want to go to a friendly Open Mike event you should try a visit. On first Tuesday of each month at The Locke Venue, upstairs at the Locke Bar, George's Quay Limerick. You can check out guest speakers on Limerick  Writers website.Limerick Writers' Centre

http://www.limerickwriterscentre.com/about-us.html

Lucia, troubled..... misunderstood?

A link below to an excellent series of articles on Joyce's troubled daughter Lucia


https://twitter.com/keithfrankish/status/384410318975541248

Joyce and The Importance of being Earnest!

https://twitter.com/dftwaterfall/status/384433280168509440

Joyce and "The Importance of Being Earnest"!  Follow link above

The Poem "James Joyce's Death-mask" by Brendan Kennelly

James Joyce's Death-mask by Brendan Kennelly

He, in this death-mask, warms the vision like a joy,
For whom the cold of exile was the only place
Where home was art's acropolis; now, passions stem
From fretted skin, the hollow landscape of his face.

Eyeing this mask, I see him bending to life's work,
Some prodigal son who scorned, from love, to claim
A fatted calf, but irrevocably estranged,
Strode lonely down the bright meridians of fame.

Inert, the poem-troubled skin squats round the eyes,
Limp hair, white spike of light that strikes the fervent lips
Which opened once to utter sung whisperings; now,
Harsh yearnings hurt wilfully and cold wind rips.

Away, outside, he sees from his total prison,
The bone-bright life of things that grows remote and dim,
A ring of Being, glinting like sunlit water,
Spurting through stoney clouds, outside, away from him.

And yet those eyes knew life's repeated thunder once.
Tumult of images, city roaring and blind.
Leaped wild through his head with a hard, choking wonder.
Stumbling to expression in dark streets of his mind.

His life-work finished and Ireland still blown by the
Wet winds of fear, his death-face has its own life yet;
Some simple no music, birdsong, nor branches
Breaking with full flowers can equal, or we forget.

Death Mask of James Joyce is in Hunt Museum

Michael J. Noonan R.I.P

The Sean Wall Committee are sad to record the death of our friend and colleague Mr. Michael J. Noonan. Those of us privileged to work with Michael over the years saw at first hand his outstanding commitment to the service of his community.  Michael was Secretary of the main Sean Wall Committee, The Sean Wall Memorial Committee,  Sean Wall Restoration Co. Ltd and Bruff Housing Co. Ltd.  Michael was also a most enthusiastic member of the Bloomsday in Bruff Committee.

The saving and restoration of the Old RIC Barracks and the beautiful restoration of The Church of Ireland  are two fine examples of his legacy to the community in Bruff. The construction of five housing units at the rear of the barracks are also a result of his energy and commitment. His work with the Sean Wall Memorial Committee ensured that due respect was accorded  in our community, every Easter, to those who fought and died in our fight for freedom; likewise an annual ceremony at the republican plot in Grange.

Michael was one of the original committees members that established what is now the fine GAA Sports Ground in Bruff. He worked tirelessly to support  the work of Margaret Shaughnessy at Foynes Flying Boat Museum. He was a director of Ballyhoura Community Development Co. Ltd and a Director of Carebright Company, working for care in the community.

 Michael had a longstanding working relationship with his great friend of many years Mr. Dennis Barrett, Chairman of The Sean Wall Committee.   Dennis said  “ Michael was great man, with a commitment to his community that was unparalled. I have been privileged to be his friend for many years, to see at close hand his work. I shall miss his company and friendship with a great sadness”           

We who worked closely with him, were very aware of the many kind and compassionate deeds, performed quietly and privately for those who sought his help. Until relatively recently we were also in awe of his energy and determination, to see a project through, to attend all meetings of the various committees.

Donal Thurlow PRO for the Sean Wall Committee said “Michael adopted the technology of the mobile phone with enthusiasm, and was an avid texter! He would ask you to see to a certain task. He would phone the next day.....to see how you were...   and   to check that you had completed the task. If you had not he would follow up your progress with a relentess energy; you soon learnt that it was easier to see to Michael’s tasks promptly! It has been a daunting task to cover for Michael in recent months as Acting Secretary. I have become more aware than ever of the amount of work he got through. Michael was a compassionate man of great integrity; we were privileged to have him as a colleague and as a friend.

Donal Thurlow

PRO Sean Wall Committee

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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

James Joyce Reading Group!

We are starting the Reading Group this month.........   and starting with the Short story "The Dead" from Dubliners... email or phone for further info. The aim and ethos is a relaxed non-expert group......  venue may be the Church of Ireland Building, Main Street, Bruff. Conversation and introduction may include showing of part of the John Heuston film. More details next week. 

The Dead, the celebrated short story from James Joyce’s Dubliners, is a recognised masterpiece.

This Christmas, the Abbey Theatre presents this classic in a new dramatisation by one of Ireland’s most important playwrights, Frank McGuinness.

The year is 1904. It is a snowy winter’s night in the city of Dublin. Gretta and Gabriel Conroy are among the guests at the Morkan Sisters’ annual dinner on the Feast of the Epiphany and the last day of Christmas. An evening of laughter, music and dance ends in an epiphany for Gabriel.

Joe Dowling, former Director of the Abbey Theatre, returns to direct a stellar cast of Irish actors in the must see theatre event of the year.

JOYCE HOUSE, the fictional Morkan sisters' home. 15 Usher's Island, Dublin.