(AGENPARL) – mer 25 settembre 2024 Join us for three book launches, musical performances, and more at the James Joyce Centre.
** Three Events in Early October
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The James Joyce Centre is starting October with a very exciting line-up! Please check out these events.
** Two Book Launches: Finnegans Wake, Flann O’Brien, Human and Nonhuman
Sat 5 October 2024 at 6:30pm
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Please join us at the James Joyce Centre on Saturday, October 5th at 6.30pm for the launch of two extraordinary new works of scholarship about James Joyce and Flann O’Brien.
Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories (https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-finnegans-wake-human-and-nonhuman-histories.html?mc_cid=3c394fcd62&mc_eid=UNIQID) (Edinburgh University Press; edited by Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan) opens new ground by exploring the productive tension between anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric readings of James Joyce’s final modernist masterpiece.
Doors open at 6pm. Tickets are free but booking is essential.
** The Company of Trees: A Celebration of Words and Music
Sun 6 October 2024 at 4 and 7pm
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Antelope Productions in association with Field Exchange presents The Company of Trees: A Celebration in Words and Music on Sunday, October 6th at 4 and 7pm.
The Company of Trees: A Celebration of Words and Music celebrates our long and complex relationship with the forest world through literature and music. Using some of the great poetry, prose, music and song that trees have inspired over the centuries, the show explores their emotional, aesthetic, environmental and philosophical impact on our daily lives.
The Company of Trees will be performed by Michael James Ford, Susannah De Wrixon and Kyle Hixon in collaboration with the Delmaine String Quartet. It will also feature striking photographic and video images by Brendan Keogh.
Tickets are €20.
** 18 Ballads from James Joyce’s Ulysses by Val O’Donnell
Tues 8 October 2024 at 7pm
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Join us at the James Joyce Centre on Tuesday, October 8th at 7pm for the book launch of 18 Ballads from James Joyce’s Ulysses by Val O’Donnell.
This collection of new ballads, based on characters featured in James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses, has just been published. The collection consists of eighteen ballads written by Val O’Donnell and set to airs of music which are referred to in Ulysses or in other works of James Joyce. The collection includes short quotes from Ulysses, a note on the music and suggestions for accessing the original sheet music and performances of the airs chosen for the ballads.
The event will start at 7pm, with a short drinks reception followed by an entertainment provided by three special guests, who will perform a selection from the ballads in the collection.
Admission is free but booking is essential. Copies of 18 Ballads from James Joyce’s Ulysses will be on sale at the event for €10.
The James Joyce Centre makes great effort to keep our events free and open to the public. We rely upon public and private donations in order to do so. We would greatly appreciate it if you would consider making a donation.
Donate (https://jamesjoyce.ie/donate/?mc_cid=3c394fcd62&mc_eid=UNIQID)
The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
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