(AGENPARL) - Roma, 15 Gennaio 2025 - (AGENPARL) – mer 15 gennaio 2025 Join us at the James Joyce Centre for a selection of events to kick off the new year including poetry, readings, and music!
** McGovern’s Choice: Parts 1 & 2
23 & 24 January at 7.30pm
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Anna Livia Creative (https://www.annaliviacreative.com/?mc_cid=97d9f71f1f&mc_eid=UNIQID) in association with the James Joyce Centre presents McGovern’s Choice, two captivating evenings with acclaimed Irish actor Barry McGovern. Join us at the James Joyce Centre as he brings James Joyce’s works to life through a specially curated selection of prose, poetry, and surprises.
McGovern, celebrated for his mastery of Joyce and Beckett, will read from Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegans Wake, and Ulysses, along with Joyce’s poetry. As he explains: “I want to offer a potpourri of Joyce’s works for both newcomers and longtime admirers.”
Part 1: Thursday, 23 January at 7.30pm. Doors open at 7pm.
Part 2: Friday, 24 January at 7.30pm. Doors open at 7pm.
A wine reception will follow each performance.
Tickets are €20.
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** Poems Ago: ‘Home’
Saturday, 25 January at 2.30pm
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Folk duo Poems Ago will perform a collection of songs and poetry put to music. These performances explore the theme of ‘Home’, interweaving the works of James Joyce with their own experiences of living abroad and returning home. Join us for an afternoon of acoustic music and poetry.
Tickets are €10.
** Trailing a Sea-Weed Cord: Contemporary Irish and Nigerian Poetry Launch
Saturday, 1st February at 6pm
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Trailing a Sea-Weed Cord: Contemporary Irish and Nigerian Poets on Wole Soyinka’s “Ulysses: Notes From Here to My Joyce Class” is an extraordinary endeavour that fuses Ireland and Nigeria’s rich literary heritages. This year marks the 91st birthday of Professor Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian Nobel Laureate for Literature, who while imprisoned in 1966 wrote a poem entitled “Ulysses: From Here to my Joyce Class.” In honour of Prof. Soyinka, five Irish poets selected by Poetry Ireland and five Nigerian poets each contributed a poem inspired or reacting to his poem.
An initiative of the Embassy of Ireland in Nigeria, the book was published last year by Bookcraft, the publishers of Wole Soyinka’s works and is the second part of a trilogy of publications initiated by the Embassy to promote Irish-Nigerian cultural discourse and understanding.
Tickets are free, but booking is essential.
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.
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The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
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