(AGENPARL) – Fri 30 May 2025 ** Bloomsday Breakfast
Monday, 16th June at 8am/11am – Belvedere College
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Belvedere College SJ is delighted to host The Bloomsday Breakfast in association with The James Joyce Centre on Monday, 16th June 2025 at 8am and 11am. Visitors will have a unique opportunity to dine in the very rooms where Joyce studied from 1893 to 1898.
Throughout his work, Joyce wrote about his student days at Belvedere College, particularly in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Immerse yourself in the heart of Joycean Dublin, around the corner from where Leopold and Molly Bloom had their home at 7 Eccles Street and close to where Joyce lived until he emigrated with Nora Barnacle in 1904.
Special performances on the day include:
• Dramatic excerpts from Ulysses to celebrate the day
• Songs from Ulysses and other works of Joyce
• Special invited guests including The Joyce Family and Lord Mayor of Dublin.
• Ticket price includes admission to the James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s Street, Dublin.
Tickets are €60.
** His Art Belongs to Dada
Friday, 13th June at 7pm – James Joyce Centre
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Collard will be joined by novelist Rónán Hession (aka Mumblin’ Deaf Ro and performing his own songs with his son Jacob), author and poet Nuala O’Connor (reading from her latest poetry collection Menagerie) and American actress and voice artist Stephanie Ellyne. Surprises and beneficial shocks are guaranteed at this informal one-off gathering, with a nod to 1920s Dada cabaret. All are welcome – not just Joyceans!
Tickets are €25.
** Bloomsday at the Royal Irish Academy of Music
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** Joyce and the Great Irish Poets Songbook
with Dean Power and James Hurley
Friday, 13th June at 7.30pm
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The Bloomsday Festival is delighted to present a wonderful evening of poetry and song – James Joyce and The Great Irish Poets Songbook, with tenor Dean Power and composer and pianist James Hurley. They will perform settings of texts by some of Ireland’s best-known writers and poets, composed and arranged by pianist James Hurley, who will accompany Dean on piano.
Highlights of the programme will include a selection of chamber music originally written by James Joyce, as well as settings of Easter 1916, The Lake Isle of Inisfree and The Salley Gardens by WB Yeats. You will hear also some intriguing settings of poems by Oscar Wilde and by Fanny Parnell, sister of Charles Stewart Parnell along with poets Susan L. Mitchell and Katharine Tynan. The programme will contain updated versions of previously composed songs as well as 2 world premieres.
Tickets are €20.
** Words in Music
Los Versos Sáficos with Christina Rosenvinge
Monday, 16th June at 7.30pm
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We invite you to take a journey from the verses of Sappho to Molly’s monologue in James Joyce’s Ulysses, guided by Christina Rosenvinge, an artist who often defines herself as an electric singer-songwriter. Christina Rosenvinge presents together with Amaia Miranda, Los Versos Sáficos (The Sapphic Verses), a new project in which she brings together the songs composed for the theatrical project Safo. Very special guest for the evening will be Irish singer-songwriter Cathy Jordan.
Following the concert, there will be a talk with Christina Rosenvinge and Katerina García, in which they will reflect on the words in music, the adaptation of repertoire (from poem to song), the updating of literary texts, and creation made by women. Presented by Instituto Cervantes in partnership with the James Joyce Centre.
Tickets are €10/15.
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.
The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
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