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** Poems Ago
Friday, 13th June at 2pm – James Joyce Centre
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The James Joyce Centre (https://jamesjoyce.ie/?mc_cid=9b12213ca7&mc_eid=UNIQID) is proud to present a lunchtime performance by Poems Ago (https://www.poemsago.com/?mc_cid=9b12213ca7&mc_eid=UNIQID) on Friday, June 13th at 2pm. Poems Ago, the Irish-Dutch musical duo Juliana Hahn and Remco Jacobs, compose and perform music to Irish poetry and play original songs. In this concert, they will perform guitar and violin music set to James Joyce’s Chamber Music (1906) as well as poetry by W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, and contemporary Irish poets. The concert conincides with Yeats’ birthday.
More information about Poems Ago can be found on their website https://www.poemsago.com/?mc_cid=9b12213ca7&mc_eid=UNIQID.
Tickets are €15.
** His Art Belongs to Dada
Friday, 13th June at 7pm – James Joyce Centre
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Kick off The Bloomsday Festival (https://www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/?mc_cid=9b12213ca7&mc_eid=UNIQID) weekend celebrations at The James Joyce Centre (https://www.jamesjoyce.ie/?mc_cid=9b12213ca7&mc_eid=UNIQID) on Friday, June 13th at 7pm with a Joyce-themed cabaret of readings, performance, music and natter, hosted by author David Collard.
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.
** Joyce and the Great Irish Poets Songbook
Friday, 13th June at 7.30pm – Royal Irish Academy of Music
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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 at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. The event will take place on the 13th of June at 7.30pm. 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.
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** Grace by James Joyce
14th-16th June – The New Theatre
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The New Theatre (https://thenewtheatre.com/?mc_cid=9b12213ca7&mc_eid=UNIQID) & Bewley’s Café Theatre (https://www.bewleyscafetheatre.com/?mc_cid=9b12213ca7&mc_eid=UNIQID) presents Grace by James Joyce as part of the 2025 Bloomsday Festival on June 14-16.
“Grace” from Joyce’s Dubliners is a tale of booze, bombast and religious confusion that brilliantly satirises the role of the Catholic Church in early twentieth century Irish life. When struggling salesman, Tom Kernan (who also appears in Ulysses), is found drunk and injured in a pub toilet and brought home in disgrace to his long suffering wife, his friends hatch a plot to save him from his errant ways.
This acclaimed production features the actor and comedian, Terry O’Neill, who brings to life Joyce’s rare collection of characters and takes you on a hilarious journey from purgatory to paradise.
Dubliners, first published in 1914, is one of the great short story collections in the English language. By exploring the lives of his fellow Dublin citizens with unflinching realism, Joyce revealed truths both blasphemous and transcendent.
Showtimes:
14 June: 3pm & 6pm
15 June: 4pm
16 June: 3pm & 6pm
Tickets are €22 general, €20 concession.
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