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** What Chamber Music Tells Us About James Joyce
Friday, August 8th at 6.30pm
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Join us at The James Joyce Centre on Friday, 8 August 2025 at 6.30pm as Prof. Martin Connolly (Tsurumi University) lectures on the lasting legacy of James Joyce’s collection of poems, Chamber Music (1907).
Chamber Music was James Joyce’s first published book, and a book of poetry at that, not the prose he is so famous for. Chamber Music may still delight his readers, as the language of the poetry conjures a rarefied world and sensibility, but it doesn’t receive a lot of attention in critical circles. This is unfortunate because the book is clearly a portal onto the early Joyce, one which, with a little careful reading, can cast light onto Joyce’s early obsessions and attitudes towards women, towards himself, and towards his art.
Prof. Connolly will offer a careful analysis of this and more, their lasting influence in Joyce’s later works, and their enduring legacy today.
Born in Liverpool and raised in Belfast, Prof. Martin Connolly has resided in Japan since 1991. He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin (BA) and Queen’s University (MA). He is a Professor of English Literature at Tsurumi University in Yokohama, Japan and teaches creative writing at Keio University. He has published on Medieval English Literature, James Joyce, and other Irish writers. His peer-reviewed published research on Joyce covers Ulysses, Dubliners and Chamber Music and the influence of Theosophist poet Paul Gregan. He is also an active writer of poetry, short stories and novels, including Belfast, with Dinosaurs, 1979 (Shanway Press, 2022), Narrative Poems – Out of the Ordinary (Brimstone Press, 2024), and a book of original jazz photos Kind of Green (Snowchild Press, 2023). You may find out more about his work at https://snowchildpress.weebly.com?mc_cid=9fc2caa8e6&mc_eid=UNIQID.
Doors open at 6pm. The event is free but booking is essential.
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