(AGENPARL) – Tue 24 February 2026 ** Ulysses for All 2026
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** 11 March to 3 June
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** Every Wednesday, 6-8pm GMT
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Join us at the James Joyce Centre, Dublin and online via Zoom for the return of our ever-popular structured reading course Ulysses for All (2026). Led by Dubliner and Joycean, Dr. Caroline Elbay, the group will work through the episodes of Joyce’s masterpiece in a structured, accessible, analytical, and relaxed environment.
Faced with myriad crises of humanity ranging from war and conflict in the Middle East and Europe together with ongoing political upheaval and the rise of fascism and the ‘far right’ in the US and Europe, the sentiments of Yeats’s poem ‘The Second Coming’ provide a chilling sense of prescience: ‘Turning and turning in the widening gyre… the centre cannot hold…Things fall apart…The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity’.
As much a guide to contemporary life as a virtuoso work of literary commentary, Ulysses is, without doubt, a pedagogic text – one that offers a humane view of a more tolerant and decent life despite the pressures of our modern world. The book invites us to look into our own humanity in a world currently engulfed by chaos due to religious, nationalist, and imperialist aggression – ideologies which Joyce would dub ‘the wisdom of the old world’.
Beginning 11 March, the course runs over 12 weeks and will finish ahead of Bloomsday on 3 June – just in time for you to boast to the pretenders in costume that you’ve actually read the book!
Special guest speakers (including Liz Gillis, Ray Clarke, Senan Molony, and others) will offer expert insights across their subject areas.
Course Details
Location: Online on Zoom and James Joyce Centre
Dates: 11 March – 3 June 2026
Time: Every Wednesday, 6-8pm Irish Standard Time
Registration: €180
Register Here (https://jamesjoyce.moodlecloud.com/course/view.php?id=19&mc_cid=528959df3a&mc_eid=UNIQID)
Each class will be recorded and available for view on Moodle. Recordings are done with the consent of the attendee in accordance with GDRP.
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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