Saturday 24 July, 2021
The house was the setting for James Joyce’s short story ‘The Dead’ and is set to be turned into a 54-bed tourist hostel.
This year’s Bloomsday Festival will run all week with most events accessible online.
Actors gathered to mark their opposition to plans to turn the ‘House of the Dead’ into a hostel.
Permission was initially granted by Dublin City Council last year.
From TheJournal.ie
Dublin City Council granted permission last month for the house at 15 Usher’s Island, Dublin 8 to be redeveloped into a hostel.
The house at 15 Usher’s Island, Dublin 8 was once home to James Joyce’s grand aunts.
Bloomsday will be celebrated a bit differently this year.
RTÉ will be broadcasting a 30-hour-long production of Ulysses to mark a socially distanced Bloomsday.
Bloomsday is going to look very different this year.
Seán Lester was the last Secretary General of the League of Nations and tried to help Joyce as he fled the Nazis.
The house was the setting of Joyce’s famous short story The Dead.
It was built “nearly 250 years ago and was not designed or constructed for intensive daily use,” the Irish Georgian Society said.
Labour councillor Dermot Lacey said he did not regret tabling the motion at the committee meeting.
Joyce is buried in a grave in Zurich with his wife Nora Barnacle and their son.
The repatriation would be ahead of the centenary of the publication of Ulysses.
Councillors say they want to honour his memory while others worry it would be a money-making exercise.
The pharmacy opened in 1847 and was in business right up until 2009.
Sweny’s Pharmacy, located at 1 Lincoln Place in Dublin 2, first opened in 1847.
A new dance show looks at exploring another side to Lucia, daughter of James Joyce, who was herself a professional dancer.
Meet Dublin’s go-to James Joyce lookalike.
10 years on from his winning goal against Wales at Croke Park, the Stoke star has become one of Irish football’s most elusive figures.
Arts Minister Heather Humphreys said that an extra €500,000 had been allocated to acquire the letters.
We look at the events celebrating James Joyce’s Ulysses, running from today until Thursday.
“If you’re bored or confused, forget about it, move on.”
It’s an emotional rollercoaster.
This is going to be one LIVELY conversation.
James Joyce in a Vampire Weekend t-shirt.
Also featuring articles on Luis Suarez, Munster coach Anthony Foley and Kobe Bryant.
… who is pretending to be a drunk James Joyce.
Fifty lucky TheJournal.ie readers (and one editor) were treated to a whistlestop preview of next Friday’s hotspots – with poetry, storytelling and music in between stops.
Joyce took extreme liberty with language and we celebrate his genius – but when are rules NOT meant to be broken?
The masterpiece was published on 15 June 1914 after a nine-year fight with publishers.
Events have been taking place all week to commemorate Joyce’s most iconic work.
Fifteen Irish writers have contributed to a modern re-telling of James Joyce’s classic short story collection, Dubliners, to mark the centenary of its publication.
James Joyce, John Banville and Flann O’Brien were featured in The Telegraph’s Best British Novels list.
