Dublin Ulysses Tours

09/06/2019

How are you going to celebrate Bloomsday?

08/06/2019

is coming soon 👒🌂Tours every day 10-16 June at 2pm! Link on bio for further info.
Why read the book when you can take the Tour!

06/06/2019

“Those girls, those girls, Those lovely seaside girls.”

15/06/2018

02/12/2017

Love this!

A six-year-old Canadian boy has received some high-profile backing after coming up with a new word – levidromes.

06/11/2017

Bewley's is back! I don't know of any Starbucks with a Harry Clarke window; or any history for that matter (although I think James Joyce may have already left these shores by the time he was "plotting the opening of Dublin's first cinema").

It is hard to explain to a generation born during the past 20 years how much Bewley's once mattered to Dubliners. With its stained-glass windows, steaming frothy coffee, sticky buns and

01/11/2017

Goldenhair - based on the life of James Joyce - was performed live at the Richard Harris film festival. Intriguing.

MORE than 110 independent movies were shown across the weekend as the Richard Harris Film Festival marked its fourth year in the city. Set up in 2013 as part of the Gathering, Limerick’s main film festival has gone from strength to strength, with 13 films being shown in the first year to 116 n...

26/10/2017

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2017/10/049.html

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The University at Buffalo’s Technē Institute for Art and Emerging Technologies is volunteers to take part in a free, one-of-a-kind event on Nov. 1 that will explore James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake.”

12/06/2017

Watching notorious court cases influenced the writer's thinking and fiction

11/06/2017

Come have with us! Looking forward to some fancy dress and fried kidneys (optional 🤔😄) XX
€15... just call 01-7071610 or pop into the cafe to grab your ticket

11/06/2017

11/06/2017

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28/05/2017

Proud to be part of the festival after slipping under the radar last year!
Tours open to the public June 11-18 at 2pm in The Palace Bar.
Book a spot on www.DublinUlyssesTours.com

The Bloomsday Festival is Ireland's most unique literary event, celebrating June 16th 1904.

12/04/2017

Protected structure on Liffey quays to be sold by receivers with guide price of €550,000

24/03/2017

In a rare, wide-ranging interview, Bob Dylan opens up about meeting Frank Sinatra, his favorite Iggy Pop album, skipping a recording session with Elvis and why he keeps releasing standards albums.

23/03/2017

"The man on the street is probably not going to read Ulysses tomorrow but I hope the man or the woman on the street will get a flavour, will get a taste of Ulysses through this ridiculous, this marvellous, this 3-D experience of almost being inside the novel." Joseph Nugent, Boston College

Educators are developing a virtual reality game based off James Joyce's ponderous tome "Ulysses." Project leaders says the goal of "Joycestick" is to enhance...

16/03/2017

Beginning in the middle of a sentence with the word riverrun James Joyce's Finnegans Wake returns regularly to the symbol of the river. Yet it is more than a symbol; beyond metaphor. Dublin's river Liffey in the Wake is the personification of Annalivia Plurabelle - the female presence, the mother character - often heralded in the text by her initials. This chapter of Joyce's final work is sometimes referred to as the Annalivia chapter in which ALP is gossiped about by two washing-women from opposite banks of the river as they scrub all of history, language and culture from their dirty linen until the water turns black and they themselves finally turn into a tree and a stone.

Until now, the idea of a river being like a real person has been confined to literature. However, today news has broken of the first river on earth to be granted legal human status thus bringing the longest litigation in New Zealand's history to an end.

Chapter 8 of Book I in Finnegans Wake is crammed with the names of rivers. In 1928 Joyce estimated that in his Annalivia chapter the 'fluvial maids of honour from all ends of the earth' numbered about 350. A few weeks later he had 'woven into the printed text another 152 rivernames' and he didn't stop there. Among these hundreds of rivers New Zealand's Whanganui is alas not to be found - a pity, it would have been a lovely Joycean coincidence - but we can spot two (perhaps there are more) rivers that do flow through the land of the long white cloud: the Mokau ("a dzoupgan of Kaffue mokau") and the Waiau ("Waiwhou was the first thurever burst?").

Widely considered the book's most celebrated passage this river chapter has the distinction of containing the section chosen by Joyce for his famous voice recording. With upwards of 250,000 hits, this nearly nine minutes of historic audio is the most viewed YouTube video concerning the great James Joyce. So if you haven't heard it already "...every telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it."

After 140 years of negotiation, Māori tribe wins recognition for Whanganui river, meaning it must be treated as a living entity

15/03/2017

While searching for the phrase from Scylla & Charbydis "You spent most of it in Georgina Johnson's bed, clergyman's daughter" in hope to find some clue as to the biographical reality or otherwise of this 'woman of the night' I happened upon this magnificent composition. After reading the first few paragraphs I was compelled to scroll back up to discover the name of its author and I was not too surprised to see that of Christopher Hitchens. Reading the rest of the piece I could hear his voice in my head. With his trademark eloquence in this great feature Mr Hitchens provides us with some fascinating background details surrounding the writing and imagining of Ulysses. And just in case anyone was wondering precisely why the writer chose June 16th 1904 as the date on which to set his Dublin Odyssey, Christopher leaves us in no doubt that it was "...in honour of the very first time the great James Joyce received a ha***ob from a woman who was not a pr******te". Call a spade a spade!

Echoing Homer, riffing on Shakespeare, teeming with puns, palindromes, and allusions, Ulysses was a revolutionary exploration of the consciousness of its hero, Leopold Bloom. On the hundredth “Bloomsday,” the author bows to James Joyce’s novel, so long a target of censors, for the delights and discov...

09/03/2017

On Bloomsday 2010 Frank Delaney began a weekly podcast dissecting Ulysses, line by line and word by word. By the time of his sudden death a few weeks ago he had reached the Wandering Rocks episode, about a third of the way through the novel, and had passed the two and a half million mark in downloads, thus arguably becoming the greatest popularizer of a notoriously esoteric work of literature. The final words of his final podcast, posted on Feb 15, 2017, are a fine example of the passion and joy that he brought to this formidable labour of love.... "To me this portion of Ulysses, this chapter of Ulysses, has been a substantial part of the novel's attraction. I love the movement of the characters around the city. I love that Joyce put actual people in actual places. I love the ordinary momentum of an ordinary afternoon and if literature is ever to teach us anything this is where Ulysses teaches us how ordinary, and ordinarily mobile and natural life is, and how thrillingly and grippingly it can be rendered into art. More... as they say... next week." Sadly not. Thanks Frank RIP

John Banville, Colum McCann, Chris Cleave, Keggie Carew and James Joyce expert Terence Killeen salute veteran writer and broadcaster

06/02/2017

The perfect romantic surprise for Valentine's Day!

20/01/2017

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19/01/2017

I am always so delighted to hear that the tour has inspired someone to revisit Ulysses.
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18/01/2017

Why read the book when you can take the tour!

17/01/2017

03/01/2017

Sweny’s Chemist and the James Joyce Centre invite you to Wynn’s Hotel, 35-39 Lower Abbey Street on Friday 6th January for an evening of Edwardian splendour in celebration of Joyce’s classic short story ‘The Dead’. We’ll be dancing, speechifying, tucking into a splendid meal and enjoying some top-qua...

03/01/2017

last words. Noli Timere. Don't be afraid.

29/12/2016

from . First American edition of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, published on 29/12/1916

29/12/2016

"Viewing (Ireland) from exile gave (Joyce) a distinctive take on the land of his birth"

In the year of Brexit, issues of national identity in Ireland are back in vogue a century after Joyce explored them in A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man