FW75 - A HUBBUB CAUSED IN JOYCEBOROUG
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Opens Sunday 4th May at 11.32 am and runs until Saturday 24th May
Phoenix Park Visitors Centre Daily 10.00am to 4.00pm |
FW75 a hubbub caused in joyceboroughAn exhibition celebrating the 75th anniversary of Finnegans Wake in the Phoenix Park with the support of the Office of Public Works and the James Joyce Centre Dublin. The exhibition will be officially opened on Sunday May 4th at 11.32am.
The exhibition is the centrepoint of a month-long 'hubbub" involving large number of elements: adaptations , film and photography, stage; video and audio. Included is the artist Roy Keegan’s “Panoply of Wakean Characters” (1988) and the Bird’s Eye View of Dublin published I the Graphic Newspaper in December 1890 which, in Finnegans Wake become “a Proudseye View of Dublin”, probably the best visual representation of the iconic opening line “Riverrun past Eve and Adam’s…..”. |
ay 7th May 12.30pm |
FIN
N EGAN S W A K E A N D TH E PH OEN IX PARKIn Finnegans Wake, the Phoenix Park is used by Joyce as the site of a galaxy of adventures and mischances. This talk by Vincent Deane, Joyce scholar and editor of the James Joyce notebooks, explores the terrain
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7.00pm Phibsboro Library Admission: Free, Booking Essential Also Rathmines Library 6.30pm on Thursday 15th May and Drumcondra Library 6.30pm on Thursday 22nd May |
PHIBSBOROUGH, RATHMINES & DRUMCONDRA PUBLIC LIBRARIES
Her e Comes Everybody ! – Music in Finnegans Wake - Here Comes Everybody! is performed by Sinead Murphy and Darina Gallagher, explores the musical pulse at the heart of Finnegans Wake. The irreverence and subversion of Joyce’s comic masterpiece is evoked through parlour song, music hall, nursery rhyme, folk song, street ballads, sea shanties, hymns, carols and the American songbook
More information here Booking Essential through Phibsborough Library Tel: (01) 830 4341 phibsborolibrary@dublincity.ie |
Wednesday 14th May 12.30pm
Phoenix Park Visitors Centre Admission: Free |
Gerard Meaney and Des Gunning on the challenges and possibilities involved in mapping, spatially, temporally, socially, culturally and otherwise, the imaginative spaces explored in the works of James Joyce
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Wednesday 14th May
Phoenix Park Visitors Centre Admission: Booked Out |
Working together for the first time, the 7 UNESCO Cities of World Literature: Edinburgh, Dublin, Iowa, Krakow, Melbourne, Norwich, and Reykjavik will each present an interpretation, in short film format, of a section from Finnegans Wake.
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Wednesday 21st May
8.00pm Farmleigh Admission: Free Booking Essential |
A Joyceborough ConversationJoyceborough - Dermot Bolger in conversation with Barry McGovern in Farmleigh House on Wednesday 21st May at 8pm.
These two major figures on the Irish cultural landscape have close links with the works of James Joyce, with Farmleigh and with Phibsborough. More information here |
1.00pm Christchurch Cathedral Admission: Free |
In the oldest built space in Dublin, writer Oran Ryan invites newcomers to the The Wake in particular to explore its delights, insights and entertainments - enough to last readers for a lifetime!
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Wednesday 28th May
12.30pm James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great Georges Street Admission: Free Booking essential James Joyce Centre. Tel: (01) 878 8547 |
Des Gunning explores the place of Parnell Square, Dublin’s newly-designated cultural quarter, in Finnegans Wake.
The James Joyce Centre presents a programme of exhibitions and events throughout May. |
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