Bloomsday in West Springfield, Massachusetts

Join us at the Irish Cultural Centre of Western New England on Monday, June 16 at 5.30pm and take part in the worldwide festival of Bloomsday! We welcome our featured speaker, Prof. Abby Bender of Sacred Heart University, to present a fascinating look at James Joyce’s epic novel. There is no need to have read Ulysses to attend this talk; but hopefully you will be inspired to read it if you haven’t.

Gathering Crumbs in James Joyce’s Dublin 
James Joyce’s encyclopedic novel Ulysses is famously considered not only the greatest, but one of the most difficult books ever written. This talk explores the case of perhaps the most insubstantial and transitory object in the novel, the crumb. We follow the breadcrumbs—and sometimes, as Joyce wishes, are unable to follow them—and find our way, from this most insubstantial thing, to some of the novel’s big insights.

More information about the event can be found here. The event is free and open to the public.