The Bloomsday Film Festival presents a one-time payment for all events in the film festival, including the Opening Gala and Awards Ceremony.
The pass alone does not secure your booking. You must email bloomsdayfilmfesival@jamesjoyce.ie by June 10th with all the events you plan to attend. We cannot offer free entry to the IFI Volta Screening on June 16th as they have a separate ticketing system, but a special discount code for the screening can be provided with the pass.
Schedule:
11th June
Festival Launch, 7PM, @ the James Joyce Cente
12th June
Talk: James Joyce and the Magic Lantern, 5PM @ the James Joyce Centre
Horrible Creature + Q & A w Áine Stapleton, 7PM @ Belvedere House
13th June
Literature Shorts, 3PM @ Belvedere House
Poetry Shorts, 5PM @ Belveredere House
Adrian Brinkerhoff Showcase, 7PM @ Belvedere House
14th June
Dublin Short Stories, 1PM @ Belvedere House
Experimental Shorts 3PM @ @ Belvedere House
Magic Lantern Show 7PM @ Belvedere House
15th June
Joycean Shorts, 3PM @ Belvedere House
Songs of Blood & Destiny, 5PM @ Belvedere House
Awards Ceremony & After Party 8PM @ Belvedere House
16th June
The Bloomsday Film Exhibition, 9AM @ the James Joyce Centre
Volta Cine Concert, 6:30 @ the IFI (discount code available)
Step into Ireland’s literary heritage, through the eyes of the Cantonese community! Every year on June 16th, Dublin transforms into the world of Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of this literary masterpiece.
Cantonese in Ireland is proud to celebrate Bloomsday through a vibrant Cantonese cultural lens! Immerse yourself in a day of film, storytelling, guided journeys, and hands-on creativity, all conducted in Cantonese, on Saturday, June 14th at 10am-4pm. Experience Joyce like never before!
🎬 Session 1: Movie Morning + Literary Lunch
Time: 10am-2pm
Fee: €5 per person (8 free places, 12 paid places on a first-come, first-served bases; lunch included) Venue: TCD Arts Block, Room 5039 & The Duke Pub
Programme Highlights:
🎥 10am-12pm: Screening of selected clips from Ulysses (1967, Dir. Joseph Strick)
🗣 Talk: “Joyce and Ulysses, A Cantonese Perspective”
🏆 Awards Ceremony: Announcement of Writing & Drawing Competition winners ✍🎨
🍽 12.30-2pm: Literary Lunch at The Duke Pub
Enjoy lunch at a historic pub once frequented by Joyce, James Stephens, and other literary giants.
Capacity: 20 guests
(8 free community places +12 paid places, first-come, first-served)
🚶♀ Session 2: Cantonese Walking Tour + Photo Competition
Time: 2-4pm
Admission: Free
Meeting Point: The Duke Pub
Join a guided Bloomsday walking tour in Cantonese led by Lisa Tsang, a certified local guide.
Explore key Ulysses landmarks across Dublin, discover James Joyce Trail plaques, and dive into literary history, all while taking part in our Bloomsday Photo Competition!
📸 Photo Competition Details
Who can enter?
Anyone living in Ireland who attends the walking tour prizes:
Celebrate literature, culture, and Cantonese identity in Dublin’s most iconic setting. Let’s capture every beautiful moment, together!
👉 Spaces are limited, register now!
Lisa Tsang is a Dublin-based tour guide and a beauty therapist. Born in Ireland, she completed the National Tour Guiding course in 2025. Lisa travels across Ireland for work and is well known in the Asian restaurant scene. She also offers professional nail and beauty services, combining cultural insight with creativity and care.
Bloomsday 2025 粵語特別活動
齊齊走入愛爾蘭文學世界，從粵語社群角度行出屬於我哋嘅布盧姆之路！
你聽過 James Joyce 嘅《尤利西斯》（Ulysses）未？
每年 6 月 16 日，都柏林都會搖身一變，成為小說主角 Leopold Bloom 嘅世界，一齊慶祝呢部文學鉅作。
While it is now well known that James Joyce managed Ireland’s first dedicated cinema, the Volta Cinematograph, which opened in Dublin’s Mary Street in 1909, very little is generally known about the films that screened there and what influence early cinema might have had on Joyce’s art. We are delighted to present here seven short films that have been identified as Volta material, and preserved by the British Film Institute. The programme, featuring comedies, religious and historical dramas and news films from 1909, includes Une Pouponnière à Paris, A Glass of Goat’s Milk, The Way of the Cross, and Pêche aux Crocodiles.
The programme will be introduced by Joycean scholar Dr. Keith Williams (Dundee University) and early cinema historian Dr. Denis Condon (Maynooth University), with live piano accompaniment by Morgan Cooke and will be preceded by a Writers’ Tears drinks reception.
The Bloomsday Film Festival presents Songs of Blood and Destiny + Q & A with Trish McAdam on Sunday, June 15th at 5pm in Belvedere College.
Visionary film based on the epic poem iGirl by Marina Carr, by Trish McAdams.
Based on Marina Carr’s epic poem, iGirl, Beckettian in style, the writer unravels her life like some knotted ball of string, and reflects with dark humour and wit on the legacy of her own work and that of homo sapiens, evoking voices past and future, while contemplating the possible extinction of both at our own hand.
“Evoking imagined inner voices of giants of the narrative form – Antigone, Joan of Arc, Oedipus, and the last of the Neanderthals – the film is a playful intellectual feast. Using live footage, animation and music to create a cinematic immersion the film pulsates with vivid performances from renowned actors Eileen Walsh, Brian Gleeson, Cathy Belton and Brian Quinn and newcomers Holly Sturton and Ella Lilly Hyland.” ~ Sunniva O’ Flynn, IFI.
Trish McAdam began making films after a period in NY’s East Village hanging out with photographer, Nan Goldin and Vivienne Dick. Best known for, NEW YORK 81, THE DRIP (1985) SNAKES AND LADDERS (1997), HOODWINKED (1998), NO ENEMIES LIU XIAOBO (2012) STRANGERS OF KINDNESS (2015), CONFINEMENT (2019) OUTCRY AND WHISPER (2020) Solo exhibition, The Butler Gallery (2016) MA IADT (2011) Member of Aosdana (2017) Irish Film Institute Director in Focus (2019).
Much of her work is held in the Archive of The Irish film Institute, including digitization of all production footage from the documentaries HOODWINKED and FLIRTING WITH THE LIGHT (2001).
Screening will be followed by a Q & A with director Trish McAdams.
Best short films about, inspired by, or adapted from, the works of James Joyce, from Ireland and around the word.
Lineup:
SAVING SWENY (2025), Godfrey Jordan, 1 min, Canada And our eyes are on Europe, Matthew Thompson and Nidhi Zakaria Eipe, 3 min, Ireland Dance Remix “The Ballad of Persse O’Reilly” (2025), Q Poeta (POETAQ), 11 min, Japan If You Call Me Eveline (2024), Fernando Oikawa Garcia, 15 min, Brazil JAMES JOYCE & THE JESUITS (2025), 19 min, Godfrey Jordan, Canada LILLY (2025), Joyce Garvey, 6 min, Ireland PARIS ReJOYCE (2025), Godfrey Jordan, 18 min, Canada Sunlight on a Square (2025), Michael Payne and Basil Payne, 3 min, Ireland NIGHT on the TOWN (2025), Marty Lawton, 5 min, Canada The Secret Life of James Joyce (2023), Colter Harris, 12 min, United States
Screening will be followed by short Q & A with filmmakers in attendance.
The Bloomsday Film Festival presents A Magic Lantern Odyssey on Saturday, June 14th at 7-8pm in Belvedere College.
A very rare opportunity to see a live Magic Lantern performance. An original show based on Ulysses by acclaimed lanternist Jeremy Brooker.
Playing with the kind of entertainments familiar to Joyce in Late Victorian and Edwardian Dublin, this is a fun creative take on several key episodes in Joyce’s novel. Devised by magic lanternists Jeremy and Carolyn Brooker, the show is inspired by Keith Williams’s groundbreaking book on popular Victorian media in Joyce’s work, James Joyce and Cinematicity: Before and After Film.
Using a magnificent ‘triunial’ (or three lens) brass and mahogany magic lantern, Ulysses: A Magic Lantern Odyssey features original lantern slides from the period alongside specially created modern slides. With live narration by Les Doherty and musical accompaniment by Aleka Potinga (cello, voice) and So-Young Yoon (piano).
A very rare opportunity to see a live Magic Lantern performance.
The Bloomsday Film Festival presents Experimetal Shorts on Saturday, June 14th at 3-5pm in Belvedere College.
The most exciting and innovative experimental short films from Ireland and around the world.
Lineup:
Film Album no.2 (2024), Arran Tenzin Bradstock, 21 min, Ireland In the In-Betweens (2024), Patricia Delso Lucas, 2 min, Belgium Three mums (2024), Beruh Pietx Prat, 6 min, Ireland KRYLA (2024), Anastasiia Lapko, 6 min, Ukraine It’s Not Half Enough (2025), Thomas Mills Harris, 7 min, Ireland The Simultaneity of Breathing (2024), Mersolis Schöne and Thomas Ballhausen, 5 min, Austria Lios an Uisce / Water’s Edge (2024), Laura Sarah Dowdall, 7 min, Ireland Losing My Body (2024), Žiga Ciber, 3 min, Ireland Keratin (2021), Charlie Jimenez, Scarlett Wang, Catarina Dias Silva, Stella Rosenkvist and Isobel O Gorman, 4 min, United Kingdom Flotsam (2025), David Curtis, 3 min, Canada Postpartum (2024), Tania Notaro, 14 min, Ireland State O’Chassis, Corie McGowan, 18 min, United Kingdom
Runtime: 92 min
Screening will be followed by short Q & A with filmmakers in attendance.
The Bloomsday Film Festival presents Dublin Short Stories on Saturday, June 14th at 1-3pm in Belvedere College.
A diverse selection of short films (documentary, fiction, animation) exploring, celebrating, even lamenting, modern Dublin.
Lineup:
After the Eclipse (2025), Norbert Payne, 11 min, Ireland, Dublin Short Stories Berdyans’k (2023), Tom Hopkins and Kateryna Paida, 16 min, Ireland, Dublin Short Stories Conveyance (2024), Gemma Creagh, 15 min, Ireland, Dublin Short Stories Young People of Ireland (2024), Sophie Meehan, 15 min, Ireland I Found A Place (2024), Zoë Gibney, 9 min, Ireland THE LIBERTIES of PADDY and BANG BANG (2025), Godfrey Jordan, 17 min, Canada The Un-Chaotic Cabinet That Wishes For Me To Sleep (2023), Cillian Green, 7 min, Ireland Sruth na Life (the Liffey flow) (2025), Cúán de Búrca, 5 min, Ireland An Lár (2024), Liam Weir, 4 min, Ireland, Dublin Short Stories
Runtime: 96 min
Screening will be followed by short Q & A with filmmakers in attendance.
A rich and eclectic selection of short films based on poems, featuring the best work from Ireland and all around the world.
Lineup:
Wandering Houses (2025), Lilián Pallares, Charles Olsen, and Lauren Mendinueta, 10 min Aporia (2025), António Forte and Rita Tormenta, 4 min, Portugal Learning to Breathe (2025), Jessamine O’Connor, 4 min, Ireland Bridge (2024), Adam E. Stone, 2 min, United States City in Crisis (2025), Louis O’Flynn-Martin and Mikey Cullen, 7 min, Ireland Elena’s Poem of Happiness (2024), Elena Truuts, 1 min, Estonia Whiteweight (2024), Alkistis Kafetzi, 5 min, Greece Empty (2024), Thomas O’Donoghue, 2 min, Ireland Purple Cat (2024), Josua Graf and Micha Kunze, 5 min, Germany Feral (2025), Stephen Patrick Murphy and Anne Tannam, 2 min, Ireland Heartbreak (2024), Mary Moynihan, 2 min, Ireland 7 Veils (2023), Evi Tzortzi and Giorgos Alexakis, 8 min, Greece God’s Hurler (2024), Colm Scully, 3 min, Ireland Rosa (2024), Jannik Ohlendieck, Elizabeth Diego, 3 min, Mexico Sub Rosa – A Cold War Lullaby (2024), Csilla Toldy, 4 min, Ireland Alban Arthan (2025), Barry Hollow, 4 min, United Kingdom The Age of Innocence (2025), Laura Coehlo, 4 min, Germany The Bride Goes Wild (2023), Janet Lees, Amy Gerstler, 5 min, United Kingdom Unseen (2024), Helmie Stil and Sjaan Flikweert, 3 min, Netherlands Vice Versa (2025), Lotte Wang and Zehua Shao, 3 min, China The Way Home, Chiara Viale, 14 min, Ireland
Runtime: 86 min
Screening will be followed by short Q&A with filmmakers in attendance.
These short films are adapted from, or inspired by, works of literature from Ireland and around the world.
6.14 (2022), David Bickley and David Forsythe, 12 min, Ireland On the Blue Summer Evenings (2024), Xaviar Guárdia, 10 min, Spain The Forest Midwife (2024), Beta Bajgart, 15 min, Ireland In a Far Country (2025), Arthur Guezou, 4 min, France Henrietta (2025), Bara Palcik, 4 min, Ireland Taiji Cove (2024), Sasha Gromova, Anastasia Bukreeva and Sasha Gromova, 24 min, Russia The Unnamable (2025), Lucien Hugh Clough and Luke Opalack, 10 min, United States Amergin (2025), Jonathan Brennan and Dylan Brennan, 15 min, Ireland
Runtime: 92 minutes
The screening will be followed by short Q & A with filmmakers in attendance.
The Bloomsday Film Festival presents Horrible Creature and Q&A with Áine Stapleton on Thursday, June 12th at 7pm in Belvedere College.
In 1915, James Joyce and Nora Barnacle travelled with their young children, Giorgio and Lucia, to Switzerland to escape the turmoil of World War I. Lucia Joyce later trained as a professional dancer with artists including Margaret Morris, and performed throughout Europe, until her career ended suddenly in the early 1930s. She was forced into psychiatric care by her brother and underwent experimental treatments at various hospitals across Europe. She remained in psychiatric care for 47 years until her death in 1982.
Horrible Creature was filmed at locations throughout Switzerland where Lucia spent time, including her primary school in Zurich and a psychiatric hospital near Geneva. Here, Lucia’s own writings and experiences are interpreted by a cast of international experimental dance artists to conjure her world between 1915 and 1950. The film fearlessly explores her difficult family life, her unproven illness, and her undoubted talent.
This film is one of a series of films about Lucia Joyce by Áine Stapleton, which challenge the accepted biography of Lucia’s life and consider the complexity of her mental strain.
“A stunning visual experience” Film Ireland
“Visual, sensory, vicarious, disorienting, disturbing …. Go see it!” James Joyce Gazette
“as poetic as it is beguiling” Tages-Anzeiger
The screening will be followed by a Q & A with director Áine Stapleton.
In this collaborative talk, Keith Williams (University of Dundee) will discuss the key influence of the Magic Lantern on the cinematic features of James Joyce’s writing with Jeremy Brooker (former chair of the Magic Lantern Society).
When people think of Joyce, they tend to think of ‘highbrow’ influences, but Joyce was just as inspired by the popular culture of his time. This talk will show how Magic Lantern imagery and techniques found their way into Joyce’s themes and methods long before those of film.
The James Joyce Centre opens its doors to celebrate the greatest day of the year — Bloomsday! We will be open to the public for free on Monday, June 16th from 9:30am to 6pm.
The James Joyce Centre is proud to organise the Bloomsday Festival on behalf of the city of Dublin. As a token of our appreciation to Dublin and all the participants of Bloomsday, we will open our doors to the public for free. Come see Leopold Bloom’s door from No. 7 Eccles Street, where it all began. Browse our exhibitions, parlour rooms, and interactive guides to Joyce’s life and work. Marvel at the beautifully preserved 18th century townhouse, a stunning example of high Georgian architecture. See the Maginni Room, named after “Mr Denis J Maginni, professor of dancing &c,” the real-life dance instructor who used the room as his dance studio and is mentioned in Ulysses!
Seedcake will be provided by the Parnell Street Bakery for visitors to enjoy. An appearance by “Alice,” a vintage car built in 1904, will grace North Great George’s Street.
There will be readings, talks, music, children’s events, and fun throughout the day!
Feel free to dress up in your finest bowler hats and Edwardian garb as you join visitors from all over the world for an unparalleled cultural celebration.
Admission is free and open to the public. No booking is necessary.
Fellow Irish Artists is delighted to launch the second part of its documentary In the Footsteps of James Joyce on Bloomsday, Sunday June 16th. The documentary is free and available to the public online.
June 16th, 18:20 – Adam & Paul/An Encounter GET TICKETS
20th anniversary screening of Lenny Abrahamson’s first feature. Written by Mark O’Halloran about the addicts he encountered in Dublin’s inner city, it follows the Ulyssean wanderings of Adam and Paul through the streets of Dublin looking for their next fix. It is an astonishing work shot through with an absurdist and often comic vision in the service of a deeply sensitive portrait of drug addiction with utterly convincing central performances of O’Halloran and the late, wonderful Tom Murphy.
Also screening: An Encounter. An adaptation by Mark O’Halloran of Joyce’s unsettling short story. Dir. Kelly Campbell, 20 mins, Ireland, 2022 35mm.
An introduction by Mark O’Halloran will explore Joycean connections.
‘Whenever I am obliged to lie with my eyes closed I see a cinematograph going on and on and it brings back to my memory things I had almost forgotten.’ – James Joyce.
Ireland’s most literary film festival. Set up as a celebration of cinema, literature, and artistic innovation, inspired by the long reaching arm of Ireland’s patriarch of modernism, James Joyce. The festival is run in partnership with the Bloomsday Festival & the James Joyce Centre and will run between the 11th – 16th June, with screenings taking place at the historic James Joyce Centre and the IFI.
Like last year, we will celebrate the birthday of W.B Yeats on the 13th of June with a selection of Poetry and Literature short films. On the 14th, in keeping with Joyce’s radical and experimental spirit, we will screen the best Experimental Films. On the 15th, the anniversary of the publications of Dubliners, we will dedicate to Dublin with screenings of Joycean short films and Dublin Short Stories. We will also have many more special events between the 11th – 16th, as well as on Bloomsday itself of course, the 16th, and will screen the feature films in the evenings.
We want to encourage artistic innovation within the medium, artists who do things their own way, and films that seek to push the craft forward, as Joyce did so greatly within his own craft of literature.
June 16th, 15:20 – The Disembodied Adventures of Alice GET TICKETS
This hallucinatory trip, an adult fairytale, travels through a long, dark night conjuring otherworldly scenes of kink, gender-swapping, mental illness, loss and loneliness. Reimagining Lewis Carroll’s iconic Alice, the film’s protagonist journeys though a warren of bewildering scenarios where she encounters characters who are at once beguiling and alienating – gliding, writhing, gorging, dancing, and uttering passages from Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Their world promises as much danger as sensual delight. This is the first feature film from Cléa van der Grijn, an internationally acclaimed, award-winning, visual artist and independent film maker based in Sligo.
Cléa van der Grijn will join a post-screening Q&A with Tommy Creagh, director of the Bloomsday Film Festival.
‘Whenever I am obliged to lie with my eyes closed I see a cinematograph going on and on and it brings back to my memory things I had almost forgotten.’ – James Joyce.
Ireland’s most literary film festival. Set up as a celebration of cinema, literature, and artistic innovation, inspired by the long reaching arm of Ireland’s patriarch of modernism, James Joyce. The festival is run in partnership with the Bloomsday Festival & the James Joyce Centre and will run between the 11th – 16th June, with screenings taking place at the historic James Joyce Centre and the IFI, as well as Online.
Like last year, we will celebrate the birthday of W.B Yeats on the 13th of June with a selection of Poetry and Literature short films. On the 14th, in keeping with Joyce’s radical and experimental spirit, we will screen the best Experimental Films. On the 15th, the anniversary of the publications of Dubliners, we will dedicate to Dublin with screenings of Joycean short films and Dublin Short Stories. We will also have many more special events between the 11th – 16th, as well as on Bloomsday itself of course, the 16th, and will screen the feature films in the evenings.
We want to encourage artistic innovation within the medium, artists who do things their own way, and films that seek to push the craft forward, as Joyce did so greatly within his own craft of literature.
10:00 – Richard Harte in Finnegans Wake: Chapters 1 & 2 GET TICKETS
‘Whenever I am obliged to lie with my eyes closed I see a cinematograph going on and on and it brings back to my memory things I had almost forgotten.’ – James Joyce.
Ireland’s most literary film festival. Set up as a celebration of cinema, literature, and artistic innovation, inspired by the long reaching arm of Ireland’s patriarch of modernism, James Joyce. The festival is run in partnership with the Bloomsday Festival & the James Joyce Centre and will run between the 11th – 16th June, with screenings taking place at the historic James Joyce Centre and the IFI, as well as Online.
Like last year, we will celebrate the birthday of W.B Yeats on the 13th of June with a selection of Poetry and Literature short films. On the 14th, in keeping with Joyce’s radical and experimental spirit, we will screen the best Experimental Films. On the 15th, the anniversary of the publications of Dubliners, we will dedicate to Dublin with screenings of Joycean short films and Dublin Short Stories. We will also have many more special events between the 11th – 16th, as well as on Bloomsday itself of course, the 16th, and will screen the feature films in the evenings.
We want to encourage artistic innovation within the medium, artists who do things their own way, and films that seek to push the craft forward, as Joyce did so greatly within his own craft of literature.
‘Whenever I am obliged to lie with my eyes closed I see a cinematograph going on and on and it brings back to my memory things I had almost forgotten.’ – James Joyce.
Ireland’s most literary film festival. Set up as a celebration of cinema, literature, and artistic innovation, inspired by the long reaching arm of Ireland’s patriarch of modernism, James Joyce. The festival is run in partnership with the Bloomsday Festival & the James Joyce Centre and will run between the 11th – 16th June, with screenings taking place at the historic James Joyce Centre and the IFI, as well as Online.
Like last year, we will celebrate the birthday of W.B Yeats on the 13th of June with a selection of Poetry and Literature short films. On the 14th, in keeping with Joyce’s radical and experimental spirit, we will screen the best Experimental Films. On the 15th, the anniversary of the publications of Dubliners, we will dedicate to Dublin with screenings of Joycean short films and Dublin Short Stories. We will also have many more special events between the 11th – 16th, as well as on Bloomsday itself of course, the 16th, and will screen the feature films in the evenings.
We want to encourage artistic innovation within the medium, artists who do things their own way, and films that seek to push the craft forward, as Joyce did so greatly within his own craft of literature.
‘Whenever I am obliged to lie with my eyes closed I see a cinematograph going on and on and it brings back to my memory things I had almost forgotten.’ – James Joyce.
Ireland’s most literary film festival. Set up as a celebration of cinema, literature, and artistic innovation, inspired by the long reaching arm of Ireland’s patriarch of modernism, James Joyce. The festival is run in partnership with the Bloomsday Festival & the James Joyce Centre and will run between the 11th – 16th June, with screenings taking place at the historic James Joyce Centre and the IFI, as well as Online.
Like last year, we will celebrate the birthday of W.B Yeats on the 13th of June with a selection of Poetry and Literature short films. On the 14th, in keeping with Joyce’s radical and experimental spirit, we will screen the best Experimental Films. On the 15th, the anniversary of the publications of Dubliners, we will dedicate to Dublin with screenings of Joycean short films and Dublin Short Stories. We will also have many more special events between the 11th – 16th, as well as on Bloomsday itself of course, the 16th, and will screen the feature films in the evenings.
We want to encourage artistic innovation within the medium, artists who do things their own way, and films that seek to push the craft forward, as Joyce did so greatly within his own craft of literature.
‘Whenever I am obliged to lie with my eyes closed I see a cinematograph going on and on and it brings back to my memory things I had almost forgotten.’ – James Joyce.
Ireland’s most literary film festival. Set up as a celebration of cinema, literature, and artistic innovation, inspired by the long reaching arm of Ireland’s patriarch of modernism, James Joyce. The festival is run in partnership with the Bloomsday Festival & the James Joyce Centre and will run between the 11th – 16th June, with screenings taking place at the historic James Joyce Centre and the IFI, as well as Online.
Like last year, we will celebrate the birthday of W.B Yeats on the 13th of June with a selection of Poetry and Literature short films. On the 14th, in keeping with Joyce’s radical and experimental spirit, we will screen the best Experimental Films. On the 15th, the anniversary of the publications of Dubliners, we will dedicate to Dublin with screenings of Joycean short films and Dublin Short Stories. We will also have many more special events between the 11th – 16th, as well as on Bloomsday itself of course, the 16th, and will screen the feature films in the evenings.
We want to encourage artistic innovation within the medium, artists who do things their own way, and films that seek to push the craft forward, as Joyce did so greatly within his own craft of literature.
The James Joyce Centre welcomes you to its doors to celebrate the greatest time of the year — Bloomsday!
The James Joyce Centre is proud to organise the Bloomsday Festival on behalf of the city of Dublin. As a token of our appreciation to Dublin and all the participants of Bloomsday, we will be open free of charge on Sunday, June 16th from 9:30am to 4:30pm. Come see Leopold Bloom’s door from No. 7 Eccles Street, where it all began. Browse our exhibitions, parlour rooms, and interactive guides to Joyce’s life and work. Marvel at the beautifully preserved 18th century townhouse, a stunning example of high Georgian architecture. See the Maginni Room, named after “Mr Denis J Maginni, professor of dancing &c,” the real-life dance instructor who used the room as his dance studio and is mentioned in Ulysses! There will be readings, talks, music, children’s events, and fun throughout the day!
Feel free to dress up in your finest bowler hats and Edwardian garb as you join visitors from around the world for an unparalleled literary occasion. For more information, visit our website at www.jamesjoyce.ie.
