Bruff Bloomsday

Frank Delaney celebrates the 130th birthday of James Joyce

2012-02-02T10:59:00.001Z

This February 2nd, to celebrate the 130th birthday of James Joyce and the 90th anniversary of the publication of Joyce’s mighty novel, Ulysses, author Frank Delaney reads from Ulysses to the public in Madison Square Park, and through video, to the world. The year 2012 has also seen the release of Ulysses into the public domain, an event much anticipated by Joyce scholars and aficionados, long hampered in their efforts by the litigious Joyce estate. Ulysses, even with copyright restrictions, has through the years inspired readings, reenactments, and even twitter events the world over, and Delaney's reading is surely a harbinger of many inventive interpretations to come.

Delaney rails against interpretations of Ulysses that obfuscate rather than clarify the details, references, meaning, and intent of the book, and instead has shown, in his Re:Joyce podcasts, where every Wednesday he deconstructs the book sentence by sentence in episodes lasting 5-7 minutes, that Ulysses can be absorbed, understood and embraced with no loss of intellectual value. Ulysses, Delaney maintains, is a vastly enjoyable and accessible novel, “a book to get lost in...and discover each day something new.” Launched on Bloomsday 2010, The Re:Joyce podcasts have passed 300,000 downloads as of last week. They have been hailed by listeners as “the people’s Ulysses," and have been covered by publications such as NPR, The Economist, and many more.

Bloomsday in Bruff International Connections

2012-01-23T23:54:00.001Z

The Borderbend Arts Collective (Chicago) is inviting individuals and organizations to contribute to “Bloomsday 2012 & Ulysses’ 90th,” an international project that celebrates Bloomsday 2012 and the 90th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Please send an email to Ulysses90th@gmail.com with Bloomsday 2012 in the subject line if you are interested in contributing to “Bloomsday 2012 & Ulysses’ 90th” -- such as visual or literary responses to Ulysses, sound art inspired by Ulysses, or other kinds of contributions and collaborations. Updates regarding the Bloomsday 2012 project will be posted on www.bloomsday2012.org and other TBA websites and blogs

Bloomsday 2012!

2012-01-13T22:34:00.000Z

We are making final plans for Bloomsday 2012. Soon we will update the website with details of our programme.
The exciting news is that this year we are expanding once again and will have a four or five day festival.
We will also update the website with full details of available accommodation in the area, particularly our partner accommodation providers

The greatest of all Christmas stories

2011-12-21T09:25:00.004Z

The greatest of all Christmas stories, James Joyce‘s “The Dead,” the last story in “Dubliners,” was written in little over a month as Joyce forged the uncreated conscience of his race from an apartment in Trieste, Italy. John Huston’s 1988 film was made in roughly the same amount of time (in 33 days, actually ). Much of it, including all the interiors, was shot in a warehouse in Valencia, Calif. Read more on the full page article or just click here

End of 'Ulysses' copyright will breathe new life into Bloomsday

2011-11-07T11:39:00.002Z

THE EXPIRY of the copyright on James Joyce’s Ulysses next

year will liberate the text from the “notoriously restrictive”

instincts of his grandson Stephen Joyce, .

The lifting of the copyright restrictions will be celebrated by

a fresh approach to aspects of Ulysses in Bruff’s

Bloomsday celebration.

The Bloomsday festival ths coming year sees

Bloomsday (16^th June) fall on a Saturday.

Limerick Writers "On the Nail"

2011-09-26T07:02:00.000+01:00

Limerick Writers' Centre Present
Tuesday 4th Oct 2011 @ 8.00pm
Oct 'On The Nail' Reading
Upstairs@Foley's Bar, Sarsfield St, Limerick
(Limericks Newest Live Venue for Music and the Arts)

Organised by The Limerick Writers' Centre this popular monthly reading and open-mic continues to attract audiences with a mix of poetry, prose and music.

This month our guests are Stephen James Smith and Enda Reilly PLUS continuing on our '10 Minute Play' series. and open-mic.

Stephen James Smith is a remarkable performance poet and a bit of a legend in Dublin. Not only is he a former Cúirt International Literary Festival Grand Slam Poetry Champion, he is also the MC and organiser of the excellent weekly Glór Sessions in The International Bar. In 2009 he proudly represented Ireland at the Vilenica Literary Festival Slovenia and in 2010 at Wiersze w Metrze Poland. He is currently recording an EP of old Irish poems with musician Enda Reilly. Stephen is a truly hypnotic presence onstage. www.StephenJamesSmtih.com

Dublin singer-songwriter Enda Reilly writes in both English and Irish, and his Irish songs can be heard regularly on RTÉ Radio na Gaeltachta. 2010 saw Enda facilitating workshops with The Monaghan Song and Poetry Writers Group, culminating in production of their album “Hands Together”.
Enda also reaches out to younger generations through his Climate Change Songs Workshops initiative, introducing the art of song writing and environmental issues into schools and other groups. Enda performs “Spoken Word Sung Verse” with hard-working Glór poet Stephen James Smith, which is a unique mix of song and poetry performance featuring the poetry of the likes of Yeats and Kavanagh, as well as original works. He also plays regularly with the fun-loving collective known as The Lazy Band. His debut album “Oxygen 21″ is available on iTunes and can be heard and live tracks downloaded for free from http://www.endareilly.com/.

Everyone is invited to take part in the open-mic after the main event, poets, storytellers, musicians and writers . Even if you don't write you are welcome to bring something along to read. The night begins at 8.00pm and admission is free. So join us on the night and make this event something special.
NOTE: Our special authors book table will again be in operation, so if you want your book, CD's etc publicised make sure you are represented on the table. Contact Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409 to make arrangements.
The Limerick Writers' Centre acknowledges the support of The Arts Council of Ireland.
Further information contact: Dominic Taylor 087 2996409 email limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com web http://onthenailreadings.blogspot.com To view videos of the Sept reading go to: http://www.youtube.com/onthenailreadings
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The Limerick Writers' Centre is a non profit organisation established to nurture and support writers, fostering literary excellence through readings, workshops and publishing activities.

BlueGrass Music Festival

2011-09-19T17:24:00.000+01:00

Bruff Bluegrass Festival is a Bruff Festival that we are delighted to support. This BlueGrasss Music Festival is becoming well known nationally, and internationally, with authentic high quality visiting musicians and bands, playing to tremendous audiences. The weekend has music oozing out of every corner of the town, with picking sessions of the finest quality! Click here to vist one of the websites

2011-08-02T08:23:00.000+01:00

Dear Donal,
It looks like Bloomsday in Bruff went splendidly. Congratulations to you and your crew. I am glad you used Rosemay's picture for your poster; it looks great.

All best from here and good luck for next year,
Joel

Limerick Writer's Centre Event!

2011-07-19T18:02:00.000+01:00

The Limerick Writers' Centre Present
Tuesday 9th Aug 2011 @ 8.00pm

Aug 'On The Nail' Reading
Upstairs@Foley's Bar, Sarsfield St, Limerick
(Limericks Newest Live Venue for Music and the Arts)

Organised by The Limerick Writers' Centre this popular monthly reading and open-mic continues to attract audiences with a mix of poetry, prose and music.

This month we launch issue 20 of Revival Literary Journal plus our guests are George Harding, Adam Wyeth and Gary King.

Gary King was born in Galway in 1963, where he still lives. His poems have appeared in magazines such as Poetry Nottingham, The Burning Bush, Poetry Monthly, Revival, Crannóg, West 47 and The Journal. A chapbook of his poems, Ambiguous Lights, was published by Over The Edge in 2004. He has been a featured reader at the O'Bhéal, White House and Over The Edge: Open Reading series. He was runner up in the 2007 Poetry Grand Slam at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature. In December he won the 2008 North Beach Poetry Grand Slam and his first collection of poems Pluto's Noon Sky was published by Doire Press in 2009.

Adam Wyeth, born 1978, lives in West Cork. He was a recent prize-winner of the Fish International Poetry Competition, 2009 and a runner-up in the Arvon International Poetry Competition, 2006. His poems have been anthologized in The Fish Anthology, Something Beginning with P , the Arvon 25th Anniversary anthology and Landing Places. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Poetry London, Magma, The Stinging Fly and The Shop. He was a featured poet in Agenda and selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series, 2007. He teaches Creative Writing and is on the Poetry Ireland Writers in Schools scheme. Wyeth also writes a regular column for the Southern Star. His first collection, Silent Music, was recently published from Salmon.

George Harding is a Corkonian who divides his time between Cork and Kinsale and was formerly in involved in the bicycle business in Dublin and Cork. His poems have been featured in various publications here, Britain and America. He is an environmentalist, bibliophile, and hurling fanatic. He is married to Nuala and has 3 children. His first collection 'My Stolen City' waspublished by Revival Press in May.

Everyone is invited to take part in the open-mic after the main event, poets, storytellers, musicians and writers . Even if you don't write you are welcome to bring something along to read. The night begins at 8.00pm and admission is free. So join us on the night and make this event something special.
NOTE: Our special authors book table will again be in operation, so if you want your book, CD's etc publicised make sure you are represented on the table. Contact Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409 to make arrangements.
The Limerick Writers' Centre acknowledges the support of The Arts Council of Ireland.

Further information contact: Dominic Taylor 087 2996409 email limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com web http://onthenailreadings.blogspot.com To view videos of the May reading go to: http://www.youtube.com/onthenailreadings

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The Limerick Writers' Centre is a non profit organisation established to nurture and support writers, fostering literary excellence through readings, workshops and publishing activities.

Abbot Mark Hedderman with Donal Thurlow, Director of Bloomsday in Bruff and his wife Suzanne

2011-07-02T11:20:00.000+01:00

Abbot Mark Hedderman after his wonderful talk about Joyce

during the Bloomsday in Bruff 2011. There was standing room only at the Conference Room at the

The Old Bank in Bruff

A video by Dominic Taylor of Limerick Writer's Centre

2011-06-27T19:20:00.005+01:00

Click on the link below to see Dominic's Footage from Bloomsday in Bruff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LtOa9ZYsg

Thank you Dominic

Below a pic of Margie Nagle, accompanied by Edel McEniry at the Eve of Bloomsday Concert. Click on the image to see an full sized version

Click on the link below to see Siobhan Haye's pics from Bloomsday 2011

2011-06-22T10:09:00.000+01:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sghimages/sets/72157626995700134/show/

Some comments received!

2011-06-21T16:07:00.004+01:00

Congratulations to everyone involved in the most enjoyable Bloomsday and the day before events also,it was a brilliant day and looking forward please God to 2012 already. Thanks to all for a wonderful Celebration of James Joyce and Bloomsday.

I heard some amazing things about Bloomsday, I am so sorry I missed it,

Dear Donal,
It looks like Bloomsday in Bruff went splendidly. Congratulations to you and your crew. I am glad you used Rosemay's picture for your poster; it looks great.

All best from here and good luck for next year,
Joel

Check for pictures and video from this year's Bloomsday!

2011-06-21T04:23:00.000+01:00

We will publish lots of pictures here, in the next few days.If any has any interesting, good pics we would love to include them for the record.

Thank you!

2011-06-18T09:32:00.001+01:00

Thank you to everyone who helped, took part, and enjoyed Bloomsday in Bruff. It was a great day! Thanks to everyone for all the positive comments and emails;I will reply to all eventually. Everyone has been delighted by the great coverage in the Irish Independent on the 17th June

Happy Bloomsday to everyone! Proceedings and openings on the street from about ten o'clock.

2011-06-11T14:55:00.009+01:00

Superb Concert with Marjorie Nagle, Edel McEniry, John Clifford, Cashel Voices, Cairde Ceol, and Michael Holohan last evening. Do come and join us for celebrations all day today.

Limerick Leader June 11th Click on image for large version

2011-06-09T16:09:00.001+01:00

Tickets for all events going quite quickly but some tickets remain for all events!

2011-06-07T15:07:00.004+01:00

Contact us by phone 086 2463326 or by email bloomsdayinbruff@gmail.com. Information on events and prices on this website (check pages on right!)

Frank Delaneys Joyce rap

2011-06-02T11:26:00.004+01:00

Look in pages list on right for Frank Delaney's Joyce Rap! Fantastic!

An exciting programme! Click on image to enlarge!

2011-05-30T22:24:00.004+01:00

We are going to have a great Bloomsday in 2011

2011-05-05T17:21:00.007+01:00

We have already had many enquiries for tickets ............. before the official launch.... so get in touch with a committee member as soon as possible or email bloomsdayinbruff@gmail.com. We will announce and publish information about our supporting artists at the press launch. The wonderful image above is by Rosemay Dahan and we thank Rosemay for her permission to use this in our material. Click on Rosemay Dahan's name to visit her website or click on the image to view a more detailed representation!

Generosity of Artists

2011-04-08T09:51:00.002+01:00

We are delighted to announce that four superb international artists have given us permission to use their images of James Joyce in our material promoting Bloomsday in Bruff. We will also be using once again the superb image by Pat Owen that we used last year. Pat has kindly given her permission!

More information about the other artists soon.

Reading Joyce...

2010-09-29T11:03:00.005+01:00

How many friends have you got who started "Ulysses" and gave up! "Couldn't make heads or tails of it! It is one of Joyce's more difficult works to put it mildly.... but how about joining a reading group where we could begin with some of the easier works... "Portrait of an Artist" or "Dubliner's" . Drop us a line via email or contact any committee member for more details.

Trip to Dublin

Are you interested in a trip to Dublin to visit the James Joyce Centre in Dublin and The James Joyce Tower and Museum in SandyCove. Again for more details send us an email or contact members of the committee.

Bloomsday was great success!

2010-07-07T14:05:00.004+01:00

Bloomsday in Bruff was a great success last year. Have a look at Siobhan Hayes images; if you were there you might be in them!
Click on the link below to check out some of the images recorded on the day.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sghimages/sets/72157624166376803/show/with/4706975627/

A DVD recording of the day is also available!

Bloomsday 2010 Slideshow

2010-06-20T16:38:00.001+01:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sghimages/sets/72157624166376803/show/with/4706975627/

Click on the link above to view pictures of Bloomsday in Bruff 2010

2010-06-12T21:57:00.000+01:00

We thank Limerick County Council Arts Department and Shannon Development for their support.

2010-05-24T17:04:00.025+01:00

Horse and Carriages on Main Street and Breakfast (above) with Michael Quinlan Reading (below)

Tickets

for

both

events

are going quickly and are quite restricted in numbers. Contact any of the committee to books yours A.S.A.P! You can also email us at bloomsdayinbruff@gmail.com. to book your ticket.

We were delighted to receive sponsorship from Shannon Development last year and hopefully will get some support this year. The James Joyce Centre is once again giving us tremendous support and we thank them.... We hope this celebration will develop each year as the Bloomsday of the West

Bloomsday 2010

2010-05-18T19:00:00.004+01:00

James Joyce Quiz

2009-08-15T19:17:00.002+01:00

First Two Questions!

1. What was the significance of 16 June?

2. Which playwright did Joyce hero-worship?

More questions....... and answers....... eventually!

Ulysses Quiz!

2009-08-03T12:01:00.000+01:00

Just to keep everyone happy.... coming soon a Ulysses quiz....

Songs and Music and Joyce

2009-04-28T16:23:00.004+01:00

James Joyce liked singing and used and referred to many popular songs in his works.

These included:-

1. The Man who Broke the bank at Monte Carlo

(sung by Joyce himself and referred to in Ulysses)

2. Love's Old Sweet Song

(Song most identified with Ulysses and particularly Molly Bloom)

3 La ci darem la mano from Don Govanni

(This duet from Mozart's Opera is one of the main songs in Ulysses, mentioned in seven episodes.

4. Seaside Girls

(Published in 1899 and sung by Vesta Tilley.. again a major musical reference in Ulysses)

5. The Salley Gardens : words by W.B. Yeats

(sung by Joyce himself in the Concert Rooms in Pearse Street. Nora was in the audience and six weeks later they departed for Italy together, never to return.

........ more about songs and music later!

Yes! The last words of Ulysses set to Music

2009-04-23T01:03:00.001+01:00

Three Short Films about Joyce and Ulysses

2009-04-17T19:21:00.007+01:00

LEGACY JAMES JOYCE, OUR CONTEMPORARY

(12 minutes)

This film explores different attitudes towards Joyce’s contemporary legacy. Contributors include writers Edna O’Brien, Frank McGuinness, and Hugo Hamilton, as well as academics, booksellers, and others with an interest in Joyce

AN ENDURING RELATIONSHIP JOYCE AND THE NATIONAL LIBRARY Of Ireland

This film explores the special relationship between Joyce and the National Library of Ireland. Joyce was a regular visitor to the Library as a student, and he was well known to the staff and other readers at the Library. Joyce used the Library as the location for parts of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses.

CONTROVERSY ULYSSES IN THE PUBLIC EYE

This film explores the ways in which Joyce’s novel Ulysses was perceived in different ways around the time of its first publication. Joyce’s work was subject to a court ban in the United States at the same time as it was hailed as a great work of literature in Europe, and its reputation for controversy still continues.

All films were directed by Alan Gilsenan and made by Yellow Asylum Films for National Library of Ireland. We acknowledge and are most grateful for the help of the James Joyce Centre, Dublin and The National Library of Ireland in making it possible for these films to be shown in Bruff for Bloomsday.