DUBLIN: ONE CITY, ONE BOOK: EVENTS (continued) ABOUT THE BOOK JOYCEAN TOUR OF GLASNEVIN CEMETERY FARMLEIGH, CASTLEKNOCK Dubliners is Joyce at his most direct and his most accessible. Any reader Following upon Dublin’s designation as Glasnevin Cemetery, the heart of the James Joyce in the Phoenix Park may pick it up and enjoy these fifteen stories about the lives, loves, small UNESCO City of Literature, what more Hibernian necropolis, has many links to Area – exhibition of rare books from the triumphs and great failures of its ordinary citizens without the trepidation James Joyce’s life and writing. From the Benjamin Iveagh Library. Wed-Sun & appropriate title could there be for Dublin: Hades Chapter in Ulysses, which takes Bank Holidays from 1 April. 10am-4.30pm that might be felt on opening, say, Ulysses, famed for its impenetrabil- One City, One Book 2012 than James place in the cemetery, to the family grave as part of the guided tour. Further ity and stream-of-consciousness hyperbole. At the same time, although Joyce’s DUBLINERS! which is the final resting place of his information Tel: 01 8155981 Also Joycean simply written, there is great depth and many levels to the stories, in parents; walk through the life, time and exhibition by contemporary Japanese which the characters – young, middle-aged and old – are revealed, to imagination of James Joyce. photographer Motoko Fujita. Admission Joyce is the city’s most celebrated lit- Daily throughout April at 1pm. Tickets free themselves, or sometimes only to the reader, in all their frail humanity. erary son and his masterly collection €10 include a visit to Glasnevin Museum THE JAMES JOYCE CENTRE, 35 NORTH GREAT •The Sisters•An Encounter•Araby•Eveline•After the Race•Two Gallants• of short stories gives a remarkable JOYCEAN WALKING TOURS GEORGE’S STREET insight into the lives of a disparate group of Dublin citizens in the early Echoes of Joyce’s Dublin. Paintings •The Boarding House•A Little Cloud•Counterparts•Clay•A Painful Case• The James Joyce Centre offers Joycean part of the twentieth century. walking tours of the city every Tuesday, by artist Peter Pearson explore the •Ivy Day in the Committee Room•A Mother•Grace•The Dead• Thursday and Saturday. Please Hibernian metropolis – the subject of all For readers who may be daunted by Joyce’s more famous novels, visit www.jamesjoyce.ie for further of Joyce’s major works. Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, Dubliners is perhaps a more accessible ‘[Dubliners is] filled with humour and love, pain and loss. Above details.Tickets €10/€8. Booking not Mon-Sat: 10am-5pm, Sun: 12pm-5pm. introduction to the mind of one of the world’s greatest writers of fiction necessary. Tel: 01 8788547 Closed April 6 and 9. Admission free all, it rings out with a love of these streets, of the voices of the – and the programme of activities for this year’s festival provides many people who inhabit them, their wit, their style, their optimism EXHIBITIONS NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND ROOM 1, avenues of approach to the author’s particular world view. MILLENNIUM WING, CLARE STREET even as the world collapses around them.’ As Lord Mayor, I am delighted to endorse this programme and I whole- CENTRAL LIBRARY, ILAC CENTRE, HENRY STREET Joyce’s Dubliners: the city as character – John Boyne, award-winning author of the international bestseller heartedly commend the wonderfully collaborative effort which makes An exhibition created by Glasnevin Works by Walter Osborne, Rose Barton, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas cemetery historian Shane MacThomáis Jack Yeats, William Orpen and others Dublin: One City, One Book so successful. showing Joycean connections with evoking Dublin at the turn of the 20th Glasnevin Cemetery, both real and century. Richly drawn yet somewhat fictional. Mon-Thurs: 10am-8pm. Fri & melancholic studies of a down-at-heel city Sat: 10am-5pm. Closed 6th-9th April incl. populated by frustrated citizens. 2 April-15 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Admission free July, Mon-Sat: 9:30am-5:30pm; Thurs: 9:30am -8:30pm; Sun: 12pm-5:30pm; DUBLIN CITY LIBRARY & ARCHIVE, 138-144 Public Holidays: 10am-5:30pm. Closed James Joyce (1882–1941) is one of the most inter- PEARSE STREET 6 April. Admission free Dublin: One City, One Book is an award-winning Dublin City Council initia- nationally known and influential Irish writers, whose Mapping Joyce 1882-1941 exhibition TRINITY COLLEGE LONG ROOM/BOOK OF KELLS tive, led by Dublin City Libraries which encourages everyone to read a book books, particularly the landmark Ulysses (1921), have created for ReJoyce 2004, with additional Small Joycean exhibition for the month connected with the capital city during the month of April every year. Enjoy panels on Dubliners. With Dublin as its of April. Mon-Sat: 9:30am-5:00pm; Sun: become the subject of worldwide scholarly study. His reading Dubliners this year and experience some of the wide variety of starting point the exhibition traces Joyce’s 12pm-4:30pm; (8 & 9 April, 12pm-4:30pm) other works include the short story collection, Dub- wanderings around Europe, and his events taking place. SPECIAL OFFER: Entry to Book of Kells/ influence on the world through translation liners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as Old Library €6.50 per person in April Thanks to our partners The O’Brien Press, The James Joyce Centre, th th and publication of his works.16 -28 April a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). He Dublin CityBIDs as well as The Irish Times, Fáilte Ireland and especially all Mon-Thurs: 10am-8pm. Fri & Sat: 10am- VARIOUS VENUES also wrote two books of poetry and a play, Exiles. 5pm. the organisations, venues, speakers and performers involved in this year’s Admission free Joyce in the City: Dubliners. View Joyce- Dubliners was first submitted to a publisher in 1905, but because of related artworks by Joseph Beuys, Amanda programme. DUBLIN WRITERS MUSEUM, 18 PARNELL SQUARE Coogan, Conor McGarrigle, Mark Orange disputes over the contents of some of the stories, it was not published Borrow Dubliners from any branch of Dublin City Libraries or buy it from NORTH & Diter Rot in Joycean places such as until 1914. The final story, ‘The Dead’, was made into a film by John your favourite bookshop – available also in large print format, MP3, audio James Joyce’s Dubliners, a Sweny’s Pharmacy, O’Neill’s pub, O’Connell Huston in 1987. Visual Response & Contemporary Bridge, Gresham Hotel and Dublin City book and free audio download on www.dublincitypubliclibraries.ie Although he spent most of his adult life abroad, Joyce’s writing is cen- Contextualization by artist Des Kilfeather. Gallery the Hugh Lane.Curated by Christa- 19 March-19 May, Mon-Sat: 10am-5pm. Maria Lerm Hayes, m.lermhayes@ulster. tred on Dublin. By way of explanation, he said: ‘For myself, I always Follow us on Sunday and Public Holidays: 11am-5pm. ac.uk 1 April-16 June, venue opening times. write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get Standard admission fee applies Admission free to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the DUBLIN WRITERS MUSEUM, 18 PARNELL SQUARE SPECIAL OFFER ‘NOVEL’ CITY BREAK universal.’ DUBLIN: ONE CITY, ONE BOOK NORTH, At The Fitzwilliam Hotel, St. Stephen’s www.dublinonecityonebook.ie During April, a 1914 first edition of Green. Special offer of overnight break Dubliners will be on display in the Gallery with breakfast. Also includes entry www.dublinonecityonebook.ie of Writers with supporting material to for the Literary Pub Crawl and a €25 illustrate its history and publication. voucher to spend in Dubray Books, Mon-Sat: 10am-5pm. Sunday and Grafton Street. Special rate of €115pps Public Holidays: 11am-5pm. Standard incl complimentary wi fi, car park, all admission fee applies taxes and service charges. Subject to availability. Log onto www.fitzwilliamhoteldublin.com Entries in blue are part of the Dubliners story cycle, performed in various city venues. Be entertained as Fergus Cronin & historian Catriona Crowe evoke the atmosphere of DUBLIN: ONE CITY, ONE BOOK: EVENTS the time and provide historical context through readings, recorded music & imagery. SUNDAY 1ST APRIL 3PM WEDNESDAY 4TH APRIL 6:30PM TUESDAY 10TH, WEDNESDAY 11TH, THURSDAY 12TH FRIDAY 13TH APRIL 8PM MONDAY 16TH APRIL 7.30PM Street. Admission free. Booking not TUESDAY 24TH APRIL 10:30AM SUNDAY 29TH APRIL 3PM An Introduction to James Joyce with Dubliners story cycle: a reading of ‘Grace’. APRIL 8PM Celebrating Dubliners – an evening of Dubliners story cycle: a reading of necessary Images of Dublin and its People with Niamh Extracts from Dubliners and Joyce’s Terence Killeen, Research Scholar, The Rathmines Library, 157 Lwr Rathmines A rehearsed staged reading of James music and literature celebrating James ‘An Encounter’ with a talk by Fr. MacNally, Assistant Curator, Prints and play, Exiles performed by Rathfarnham TH James Joyce Centre. National Gallery Road. Admission free. Booking Joyce’s ‘The Dead’. Bighand Productions’ Joyce’s Dubliners. Delight in the music of Bruce Bradley, Joycean scholar. FRIDAY 20 APRIL 9PM Drawings. National Gallery of Ireland, Theatre Group in the beautiful Edwardian of Ireland, Clare Street. Admission free. essential. Tel: 01 4973539 Email: actors bring Joyce’s characters to life Dubliners and be inspired as well known Belvedere College, 6 Great Denmark Dubliners story cycle: a reading of ‘Two Clare Street. Admission free. Booking not surroundings of the Halla Mór in the Pearse Booking not necessary [email protected] with music from the era. Bewley’s Café personalities The Dubliners folk group, Street. Admission free. Booking Gallants.’ United Arts Club, 3 Upper necessary Museum.