This morning.
Breakfast at the James Joyce Centre, North Great George’s Street, Dublin 1 to celebrate Bloomsday featuring David Norris, singing and Joyce cosplaying.
Second pic: Sabrina Joyce a great grandniece of James Joyce holds her 10 month old daughter Aimeila. Third pic: Shelli Whitfeld and Julien Bane.
Pics: Ruth Medjber
Meanwhile…
Senator David Norris and Green Party Dublin City Councillor Claire Byrne, third from left, with unidentified Joyceans at the St Andrew’s Resource Centre on Pearse Street in Dublin this morning.
Via Claire Byrne
Meanwhile
At 1.10pm today.
A group of actors will feed seagulls at O’Connell Bridge/bachelor
Ned O’Sullivan is not welcome
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Love all this Bloomin’ lunacy.
The guy between David Norris and Claire Byrne is John Fitzsimons from St Andrew’s Resource Centre. Sound man. I don’t know the lady.
Always thought Bloomsday would have Joyce spinning in his grave.
He’d certainly have tried to sue somebody over it. Joyce was notorious for instigating spurious court actions, even when he was young and hadn’t a penny to his name.
U.P.:
– do you have any evidence? He pokes fun in Ulysses at a character attempting to instigate a spurious court action. The Joyce estate were notoriously litigious until the copywrite expired a few years ago. I believe Joyce would have revelled in his genius being recognised and celebrated.
There’s tons of examples in the Ellmann biography. Even when he was a young man in Trieste, he tried sueing a guy over a pair of trousers – for slander, I think – it was something to do with Joyce getting fired from an amateur production of an Ibsen play. Later on, Joyce tried to get some kind of trademark on “Irish tweed” – more lawsuits about that. Several failed lawsuits over the non-publication of Dubliners. Multiple subsequent lawsuits over various pirated editions of Ulysses. Ellmann approaches the subject with a certain degree of puzzlement – despite being broke for many of years of his life, Joyce would instigate a costly and often fruitless lawsuit at the drop of a hat. I guess the Denis Breen character (UP:UP), is to some extent pointing fun at himself.
Middle-Class-Dressy-Uppy-Time.