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Ulysses has all sorts of Irish music and great drinking going on, but on June 16 every year, which is Bloomsday, [a day for commemorating Irish writer James Joyce], we hold readings on the street outside, and we all read Joyce. We just read it on the street with a PA, and people come in from work and they hear Joyce and they stop and think, what the hell is this?
Ulysses has all sorts of Irish music and great drinking going on, but on June 16 every year, which is Bloomsday, [a day for commemorating Irish writer James Joyce], we hold readings on the street outside, and we all read Joyce. We just read it on the street with a PA, and people come in from work and they hear Joyce and they stop and think, what the hell is this?More quotes »
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Booking a tour of Dublin's libraries
Yeats, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney . Moreover, the names Oscar Wilde , Brendan Behan , Flann O'Brien and, of course, James Joyce are synonymous with the town.Literary-minded visitors to the Irish capital have plenty of suitably bookish activities to choose Read more »
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Radio 4 to shed its cosy image with a 'sexy' Ulysses drama
The controller of Radio 4 yesterday spoke of her bid to take the network away from "cosy" drama as she unveiled plans for a "sexy" dramatisation of James Joyce's Ulysses and the "longest-running drama ever," based around the centenary of the First World 50 m ago from The Independent Read more »
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BBC Radio 4 to dramatise 'Ulysses'
31/05/2012 - 13:30:27 The 'Today' programme on BBC Radio 4 will become a real-life breakfast show next month when actor Henry Goodman cooks a meal in the studio as part of a day-long dramatisation of James Joyce's novel 'Ulysses'. The complex novel, set 5/30/12 from BreakingNews.ie Read more »
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HBO's "Hemingway & Gellhorn": Love, Sex, Bombs, Booze, and Letdown
When you consider the brief marriage of Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway, it's exceedingly difficult to decide which of the two had the more impressive résumé in the field of maximal badassery. Hemingway protected James Joyce in Parisian bar fights a from Mother Jones Read more »
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Bloomsday June 16 a celebration of James Joyce's epic novel "Ulysses"
Saturday, June 16, is Bloomsday, the day Irish literati around the world celebrate author James Joyce's epic novel "Ulysses." It's a day of drink, song and marathon readings aloud of the 643-page book. Locally, Joyce fans and scholars will gather at Nigh from Cleveland.com Read more »
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Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
I read Manhattan Transfer out of turn because I was actually interested in reading a book by Lost Generation author cum Right Wing Republican Conservative, John Dos Passos. DURING the Lost Generation period, Dos Passos was a big deal. A "Great American N from Cat Dirt Sez Read more »
