Bloomsday 2018 was a hit!
Thanks to everyone who made this year’s festival a Joy(ce)ful week!
2019 Festival Bloomsday Montréal set for June 12-16
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2018 Performers, Storytellers, Authors and Scholars
Reading and storytelling performances, panel discussions, walking tours, live music, food, theatre and much more.
Take a look at the 2018 program. Registration opens May 1.
Festival Bloomsday Montréal Newsletter
A Review of Paul Auster’s 4321
It was by happenstance that I picked up a copy of Paul Auster’s latest novel 4321 (2017) a couple of weeks ago at a McGill University “take a book leave a book” site. As expected from Paul Auster, the novel is hilarious, genius, meta and highly readable. But what was unexpected was that I found myself reading a re-imagined version of Ulysses.
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Posset—The Perfect Dessert To End The Old Year
By the time New Year arrives you are bound to feel food fatigue — both in the making of, and the eating of… the thought of another heavy dessert is intolerable. So, lets consider a posset – light and delicious and so easy to make it’s ridiculous.
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Ulysses Alive: a Find and a Challenge
The quest to understand Joyce’s Ulysses continues! And our new year’s resolution: to start our own weekly reading of the great novel at Hurley’s. All we need is a great leader. Could it be you? Email us at bloomsdaymontreal@gmail.com if you’re interested in leading the group.
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Memory and Memorials: Commemorating the Irish Famine
Margaret Kelleher, Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College, Dublin addresses the challenge of how we choose to remember an event that has been called everything from an unfortunate tragedy to mass murder.
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Trick or Treat? The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk (1836)
When it was first published in 1836, The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk caused a literary and religious storm in Montreal, and abroad. Why? Because the book was purported to be a real account of a young woman’s trials as an ‘inmate’ of Montreal’s Hôtel Dieu nunnery.
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In Memoriam: Yvonne Constance Wall
If I could summarise my perception of Yvonne’s life in a couple of words I would say “Absolute Contentment”.
Yvonne was born in the Diamond Mecca town of Kimberley in South Africa, and grew up in the suburbs of Johannesburg with her parents Archibald and Susan Ann, and 3 elder brothers Ronnie, Dave and Alby.
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Festival Bloomsday Montréal in Photos
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Festival Bloomsday Montréal 2018
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2018-06-12 Bloomsday Festival Opener
2018-06-14 Bloomsday The Wake
2018-06-12 Bloomsday Festival Opener
2018-06-14 Bloomsday The Irish In Canada
2018-06-15 Bloomsday Ghost Walk
2018-06-16 Bloomsday Molly Bloom Soliloquy
2018-06-15 Bloomsday Ghost Walk
2018-06-14 Bloomsday The Irish In Canada
2018-06-14 Bloomsday The Wake
2018-06-12 Bloomsday Festival Opener
2018-06-14 Bloomsday The Wake
2018-06-15 Bloomsday Ghost Walk
(Photos by Thomas Bock – Thomas Bock Creative)
Festival Bloomsday Montréal Video & Media
With Love From Dublin: Bloomsday Montréal Greeting
In 2016 Montreal’s Mayor Coderre declared Montreal and Ireland as ‘twin cities’. In this spirit of fellowship the Lord Mayor of Dublin and Dublin City Council, have gifted us at Festival Bloomsday Montréal 2017 with this lovely video greeting.
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