by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | May 31, 2016 | Archive
On Sunday morning of June 12th, 2016, Festival Bloomsday Montréal will be hosting their annual Irish Montreal Walking Tour that highlights the past, present and future history of Griffintown and Little Burgundy. We spoke with the tour’s English language guide, Ruth...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | May 27, 2016 | Archive
The Celtic cross, a stone cross with a ring surrounding its intersection marked by various Celtic designs and symbols, is what we normally see when we come across an Irish burial ground. But the burial ground that holds 6,000 Irish immigrants who traveled to Montreal...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | May 24, 2016 | Archive
As June 16th is slowly yet surely making its way, we are making some headlines in a few of the local newspapers. Check out Saturday’s The Montreal Times edition here (page 11) and read a little bit about this year’s Festival Bloomsday Montreal and what we...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | May 17, 2016 | Archive, Festival News
ONLY ONE MONTH AWAY TO OUR 5TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL! DON’T MISS OUT ON THESE SUPER EVENTS * WALKING TOURS OF IRISH MONTREAL * PENELOPE READING BY KATHLEEN FEE * UNIQUE SCREENING OF THE BLOODY IRISH MUSICAL * INFORMATIVE TALKS BY MEMBERS OF THE CONCORDIA SCHOOL OF...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | May 13, 2016 | Archive
Have you ever traveled somewhere far away in a different country just to see where your favourite novel takes place? Perhaps you’ve taken a trip to London to see the Globe Theatre for yourself while paying a cheap price to stand and watch a Shakespearean play like...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | May 10, 2016 | Archive
2016 marks the centenary of two important things in Ireland: the 1916 Easter Rising, and of course the publication of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by one of Ireland’s most influential writers, James Joyce. Yet if we look closely at the two very different...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | May 5, 2016 | Archive, Festival News
In our last post, we took a look at how Joyce and Bloomsday is celebrated in a few cities across the globe. Today’s post is about Bloomsday in Montreal—or more particularly, how Montreal’s Bloomsday is so unique in comparison to other cities. So what is so special...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | May 2, 2016 | Archive
Although Bloomsday is more known to be celebrated in Dublin, June 16th is actually commemorated in different corners of the world. From Hungary, to China and Australia, it is fair to say that Joyce and his work are praised, honoured and performed in their own unique...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Apr 19, 2016 | Archive
Take a look at this wonderful article in the Irish Times regarding Blue Met and Bloomsday. It was an excellent experience. Thanks to all participants!! Montreal’s Irish story gets a new chapter Irish writers played a prominent role in Blue Metropolis festival, telling...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Apr 12, 2016 | Archive
Thursday, April 14, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Finnegans Wake Reading Group Open House Do you like puzzles, problems, enigmas and a good laugh too? Join a group of readers from Montréal who meet regularly to delve into Finnegans Wake, considered to be Joyce’s most “difficult”...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Apr 5, 2016 | Archive
Come and get a real taste of Festival Bloomsday Montréal by attending some of the events at this year’s special Blue Met series Ireland: Isle of Dreams. Bloomsday Montréal is involved in three of the eight Irish themed events....
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Mar 29, 2016 | Archive
Great post by Ian Ross and comment by Dave Schurman at: The Most Ravishing Sentence: Ulysses by James Joyce January 21, 2016 Ian Ross Novelist Gary Shteyngart once said in an interview (while in opposition to the evolution of e-readers) that they ruined the fairytale...
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