by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Jan 13, 2015 | Archive
Hi Joyceans! We all know you have a love for Mr. Joyce and Ulysses. For those who want to get into that most challenging of his work we are starting a group to begin reading “The Wake”. Details will be available soon here, on our Face Book page and on...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Jan 13, 2015 | Archive
Just completed reading this really quite difficult novel that was published in 2014 by Simon and Shuster Canada. Some impressions are given on our Face Book page. Here is a good review from the National Post:...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Nov 28, 2014 | Archive
Lovers of Joyce and Ulysses: A great article on Joyce the master wordsmith by one of the world’s experts. Great read. Also – Bloomsday Montreal 2015 events are being worked on and so stayed tuned to our Bloomsday Montreal Facebook page or this blog for...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Nov 4, 2014 | Archive
The Most Dangerous Book – by Kevin Birmingham The Penguin Press, New York, 2014 Joyce wrote Ulysses through a world war, financial uncertainty, the threat of censorship and a serious, recurrent illness. A life in pain shaped the novel that Joyce called “the...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Oct 16, 2014 | Archive
As of today Bloomsday Montreal has become a non-profit organization called Festival Bloomsday Montréal. We will be independent of the McGill School of Continuing Studies (SCS) and of the McGill Community for Lifelong Learning (MCLL). However, McGill and MCLL as well...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Jun 13, 2014 | Archive
View this short video about Bloomsday and meet Chris Joyce: the great grand nephew of James. As well there are some brief insights into Ulysses by Dr. Michael Kenneally the principal of Concordia’s Canadian School of Irish...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Jun 10, 2014 | Archive
Come and hear Marilyn Reizbaum on Thursday evening at 7:30 p.m. Jewish Public Library 5151, Côte Ste-Catherine Members*/students $10 General admission $15 Tickets + Info: (514) 345-6416 Irish style reception follows
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Jun 8, 2014 | Archive
Ulysses: Sirens “All gone. All fallen. At the siege of Ross his father, at Gorey all his brothers fell. To Wexford, we are the boys of Wexford, he would. Last of his name and race. I too, last my race. Milly young student. Well, my fault perhaps. No son. Rudy....
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Jun 6, 2014 | Archive
Take a look at this excellent blog being written by Concordia student Miriam Mokrusa. Bloomsday in Montreal http://wp.me/p4DFXc-r via @wordpressdotcom. Lots of info on Bloomsday and how it started as well as – the latest – an interview with Chris Joyce...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Jun 5, 2014 | Archive
Hello Joyce lovers out there. Listen as Joyce introduces us to Leopold Bloom in the 4th Episode of Ulysses. The reading is by actor Barry Baldaro who is also a member of MCLL – the major sponsor of Bloomsday here in Montreal. You can hear him in person on June...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | Jun 2, 2014 | Archive
– History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. From the playfield the boys raised a shout. A whirring whistle: goal. What if that nightmare gave you a back kick? — The ways of the Creator are not our ways, Mr Deasy said. All...
by Festival Bloomsday Montréal | May 30, 2014 | Archive
Cup of tea now. He sat down, cut and buttered a slice of the loaf. He shore away the burnt flesh and flung it to the cat. Then he put a forkful into his mouth, chewing with discernment the toothsome pliant meat. Done to a turn. Then he put a forkful into his mouth,...
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