JOYICITY: OCTOBER 2023
In this issue:
A word from our President, Kevin Wright – Reflecting on Our Journey: The Canadian Irish Migration Preservation Network – The Siamsa Singers: Celtic-focused choir returns to their autumn classes – St. Patrick’s Parade Royalty Unite for Cause – Concordia Irish Studies Ph.D Student’s historical analysis of Irish mafia romance novels – Halloween Traditions and History: Where to celebrate Samhain in Montreal!
JOYICITY: NOVEMBER 2022
In This Issue:
– A Word From The President, Kevin Wright – Origins And Pursuits For The United Irish Societies Of Montreal – ‘Ripples’: A Reflection By Irish Poet Rachel Mccrum – Costello Irish Dance’s Coach Casey Costello Is Training Champions – The Soulanges Irish Society: Making Ripples Since 2019 – The Wheel Club: Then And Now
JOYICITY: MAY 2021
In this issue:
— A word from the President, Kevin Wright — Origins of the St. Patrick’s Society — Montreal-based Celtic Trio Bùmarang launches debut CD in May, 2021 — Ciné Gael Montreal: Twenty-eight years of the best in Irish cinema — Corned Beef and Cabbage: Irish? Jewish?? or Both??? — Miss Bonely, Mr. Deasy and their Mustnots, Donots and Cants, by Anne Lewis
JOYICITY: MARCH 2021
In this issue: A word from the President, Kevin Wright — In Memoriam: Judith Schurman (extracts from her eulogy) — From Oileán Iathghlas Éireann to La Belle Province — The Point St. Charles Community Theatre — The Ancient Order of Hibernians — The Montreal Irish Monument Park Foundation
JOYICITY: DECEMBER 2020
In this issue: • A word from the President, Kevin Wright • Background on The Midnight Court
• A brief history of Bloomsday Montréal • The Wagner-Joyce connection • Irish Montréal Experiences • Na Ceithre Séasúir/The Four Seasons
“NO PEN, NO INK…”
Disease epidemics have been the inspiration for many a writer and his work. Boccaccio wrote his Decameron at the time of the Black Death in 1348. A recent article in the Guardian newspaper asked whether Shakespeare wrote King Lear in the lockdown of 1606. Even Joyce may have been inspired to write his first play (now lost, presumed destroyed by the author), A Brilliant Career, by the Dublin bubonic plague scare of 1900, according to Frank McNally in a recent article in the Irish Times.
JOYICITY: MARCH 2020
In this issue: A word from our new President, Kevin Wright — Recap of our celebration of James Joyce’s birthday — First tentative schedule for our 2020 Festival! — Events around town — A blog post on Finnegans Wake’s Multifractal Structure
WHAT IS BLOOMSDAY?
Bloomsday marks the day — June 16, 1904 — that Leopold Bloom walked through Dublin in James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses.
This bold and fearless novel walks us through the lives of workaday Dubliners as it re-imagines the Greek myth, and spins its tale through the hero’s sensual and self-examining interior monologue.
WHERE, THE MILE END
Where, the mile end de Julie Morrissy, recueil de poésie
Ou quand le vent boréal souffle une influence sur le poète. Du premier poème ‘Steel skin’ où on y regarde un hiver qui s’étend de Dublin jusqu’au bord du Mississipi et encore, au second poème ‘Looped’ où le fil du nord laisse des traces de vent glacial. Pourtant, le dernier poème, ‘The mile end’ porte encore des traces de notre neige d’hiver entre le Québec et le Vermont.
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, let’s consider a posset — light and delicious and so easy to make it’s ridiculous.