Theatre
Ulysses at 100: Drama of Joyce’s words brought to the stage for a Bloomsday celebration
Several theatrical productions mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses this week, among them a Barry McGovern reading and a re-enactment of the book’s trial for obscenity in the US
In a short lecture recorded live at the Pavilion Theatre for Sunday Miscellany earlier this month and broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 (on Sunday, June 19), Declan Kiberd spoke about James Joyce’s Ulysses as “a sacred text”. Despite the author’s reputation as an atheist, Kiberd argued, Joyce was a spiritual man and Kiberd suggests he would be satisfied by the near-God-like status that his 1922 book has received in the 100 years since it was ...