On this day…26 April
On 26 April 1916 Francis Sheehy Skeffington was shot. During the Easter Rising in April 1916, Francis Sheehy Skeffington was shot by a British Army officer who was later declared insane. Sheehy...
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On 27 April 1871 Paul de Kock died. Charles Paul de Kock (1794-1871) was a prolific French novelist who published his first novel at the age of twenty-eight. His novels focus on lower- and middle-class...
View ArticleOn this day…28 April
On 28 April 1923 a sphincterectomy was performed on Joyce’s left eye. Despite an operation on his eyes in August 1917, Joyce continued to be afflicted with eye problems, exacerbated by his intense work...
View ArticleOn this day…29 April
On 29 April 1918 the English Players gave their first performance. The English Players was an amateur drama group formed by Joyce and Claud Sykes in Zurich. The group’s first performance, Oscar Wilde’s...
View ArticleOn this day…30 April
On 30 April 1918 Henry Carr complained to Sykes about Joyce. The day after the successful first performance by the English Players, Henry Carr, who had played Algernon Moncrieff, complained to Claud...
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“Finnegans Wake at 80” and “Lucia Joyce: Perspectives.”
April 2019 will see the launch of two Joycean events at Trinity College Dublin, one event focusing on Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake, and the other Joyce’s daughter, Lucia. “Finnegans Wake at 80” is a...
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“James Joyce and Revolutions: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Havana...
For the third instalment in our Spring / Summer 2019 Lecture Series , we were delighted to welcome Dr. Teresa Caneda Cabrera to the James Joyce Centre to deliver her talk on the role played by the...
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