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James Joyce Centre Newsletter, Dublin, Monday, June 07, 2010 In this issue: SAVE THE DATES – Sat & Sun Bloomsday Events – ‘Jimmy Joyced!’ & Barry McGovern

SAVE THE DATES – Sat & Sun Bloomsday Events – ‘Jimmy Joyced!’ & Barry McGovern SATURDAY & SUNDAY 12-13 JUNE ***DONAL O’KELLY’S ‘JIMMY JOYCED!’*** Saturday & Sunday 12-13 June, 7pm in the James Joyce Centre. ‘Jimmy Joyced!’ looks back at 1904 through the eyes of JJ Staines, a stallholder in Dublin’s Rathmines Market with a dangerous obsession for all things Joycean. JJ drives like a man possessed through the full gamut of 1904 James Joyce: his battles with his mad dad; his bronze medal win for singing in the Feis; a crazed night of gunfire in the Sandycove Tower; his rescue from redlight Monto mayhem by the man who became Bloom; and above all his passion for Nora Barnacle and their fabled walk on 16th June. Donal O’Kelly is an actor and playwright. He has performed ‘Jimmy Joyced!’ all over Ireland since its première in 2004, and in Los Angeles, Paris, Porto, Lisbon and Trieste for the Trieste Joyce School. His previous solo plays include the award-winning ‘Catalpa’ and ‘Bat The Father Rabbit The Son’. ‘Jimmy Joyced!’ was nominated for a Best Actor award in the Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Awards. ‘Everything about this tantalising performance is memorable … nothing short of ‘genius inspired by genius’ says RTE GUIDE & ‘A truly worthy theatrical celebration of the centenary of Ulysses … ‘Roller-coaster’ has been a term applied to Donal O’Kelly’s acting in the past; it’s true again with this great kaleidoscope of word power, energy and insight’ says SUNDAY INDEPENDENT. Tickets €20; limited seating, booking strongly recommended. SUNDAY 13 JUNE ***BARRY MCGOVERN*** ‘shall I wear a red yes’ – SEX AND MUSIC IN ‘ULYSSES’ Sunday 13 June, 2pm at the Dublin Writer’s Museum, 19 Parnell Square North. Come along for a titillating exploration of music in ‘Ulysses’. Barry McGovern is a great Joyce enthusiast, prolific actor and native Dubliner. He is world-renowned as an interpreter of Samuel Beckett, has been a member of the Abbey Theatre Company and the RTÉ Players, and holds an honorary doctorate from Trinity College. McGovern joins our Bloomsday Festival for the third year running. Free event. Limited seating, booking recommended. Call or email the Joyce Centre: +353 1 878 8547 / info (Also of note: In keeping with his own Bloomsday tradition, Barry McGovern will be atop The Martello Tower in Sandycove on the 16th, where he will read ‘Ithaca’, the penultimate episode of ‘Ulysses’). http://jamesjoyce.ie/detail.asp?ID=137

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