__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5418 (20100902) __________

The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus.

http://www.eset.com

Visitors to Duffys of Ballybin often abandon their cars and take the frequent buses from Ashbourne to explore Dublin, with Trinity, the Book of Kells, Dublinia and the Guinness Storehouse being particular favourites.

The field comprises of five current American Solheim Cup players and the full European team that includes world ranked 3rd, Suzann Pettersen who won the event in 2008, Anna Nordqvist ranked 6th, Laura Davies, current European No. 1, Catriona Mathew MBE, reigning Ricoh British Open Champion, Sophie Gustafson, past multiple winner of the Ladies Irish Open, Maria Hjorth and Helen Alfredsson, the 2007 Solheim Cup Captain.

The USA challenge is lead by the charismatic and extrovert Christina Kim, who made a huge impact at the last Solheim Cup in Chicago. Fellow team members Angela Stanford ranked 9th in the world, Brittany Lang, Kristy McPherson and Brittany Lincicome, winner of the ‘LPGA Major’ The Kraft Nabisco in 2009 will add to the ‘across the pond’ rivalry at the event.

http://www.aibladiesirishopen.ie/

http://www.irishtrails.ie/trails.aspx?c=Meath

__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5294 (20100720) __________

The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus.

http://www.eset.com

While I was there I went to the top of the Hill of Tara to have a look at the new M3 motorway. I couldn’t see it, everything was quiet. Of course that’s probably because nobody is using the new motorway yet.

Perhaps the curse of Tara is on it …

__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5262 (20100708) __________

The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus.

http://www.eset.com

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 To Manage your subscription, subscribe or unsubscribe from this newsletter please visit http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/mailinglist.asp
]]> http://duffysballybin.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/bloomsday-festival-sat-sun-events-booking-now/feed/ 0 duffysballybin http://duffysballybin.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/bogboy-solstice-theatre-navan/ http://duffysballybin.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/bogboy-solstice-theatre-navan/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:43:41 +0000 duffysballybin http://duffysballybin.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/bogboy-solstice-theatre-navan/ ]]> Bogboy is a new play by local playwright Deirdre Kinahan playing at Solstice on June 19th and 20th.

Two lost Souls, one beautiful friendship and a secret that won’t stay buried

When Brigit leaves the chaos of her life in Dublin she meets reclusive local farmer Hughie Dolan and finds her first hopes for a future..

‘I want to be like other people, other people who come into the caf, put down their shoppin’ and have a scone, just sit there havin’ a scone, ya know, away from all the shite…’

But the idyllic life she imagines in Meath soon unravels

Don’t miss this terrific night of Theatre at your local Arts Centre.

Saturday 19th includes a glass of wine and Meet The Makers Session after the show

And

Sunday 20th, all tickets are only 15 euro!

The Tattersalls Ireland/Ward Union Hunt Show 2010 takes place between July 23rd – 25th.

http://www.tattersalls.ie/events/index.php

BLOOMSDAY 2010 – THE JAMES JOYCE CENTRE’S FESTIVAL PROGRAMME BLOOMSDAY 2010 – THE JAMES JOYCE CENTRE’S FESTIVAL PROGRAMMETHE JAMES JOYCE CENTRE’S BLOOMSDAY 2010

This year we celebrate Joyce’s epic ‘Ulysses’from 12 – 16 June at venues across the city.

Join us for:
OUR TRADITIONAL BLOOMSDAY BREAKFAST
READINGS, SONG & DANCE IN MEETING HOUSE SQUARE
THE DELIGHTFUL ONE-MAN SHOW ‘JIMMY JOYCED’ (DONAL O’KELLY)
TALKS BY DANIS ROSE AND BARRY MCGOVERN
A ROUNDTABLE WITH AWARD-WINNING SPANISH AND IRISH WRITERS
THE FEATURE FILM ‘BLOOM’ AT CINEWORLD
WALKING TOURS

Further details and updates on our website: www.jamesjoyce.ie

******BLOOMSDAY 2010 FESTIVAL PROGRAMME******

**WALKING TOURS**
12 – 16 June starting at the James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s St.
Join us for one (or all!) of 4 tours of Joyce’s Dublin. Be sure to book ahead: the Bloomsday Walk is €8 per person; all others are €10 per person (€8 concessions).

‘In the Footsteps of Leopold Bloom’ – Saturday 12/1pm; Sunday 13/2pm; Monday 14/11am; Tuesday 15/2pm
This tour explores the background to Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ and to Bloom’s thoughts as he crosses the city in search of something to eat in the ‘Lestrygonians’ episode. A humorous contrast of well-fed and under-fed citizens is mixed with a commentary on city buildings, and the presence of police constables reminds us of the realities of Dublin as a colonial city. In these footsteps, food becomes the central issue of social, cultural and political life in Dublin in 1904. The tour starts from the James Joyce Centre and finishes at the National Museum.

‘Joyce Circular’ – Saturday 12/11am; Sunday 13/12pm; Tuesday 15/11am
On our andante dander around the Hibernian metropolis, we take in North Earl Street; the house where Oliver ‘Buck Mulligan’ Gogarty was born; the setting of the ‘Dubliners’ story ‘The Boarding House’; the house in which Sean O’Casey was born; the site of 7 Eccles Street, home of Leopold & Molly Bloom; and Belvedere College, which Joyce attended in the 1890s. The tour starts from and returns to the James Joyce Centre.

‘Dubliners’ – Saturday 12/2pm; Monday 14/2pm
Join our guide on a ramble through the city of Joyce’s first and most accessible work, ‘Dubliners’. Completed in 1907, ‘Dubliners’ skilfully treats both turn-of-the-century Dublin and Joyce’s surroundings in continental Europe where the stories were written. The tour examines Joyce’s life in Dublin and the Dublin he created in his stories, as well as looking at how the city has commemorated its famous son. Joyce’s Dublin was a city of politics and intrigue, of religious devotion and disaffection, as well as a city in which the pressures and ties of family and society were never far off. The tour starts from the James Joyce Centre and finishes near Trinity College.

‘Bloomsday Walk’ – Wednesday 16th 10am/11am/12pm/1pm/1.30pm/2pm/2.30pm/3pm/3.30pm/4pm
This special Bloomsday walk features some of the most important Northside locations from Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’. Our hour-long wander will take in Belvedere College, Eccles Street, Leopold and Molly Bloom’s residence, and a variety of key locations along Parnell Square and O’Connell Street.

**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’).

**MONDAY 14 JUNE**

JAMES JOYCE BUS TOUR
Monday 14 June, 10am-3pm beginning at the James Joyce Centre
Jump aboard our bus and take a sojourn into Joyce country. Delving deep into Dublin’s suburbs, we’ll explore Joyce’s early formative years alongside the locations that became so central to his fiction. Stops will include Chapelizod village, Dublin’s old Jewish quarter (popularly known as ‘Little Jerusalem’), early family homes at Rathgar and Rathmines, the Martello Tower and museum, Mr. Deasy’s School at Dalkey, and Sandymount Strand. The tour will stop for lunch in the picturesque village of Glasthule. Tickets €28 (includes entrance fees, but not lunch); booking recommended. Call the Joyce Centre: +353 1 878 854.

**TUESDAY 15 JUNE**

BOOK LAUNCH WITH ‘THE ORDER OF THE FINNEGANS’ & ROUNTABLE DISCUSSION
EDUARDO LAGO, ENRIGQUE VILA-MATAS, ANTONIO SOLER, JORDI SOLDER, MALCOLM OTERO, JOSE ANTOIO GARRIGA VELA & SPECIAL GUEST
Tuesday 15 June, 4.30-6pm at Cervantes Institute, Lincoln House, Lincoln Place, Dublin 2

Midway between humour and solemnity, between the most rigorous of disciplines and the most playful of spirits, a society was born with the sole purpose of venerating James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’. And thus its members formed La Orden del Finnegans (“The Order of Finnegans”). Join us for the launch of La Orden del Finnegans (The Order of the Finnegans) and roundtable discussion with this reknowned Spanish literary collective and special guest. Reception to follow. Free event; booking recommended. Call + 353 1 631 1500. See http://dublin.cervantes.es/FichasCultura/Ficha60904_16_2.htm for more information.

DANIS ROSE
‘ON THE FIRST/LAST SENTENCE OF ‘FINNEGANS WAKE’’
Tuesday 15 June, 7.00pm at the James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s St.

Dubliner and Joyce scholar, Danis Rose will outline Joyce’s method of constructing his great epic and discuss the place of ‘Finnegans Wake’ in Joyce’s view of the human condition in a spiritual context. Rose is editor of the new critical, limited edition of ‘Finnegans Wake’ (Houyhnhnm Press, Cornwall, 2010), to be published for the general
market by Penguin Books. Rose is also editor of the Reader’s Edition of ‘Ulysses’ (Picador, London & Lilliput Press, Dublin, both suppressed, revised, and re-issued by Houyhnhnm Press). Copies of Rose’s editions will be available for purchase at the event.
Free event. Limited seating, booking recommended. Call or email the Joyce Centre: +353 1 878 8547 / info

**WEDNESDAY 16 JUNE**

DENNY’S BLOOMSDAY BREAKFAST
Wednesday 16 June, 8, 9.30, 11am at the James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s St.
Our traditional breakfast is the hallmark of the Joyce Centre’s Bloomsday festival. Partake of a ‘full Irish’ Bloomsday Breakfast at the James Joyce Centre whilst actors entertain with readings from Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’. Feel free to come in your own c.1904 costume! Generously sponsored by Dennys.
Book now for one of 3 seatings, €18 per person. Call the Joyce Centre at +353 1 878 8547

READINGS, SONG & DANCE IN THE SQUARE
Wednesday 16 June, 11am-4pm at Meeting House Square, Temple Bar
Our Master of Ceremonies hosts a star-studded afternoon of readings and songs from ‘Ulysses’. Joyceans of all ages and backgrounds are welcome to join in, so come one, come all, and read your favourite few words from the book of the day! We’ll be treated to music of the era as soprano, Deirdre Masterson, pianist, Dearbhla Brosnan and other guest soloists sing a variety of songs drawn from ‘Ulysses’, while Elaine McLoughlin dances a ballet performance of ‘Marble Halls’, and at 1pm, Senator David Norris will perform an extract from his one-man Joyce show, ‘Do you see what I’m hearing?’. Free and open to the public, limited seating available, no bookings.

‘BLOOM’ FEATURE FILM AT CINEWORLD
Wednesday 16 June, Matinee and Evening screenings, Cineworld, Parnell Square
Enjoy Bloomsday on the big screen in Sean Walsh’s recent adaptation of Joyce’s love story of Molly and Leopold Bloom. ‘… bawdy, irreverent, lyrical, compassionate, anguished, earthy, profound and deeply humane …’ (The Sunday Tribune)
Book tickets with Cineworld http://www.cineworld.ie

(For Press Information on the Joyce Centre’s Bloomsday Festival: Gerry Lundberg Public Relations Tel: 01 679 8476 / 087 259 1070 / 086 259 1070)

http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/detail.asp?ID=137 To Manage your subscription, subscribe or unsubscribe from this newsletter please visit http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/mailinglist.asp
]]> http://duffysballybin.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/bloomsday-2010-festival-programme-james-joyce-centre-dublin/feed/ 0 duffysballybin http://duffysballybin.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/national-sandcastle-and-sand-sculpturing-competition-bettystown-beach-sunday-june-27th/ http://duffysballybin.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/national-sandcastle-and-sand-sculpturing-competition-bettystown-beach-sunday-june-27th/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 13:15:38 +0000 duffysballybin http://duffysballybin.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/national-sandcastle-and-sand-sculpturing-competition-bettystown-beach-sunday-june-27th/ ]]> This year the National Sandcastle and Sand Sculpturing Competitions will take place on Bettystown beach on Sunday the 27th June.

Everyone; young, old, experienced and novice sand castle builders and sculpturers are invited to take part in a great day out and to try their hand at creating their very own masterpiece in sand. See the photos from previous years to get an idea of what you can expect to see on our beautiful beach on the day and come along to join in or simply watch others at work.

http://www.nationalsandcastles.ie/