The James Joyce Society

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to its Friday, 8 June 2018 Program
at Glucksman Ireland House,
New York University, 1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between Washington Square North and 8th Street)
The meeting will start promptly at 6:00 P.M.

Love’s Old Sweet Songs
How Music Scores Memory in Sirens and Penelope

by

Patrick Reilly
Adjunct Associate Professor of English
Baruch College

Group Discussion of an Excerpt from
Finnegans Wake I,v.123.11–29
facilitated by Michael Opest
Adjunct Instructor
Fairleigh Dickinson University
(A copy of the passage is below.)

Finnegans Wake I,v.123.11–29:
1.Duff-Muggli, who now may be quoted by very kind arrangement (his dectroscophonious
2. photosensition under suprasonic light control may be logged for by our none too distant futures
3. as soon astone values can be turned out from Chromophilomos, Limited at a millicentime the
4. microamp), first called this kind of paddygoeasy partnership the ulykkhean or tetrachiric or
5. quadrumane or duck and drakes or debts and dishes perplex (v. ome Forestallings over that
6. Studium of Sexophonologistic Schizophronesis, vol. xxiv, pp. 2-555) after the wellinformed
7. observation, made miles apart from the Master by Tung-Toyd (cf. Later Frustrations amongst
8. the Neomugglian Teachings abaft the Semiunconscience, passim) that in the case of the
9. littleknown periplic bestteller popularly associated with the names of the wretched mariner
10. (trianforan deffwedoff our plumsucked pattern shapekeeper) a Punic admiralty report, From
11. MacPerson’s Oshean Round By the Tides of Jason’s Cruise, had been cleverly capsized and
12. saucily republished as a dodecanesian baedeker of the every+-tale-a-treat-in-itself variety which
13. could hope satisfactorily to tickle me gander as game+ as your goose.
Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, president
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Cynthia Cox Assistant
Yearly Membership $25 00
Visitors at meetings $ 7.00
Please visit our website Joycesociety org

R E C E N T E V E N T S

The James Joyce Society
on Thursday, 20 February 2020, 6:00 pm

presents

"I heard the hallstand rocking
...I could interpret these signs":
The Alcoholic Father and the Hyper-Acute Child
in Dubliners and Portrait

by Garry Leonard
Professor of Literature and Film
University of Toronto

and
Group Discussion of an Excerpt from
Giacomo Joyce (text below)
facilitated by Stephen J. Pantani
Treasurer, The James Joyce Society

Jan Pieters Sweelink. The quaint name of the old Dutch musician makes all beauty
seem quaint and far. I hear his variations for the clavichord on an old air: Youth has
an end. In the vague mist of old sounds a faint point of light appears: the speech of
the soul is about to be heard. Youth has an end: the end is here. It will never be.
You know that well. What then? Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you
good for?

“Why?”
“Because otherwise I could not see you.”
Sliding-space-ages-foliage of stars-and waning heaven-stillness-and
stillness deeper-stillness of annihilation-and her voice.

Non hunc sed Barabbam!

Unreadiness. A bare apartment. Torbid daylight. A long black piano: coffin of
music. Poised on its edge a woman’s hat, red-flowered, and umbrella, furled. Her
arms: a casque, gules, and blunt spear on a field, sable.

Envoy: Love me, love my umbrella.

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Jonathan Goldman, Vice President
Heyward Ehrlich, Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Trisha O’Neill, Assistant

Yearly Membership:  $25.00   Membership/Renewal Form is attached.
Visitors at meetings:  $ 7.00
Please visit our website:  joycesociety.org

BROWSE The James Joyce Society online:  The JJS website, at joycesociety.org, contains past programs, a gallery of original art and photography pertaining to Joyce, a membership form, a slide show of Joyce photographs, Gotham Book Mart information, and links to other Joyce websites.

E mail addresses:
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President:  afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email:  info@joycesociety.org
Website:  http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster:  info@heywardehrlich.com

Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews

The James Joyce Society
Invites you
to its Thursday, 30 January 2020, Program

James Ramey, Professor of Humanities,
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico
on "James Joyce and the Posthumanist Reader"
(see notes below)
and
Group Discussion of Finnegans Wake 57:4-29
Facilitated by Alison Armstrong
School of Visual Arts
Contr. ed. Irish Literary Supplement
(see text below)

at Glucksman Ireland House,
New York University, 1 Washington Mews
(5th Ave. bet Washington Square N and 8th St)
The meeting will start promptly at 6:00 P.M.

Notes: In What is Posthumanism?, Cary Wolfe advances a melding of Jacques Derrida's work with that of Niklas Luhmann. It is true that there have been numerous other proposed theorizations of how the enmeshing of human beings in their biological and technological milieus has given rise to a posthuman condition (e.g., Michel Serres, Katherine Hayles, Bernard Stiegler, and David Wills). However, Wolfe makes a valuable contribution in arguing that what Derrida and Luhmann most have in common is a "mutational, viral, or parasitic form of thinking," one that does not "turn away from the complexities and paradoxes of self-referential autopoiesis", but rather encounters there what Wolfe posits as "openness from closure," an idea which in turn emphasizes a notion of "boundary" found in both Luhmann and Derrida: "the very thing that separates us from the world connects us to the world, and self-referential, autopoietic closure, far from indicating a kind of solipsistic neo-Kantian idealism, actually is generative of openness to the environment". In other words, only through the parasite of paradoxical thought can we understand the permeability of all boundaries: what blinds us gives us sight, what separates us connects us, what closes us opens us. And yet, I wish to suggest that for all its theoretical rigor and originality, Wolfe's book does not offer much in the way of readerly methodology. Moreover, Wolfe omits reference to Luhmann's overt appropriation of Derrida's thought in developing his theory of observing systems in Art as a Social System: "second- and third-order observations explicate the world´s unobservability as an unmarked space carried along in all observations. Transparency is paid for with opacity, and this is what ensures the (autopoietic) continuation of the operations, the displacement, the différance (Derrida) of the difference between what is observed and what remains unobserved." This paper will experiment with Luhmann's observation theory to propose a critical methodology for what I will call 'close observing' of literary texts; close observing, over and against 'close reading', is possible only for what Luhmann describes as observers of the second and third orders.

Professor Ramey has published articles on James Joyce in journals including James Joyce Quarterly, Comparative Literature, College Literature, and Comparative Literature Studies. He served as lead organizer of "Joyce Without Borders - 2019 James Joyce Symposium" in Mexico City, and is currently writing a book called Micro-Modernism: Parasitic Textuality and Posthumanism, a study of posthumanist intertextuality in works by James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov and Luis Buñuel.

Finnegans Wake, 57.4-29
1. The forefarther folkers for a prize of two peaches with Ming, Ching and Shunny on
2. the lie low lea. We'll sit down on the hope of the ghouly ghost for the titheman
3. troubleth but his hantitat hies not here. They answer from their Zoans; Hear the
4. four of them! Hark torroar of them! I, says Armagh, and a'm proud o'it. I, says
5. Clonakilty, God help us ! I, says Deansgrange, > > and say nothing. I, says Barna, and
6. whatabout it? Hee haw! Be- fore he fell hill he filled heaven: a stream, alplapping
7. streamlet, coyly coiled um, cool of her curls: We were but thermites then, wee,
8. wee. Our antheap we sensed as a Hill of Allen, the Barrow for an People, one
9. Jotnursfjaell: and it was a grummelung amung the porktroop that wonderstruck us
10. as a thunder, yunder.
11.   Thus the unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant
12. our certitude, the evidencegivers by legpoll too untrustworthily irreperible where
13. his adjugers are semmingly freak threes but his judicandees plainly minus twos.
14. Nevertheless Madam's Toshowus waxes largely more lifeliked (entrance, one
15. kudos; exits, free) and our notional gullery is now com- pletely complacent, an
16. exegious monument, aerily perennious. Oblige with your blackthorns; gamps,
17. degrace! And there many have paused before that exposure of him by old Tom
18. Quad, a flashback in which he sits sated, gowndabout, in clericalease habit,
19. watching bland sol slithe dodgsomely into the nethermore, a globule of
20. maugdleness about to corrugitate his mild dewed cheek and the tata of a tiny
21. victorienne, Alys, pressed by his limper looser.

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Jonathan Goldman, Vice President
Heyward Ehrlich, Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Trisha O’Neill, Assistant

Yearly Membership:  $25.00   Membership/Renewal Form is attached.
Visitors at meetings:  $ 7.00
Please visit our website:  joycesociety.org

BROWSE The James Joyce Society online:  The JJS website, at joycesociety.org, contains past programs, a gallery of original art and photography pertaining to Joyce, a membership form, a slide show of Joyce photographs, Gotham Book Mart information, and links to other Joyce websites.

E mail addresses:
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President:  afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email:  info@joycesociety.org
Website:  http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster:  info@heywardehrlich.com

Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews

Back to Top	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010
2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001

The James Joyce Society
Invites you
to its Monday, 16 September 2019, Program at Glucksman Ireland House,
New York University, 1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between Washington Square North and 8th Street)
The meeting will start promptly at 6:00 P.M.

Borges and Joyce
by
Carlos Gamerro
Writer
Buenos Aires
and

Group Discussion:
Ulysses 8:551-585
facilitated by
Jonathan Goldman
Vice President, The James Joyce Society
(A copy of the passage is attached.)

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Jonathan Goldman, Vice President
Heyward Ehrlich, Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Trisha O’Neill, Assistant

Yearly Membership:  $25.00   Membership/Renewal Form is attached.
Visitors at meetings:  $ 7.00
Please visit our website:  joycesociety.org

BROWSE The James Joyce Society online:  The JJS website, at joycesociety.org, contains past programs, a gallery of original art and photography pertaining to Joyce, a membership form, a slide show of Joyce photographs, Gotham Book Mart information, and links to other Joyce websites.

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President:  afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email:  info@joycesociety.org
Website:  http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster:  info@heywardehrlich.com

From Ulysses 8:551-585
01    He crossed at Nassau street corner and stood before the window of
02 Yeates and Son, pricing the fieldglasses. Or will I drop into old Harris's and
03 have a chat with young Sinclair? Wellmannered fellow. Probably at his
04 lunch. Must get those old glasses of mine set right. Goerz lenses six guineas.
05 Germans making their way everywhere. Sell on easy terms to capture trade.
06 Undercutting. Might chance on a pair in the railway lost property office.
07 Astonishing the things people leave behind them in trains and cloakrooms.
08 What do they be thinking about? Women too. Incredible. Last year
09 travelling to Ennis had to pick up that farmer's daughter's bag and hand it
10 to her at Limerick junction. Unclaimed money too. There's a little watch up
11 there on the roof of the bank to test those glasses by.
12   His lids came down on the lower rims of his irides. Can't see it. If you
13 imagine it's there you can almost see it. Can't see it.
14   He faced about and, standing between the awnings, held out his right
15 hand at arm's length towards the sun. Wanted to try that often. Yes:
16 completely. The tip of his little finger blotted out the sun's disk. Must be the
17 focus where the rays cross. If I had black glasses. Interesting. There was a
18 lot of talk about those sunspots when we were in Lombard street west.
19 Looking up from the back garden. Terrific explosions they are. There will
20 be a total eclipse this year: autumn some time.
21   Now that I come to think of it that ball falls at Greenwich time. It's
22 the clock is worked by an electric wire from Dunsink. Must go out there
23 some first Saturday of the month. If I could get an introduction to professor
24 Joly or learn up something about his family. That would do to: man always
25 feels complimented. Flattery where least expected. Nobleman proud to be
26 descended from some king's mistress. His foremother. Lay it on with a
27 trowel. Cap in hand goes through the land. Not go in and blurt out what
28 you know you're not to: what's parallax? Show this gentleman the door.
29    Ah.
30    His hand fell to his side again.
31   Never know anything about it. Waste of time. Gasballs spinning
32 about, crossing each other, passing. Same old dingdong always. Gas: then
33 solid: then world: then cold: then dead shell drifting around, frozen rock,
35 like that pineapple rock. The moon. Must be a new moon out, she said. I
35 believe there is.

Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews

The James Joyce Society

Invites you to its Friday, 15 March 2019, Program at Glucksman Ireland House,
New York University, 1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between Washington Square North and 8th Street)
The meeting will start promptly at 6:00 P.M.

Reading Joyce Again Through New Letters
by
William S. Brockman
Paterno Family Librarian for Literature
Pennsylvania State University
and
Michael Groden
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
Western University Canada

and

Group Discussion of “Tilly”
facilitated by
Patrick Reilly
Adjunct Associate Professor of English
Baruch College
(find a copy below)_

"Tilly"

1 He travels after a winter sun
2 Urging the cattle along a cold red road,
3 Calling to them, a voice they know,
4 He drives his beasts above Cabra.
5
6 The voice tells them home is warm.
7 They moo and make brute music with their hoofs.
8 He drives them with a flowering branch before him,
9 Smoke pluming their foreheads.
10
11 Boor, bond of the herd,
12 Tonight stretch full by the fire!
13 I bleed by the black stream
14 For my torn bough!

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Trisha O’Neill, Assistant

Yearly Membership: $25.00   Membership/Renewal Form
Visitors at meetings: $ 7.00
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President:  afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email:  info@joycesociety.org
Website:  http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster:  info@heywardehrlich.com

Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews

The James Joyce Society
The James Joyce Society

Invites you to its Friday, 1 February 2019, Program at Glucksman Ireland House,
New York University, 1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between Washington Square North and 8th Street)
The meeting will start promptly at 6:00 P.M.

Rewriting the Lyric:
Sylvia Plath Annotating James Joyce
by
Amanda Golden
Assistant Professor of English
New York Institute of Technology

and

Group Discussion of an Excerpt from
Finnegans Wake 613.05-16
facilitated by
Stephen J. Pantani
Treasurer, The James Joyce Society

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Trisha O’Neill, Assistant

Yearly Membership: $25.00 Membership/Renewal Form is attached.
Visitors at meetings: $ 7.00
Please visit our website: joycesociety.org

BROWSE The James Joyce Society online:
The JJS website, at joycesociety.org, contains past programs,
a gallery of original art and photography pertaining to Joyce,
a membership form, a slide show of Joyce photographs,
Gotham Book Mart information, and links to other Joyce websites.

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com

Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, president
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Trisha O’Neill, Assistant
Yearly Membership $25 00
Visitors at meetings $ 7.00
Please visit our website Joycesociety org

Back to Top	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010
2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to its Program on Saturday, 6 October 2018
at Glucksman Ireland House,
New York University, 1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between Washington Square North and 8th Street)
The meeting will start promptly at 6:00 P.M.

Steganographic Joyce:
Exploring the Enigmatic Entychologist
by Dylan Emerick-Brown
AICE Cambridge Teacher and English Department Chairperson
Deltona High School

Group Discussion of an Excerpt from
Finnegans Wake 424.14-22
facilitated by Stephen J. Pantani
Treasurer, The James Joyce Society

1 – But for what, thrice truthful teller, Shaun of grace? weakly
2 we went on to ask now of the gracious one. Vouchsafe to say.
3 You will now, goodness, won't you? Why?
4 – For his root language, if you ask me whys, Shaun replied,
5 as he blessed himself devotionally like a crawsbomb, making act
6 of oblivion, footinmouther! (what the thickuns else?) which he
7 picksticked into his lettruce invrention. Ullhodturdenweirmud-
8 gaardgringnirurdrmolnirfenrirlukkilokkibaugimandodrrerin-
9 surtkrinmgernrackinarockar! Thor's for yo!

Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, president
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Trisha O’Neill, Assistant
Yearly Membership $25 00
Visitors at meetings $ 7.00
Please visit our website Joycesociety org

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to its Thursday, 19 April 2018, Program
at Glucksman Ireland House,
New York University, 1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between Washington Square North and 8th Street)
The meeting will start promptly at 7:00 P.M.

Citizen Bloom on the Strand:
Vampiric Representation in Nausicaa
by
Michael Opest
Adjunct Instructor
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Group Discussion
facilitated by
Kevin Gilroy
Amateur Joyce Scholar

An Excerpt from<Finnegans Wake III.ii.448.34 – 449.12

1 Sis dearest, Jaun added, with voise somewhit murky, what
2 though still high fa luting, as he turned his dorse to her to pay
3 court to it, and ouverleaved his booseys to give the note and
4 score, phonoscopically incuriosited and melancholic this time
5 whiles, as on the fulmament he gaped in wulderment, his on-
6 saturncast eyes in stellar attraction followed swift to an imagin-
7 ary swellaw, O, the vanity of Vanissy! All ends vanishing! Pur-
8 sonally, Grog help me, I am in no violent hurry. If time enough
9 lost the ducks walking easy found them. I'll nose a blue fonx
10 with any tristys blinking upon this earthlight of all them that
11 pass by the way of the deerdrive, conconey's run or wilfrid's
12 walk, but I'd turn back as lief as not if I could only spoonfind
12 the nippy girl of my heart's appointment, Mona Vera Toutou
14 Ipostila, my lady of Lyons, to guide me by gastronomy under
15 her safe conduct. That's more in my line.

Glucksman Ireland House, NYU

Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, president
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Cynthia Cox Assistant
Yearly Membership $25 00
Visitors at meetings $ 7.00
Please visit our website Joycesociety org

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to hear

Vico Influenced Joyce:
Reappraising an Ideal History
by
Robert Baines
Assistant Professor
University of Evansville

and
Group Discussion of an Excerpt from
Finnegans Wake 292.04-32
facilitated by
Stephen J. Pantani
Treasurer, The James Joyce Society

Friday, 16 February 2018, 6:00pm

Finnegans Wake 292.04-32

1 if the so greatly displeaced diorems in the Saint Lubbock's Day number of that most improv-
2 ing of roundshows, *Spice and Westend Woman* (utterly exhausted before publication,
3 indiapepper edition shortly), are for our indices, it agins to pear like it, par my fay, and there is
4 no use for your pastripreaching for to cheesse it either or praying fresh fleshblood claspers of
5 young catholick throats on Huggin Green\1 to take warning by the prispast, why?, by cows *
6 man, in shirt, is how he is *piu la gonna mobile* and * they wonet do ut; and, an you could peep
7 inside the cerebralised saucepan of this eer illwinded goodfornobody, you would see in his house
8 of thoughtsam (was you, that is, decontaminated enough to look discarnate) what a jetsam
9 litterage of convolvuli of times lost or strayed, of lands derelict and of tongues laggin too, longa
10 yamsayore, not only that but, search lighting, beached, bashed and beaushelled *a la Mer*
11 bpharahead into faturity, your own convolvulis pickninnig capman would real to jazztfancy the
12 novo takin place of what stale words whilom were woven with and fitted fairly featly for, so; and
131 equally so, the crame of the whole faustian fustian, whether your launer's lightsome or your
41 soulard's schwearmood, it is that, whenas the swiftshut scareyss of our pupilteachertaut duplex
5 will hark back to lark to you symibellically that, though a day be as dense as a decade, no mouth
16 has the might to set a mearbound to the march of a landsmaul\2 in half a sylb, helf a solb, holf a
17 salb onward\3 the beast of boredom, common sense, lurking gyrographically down inside his
18 loose Eating S.S. collar is gogoing of whisth to you sternly how -- Plutonic loveliaks twinnt
19 Platonic yearlings -- you must, how, in undivided reawlity draw the line somewhawre)

1 Where Buickly of the Glass and Bellows pumped the Rudge engineral.
2 Matter of Brettaine and brut fierce.
3 Bussmullah, cried Lord Wolsley, how me Aunty Mag'll row!

Glucksman Ireland House, NYU
Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, president
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Cynthia Cox Assistant
Yearly Membership $25 00
Visitors at meetings $ 7.00
Please visit our website Joycesociety org

Back to Top	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010
2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to hear

Malignant Self Love:
Mr Duffy's Pain Revisited

by Alison Armstrong

School of Visual Arta
Contributing Editor, Irish Literary Supplement
and

Joyce and the Double Dactyl
by
Neil Hickey
Adjunct Associate Professor
Columbia University Graduate Shcdol of Journalism

Wednesday, November 1, 2017 6:00 pm
Glucksman Irelend House, NYU
Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, president
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Cynthia Cox Assistant
Yearly Membership $25 00
Visitors at meetings $ 7.00
Please visit our website Joycesociety org

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to hear

Reinventing the Word:
James Joyce, Christian Heresy, and Visual Imagining

by Gregory Erickson

Associate Professor, New York University

and

Group Discussion of An Excerpt from Finnegans Wake II.2.293
facilitated by
Alisom Armstrong
School of Visual Arts
Contributing ed., Irish Literary Supplement
Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 6:00 pm

Finnegans Wake II.2.293:
(Note: [R] and [L] indicate text columns)

Coss? Cossist? Your parn! You, you make [R2]
what name? (and in truth, as a poor soul is [R2]
between shift and shift ere the teath he has [R3]
lived through becomes the life he is to die
into, he or he had albut -- he was rickets as to
reasons but the balance of his minds was
stables -- lost himself or himself some som-
nione sciupiones, soswhitchoverswetch had
he or he gazet, murphy come, murphy go,
murphy plant, murphy grow, a maryamyria-
meliamurphies, in the lazily eye of his lapis,
{drawing}

[L1] Vieus Von DVbLIn, 'twas one of dozedeams
[L2] a darkies ding in dewood) the Turnpike under
[L3] the Great Ulm (with Mearingstone in Fore
[L4] ground).[1] Given now ann linch you take enn
all. Allow me! And, heaving alljawbreakical
expressions out of old Sare Isaac's[2] universal
[L5] of specious aristmystic unsaid, A is for Anna
[L6] like L is for liv. Aha hahah, Ante Ann you're
[L7] apt to ape aunty annalive! Dawn gives rise.
[L8] Lo, lo, lives love! Eve takes fall. La, la, laugh
leaves alass! Aiaiaiai, Antiann, we're last to
the lost, Loulou! Tis perfect. Now (lens

[L1] - Uteralterance or [R1] - WHY MY AS
[L2] - the Interplay of [R2] - LIKEWISE
[L3] - Bones in the [R3] - WHIS HIS.
[L4] - Womb.

[L5] - The Vortex.
[L6] - Spring of Sprung
[L7] - Verse. The Ver-
[L8] - tex.

[1] Draumcondra's Dream country where the betterlies blow.
[2] O, Laughing Sally, are we going to be toadhauntered by that old
Pantifox
Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, president
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Cynthia Cox Assistant
Yearly Membership $25 00
Visitors at meetings $ 7.00
Please visit our website Joycesociety org

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to hear
Maria McGarrity
Professor, LIU

will talk on
The Afterlives of Roger Casement:
Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and Beyond

and a group discussion of
"The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly"
facilitated by Patrick Reilly
Adj. Asst. Prof., Baruch College

Thurs., April 13, 2017 at 7:00 pm

Excerpt:
So snug he was in his hotel premises sumptuous
But soon we'll bonfire his trash, tricks,. and trumpery
And 'tis short till sheriff Clancy'll be winding up his unlimited company

With the bailiff's bom at the door
(Chorus) Bimbnam at the door
Then he'll bum no more. (FW 46:6-12)
Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, president
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Cynthia Cox Assistant
Yearly Membership $25 00
Visitors at meetings $ 7.00
Please visit our website Joycesociety org

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to its Thursday, 2 February 2017 Program
at Glucksman Ireland House
NYU, 1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue bet Washington Sq N and 8th St)
The meeting will start promptly at 6:00 P.M.

Enduring Pleasures, Minor Pains:
The Joys and the Few Infelicities of Ulysses
by
Robert J. Seidman
Freelance Write

and
Group Discussion facilitated by
Patrick Reilly
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
Baruch College

On the anniversary of Joyce's birthday, February 2nd, 1882, it might be a good time to revisit the mysterious birth of his most famous female character, Molly Bloom--Marion Tweedy, before she is married. Conceived on December 8th, 1869, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Marion is born nine months later on September 8th, 1870, in Gibraltar to two of the most mysterious parents in fiction. Is she, like her immortal namesake, also conceived immaculately? Neither she nor we know anything substantial about her mother:"my mother whoever she was" was possibly one Lunita Laredo (18.846-47, 848). Her father, Major Brian Cooper Tweedy, is not prepared to say. He himself is a suspect character -- possibly a Sergeant Major, maybe a Major, or a Drum Major in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers (albeit the regiment did not exist before 1881, by when Marion/Molly is 11). Does the novel harbor Lunita clues, or is this simply one of the many "enigmas and puzzles that will keep the professors busy for centuries"?

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Cynthia Cox, Assistant

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: c afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com
Yearly Membership: $25.00
Visitors at meetings: $ 7.00

Our website, joycesociety.org, contains past programs, a gallery of original art and photography pertaining to Joyce, a membership form, a slide show of Joyce photographs, Gotham Book Mart information, and links to other Joyce websites.

Back to Top	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010
2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to hear

Ulysses T-Shirt: Joyce Afterlives, and Reflections
on Reading Joyce in the 21st Century
by
Jonathan Goldman
Associate Professor
New York Institute of Technology

Friday 11 November 2016 6:00 pm
(The meeting will start promptly)
Glucksman Ireland House New York University 1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between Washington Square North and 8th Street)
with
Group Discussion of an Excerpt from Finnegans Wake
Book III.3 (FW494. 9-14) (see text below)
Facilitated by Patrick Reilly
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
Baruch College

Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, president
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Cynthia Cox Assistant
Yearly Membership $25 00
Visitors at meetings $ 7.00
Please visit our website Joycesociety org

Finnegans Wake III.3 (FW494. 9-14)
1 Ophiuchus being visible above the thorizon, muliecula occluded by
2 Satarn's serpent ring system, the pisciolinnies Nova Ardonis and Prisca
3 Parthenopea, are a bonnies feature in the northern sky. Ers, Mores and
4 Merkery are surgents below the rim of the Zenith Part while Arctura.
5 Anatolia, Hesper and Mesembria weep in their mansions over Noth,
6 Haste, Soot and Waste.

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to hear

Mnemosyne:
James Joyce through Quotations,
Transformations, Layers, Sounds, Music

Conceived by Michael Grossmann

Composed by Reiko Fueting
and
Performed by
Nils Neubert anD Michael Axtell, readers
Pala Garcia, violin

Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 6:00 pm
Glucksman Ireland House
New York University
1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between
Washington Sq N and 8th St)
The meeting will start promptly
Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Cynthia Cox, Assistant

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to hear

A. Nicholas Fargnoli,
Michael Patrick Gillespie,
and Richard Nash in

A Celebration of the Publication of
Exiles: a Critical Edition

Edited by A. Nicholas Fargnoli and
Michael Patrick Gillespie
University Press of Florida: 2016
(With additional contributions by
Zack Bowen, Jane Heap, Hugh Kenner,
John MacNicholas, Vicki Mahaffey,
Mary T. Reynolds, John Rodker,
Israel Solon, Samuel A. Tannenbaum,
William York Tindall, and B. J. Tysdahl.)

Friday, May 20, 2016 at 6:00 pm
Glucksman Ireland House
New York University
1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between
Washington Sq N and 8th St)
The meeting will start promptly
Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Cynthia Cox, Assistant

Back to Top	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010
2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to hear

A Meeting Dedicated to
the Memory of Simon Loekle

Soul Survivor:
Stephen Dedalus as the Priest
of the Eternal Imagination
by
Garry Leonard
Professorof Literature and Film
University of Toronto

New York University
1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between
Washington Sq N and 8th St)
The meeting will start promptly
Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Cynthia Cox, Assistant

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to hear

The Trials of Ulysses

Attorney and literary scholar Joseph Hassett (W.B. Yeats & the Muses)
argues that Attorney-Patron John Quinn did a poor job of defending the
Little Review’s publication in 1920 of an excerpt from Joyce’s novel
and that he might have been successful if he had used
the approach suggested by the portrait painter John Butler Yeats,
the poet’s father and famous intellectual of his time.

Tuesday, 24 Nov 2015, 6:00 PM
Co-sponsor W. B. Yeats Society
FREE -- no reservations
National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park
(E. 20th betw. Park & Third)

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Simon Loekle, Tyler
Cynthia Cox, Assistant

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to hear

Joyce, the Market, Transnational commerce
Robert Brazeau
Univ of Alberta Fri, Sept 25, 5:00pm
Glucksman Ireland House, NYU
New York University
1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between
Washington Sq N and 8th St)
The meeting will start promptly
Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Simon Loekle, Tyler
Cynthia Cox, Assistant

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to hear

Finnegans Wakw as Created by Frank Budgen
Jesse MeyersR, NYU Fri, Oct. 30, 6:00pm
Glucksman Ireland House, NYU
New York University
1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between
Washington Sq N and 8th St)
The meeting will start promptly
Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Simon Loekle, Tyler
Cynthia Cox, Assistant
Special event: Free of charge, no reservation required
Cosponsored with W. B. Yeats Society
The Trials of Ulysses
Tues, Nov 24, 2015
National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Pk (E. 20th St.)

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to hear

Cunning: Steganography in Joyce
by
Jolanta Wawrzycka
Professor of English
Radford University, Virginia
Friday, March 13, 2015, 5:00 pm
Glucksman Ireland House, NYU
New York University
1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between
Washington Sq N and 8th St)
The meeting will start promptly
Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Simon Loekle, Tyler
Cynthia Cox, Assistant

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to hear

R & M Gerber Books
Joyce: the Books & the Business
How to Make the Most
of Your Collection
Sunday, 1 February 2015 3:00pm
and a passage from Joyce's "Nightpiece"
read by Simon Lockle, Tyler

New York University
1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between
Washington Sq N and 8th St)
The meeting will start promptly
Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Simon Loekle, Tyler
Cynthia Cox, Assistant James Joyce, Night Piece

Gaunt in gloom,
The pale stars their torches,
Enshrouded, wave.
Ghostfires from heaven's far verges faint illume,
Arches on soaring arches,
Night's sindark nave.

Seraphim,
The lost hosts awaken
To service till
In moonless gloom each lapses muted, dim,
Raised when she has and shaken
Her thurible.

And long and loud,
To night's nave upsoaring,
A starknell tolls
As the bleak incense surges, cloud on cloud,
Voidward from the adoring
Waste of souls.

Back to Top	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010
2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to hear

The Book of Kells:
Joyce's "fountainhead of Irish inspiration"

by Cóilín Owens
Professor Emeritus
George Mason University

and a passage from Joyce
read by Simon Lockle

Sunday, 23 Nov 2014 3:00pm
New York University
1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between
Washington Sq N and 8th St)
The meeting will start promptly
Link to map of Glucksman House
1 Washington Mews
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Simon Loekle, Tyler
Cynthia Cox, Assistant

LI actor/director Ed Dennehy
stars in Joseph Beck's James Joyce: For All Those Who Hide Away ...
Oct. 31 - Nov. 16 (Fri & Sat at 7, Sun at 3)
at the Conklin Barn, 2 High Street, Huntington, NY.

Actor/director Ed Dennehy (brother of Brian now on Broadway with Carol Burnett)
In a new one-man play as James Joyce.
Author Joseph Beck: "Ed has played Mark Twain all around the country and has played
Clarence Darrow, the defense attorney in the scopes trial. He even played an elderly
Bette Davis after his wife shaved his legs for him. Ed's a force on the stagev
and has been for 50 years. Classically trained in England, he's coming to
this show with everything he has. We open Halloween night in a 200 year old
converted sheep barn in historic Huntington, LI. People have done shows about
James Joyce's work (Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses,
and Finnegans Wake) but nobody has recently done the writer-live, on stage."
Tickets ($18.00): www.brownpapertickets.com/event/850607

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to hear

Susan Brown
Professor (ret.) State College of Florida and Eckerd College

Spider Webs, Pythagoras, and Incest:
Solving Joycean Riddles

Friday, 12 Septemer 2014, 6:00 pm
New York University, 1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue bet Washington Sq N and 8th St)
The meeting will start promptly at 6:00 PM.
Live Link to Glucksman House 1 Washington Mews
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Simon Loekle, Tyler
Cynthia Cox, Assistant

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to hear

A BLOOMSDAY CELEBRATION
with Live Performance, Music, Song, and Art Exhibition

MADISON THEATRE, MOLLOY COLLEGE
ROCKVILLE CENTRE, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK
THURSDAY, 12 JUNE 2014
Performance Starts at 7:30 PM

Directions by car (parking is free):
See http://www.molloy.edu/about-molloy-college/rockville-centre-campus/directions

Directions by train:
For those coming by train from Penn Station, take the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Railroad to Rockville Centre. Trains leave Penn Station every half hour; please visit the LIRR website for the latest train schedule. Taxi service to Molloy College is available at the Rockville Centre LIRR Station. The ride up Hempstead Avenue is about five minutes.

Current James Joyce Society Members Are Admitted Free

Simon Loekle, Tyler
Cynthia Cox, Assistant A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Simon Loekle, Tyler
Cynthia Cox, Assistant

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to hear
The Twintessential Role of John McCormack
in Finnegans Wake
by
Patrick Reilly
Adj. Asst. Professor of English
Baruch College, NYC
14 March 2014 Glucksman Ireland House
New York University, 1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue bet Washington Sq N and 8th St)
The meeting will start promptly at 6:00 PM.
Live Link to Glucksman House 1 Washington Mews
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Simon Loekle, Tyler
Cynthia Cox, Assistant

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to hear
Postal Joyce
by
William Brockman
Librarian for Literature
at Pennsylvania State University and
Editor,James Joyce Checklist and Joyce Calendar

Live Link to Glucksman House 1 Washington Mews
and
The Biografiend: When Lewis Met Joyce
An Excerpt from Blasting and Bombardiering, by Wyndham Lewis
read by Simon Loekle,Tyler,The James Joyce Society

On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 At 6:00 promptly
at Glucksman Ireland House
New York University,
1 Washington Mews
(5th Ave bet.Washington Sq N and 8th St)

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Simon Loekle, Tyler
Cynthia Cox, Assistant

Yearly Membership: $25.00
Visitors at meetings: $ 7.00
Please visit our website: Joycesociety.org

Browse The James Joyce Society online:
The JJS website, at joycesociety.org,
contains past programs, original art and photography
a membership form, a slide show of Joyce photographs,
and links to other Joyce websites.

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com

Back to Top	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010
2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001

The James Joyce Society
Invites you to hear
Aida Yared
Independent Joyce Scholar and
Professor of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University

The Arabian Nights in Finnegans Wake:
How Joyce Read Sir Richard Burton's Work

1 November 2013 at 6:00pm sharp
Glucksman Ireland House, NYU
1 Washington Mews
(5th Ave. bet. Washington Square N. and 8th St.)

Live Link to Glucksman House 1 Washington Mews

and
Saint Kevin from a Genetic Perspective
Group Discussion facilitated by Judd Staley
Doctoral Student, CUNY Graduate Center
Click for text as PDF

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich, Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Simon Loekle, Tyler
Cynthia Cox, Assistant

The James Joyce Society
Bloomsday Celebration
Madison Theatre, Molloy College
Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York
Sunday, 16 June 2013, 2:00 - 4:00 PM

Click here for large flyer with full details!

Song, Dance, Live Performance, and Art Exhibition
This Year’s Program is Dedicated to All Fathers: Past, Present, and Future Current James Joyce Society Members Are Admitted Free

Click here for directions by car (parking is free)
Directions by train:
For those coming by train from Penn Station, take the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Railroad to Rockville Centre. Trains leave Penn Station every half hour; please visit the LIRR website for the latest train schedule. Taxi service to Molloy College is available at the Rockville Centre LIRR Station. The ride up Hempstead Avenue is about five minutes.

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com
Yearly Membership: $25.00
Visitors at meetings: $7.00

Back to Top	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010
2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001

The James Joyce Society
Celebrates Bloomsday 2012 at Molloy College
Dedicated to the Memory of Edmund Lloyd Epstein

Song, Dance, and Live Performances
Take your photo with James Joyce for $2
Free admission for paid-up members.

Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York
Saturday, 16 June 2012
2:00 - 4:00 PM

For Travel to Molloy College:
By car, see directions
By train: LIRR Babylon Branch from Penn Station to Rockville Centre
A free Molloy College shuttle bus will meet the 12:39pm train arriving at 1:20 pm
Taxi service is available at other times from the Rockville Centre station.

Funded in part by
New York Council for the Humanities

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com
Yearly Membership: $25.00
Visitors at meetings: $7.00

The James Joyce Society
invites you to hear

Strother Purdy
Independent Scholar and
Retired Professor of English Literature
Marguette Uniiversity

What Kind of a Book is Finnegans Wake?
Is it a Menippean Satire?

and
An Excerpt from Pomes Pennyeach
read by Simon Loekle
Tyler, the James Joyce Society

Monday, 12 March 2012 at 6:00pm
at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, May 11, 2001
at Glucksman Ireland House. NYU
New York University, 1 Washington Mews
(5th Ave between.Washington Square North and 8th St)

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com

Yearly Membership: $25.00
Visitors at meetings: $7.00

The James Joyce Society
invites you to its 3 February 2012 Program
at Glucksman Ireland House,
New York University,
1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between
Washington Square North and 8th Street).

Agoraphobia in James Joyce's "Eveline"
by
Jim LeBlanc
Director of Library Technical Services
Cornell University

and

A Group Discussion:
Excerpt from the Nausikaa Episode

(The following passages will be discussed:
U 13.1-10, 78-98, 148-199, 218-244,
404-441, 535-750.

If you do not have a copy of Ulysses with you
at the meeting, a handout will be available.)
facilitated by

Alison Armstrong
School of Visual Arts

Contributing Editor to the Irish Literary Supplement
Friday 3 February 2012 6:00 pm

Glucksman Ireland House
New York University
1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between Washington Square North and 8th Street)
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich,Vice President & Webmaster
Stephen J. Pantani, Treasurer
Simon Loekle, Tyler
Yearly Membership: $25.00
Visitors at meetings: $ 7.00
Please visit our website: joycesociety.org

Back to Top	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010
2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001

The James Joyce Society
invites you to hear

Judith Harrington
Independent Scholar

A Joycean Periodic Table of Elements

and a group discussion of an excerpt from
Wandering Rocks (see below, breaks added)
facilitated by
Michael Murphy, Professor Emeritus
Brooklyn College, CUNY

at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, October 18, 2011
at the Roger Smith Hotel
Lexington Ave. at 47th St, NYC

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com

Yearly Membership: $25.00
Visitors at meetings: $7.00

William Humble, earl of Dudley, and lady Dudley, accompanied by lieutenantcolonel Heseltine, drove out after luncheon from the viceregal lodge. In the following carriage were the honourable Mrs Paget, Miss de Courcy and the honourable Gerald Ward A. D. C. in attendance.

The cavalcade passed out by the lower gate of Phoenix park saluted by obsequious policemen and proceeded past Kingsbridge along the northern quays. The viceroy was most cordially greeted on his way through the metropolis. At Bloody bridge Mr Thomas Kernan beyond the river greeted him vainly from afar. . . .
[L]ord Dudley's viceregal carriages passed and were unsaluted by Mr Dudley White, B. L., M. A. . . .
Richie Goulding . . .
saw him with surprise. . . .
[A]t the doorstep of the office of Reuben J Dodd, solicitor, . . . ,
an elderly female . . . smiled credulously on the representative of His Majesty. From its sluice in Wood quay wall under Tom Devan's office Poddle river hung out in fealty a tongue of liquid sewage. Above the crossblind of the Ormond hotel, gold by bronze, Miss Kennedy's head by Miss Douce's head watched and admired. On Ormond quay Mr Simon Dedalus . . .
stood still in midstreet and brought his hat low. His Excellency graciously returned Mr Dedalus' greeting. From Cahill's corner the reverend Hugh C. Love, M. A., made obeisance unperceived, mindful of lords deputies whose hands benignant had held of yore rich advowsons. On Grattan bridge Lenehan and M'Coy, taking leave of each other, watched the carriages go by. . . .
Gerty MacDowell . . .
knew by the style it was the lord and lady lieutenant but she couldn't see what Her Excellency had on. . . .
John Wyse Nolan smiled with unseen coldness towards the lord lieutenantgeneral and general governor of Ireland. . . .
Over against Dame gate Tom Rochford and Nosey Flynn watched the approach of the cavalcade. Tom Rochford, seeing the eyes of lady Dudley fixed on him, took his thumbs quickly out of the pockets of his claret waistcoat and doffed his cap to her. A charming soubrette, great Marie Kendall, with dauby cheeks and lifted skirt smiled daubily from her poster upon William Humble, earl of Dudley, and upon lieutenantcolonel H. G. Heseltine, and also upon the honourable Gerald Ward A. D. C. From the window of the D. B. C. Buck Mulligan gaily, and Haines gravely, gazed down on the viceregal equipage over the shoulders of eager guests, whose mass of forms darkened the chessboard whereon John Howard Parnell looked intently. . . .
Dilly Dedalus, training her sight upward from Chardenal's first French primer, saw sunshades spanned and wheelspokes spinning in the glare. John Henry Menton . . .
stared from winebig oyster eyes. . . .
Where the foreleg of King Billy's horse pawed the air Mrs Breen plucked her hastening husband back from under the hoofs of the outriders. She shouted in his ear the tidings. Understanding, he shifted his tomes to his left breast and saluted the second carriage. The honourable Gerald Ward A. D. C., agreeably surprised, made haste to reply. . . .
Opposite Pigott's music warerooms Mr Denis J Maginni, professor of dancing &c, gaily apparelled, gravely walked, outpassed by a viceroy and unobserved. By the provost's wall came jauntily Blazes Boylan, stepping in tan shoes and socks with skyblue clocks to the refrain of My girl's a Yorkshire girl. Blazes Boylan presented to the leaders' skyblue frontlets and high action a skyblue tie, a widebrimmed straw hat at a rakish angle and a suit of indigo serge. His hands in his jacket pockets forgot to salute but he offered to the three ladies the bold admiration of his eyes and the red flower between his lips. . . .
Striding past Finn's hotel Cashel Boyle O'Connor Fitzmaurice Tisdall Farrell stared through a fierce eyeglass across the carriages at the head of Mr M. E. Solomons in the window of the Austro-Hungarian viceconsulate. . . .
[B]y Trinity's postern a loyal king's man, Hornblower, touched his tallyho cap. As the glossy horses pranced by Merrion square Master Patrick Aloysius Dignam, waiting, saw salutes being given to the gent with the topper and raised also his new black cap with fingers greased by porksteak paper. His collar too sprang up. . . .
In Lower Mount street a pedestrian in a brown macintosh, eating dry bread, passed swiftly and unscathed across the viceroy's path. . . .
At Haddington road corner two sanded women halted themselves, an umbrella and a bag in which eleven cockles rolled to view with wonder the lord mayor and lady mayoress without his golden chain. On Northumberland and Lansdowne roads His Excellency acknowledged punctually salutes from rare male walkers, the salute of two small schoolboys . . .
and the salute of Almidano Artifoni's sturdy trousers swallowed by a closing door. (U 10:1176-1282)

The James Joyce Society
invites you to hear

Michael Groden
Distinguished University Professor
Department of English
University of Western Ontario

"Ulysses -- and Us?"

celebrating the publication of his
Ulysses in Focus: Genetic, Textual and Personal Views"

and Simon Lockle
reading from Ulysses

at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, May 11, 2001
at Glucksman Ireland House. NYU
New York University, 1 Washington Mews
(5th Ave between.Washington Square North and 8th St)

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com

Yearly Membership: $25.00
Visitors at meetings: $7.00

The James Joyce Society
invites you to hear

Michael Murphy
Professor Emeritus, Brooklyn College, CUNY
"Colonialism & Collaboration in Joyce:
the Writer and the Critics"
and
Judd Staley leading "Stephen Hero"
group discussion -- passage below

6:30 pm, Friday, March 25, 2011
Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Ave. at 47th Street, NYC

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com
Yearly Membership: $25.00
Visitors at meetings: $7.00

Stephen watching this young priest and Emma together usually worked
himself into a state of unsettled rage. It was not so much that he
suffered personally as that the spectacle seemed to him typical of
Irish ineffectualness. Often he felt his fingers itch. Father Moran's
eyes were so clear and tender-looking, Emma stood to his gaze in such
a poise of bold careless pride of the flesh that Stephen longed to
precipitate the two into each other's arms and shock the room even
though he knew the pain this impersonal generosity would cause
himself. Emma allowed him to see her home several times but she did
not seem to have reserved herself for him. The youth was piqued at
this for above all things he hated to be compared with others and, had
it not been that her body seemed so compact of pleasure, he would have
preferred to have been ignominiously left behind Her loud forced
manners shocked him at first until his mind had thoroughly mastered
the stupidity of hers. She criticised the Miss Daniels very sharply,
assuming, much to Stephen's discomfort, an identical temper in him.
She coquetted with knowledge, asking Stephen could he not persuade the
President of his College to admit women to the college. Stephen told
her to apply to McCann who was the champion of women. She laughed at
this and said with genuine dismay "Well, honestly, isn't he a
dreadful-looking artist?" She treated femininely everything that young
men are supposed to regard as serious but she made polite exception
for Stephen himself and for the Gaelic Revival. She asked him wasn't
he reading a paper and what was it on. She would give anything to go
and hear him: she was awfully fond of the theatre herself and a gypsy
woman had once read her hand and told her she would be an actress. She
had been three times to the pantomime and asked Stephen what he liked
best in pantomime. Stephen said he liked a good clown but she said
that she preferred ballets. Then she wanted to know did he go out much
to dances and pressed him to join an Irish dancing-class of which she
was a member. Her eyes had begun to imitate the expression of Father
Moran's -- an expression of tender significance when the conversation
was at the lowest level of banality. Often as he walked beside her
Stephen wondered how she had employed her time since he had last seen
her and he congratulated himself that he had caught an impression of
her when she was at her finest moment. In his heart he deplored the
change in her for he would have liked nothing so well as an adventure
with her now but he felt that even that warm ample body could hardly
compensate him for her distressing pertness and middle-class
affectations. In the centre of her attitude towards him he thought he
discerned a point of defiant illwill and he thought he understood the
cause of it. He had swept the moment into his memory, the figure and
the landscape into his treasure-room, and conjuring with all three had
brought forth some pages of sorry verse. One rainy night when the
streets were too bad for walking she took the Rathmines tram at the
Pillar and as she held down her hand to him from the step, thanking
him for his kindness and wishing him good-night, that episode of their
childhood seemed to magnetise the minds of both at the same instant.
The change of circumstances had reversed their positions, giving her
the upper hand. He took her hand caressingly, caressing one after
another the three lines on the a back of her kid glove and numbering
her knuckles, caressing also his own past towards which this
inconsistent hater of [antiquity] inheritances was always lenient.
They smiled at each other; and again in the centre of her amiableness
he discerned a [centre] point of illwill and he suspected that by her
code of honour she was obliged to insist on the forbearance of the
male and to despise him for forbearing. (pp. 60-68)

Glucksman Ireland House NYU
and The James Joyce Society
invite you to attend

A Roundtable on Joyce and Cinema with
John McCourt (Università Roma Tre)
Jesse Meyers (New York)
Maria di Battista (Princeton University)
Philip Sicker (Fordham University).

To mark the publication of
Roll Away the Reel World, James Joyce and Cinema
(ed. John McCourt, Cork University Press 2010)

Thursday, February 17th 2011, 7pm,
Glucksman Ireland House NYU,
One Washington Mews at Fifth Avenue
(south of 8th street)
New York, NY 10003

Maria di Battista, John McCourt, Jesse Meyers, and Philip Sicker will discuss
James Joyce as a pioneer of Irish cinema and show how his novels were influenced
by the screen innovations of the early twentieth century.They will also explore
the impact of his revolutionary output on future filmmakers from Huston to Scorsese.

Free to members of the James Joyce Society
RSVP: 212-998-3950, option 3
or e-mail ireland.house@nyu.edu
Website: http://irelandhouse.as.nyu.edu

The James Joyce Society
invites you to hear

Robert J, Seidman,
screenwriter and novelist:
"Notes of Joyce Addict:
Why Ulysses Is Worth the investment"
and
Murray Gross, President of the
Finnegans Wake Society of New York
leading a group disussion of
FW 353.22-32 (see text below)

Friday, Feb. 4 at 6:00 pm
at Glucksman Ireland House,
1 Washington Mews, NYU
Fifth Avenue just north
of washington Square
New York City

Google Maps Live Link to 1 Washington Mews
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com
Yearly Membership: $25.00
Visitors at meetings: $7.00

FW 353.22-32:
The abnihilisation of the etym by the grisning of the grosning
of the grinder of the grunder of the first lord of hurtreford ex-
polodotonates through Parsuralia with an ivanmorinthorrorumble
fragoromboassity amidwhiches general uttermosts confussion are
perceivable moletons skaping with mulicules which coventry
plumpkins fairlygosmotherthemselves in the Landaunelegants
of Pinkadindy. Similar scenatas are projectilised from Hullulullu,
Bawlawayo, empyreal Raum and mordern Atems. They were
precisely the twelves of clocks, noon minutes, none seconds.
At someseat of Oldanelang's Konguerrig, by dawnybreak in
Aira

Back to Top	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010
2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001

The James Joyce Society
invites you to hear
1) A Meeting Dedicated to the Memory of Zach Bowen
Sid Feshbach, Professor Emeritus,City College, CUNY
Immediate Past President,James Joyce Society;
Research Professor, Univ. of Massachusets, Amherst
will speak on "The Creative Process in Joyce's Symbolism"
Monday, 4 October 2010 at 6:30 PM

-- 2) Steven Bond, Professor of Philosophy,
Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
will speak on "Joyce's 'Ulysses': Putting De' Cart before De' Horse"
Monday. October 18 at 6:30 pm

Each meeting at Glucksman Ireland House,
1 Washington Mews, NYU
Fifth Avenue just north
of washington Square
New York City

Google Maps Live Link to 1 Washington Mews

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com
Yearly Membership: $25.00
Visitors at meetings: $7.00

Reading Dubliners with Jesse Meyers
at NYU - 11 West 42nd Street

Five Tuesdays, Sept. 28-October 26, 2010
1:00-2:40pm., $260 (seniors $130)

For information call 212 998-7200
To register, call NYU 212 998-7150
Class number X02.9038

The James Joyce Society
invites you to hear
"The Exile of James Joyce"
by Michael Patrick Gillespie
Professor of English
Florida International University
at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Ave. at 47th Street
New York City
Thursday, 22 April 2010
at 6:00 PM
at the Roger Smith Hotel
Lexington Ave at 47th St
New York City

"The Exile of James Joyce" suggests that both nostalgia and rancor
operate throughout Joyce's canon, and it focuses attention on Dubliners
to show that previous readings while effectively showing the anger Joyce
felt at the Dublin he left behind have not given sufficient attention to
his attachment to Ireland.

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com
Yearly Membership: $25.00
Visitors at meetings: $7.00

The James Joyce Society
invites you to hear
Professor Strother Purdy
Professor of English Literature (retired)
Marquette University
on
"The Measureless Time of
Finnegans Wake -
A Borgian Analysis"
at
The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Ave. at 47th Street
New York City
on
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
at 6:00 PM
and
Simon Lockle, Tyler
will read
an Excerpt from Finnegans Wake

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com
Yearly Membership: $25.00
Visitors at meetings: $7.00

The James Joyce Society
invites you to hear
Cannibalism and Creativity:
or James Joyce Learns to Spit"
by Tom Rice
Professor of English
University of South Carolina, Columbia
Friday January 29, 2010 at 6:00 pm
at Glucksman Ireland House. NYU
New York University, 1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between Washington Square North and 8th Street)

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com

Yearly Membership: $25.00
Visitors at meetings: $7.00

***

The James Joyce Society
invites you to celebrate the publication of
Edmund Lloyd Epstein's
A Guide Through Finnegans Wake.

Hear "Clearing the Brush:
Working Your Way
Through Finnegans Wake"
by Professor Edmund Lloyd Epstein
of Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center

Friday Oct. 23 at 6:00 pm
at Glucksman Ireland House. NYU
New York University, 1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between Washington Square North and 8th Street)

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com

Yearly Membership: $20.00
Visitors at meetings: $5.00

Back to Top	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010
2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001

***

The James Joyce Society
invites you to hear

Ulysses on Canvas:
An Artist's Perepective
by
Michael Grossman
Artist, Munich, Germany
and
A Selection from Joyce
Read by Simon Loekle
Tyler, James Joyce Society

Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 6:00 pm

at Glucksman Ireland House
New York University, 1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between Washington Square North and 8th Street)

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com

Yearly Membership: $20.00
Visitors at meetings: $5.00

***

The James Joyce Society
invites you to hear

Jay A. Gertzman
Professor Emeritus
Mansfield University

James Joyce's International Protest
against Samuel Roth
and Roth's Subseuent Career
as Pariah Capitalist and
First Amendment Hero

A Prose Selection from Joyce
Simon Loekle, Tyler, James Joyce Society

On Wednesday. 6 May 2009
6:00 pm at Glucksman Ireland House
New York University, 1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between Washington Square North and 8th Street)

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com

Yearly Membership: $20.00
Visitors at meetings: $5.00

***

The James Joyce Society
invites you to join the
Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of
The American Publication of Ulysses

Paul Saint-Amour
Associate Professor of English
University of Pennsylvania on
Obscenity, Copyright, and the 1922 Ulysses

and

Sebastian D. G. Knowles Professor of English
The Ohio State University
and General Editor, James Joyce Series
University Press of Florida on
Why I Love the ‘34”

also

Simon Lockle, Tyler
will read
Joyce‘s Letter to Bennett Cerf

Monday, February 2, 2009
(Joyce’s birthday)
6:30 pm at the Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue at 47th Street
New York City

Google Maps Live Link to 501 Lexington Ave.

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com
Yearly Membership: $20.00
Visitors at meetings: $5.00

***

Back to Top	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010
2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001

The James Joyce Society
invites you to hear

Shelly Brivic
Professor of English
Temple Univ, Philadelphia:
Stephen Dedalus Gets Changed:
Maternal Cleansing in Joyce's Novels

Open Discussion: Stephen in Paris
Facilitated by Heyward Ehrlich
(handouts provided)

Thursday, 2 October 2008, 6:00pm sharp
Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue at 47th street, NYC

Google Maps Live Link to 501 Lexington Ave.

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com
Yearly Membership: $20.00
Visitors at meetings: $5.00

***

The James Joyce Society
invites you to hear

Faith Steinberg
Independent Scholar
"Joyce Illustrates Finnegans Wake (verbally)
and HCE Goes Tomb Hopping"
(Please bring your copy of Finnegans Wake.)

and

A Post-Bloomsday Celebration
A Reading from Hades: Ulysses6.385-431
by Simon Loekle, Tyler, James Joyce Society
(Copies of this passage will be available at our meeting.)
Open Discussion Facilitated by Nicholas Fargnoli
to Follow the Reading

Wednesday, 16 July 2008, 6:00pm sharp
at Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, 1 Washington Mews
(5th Avenue between Washington Square North and 8th Street)

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com

Yearly Membership: $20.00
Visitors at meetings: $5.00

***

The James Joyce Society
invites you to hear

Jesse Meyers
Independent Scholar
James Joyce's Rhymes
Joyce's Poetical Works
6:00 pm, Wed., Febuary 6, 2008
Glucksman Ireland House
1 Washington Mews
New York University
Off 5th Avenue
bet. Wash. Sq. N. & 8th St
5th Avenue between
Washington Square North and 8th Street

Google Maps Live Link to 1 Washington Mews

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich Vice President & Webmaster
Yearly Membership: $20.00
Visitors at meetings: $5.00
Simon Loekle, Tyler
Please visit our website: joycesociety.org

Back to Top	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010
2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001

The James Joyce Society invites you to join

The James Joyce Reading Group

Please note a new meeting place and schedules beginning December 14, 2006.

A special announcment from Susan Bonhomme for the James Joyce Reading Group:

Please reply to susanbonhomme@gmail.com.

Beginning on Thursday, December 14th.2006
the James Joyce Discussion Group will meet at
the Mercantile Library, 17 West 47th Street
on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 6:00 pm.

Attending the meetings of the group effective December 2006
requires Membership in the Mercantile Library.
Here are the rates for members of the James Joyce Society:

Individual- $125
Student/ Senior- $110
Regular Household- $180
Senior Household- $165
Proust Society level members - $30

The revised meeting schedule
for June 2007 through March 2008:

2007: Ulysses, Part II. cont.
June 14 - Episode 9. Scylla & Charybdis
July 12 - Episode 10. The Wandering Rocks
August 9 - Episode 11. Sirens
September 13 - Episode 12. Cyclops
October 11 - Episode 13. Nausicaa
November 8 - Episode 14. Oxen of the Sun
December 13- Episode 15. Circe

2008: Ulysses, Part III. The Homecoming
January 10 - Episode 16. Eumaeus
February 14 - Episode 17. Ithaca
March 13- Episode 18. Penelope

Starting in January 2006, we proceeded slowly through Dubliners, A Portrait of Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses, 27 months in all. Those who wish to continue on to Finnegans Wake may join the on-going Wake group. The leadership of each meeting will be rotated among volunteers.
We will ask that participants join the James Joyce Society at $20 per year and, starting in December 2006, join the Mercantile Library as well -- please see rates above.
We're looking forward to having great fun, in the words of Nicholas Fargnoli, President of the James Joyce Society, "reading through Joyce's verbal chaosmos."

John McCourt's 2007 Trieste Joyce School
Dear friends and colleagues,

I write to let you know that the 11th Annual Trieste Joyce School will take place from 1-7 July 2007 at the University of Trieste.
This promises to be one of the biggest and most exciting Joyce Schools to date. Morning lectures will be followed by afternoon seminars (on genetic Joyce, Joyce and contemporary Irish poetry, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake) and by a busy social and cultural programme in the evenings.
A variety of full and partial scholarships are available.
For further information contact John McCourt at mccourt@units.it or visit our newly updated site: http//www.univ.trieste.it/nirdange/school/index.html
Guest speakers include:
Marissa Aixas (University of Barcelona)
John Bishop (University of Berkeley)
Claudia Cortin (Università di Firenze)
Renzo S. Crivelli (Università di Trieste)
Sabrina D'Alessandro (Università degli Studi di Napoli)
Jed Deppmann (Oberlin College)
Anthony Downey (London)
Ron Ewart (Zurich James Joyce Foundation)
Adrian Hardiman (Dublin)
Terence Killeen (Dublin)
John McCourt (Università di Roma, Tre)
Brenda Maddox (London)
Tim Martin (Rutgers University)
Patrick O'Neill (Queen's University, Canada)
Laura Pelaschiar (Università di Trieste)
Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania)
Fritz Senn (Zurich James Joyce Foundation)
David Spurr (University of Geneva)

I would be most grateful if you could circulate this information to those you think might be interested. With best wishes and thanks,

John McCourt

***

The James Joyce Society
invites you to hear

Heyward Ehrlich
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

Ulysses and Early Irish Film
Cinema in Dublin before Joyce's Volta

6:00 pm, Wed., Oct. 10, 2007
Glucksman Ireland House
1 Washington Mews
New York University
5th Avenue between
Washington Square North and 8th Street

Google Maps Live Link to 1 Washington Mews

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich Vice President & Webmaster
Yearly Membership: $20.00
Visitors at meetings: $5.00
Simon Loekle, Tyler
Please visit our website: joycesociety.org

In The Room With Molly Bloom

(xxxcerpts from James Joyce's Ulysses)
Equity Showcase
with kate mueth

June 25th and 26th, 2007
8:00 pm
manhattan theatre source
177 macdougal street
NYC

Tickets $15
Reservations: 212-501-4751
For Industry Tix Please Call
212-696-8998

Save The Date!

The James Joyce Society presents

PHILATELIC JOYCE
by
SEBASTIAN D. G. KNOWLES

Professor of English, Ohio State University
General Editor, University Press of Florida,James Joyce Series

Friday, April 27, 2007, 6:00pm

Please Note Location Glucksman Ireland House New York University 1 Washington Mews - Fifth Avenue (between Washington Square N. and 8th St.) New York, NY 10003

The James Joyce Society
and
The W. B. Yeats Society of New York
Jointly Present

Yeats, Joyce, and Modernism
by
Richard Atnally
Retired Professor
Yale University and The New School

Friday, 30 March 2007,6:00pm
National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South New York, NY 10003
(E 20th St between Park Ave South and 3rd Ave)

This event is free for members of the James Joyce Society
and will be followed by a dinner with the speaker in the
National Arts Club's elegant dining room.

The cost of the dinner is $45 per person.
Please send your check payable to the W. B. Yeats Society of NY,
c/o the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003,
by March 26th.

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich Vice President & Webmaster
Yearly Membership: $20.00
Visitors at meetings: $5.00
Simon Loekle, Tyler
Please visit our website: joycesociety.org

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Heyward Ehrlich Vice President & Webmaster
Yearly Membership: $20.00
Visitors at meetings: $5.00
Simon Loekle, Tyler
Please visit our website: joycesociety.org

PJM PRODUCTIONS
presents

L O V E R T O L O V E R
A dramatization of the song cycle, CHAMBER MUSIC based on the poems of
J A M E S J O Y C E
March 17-25 at
RIVERDALE-YONKERS SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL CULTURE
Music - ALFRED HELLER
Text - ALFRED HELLER, SUE LAWLESS and JAMES JOYCE
With CHRIS DONOVAN*
ELIZABETH JILKA
JAY OLIVA
KATIE ZAFFRANN

Directed by
PATRICK MAHONEY
Pianist
ALFRED HELLER

Record Reviews of Chamber Music as a song cycle
"Heller's setting is brilliant. " Fanfare Magazine Jan/Feb 2000
"Your setting of Chamber Music is nothing less than extraordinary in its vast diversity and consistent excellence." Pulitzer Prize winner, Donald Martino - January 17, 2001
"Irish traditional, music-hall balladry and opera, all blended together seamlessly by Heller's melodic gift." Alan Ruch, The Brazenhead
"Excellent" A Nicholas Fargnoli, President of the James Joyce Society.

SATURDAY - MARCH 17 8:00PM
SUNDAY - MARCH 18, 5:00PM
SATURDAY - MARCH 24 - 8:00PM
SUNDAY - March 25 - 6:30PM

GENERAL ADMISSION $25
SENIORS and STUDENTS $15

Free parking lot across the street

FOR INFORMATION AND TICKETS,
PLEASE CALL (347) 275-8527 OR SEND CHECKS TO:
PJM Productions
c/o Patrick Mahoney
3572 DeKalb Ave #2F
Bronx, NY 10467

Telephone: (347) 275-8527
Email: Lover2Loverplay@aol.com
*courtesy of Actors Equity Association

THE JAMES JOYCE SOCIETY
invites you to the
Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue at 47th Street
New York, NY 10017
(The room location will be posted in the lobby.)

Joycean Vulgarities
by
Timothy Martin
Associate Professor and Chair of English
Rutgers University, Camden, NJ

6:00pm, February 6, 2007

and
A Passage from Ulysses
Read by
Simon Loekle
Tylor, James Joyce Society

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President: afargnoli@molloy.edu
Email: info@joycesociety.org
Website: http://joycesociety.org
Webmaster: info@heywardehrlich.com

The Joyce Reading Group invites all James Joyce Society Members to attend the next meeting for a discussion of Ulysses, Chapter Two

Monday, November 20th at 6:30 pm (not Tuesday!)

at the Thalia Studio (enter on 95th Street) at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street

Getting to Symphony Space: located on the southwest corner of 95th St and Broadway -- The Thalia Studio is around the corner on 95th St

By Subway:
The 1,2,or 3 subway to the 96th St Station and walk one block on Broadway.
The B and C subway trains, to 96th Street and Central Park West.

By Bus:
On the west side take the M104 up or downtown on Broadway. You can also take the M7 and M11 uptown on Amsterdam and downtown on Columbus Avenues. From the east side take the 96th Street Crosstown (M96 or M106) to Broadway and walk one block south.

Newcomers are welcome.

Back to Top	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010
2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001

The James Joyce Society.
invites you to hear
Damian Hey
Professor of English, Molloy College, on

Joyce Beckett

Wed., Oct 18, 2006, at 6:00pm
at the
Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue
at 47th Street
New York City

Simon Lockle, Tyler, will report on
2006 James Joyce Symposium in Budapest

PLEASE NOTE ADDRESS CHANGE FOR OCT. 18 MEETING
The Gotham being unavailable, we have changed this meeting venue to the Roger Smith Hotel, 501 Lexingon Ave at 47th St.

An invitation from Jesse Meyers, a member of the James Joyce Society.

I am taking the liberty of calling your attention to an upcoming lecture and rare book exhibition at NYU. On Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006, I will be delivering a presentation on:

The Three Trials of James Joyce

The lecture will deal with Joyce's role in the continuing debate over literary freedom. Issues concerning Dubliners, Ulysses and the biography of Joyce's daughter Lucia will be examined. Following the presentation there will be a reception and the opening of a display featuring several rare Joyce editions and some interesting Joycean ephemera.

The events will be held at: The Fales Library of New York University on Sept. 28, 2006, at 6:30 p.m. The Fales Library -- which houses the University's rare books and special collections -- is located on the 3rd floor of NYU's Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, just below Washington Square Park. It is easily accessible by subway from NYC's east or west sides.

If you are interested in attending this free presentation and exhibition, kindly RSVP to NYU at: (212) 992 9018.

The James Joyce Society

Post-Bloomsday Celebration
Open Discussion
of the Calypso Episode
Chapter 4 of Ulysses

Introduced and Facilitated
by
Nicholas Fargnoli

The Calypso episode of Ulysses immediately catches the imagination of readers with its description of Leopold Bloom's gustatory preferences, and many readers think that it is the most interesting episode in Ulysses. It is where we first meet Bloom and Molly and learn of their characters, their mental preoccupations, and their unusual marriage. Some readers point to the extraordinary richness of multiple mythologies that appear together in one scene, with Penelope as Molly in the bed, Calypso as the Nymph in the photograph over the bed, and Circe as the circus book under the bed. Against this already charged background, Bloom and Molly discuss metamorphosis and metempsychosis, two of the major themes and techniques of Ulysses.

Bring a copy of Ulysses along with your insights, questions, and comments.

Monday 19 June 2006 6:00 pm
The Gotham Book Mart
16 East 46th Street
New York, NY 10017

A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Yearly Membership: $20.00
Visitors at meetings: $5.00

Heyward Ehrlich
Vice President & Webmaster

Simon Loekle, Tyler

Please visit our website: joycesociety.org

The James Joyce Society
presents
John McCourt
Director of the Trieste Joyce School
University of Trieste
on
"James Joyce and Irish Catholicism"
and
Simon Loekle
reading
"The Cat and the Devil"

Tuesday, April 25 at 6:30 pm
at the Gotham Book Mart
16 East 46th Street
New York City

The Mercantile Library announces
A Screening of John Huston's The Dead

6:00 pm on May 11, 2006
17 East 47th Street, NYC

Reserve tickets ($5)
by phone: (212) 755-6710
or e-mail: info@mercantilelibrary.org.

There will be a screening of John Huston's brilliant movie, "The Dead" based on the James Joyce short story of the same name. The screening will take place on May 11th at the Mercantile Library, 17 East 47th Street, at 6 p.m. Tickets are $5. Because seating is limited we ask that you reserve: either by phone- 212.755.6710 or by e-mail at info@mercantilelibrary.org.

A discussion, led by Cynthia Kraman and Andrea Simon, will follow the screening. Cynthia, leader of the James Joyce at the Gotham April 18th discussion of the last four stories in the Dubliners, is also author of three collections of poetry, playwright, essayist, punk rocker, professor of literature and is currently publishing on Chaucer and the Pearl-poet. In addition, she is a forthcoming contributor to a volume on Emmanuel Levinas and Medieval Thought and was recently interviewed on "The Bard's Eye-View" on the radio station WMAC.

Andrea Simon has made over 25 films almost all of which were shown on PBS. Many of Andrea's films were made for museums here and abroad. Many of us were fortunate to see La Juive on Genevieve Straus at another screening graciously hosted by the Merc. Andrea's music films include Destination Mozart: A Night at the Opera with Peter Sellars and Libero Canto: Voice is Breath. One of her favorite films, Talk to Me: Americans in Conversation, is about what it means to be an American, how we reconcile and integrate our individual and national identities, and destinies. Recipient of many awards, Andrea suggested that "since this is an audience of fanatics" I mention that "I always been fascinated by the inner life of the obsessive readers, of which I am one, and am slowly edging closer to putting it all on film."

We're looking forward to a wonderful evening enjoying the only instance of a magnificent movie based on a literary masterpiece.

The James Joyce Society presents
John Gordon
Professor of English of Connecticut College
on "'Aeolus' to 'Circe': A Walkabout Talkabout"
on Monday, March 20, 2006 at 6:30 pm
at the Gotham Book Mart
16 East 46th Street
New York City

The Miami Joyce Conference
returns to Coral Gables, Florida, February 2-4, 2006!

The conference will feature academic papers related to all aspects of Joyce's work. Organizers are particularly interested in talks/panels that comment on current directions of Ulysses criticism. However, any proposal dealing with Joyce's writing will be considered for inclusion on the program. Among the non-academic events will be an opening reception, concluding banquet, and scintillating poolside critiques of all events.

For full information on registration and accommodations check the website: . http://www.as.miami.edu/english/jjls/jjls.htm

For inquiries about the academic program or to submit a proposal for a panel or a paper, contact Michael Patrick Gillespie at michael.gillespie@mu.edu The deadline for proposals is 25 November 2005.

This is 2005	2006	2004	2003	2002	2001	Return to top

THE JAMES JOYCE SOCIETY
invites you hear
Roger Dupre, Professor of English, Molloy College:
"Reflections On the Synge-Joyce-Hemingway Connection:
Riders to the Sea, Dubliners,In Our Time"
7:00 pm, Tues. 31 Jan.
at the Gotham Book Mart, 16 E. 46th Street, NYC>

The James Joyce Society
invites you to hear
Sid Feshbach speak on
"Contra Kenner: Not a Eulogy"
on Tues. Sept 27 at 6:30 pm
at the Gotham Book Mart
now located at
16 E. 46th St., New York
New York, NY 10017

The Gotham Book Mart has moved to a new location!
1 6 E a s t 4 6 t h S t

THE JAMES JOYCE SOCIETY

invites you to hear
Hermes in "Aeolus": A Rubric for Ulysses
or
Messenger, Moly, and O'Molloy --
Macintosh, Turgenev and Joyce
by
Jayne Blankenship
Independent Scholar and Author

(to follow, bring along the Gabler text of Ulysses)

Wednesday, May 4, 2005, 6:00pm
The Gotham Book Mart
16 East 46th Street
New York, NY 10017

Myra Russel, 84

Obituary in The New York Times. Saturday, Sept. 10, 2005

Myra Russel, 84

Obituary in The New York Times. Saturday, Sept. 10, 2005

RUSSEL -- Myra Teicher. Died September 7^th of a heart attack. She was two months shy of her 85^th birthday. She is survived by her three children, Marjorie, David and Donny, their spouses, Peter, Luba and Kelko, six grandchildren to whom she was utterly devoted, Alexander, Byron, Constantine, Emily, Kevin and Sascha, and her brother Henry and sister-in-law Anne Teicher. Myra lived several lives, all with great intelligence and gusto.She was a lifelong socialist, a machinist during WW II, a loving wife and mother, a college professor, an author and scholar. After her children were grown, she earned an MA at Sarah Lawrence College, then taught literature at Elizabeth Seton College in Yonkers for many years. In retirement, she taught retired NY Public School teachers, selecting a fresh set of books to discuss each year. Her professional specialty was music written to the poems of James Joyce.In her 70’s she rediscovered and published a book of Jeffrey Molyneux Palmer’s song settings to “Chamber Music,” and she introduced the songs to musicians who performed and recorded them. Myra wrote many scholarly articles, and she attended and presented her work at various James Joyce symposia here and in Europe, most recently this past Bloomsday. She will be missed by her family and friends. Contributions in her name can be made to the International Rescue Committee. A memorial service will be held.

Bibliography of Myra Russel's printed works:

“Shades of Joyce,” JJQ Spring 2002, 39:413-17

“Chamber Music: Words and Music Lovingly Coupled,” in Sebastian Knowles, ed, Bronze By Gold (New York: Garland, 1999)

Reviews, JJQ, Fall 96/winter 97 34:177

Chamber Music: the Lost Song Settings (Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1993). Musical settings by G. Molyneux Palmer ; foreword by Harry Levin ; musical foreword by Robert White; edited and with an introduction by Myra Teicher Russel. Accompanied by an audio cassette of the songs by Robert White, tenor, and Samuel Sanders, piano.

“The Elizabethan Connection: The missing Score of James Joyce’s Chamber Music” JJQ Winter 1981 18:13-45

The Gotham Book Mart has moved to a new location!
1 6 E a s t 4 6 t h S t

THE JAMES JOYCE SOCIETY

invites you to hear
Robert J. Seidman
"The Best Novel of the 20th Century: James Joyce's Ulysses"
on Wednesday, 15 June 2005, 6:00 pm
at the Gotham Book Mart, now located
at 16 E. 46th St., New York City

The Gotham Book Mart has moved to a new location!
1 6 E a s t 4 6 t h S t

THE JAMES JOYCE SOCIETY

invites you to hear
Hermes in "Aeolus": A Rubric for Ulysses
or
Messenger, Moly, and O'Molloy --
Macintosh, Turgenev and Joyce
by
Jayne Blankenship
Independent Scholar and Author

(to follow, bring along the Gabler text of Ulysses)

Wednesday, May 4, 2005, 6:00pm
The Gotham Book Mart
16 East 46th Street
New York, NY 10017

The Gotham Book Mart has moved to a new location!
1 6 E a s t 4 6 t h S t

THE JAMES JOYCE SOCIETY

invites you to its
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 meeting
at 16 E. 46th Street, NYC Patrick Reilly
Adjunct Professor, Fordham Univ.
"Seansong, or whatyoumacormack in Finnegans Wake " --
Wed. Feb 2, 6:00 pm

The meeting will start promptly at 6 p.m.

The Gotham Book Mart has moved to a new location!
1 6 E a s t 4 6 t h S t

This is 2004	2006	2005	2003	2002	2001	Return to top

The Gotham Book Mart has moved to a new location!
1 6 E a s t 4 6 t h S t

THE JAMES JOYCE SOCIETY
invites you to its
Wednesday, September 8, 2004 meeting
at 16 E. 46th Street, NYC

Michael Patrick Gillespie
JOYCE'S HUMANE COMEDY
Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English
Marquette University
and
VOICES FROM BLOOMSDAY 100
Two Reports on the James Joyce Symposium 2004
by Myra Russel, Author and Joyce Scholar
and Neil Hickey,
Editor-at-Large of the Columbia Journalism Review

The meeting will start promptly at 6 p.m.

The Gotham Book Mart has moved to a new location!
1 6 E a s t 4 6 t h S t

A Bloomsday 100 Calendar for 2004

THE JAMES JOYCE SOCIETY

invites you to its
Double/DOUBLE Bloomsday Meetings:
Monday, June 7, and Wednesday, June 9, 2004

First Meeting on Monday, June 7, 2004:

Joyce to the World
A Sneak Preview of an Irreverent Documentary Film about Ulysses and Bloomsday

Featuring Brian Dennehy, Fionnula Flanagan, Frank McCourt and Others

Directed by Fritzi Horstman and Written by Diana J. Wynne
For more information about the film see: joycetotheworld.com

Monday 7 June 2004 6:00 pm
Mercantile Library of New York 17 East 47th Street New York, NY 10017

Please note change of venue for this meeting.

Second Meeting on Wednesday, June 9, 2004:

Pre-Bloomsday Celebration With Fidelma Murphy
Reading Selections from "Ulysses"

Wednesday 9 June 2004 6:00 pm
The Gotham Book Mart 41 West 47th Street New York, NY 10036

O T H E R A N N O U N C E M E N T S :

A CALENDAR OF OTHER BLOOMSDAY EVENTS

MEDICINE SHOW PRESENTS A NEW FINNEGANS WAKE

Medicine Show presents "Finnegans Wake," a new work for the theatre created from the classic modernist novel by James Joyce. Performance run May 13-30, Thursday through Saturdays at 8 PM, Sundays at 7 PM. OBIE winning director Barbara Vann is directing and preparing the script. Tickets are $20, $15 for students, seniors and the unemployed. TDF accepted. Call (212) 262 4216 for information and reservations.

Joyce’s novel has been praised as both a comprehensive summa of twentieth-century culture and letters and as farce as delightful and entertaining as any round of earthy barroom jokes. Finnegans Wake is a boisterous, mind bending dream play damning and praising humankind and its attempts at civilization. Set in a Dublin pub the Finnegans Father, mother, two sons and daughter, along with the denizens of the pub, drink, dream, assume the roles of mythic and historical figures, love and fight and live and die and hope that their lifelong pathetic, comic and noble struggle will lead to some kind of spiritual rebirth. The piece is acted, chanted, sung, danced, stomped and howled. With its juxtaposition of the elevated and the vulgar, there’s lots of fun at Finnegans Wake. Medicine Show’s readings of the text last year made it clear that the text was always meant to be read out loud. Medicine Show is an award winning ensemble that has experimented with text, form, and non-conventional scripts for over thirty years.

There will be original and traditional music by composer/multi-instrumentalist Chris McGlumphy performed live on viol da gamba, flutes and drums, and Irish dancing by award-winning Irish dancer Colleen Quigley. The cast includes Yascha Bilan, Alexander Bilu, Mark Gering, Sarah Engelke, Timothy Reynolds, John McConnel, Richard de Domenico, Irene Califano, and Barbara Vann.

For more information, call Gary Heidt or Chris Brandt at (212) 262 4216.
Medicine Show
549 West 52nd 3rd floor
New York, NY 10019

The James Joyce Society invites you to attend a double bill

Michael Groden
Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario
The Adventures with "Ulysses"

and

Michael Barsanti
Associate Director of the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
Bringing Back Rosenbach: How the World's Greatest Book Dealer Became a Joycean Footnote

Thursday, 15 April 2004, 6:00 pm sharp
The Gotham Book Mart
41 West 47th Street
New York,. NY 10036

The James Joyce Society invites you to attend

Michael Murphy
Professor Emeritus, CCNY

The Man in the Gap:
The Critic in the Cavity

Monday, 2 February 2004, 6:00 pm
(Joyce's birthday)

The Gotham Book Mart
41 West 47th Street
New York,. NY 10036

This is 2003	2006	2005	2004	2002	2001	Return to top

The James Joyce Society invites you to attend

Michael F. Capobianco
Professor Emeritus
St. John's University, Staten Island, NY

Cabrera Infante and Joyce:
Word Magic in Tres Tristes Tigers
and Finnegans Wake

Thursday, 30 October 2003, 6:00 pm
The Gotham Book Mart
41 West 47th Street,New York NY 10036

The James Joyce Society invites you to attend

A Special Gallery Talk and Exhibit

Ear's Eye for James Joyce -- Paintings by Susan Weil
Introduction and Talk by David Weir
Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2003, Time: TBA

At the Sundaram Tagore Gallery, 137 Greene St.
between Houston and Prince Streets, SOHO, New York City

Susan Weil states, "I call my exhibit 'Ear's Eye for James Joyce.' I will be exhibiting paintings referring to Joyce and his writings. I have been making Joyce related work for eighteen years. This journey began with my working on a limited edition book with the publisher Vincent FitzGerald. In 1987 the first of our collaborations, was my illuminations for The Epiphanies. In 1989 I made images for another livre d'artiste, Giacomo Joyce and then in 1991, Brideship and Gulls. During this time I was studying and drawing to all the writings of Joyce. This led to studio work which was exhibited in Lund, Sweden in 1990 and Basel, Switzerland in 1996. The James Joyce Quarterly published an article about my work with Joyce and I also lectured about my work in 1989 at the Joyce symposium in Zurich.

My exhibit at Sundaram Tagore Gallery will show major paintings through all these years. There is a website about this work. The address is www.artnetweb.com/theorican/weil

Wed, June 11 -- Neil Hickey, Shades of Joyce, performance based on Flann O'Brien's Dalkey Archive June11
Sat, June 14 -- Bloomsday at Roger Smith Hotel, 47th St. and Lexington Avenue. New York June 14

Mon, June 16 -- Bloomsday on Broadway, Symphony Space, 95th and Broadway June 16

The James Joyce Society invites you to

A Very Special Pre-Bloomsday Event
On Wednesday, June 11, 6:00 pm
At the Gotham Book Mart
41 W. 47th St. New York City

Joyce and Flann O'Brien: The Comic Spirit

A premiere concert performance of a new comedy in four scenes
S h a d e s o f J o y c e
based on The Dalkey Archive by Flann O'Brien.

Produced by Fidelma Murphy

Written/adapted/directed by Neil Hickey

Flann O'Brien's satiric novel The Dalkey Archive, published in 1964, was the fifth of O'Brien's celebrated novels. One of its main characters is James Joyce. Joyce, in fact, was an admirer of O'Brien. He famously said that O'Brien was "a real writer, with the true comic spirit." O'Brien's deep-seated, wicked humor especially in his phantasmagoric first novel At-Swim- Two-Birds -- have moved many commentators to compare him to Joyce. In an essay about Joyce, O'Brien wrote: "Humor, the handmaiden of sorrow and fear, creeps out endlessly in all Joyce's works."

The concert performance of Shades of Joyce will feature six exceptional actors who are well-known for their work on Broadway and off-Broadway, as well as at the Irish Repertory Theatre, the Irish Arts Center, the Abbey Theatre, the Gate Theatre, and many regional theaters in the U.S: Jarlath Conroy, David Costello, Colin Lane, John Leighton, Brian Mallon, and Fidelma Murphy.

Neil Hickey is a faculty member at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and editor-at-large of the Columbia Journalism Review. He has been a member of the James Joyce Society for more than 30 years. As a journalist, he reported from Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Northern Ireland, Cuba, and elsewhere. He is the author of Adam Clayton Powell and the Politics of Race and other books and has been widely anthologized for his writings on the Information Age and telecommunications policy.

bloomsday at the roger smith hotel

first annual bloomsday bash at
the roger smith hotel on June 14

come and sample a little taste of dublin at the hotel that truly appreciates the art of food.

on saturday, june 14th, 2-6 p.m., the roger smith hotel will celebrate one of ireland’s most famous sons james joyce with an afternoon of irish music, food, readings from ulysses as well as special guests, conor o’ clery from the irish times speaking about joyce, the paper and dublin as well as alison armstrong author of ‘the joyce of cooking’- a must for all joycean bon-vivants!

this will be the Roger Smith's first bloomsday celebration but we hope the beginning of a tradition as well as the continuation of our commitment to creativity in all its forms. to reserve your place for this special event contact;

sonya sheils tel: (212 ) 755-1400
e-mail: artoffood@rogersmith.com
the roger smith hotel
501 lexington avenue at 47th street
new york, ny, 10017

there will be a $10 charge for all who R.S.V.P. in advance or $20 on door-this includes access to all events. There will be a cash bar.

Return to top

Sexy Molly Sings Joyce on June 16 at the 23rd annual "Bloomsday on Broadway"

Composer Victoria Bond will officially unveil her work "Molly ManyBloom" June 16 on her CD entitled "Yes" with a video display Patrick Burke.

The event begins at 7PM on June 16, 2003 with readings from "Ulysses" by well-known actors and takes place at Symphony Space, 95th Street and Broadway, New York, NY.

Although James Joyce was an accomplished tenor, coming in second only to the legendary John McCormack in a vocal competition, and although Molly Bloom, the leading lady in his epic "Ulysses" is an opera singer, she rarely gets the chance to sing her ribald text. All that will change with the release of a new CD on Albany Records. Composer Victoria Bond has given Molly music that the New York Times described as "powerful, stylistically varied and technically demanding".

The CD, entitled "Yes" features Metropolitan Opera soprano Carol Meyer, violinists Shem Guibbory and Renee Jolles, violist Ronald Carbone and cellist Maxine Neumann performing "Molly ManyBloom" . Also on the CD is "A Modest Proposal" based on the outrageous essay by another famous Irish writer, Jonathan Swift, with contemporary music specialist tenor Paul Sperry singing the satiric text, accompanied by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony conducted by Victoria Bond.

On June 16th, the date that "Ulysses" takes place, Symphony Space celebrates the 23rd annual "Bloomsday on Broadway" and "Molly ManyBloom" will be officially unveiled with a CD signing by Victoria Bond and a

"Yes", The Music of Victoria Bond (TROY578) is available after June 1 at: www.albanyrecords.com, fine record stores or from Albany Music Distributors, 915 Broadway, Albany, NY 12207, tel: 1-800-752-1951; fax: 1-800-752-1954.

John McCourt announces Seventh Annual Trieste Joyce School 29 June - 5 July 2003

Just to let you know that the Seventh Annual Trieste Joyce School will take place from 29 June to 5 July 2003.

All information is available on our website
http://www.univ.trieste.it/~nirdange/school/

Speakers include John Banville, Renzo Crivelli, Ron Ewart, Deirdre Flynn, Andrew Gibson, Eamonn Hughes, Garry Leonard, John McCourt, Brian Moloney, Emer Nolan, Paul O'Hanrahan, Gerard Parks, Caroline Patey, Laura Pelaschiar, Danis Rose, Fritz Senn, Erik Schneider.

Best wishes
John McCourt

Please spread the news to friends and colleagues and note that several scholarships are available.

Mabou Mines presents CARA LUCIA
The WORLD PREMIERE will take place at the HERE Arts Center (145 Sixth Avenue) with previews starting April 15, 2003 and opening Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 8:30 PM.

CARA LUCIA, Mabou Mines newest work, centers on the life and death of James Joyce's only daughter Lucia. As a young woman in Paris during the 1920's she danced, painted illuminated letters for her father's books, and fell in love with Samuel Beckett and Alexander Calder. By 1932, however, Lucia's behavior had become strange and erratic. She eventually found herself in a mental hospital where she would live for the next forty-seven years. James Joyce believed she was the natural inheritor of his genius.

As a theatrical ode, CARA LUCIA navigates Lucia's final journey through her imagined afterlife facing her tumultuous past and her legacy as a literary reflection in her father's final work Finnegans Wake.

Sharon Fogarty, the Director and co-writer of CARA LUCIA, has been the co-artistic director of Mabou Mines since 1999. Prior to her post with Mabou Mines, she served as artistic director of New York City-based Daedalus Theater Company from 1997-1999. Sharon has produced many of Mabou Mines' productions over the past five years including tours of the company to Russia, Korea and Brazil.

CARA LUCIA stars four-time OBIE winner Ruth Maleczech (founding member and co-artistic director of Mabou Mines) as Old Lucia, Rosemary Fine and Clove Galilee as Young Lucia.

OBIE award-winning Julie Archer is credited with the production design. Jim Clayburgh will design the set and lighting. The choreography will be by J'aime Morrison with original music composed by Carter Burwell (Gods and Monster, Velvet Goldmine, all of Spike Jones' and Cohen brother's films.)

Performance Schedule: April 15 - May 11: Tuesday - Saturday at 8:30 PM and Sundays at 4 PM at the HERE Arts Center (145 Sixth Ave. between Spring and Broome).

All Tickets are $25.00. Tickets will be available from TicketWeb or by calling the HERE box office at 212.647.0202.

Mabou Mines is a collaborative theater company founded in 1970 and based in NYC. Alone from all American acting ensembles, Mabou Mines bridged the gap between theater and art, taking as its first principle the idea that life is performance - that the study and practice of one is the study and practice of the other.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
Myra Russel presents a new talk introducing
Renowned tenor Robert White and pianist Stephen Gosling in
The Chamber Music poems of James Joyce:
A New Look at Settings by Many Composers
Lincoln Center Music Library Auditorium
New York City
(Old date Thurs, Dec. 5, 2002, 6 pm, cancelled/snow)
NEW DATE: 6 P.M on THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2003
Admission: free.
Entrance: Front: Music Library between Opera House & Theatre
Or rear: from Amsterdam Ave., south of W. 65th Street

MICHAEL J. O'SHEA:
"Le Petomane, Elvis and
Other Unexpected Guests at Joyce's Wake"
Wednesday, 5 February 2003 at 6:00 pm

Michael J. O'Shea, Ph. D. is Visiting Professor
of English at Drexel University
He is the editor of Studies in Short Fiction
and is a Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation

The James Joyce Society
At The Gotham Book Mart
41 West 47th Street
New York, NY 10036

This is 2002	2006	2005	2004	2003	2001	Return to top

Friday, November 22, 2002, 6 p.m.
Cóilín Owens
George Mason UIniversity

"The Odour of Corruption: A Theological Reading of 'The Sisters'"

he death of his intellectual and spiritual mentor provokes a crisis of faith in the boy-narrator. The language and structure of the story reveal its Gnostic premises. The priest is a pneumatic, his sisters hylics. Its conclusion: the psychic boy becomes agnostic.

When Joyce wrote to Grant Richards that "people might be willing to pay for the special odour of corruption which, I hope, floats over my stories" (Oct 15, 1905), he was not making reference either to Dublin’s garbage or political chicanery. Rather, he was coining a phrase drawn from the theological lexicon of his time ("the odour of sanctity" and "the corruption of the flesh"), by which he indicated his purpose was to reveal the phenomena of original sin. For all the critical attention these stories have received, these implications have been largely ignored, especially in recent readings of Dubliners. Read in the light of the Christian understanding of grace shaped by the language of Saints Paul and Augustine--"The Sisters" presents us with a priest who has fallen into Quietism, a latter-day version of Gnosticism, the first major heresy in the history of the Church. A close examination of the text of "The Sisters" shows it to be structurally and thematically informed by the idea of knowledge proposed by the Gnostics, a notion that divided humanity into three parties: the pneumatics, the psychics, and the hylics: those who lived by the spirit, the rational mind, and the flesh, respectively. The boy’s fascination with the terms simony, gnomon, and paralysis in the opening paragraph implies these correspondences, and the body of the story develops their implications. These terms correspond, in turn, with the three procedures by which the narrator attempts to comprehend the physical death of his spiritual and intellectual mentor: through dreams, rational analysis, face to face, and finally through silent mediation. The issues in the story are therefore the relationships between soul, mind, and body, and the modes of knowledge appropriate to each. By comparing his memories and fantasies about Fr Flynn with the overheard conversations between his relicts, the boy moves from a fascination with the Christian promise of eternal perfection, to a radical skepticism about all forms of human knowing. As a disciple of Fr Flynn, therefore, he moves from a fascination with latter-day Gnosticism to modern agnosticism. This reading helps us to gloss an epiphany that Joyce reported to Stanislaus from Trieste: "While I was attending the Greek mass here last Sunday, it seemed to me that my story ‘The Sisters’ was rather remarkable" (February 28, 1905). The development of the implications of this reading of "The Sisters" for the general design of Dubliners and Portrait is the subject of a book in progress.

Cóilín Owens was born in Ireland. Educated by his parents, the Cistercian monks at Roscrea, Notre Dame and University College, Dublin, he studied Joyce with Bernard Benstock at Kent State. He has been teaching at George Mason since 1976, and has published widely on Irish drama, literature, and language. Among his publications are Family Chronicles: Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent (1987), Irish Drama 1900-1990 (1990), and Irish/Gaeilge (1994), and numerous essays on Joyce that have appeared in Eire-Ireland, The James Joyce Quarterly, and The Irish University Review. A longtime member of the James Joyce Foundation, he has been an officer on the national committee of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Over the past 25 years he has been active in the affairs of the Irish American Cultural Institute and the Gaelic League in the Washington area. He lives in Mount Vernon, Virginia, with his wife, Julianne Mahler, and sons Seamus and Conor.

Friday, 25 October, 6:00 pm
Michael Groden, University of Western Ontario
New Joyce Manuscripts at the National Library of Ireland

"The New Joyce Manuscripts at the National Library of Ireland," or "25 New Joyce Manuscripts! Hear All About It: A Report for Non-Specialists"

In May 2002 the National Library of Ireland announced that it had purchased 25 previously unknown Joyce manuscripts for about $12 million (US). These documents, a couple of early notebooks, some typescript and proof pages for Finnegans Wake, but mostly early notes and drafts for Ulysses, which will greatly enrich our knowledge of Joyce's creation of his works. Michael Groden, who examined the papers for the National Library as it was considering purchasing the collection, will talk about the manuscripts and their significance.

Michael Groden is Professor of English, University of Western Ontario. He is also instructor of an annual course, "Reading Ulysses" each spring at the 92nd Street Y. In addition, he did manuscript work on Joyce: "Ulysses" in Progress" (1977), general editor of The James Joyce Archive and editor of the 16 Ulysses volumes (1977-79). He was consultant to the National Library of Ireland on its purchase of these newly discovered Joyce manuscripts, and currently he is co-editor of Digital "Ulysses": Ulysses in Dublin | Dublin in Ulysses 1904-2004: An Annotated Hypertext and Manuscript Archive: "

His web pages are http://publish.uwo.ca/~mgroden/ and http://publish.uwo.ca/~mgroden/ulysses/. Friday, October 4, 6:00 pm

Chris Lombardi,
"Notes from a blue:season:
A novelist falls in love with Lucia Joyce."

"Diaphanous L & Bab working at c&d."

A journey in researching and writing
a narrative of Joyce's daughter --
from Ellmann's biography
to immersion in Lucia's hospital journals
to squinting at the Buffalo notebooks
to volunteering at a psychiatric hospital.

Chris Lombardi studied Joyce with Suzette Henke and
Barry Wallenstein. She writes for the "Village Voice,"
"The Nation," "Women's Enews," and "American Book Review."

Her novel "The Suicide Project" was a finalist for
Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize. She is currently
working on a novel based on the life of
Jehanne Darc (Joan of Arc).

Tues., 11 June 2002, 5:30 pm
Nora: the Film
The Donnell Library Center
2nd floor conference room
20 West 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019

Tues. 20 August 2002 (6:00 pm)
Apocalyptic Catallactics: The Political Economy in Ulysses' Oxen
Ian Kennedy White, Professor of English, Bradford University, UK

Fri., 3 May 2002, 6:00 pm
A Little Snob: Pretension and Failure in Ulysses
Sean Latham, Editor, James Joyce Quarterly

Fri., 12 Apr. 2002, 7:30 pm:
Theoretical Bloom: Cloacal Aesthetics
` Bowen, Professor of English, University of Miami
(Past President of The James Joyce Society)

Wednesday, 20 February 2002 7:00 pm

Heyward Ehrlich
Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University in Newark, NJ
Rewriting Homer Through Celtic Myth: "Matriarchy v. Patriarchy" in Joyce's Ulysses

and

In preparation for an open discussion
Simon Loekle
will read the water catalogue from Ithaca (U 17:185-228, Gabler edition)
in observance of the final days of Aquarius: The Water Carrier (Jan 20 - Feb 18)

Friday, April 12, 2002, 7:30 pm

Zack Bowen
Professor of English, University of Miami
(Past President of The James Joyce Society)
Theoretical Bloom: Cloacal Aesthetics

and

Poet Michael Graves
Reading from a Selection of His Joycean Poems

Friday, 3 May 2002, 6:00 pm
Sean Latham, Editor, James Joyce Quarterly
A Little Snob: Pretension and Failure in Ulysses

and

The Ending of "Araby"
Discussion led by Heyward Ehrlich

The James Joyce Society
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, President
Simon Loekle, Tyler
Yearly membership: $20.00
Visitors at meetings: $5.00

The James Joyce Society Bloomsday Celebration 2002
By permission of Pat Murphy of Metropolitan Films
presented a special screening of
Nora
Tues., 11 June 2002 -- 5:30 pm
The Donnell Library Center
2nd floor conference room
20 West 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019

Limited admission:
nora@joycesociety.org


Filmboard (Click for credits)	Preview (Click and scroll down)	Boston Irish Film Festival (Click and scroll down)

Review: Variety

Video and VHS:

The announcement: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/31/movies/31VIDA.html
(Scroll down to "Straight to Video")
Quotes author Brenda Maddox. First Look. $89.95; DVD, $24.98. 106 minutes.
Video reviews and advertising http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Nora-1113625/reviews.php
(URL posted by Robert Braham on alt.books.james-joyce)
Official Nora Film Web site http://www.noramovie.com
Site no longer available

World Bloomsday Calendar 2002:

http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/ulysses/bloomsday.html
Bloomsday on Broadway 2002, NYC

http://www.symphonyspace.org/genres/seriesPage.php?genreId=4&seriesId=18

This is 2001	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	Return to top

14 Nov. 2001
What's In A Marriage? Textual Privacy In Homer's Odyssey and Joyce's Ulysses
by Keri Ames, University of Chicago

10 Oct. 2001
Sketching Vladimir's Voice: Prologue to "Dear Mister Germ's Choice"
Reminiscences on Vladimir Dixon (1900-1929) by John Dixon

Sat., 16 June 2001 -- Bloomsday, 2001
At Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street
Part of Bloomsday On Broadway: Readings from James Joyce's Ulysses

Wednesday 14 November 2001 7:30 pm
The Gotham Book Mart
41 West 47th Street
New York, NY 10036

What's In A Marriage?
Textual Privacy
In Homer's Odyssey and Joyce's Ulysses
by Keri Ames
Doctoral Candidate at the University of Chicago

and

Murray J. Gross, President of the Finnegans Wake Society of N.Y., will lead a discussion of the following
paragraph from page 3 lines 4-14-the second and third sentences of Finnegans Wake.

(For your convenience a copy of FW 3:4-14 along with a relevant
passage from one of Joyce's letters to Harriet Shaw Weaver follows.)

Dear Madam:
Above please find prosepiece ordered in sample form. Also key to same.
Hoping said sample meets with your approval
yrs trly
Jeems Joker

    Sir Amory Tristram 1st earl of Howth changed his name to Saint Lawrence, b in Brittany (North Armorica)
    Tristan et Iseult, passim
    viola in all moods and senses
    Dublin, Laurens Co, Georgia, founded by a Dubliner, Peter Sawyer, on r. Oconee. Its motto: Doubling all the time.
    The flame of Christianity kindled by S. Patrick on Holy Saturday in defiance of royal orders
    Mishe=I am (Irish) i.e. Christian
    Tauf=baptise (German)
    Thou art Peter and upon this rock etc (a pun in the original Aramaic)
    Lat: Tu es Petrus et super hane petram
    Parnell ousted Isaac Butt from leadership
    The venison purveyor Jacob got the blessing meant for Esau
    Miss Vanhomrigh and Miss Johnson had the same christian name
    Sosie=double
    Willy brewed a peck of maut
    Noah planted the vine and was drunk
    John Jameson      is the greatest Dublin distiller
    Arthur Guinness, "   "       "          "       brewer
    Arthur Wellesley (of Dublin) fought in the Peninsular war
    rory=Irish=red
    rory=Latin, roridus=dewy
    at the rainbow's end are dew and the colour red
    bloody end to the lie in Anglo-Irish=no lie     regginbrow=German regenbogen + rainbow
    ringsome=German ringsum, around
    When all vegetation is covered by the flood there are no eyebrows on the face of the Waterworld
    exaggerare=to mound up
    themselse=another Dublin 5000 inhabitants
    Isthmus of Sutton a peck of land between Howth head and the plain
    passencore=pas encore and ricorsi storici of Vico
    rearrived=idem
    wielderfight=wiederfechten=refight
    bellowed=the response of the peatfire of faith to the windy words of the apostle