June at the National Library of Ireland
Dublin 2

Flat-share in Fleet Street: WB Yeats leaves home
Thursday, 6 June at 7.00pm
Join Michael Ashe SC QC for a talk reflecting on six months of Yeats’s life when he left home and spent time in London.
Free. All welcome, no booking required.

‘WB Yeats and Florence Farr: The Reluctant Muse’
Thursday, 13 June at 7.00pm
Join the NLI for the evening of Yeats’s birthday where Professor Anthony Roche, UCD will discuss the relationship between Yeats and Farr.
Free. All welcome. No booking required

Bloomsday at the National Library

Sunday, 16 June,  Noon – 6.00pm

Visit the NLI to celebrate James Joyce in the library where he studied, wrote and set part of Ulysses. Enjoy performances of Joycean music performed in their Front Hall and listen to extracts of Ulysses.

Join them at 2.00pm for a talk by Dr Gerard Dineen entitled ‘Our Continental Writer: James Joyce and the literature of Europe.’

Free. All welcome. No booking required

JOYCED!

Written by Donal O'Kelly and performed by Katie O'Kelly
Monday 24 June at 7pm
This one-woman show takes you on a tour de force of Joycean Dublin, catapulting the audience through the year which Joyce would later make famous in Ulysses.

No booking required. Admission: €10 (payable at the door)

 "Everlasting Voices"   W. B Yeats, Poetry, Music, Passion and Politics.
Wednesday 26 June at 7.00pm

Lecture by William Brooks, Professor of Music at York University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois followed by performance by Sound-Weave: Actor Nuala Hayes and Clarinettist Paul Roe.

Admission: €10 (payable at the door) To book a space please e-mail:learning@nli.ie

Swift's Time Capsule
Marsh's Library,St. Patrick's Close, Dublin 8

Archbishop Marsh's library will open to the public from 12.00 on Tuesday the 4th June as part of St. Patrick’s Cathedral’s tercentenary celebrations of Jonathan Swift’s installation as Dean of the Cathedral, which took place on 13 June 1713.

An exhibition entitled ‘Swift’s Time Capsule’ will be on display in the second gallery of the library from the 4th to the 18th of June

For a detailed list of events click on Swift300

Dalkey Book Festival 2013
Dublin

The Dalkey Book Festival takes place from the 14-16 June and will include Kevin Barry, Carl Bernstein, John Boyne, Stuart Carolan, David Coleman, Eoin Colfer, Gary Cooke, John Colleary, Jonathan Dee, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Robert Fisk, Selina Guinness, Sarah Harte, Declan Kiberd, Oisín McGann, Frank McGuinness, Bernard McLaverty, Pualine McLynn, Midnight Poe, Eamon Morrissey, Barry Morrissey, Barry Murphy, Edna O'Brien, Dawn O'Porter, Colm O'Regan, Uri Orlev, Donal Ryan, Mike Scott, Sarah Webb and many more.

Booking: www.dalkeybookfestival.org

Photograph by Jason Clarke Photography

Samuel Beckett Summer School
Trinity College Dublin

The Samuel Beckett Summer School celebrates Beckett with a week long series of lectures, seiminars, field trips, exhibits and performances. This year the acclaimed contemporary company Pan Pan Theatre are performing the world exclusive of the Beckett play ‘Embers’ during our Summer School! The deadline to register for the residency is 10^th June 2013. Visit www.beckettsummerschool.com for registration details