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
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01 Jun 2013 To 30 Jun 2013
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