Bloomsday at the ICC: Celebrating James Joyce

Join us at the ICC on Monday, June 16 and take part in the worldwide festival of Bloomsday! We welcome our featured speaker, Prof. Abby Bender of Sacred Heart University, to present a fascinating look at James Joyce’s epic novel. There is no need to have read "Ulysses" to attend this talk; but hopefully you will be inspired to read it if you haven’t.

This event is free and open to all. Please register ahead > https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bloomsday-at-the-irish-cultural-center-tickets-1383922662939

Doors open at 5 pm; the presentation begins at 5:30 pm and will last for about 45 minutes. We’re sure you will have some questions for the Q&A to follow.

The Trinity Pub bar will be open for purchase. Light appetizers will be provided. Plus, try the novel’s famous gorgonzola sandwich that Leopold Bloom orders at Davy Byrne’s Pub.

"Gathering Crumbs in James Joyce’s Dublin" James Joyce’s encyclopedic novel Ulysses is famously considered not only the greatest, but one of the most difficult books ever written. This talk explores the case of perhaps the most insubstantial and transitory object in the novel, the crumb. We follow the breadcrumbs—and sometimes, as Joyce wishes, are unable to follow them—and find our way, from this most insubstantial thing, to some of the novel’s big insights.