1000+ images about Bloomsday/Bloomsbury Group on Pinterest | Interwar period, Happy and Irish Forward Bloomsday is an annual commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce during which the events of his novel Ulysses. The event takes place every year on 16th June since 1954. During this day, local people lunch and dinner on the same way as the characters of the book, or perform various acts linked to the novel. In addition, meetings are held in Dublin to follow the exact path of the story. See More "James Joyce Meets ERM" by O'Rourke, Morgan - Risk Management, Vol. 59, Issue 5, June 2012 | Online Research Library: Questia Read preview Article excerpt June is not a big month for holidays in the United States. Sure there is Flag Day and Father's Day, but those don't even merit a day off of work. June does contain the first day of summer, which is particularly great if you are a student looking forward to two months of vacation, but that's about it. Unless you consider June 16.

For the literary minded, June 16 is Bloomsday, a day that commemorates the life of Irish writer James Joyce and coincides with the date that events take place in his most famous novel, Ulysses. The name is derived from Leopold Bloom, the main protagonist in the book, and on that day there are performances, readings and parties around the world to celebrate what many consider to be the greatest book ever written. It's pretty impressive. After all, aside from the Bible, how many books inspire their own holiday? I'm an avid reader and I have long been aware of Ulysses' lofty reputation. The Modern Library's list of the best English-language novels of the 20th century, which I actually used to carry with me in case I was ever in a bookstore and at a loss for what to buy, ranked Ulysses number one. And despite having read as many of those classics as possible, Ulysses still eludes me. It is not for lack of trying, however. The truth is I have started the book at least three separate times and never gotten past the first 100 pages, mainly because by that point I'm usually thoroughly confused.

Ulysses is a notoriously challenging novel that frequently uses an experimental, stream-of-consciousness style that is very hard to follow for someone who isn't living inside James Joyce's head. This is probably best exemplified by its final section, which contains a supposedly classic run-on sentence that, at 4,391-words-long, once held the title as the longest sentence in English literature. (To give you an idea of how long that is, this column is roughly 700 words.) Joyce himself said that Ulysses includes "so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant." Of course, I have never gotten close to the end, so I can't tell you if the book lives up to the hype. I mean to find out though. There have been other classics that have taken me multiple attempts to get into--Moby Dick and Atlas Shrugged come to mind--and I have usually found that once I finally tackled them, the experience proved to be worth the initial struggle.

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The name is derived from Leopold Bloom, the main protagonist in the book, and on that day there are performances, readings and parties around the world to celebrate what many consider to be the greatest book ever written. It's pretty impressive. After all, aside from the Bible, how many books inspire their own holiday? I'm an avid reader and I have long been aware of Ulysses' lofty reputation. The Modern Library's list of the best English-language novels of the 20th century, which I actually used to carry with me in case I was ever in a bookstore and at a loss for what to buy, ranked Ulysses number one. And despite having read as many of those classics as possible, Ulysses still eludes me. It is not for lack of trying, however. The truth is I have started the book at least three separate times and never gotten past the first 100 pages, mainly because by that point I'm usually thoroughly confused. Ulysses is a notoriously challenging novel that frequently uses an experimental, stream-of-consciousness style that is very hard to follow for someone who isn't living inside James Joyce's head.

This is probably best exemplified by its final section, which contains a supposedly classic run-on sentence that, at 4,391-words-long, once held the title as the longest sentence in English literature. (To give you an idea of how long that is, this column is roughly 700 words.) Joyce himself said that Ulysses includes "so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant." Of course, I have never gotten close to the end, so I can't tell you if the book lives up to the hype. I mean to find out though. There have been other classics that have taken me multiple attempts to get into -- Moby Dick and Atlas Shrugged come to mind -- and I have usually found that once I finally tackled them, the experience proved to be worth the initial struggle. So it's probably time to give Ulysses another chance. Now you're probably asking yourself, "What does any of this have to do with risk management?" Well, believe it or not, I see some parallels between my quest to read Ulysses and many risk managers' experience with ERM and strategic risk management.

Just as Ulysses is considered one of the most important books ever written and a must-read for anyone with literary aspirations, ERM is widely considered to be among the most important endeavors to help advance risk management within an organization. But like Ulysses, these concepts aren't new. The book was written in 1922, and ERM has been around in one form or another for decades. These days, however, the promise and hype of ERM seems to have reached a tipping point. At the recent RIMS 2012 Annual Conference & Exhibition in Philadelphia, for instance, every educational session with ERM (or its cousin SRM) in the title was booked to capacity. At this point, not implementing an ERM program may actually be doing a disservice to your job as a risk manager. Kind of like not reading Ulysses may be doing a disservice to my job as a writer (as I continue running this analogy into the ground). Like reading James Joyce, implementing ERM is certainly a difficult process that takes a lot of perseverance, but risks have simply become too complex to not consider their larger organizational and strategic implications. The fact that it is difficult may no longer be a valid excuse.

As the recent "Excellence in Risk" survey conducted by Marsh and RIMS reports, company leaders want risk managers to take on greater strategic roles within their organizations. So maybe it's time for all of us to listen to the experts. It sounds like the benefits in both cases will be well worth it. Granted, reading a novel like Ulysses won't have quite the same business impact as starting an ERM program, but at least you won't have to face any colossal, 4,000-word sentences. 1000+ images about Bloomsday on Pinterest | Lunch menu, This weekend and Novels Forward 16 June is Bloomsday, a commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce during which the events of his novel Ulysses (which is set on 16 June 1904) are relived. Joyce chose the date as it was the date of his first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle. Read more about Bloomsday and view the special events on Poemhunter's forum "Poetry Events" Happy Bloomsday to all Joyce lovers!

See More Bloomsday Honors Irish Author James Joyce : NPR Bloomsday Honors Irish Author James Joyce Embed Embed Bloomsday Honors Irish Author James Joyce Bloomsday Honors Irish Author James Joyce Embed Embed Heard on Morning Edition Rob Gifford Once again, fans of Irish author James Joyce have celebrated Bloomsday. Thousands of people descend on Dublin each June 16 to celebrate Joyce's epic novel Ulysses by re-creating the events in the book. The novel chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin on a single day — June 16, 1904 — a day, as Bloom says, that's a "chapter of accidents." RENEE MONTAGNE, host: And we go now from performing Pythagoras to performing "Ulysses." STEVE INSKEEP, host: That's the novel D.H. Lawrence called journalistic dirty mindedness. Virginia Woolf said it was the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples. MONTAGNE: None of which prevents fans today of the novelist James Joyce from descending on Dublin on June 16th.

That's the day in 1904 on which his masterpiece "Ulysses" takes place. This year, NPR's Rob Gifford went along. ROB GIFFORD: If you walked around Dublin yesterday, you'd have seen a variety of young men in bowler hats and young women in long, period dresses reciting on street corners to everyone and no one from "Ulysses," the novel that telescopes the story of the Greek myth "The Odyssey" into one day in the lives of a group of ordinary Dubliners. Unidentified Man: Perched on high stools by the bar, hats shoved back at the tables, calling for more bread no charge, swilling, wolfing gobfuls of sloppy food… GIFFORD: Now, we all read "Ulysses" in college English class, didn't we? No, me neither. No punctuation and all just a bit too un-literature-like. Mr. DAVID NORRIS (Irish Senator): Joyce is like the nuclear explosion in literature, and people are still suffering from the radiation effects.

GIFFORD: Irish senator David Norris is arriving for a Bloomsday breakfast at Dublin's James Joyce Centre, one of dozens of events to be held across the city. Norris is a champion of the man who put the stream into stream of consciousness, James Joyce, and the book's hero, or anti-hero, Leopold Bloom. Mr. NORRIS: Leopold Bloom is the average, ordinary, sensual man. He is Mr. Everyman. Joyce was the prophet of the extraordinariness of the ordinary. GIFFORD: After the breakfast, guided tours are offered by Joyce fans from afar for Joyce fans from afar. Ms. COLLEEN COX(ph) (Tour Guide): All right. This is St. George's Church, so this is one of the first and last things that Leopold Bloom sees on his day in "Ulysses." GIFFORD: Colleen Cox is a graduate student at Trinity College, Dublin, originally from Anchorage, Alaska. She acts as a part-time tour guide along the Dublin roads described in intricate - some might say excruciating - detail in "Ulysses." Ms.

COX: I've read it a few times, and each time I find something new for the place in life that I'm at at that moment. It speaks to all people, all races, all ages, all nations. GIFFORD: Eduardo Lago is a Spanish writer who lives and teaches in New York. Mr. EDUARDO LAGO (Writer): For me, it's the most important work ever written in the English language. I take a plane from New York only for this, and my friends do the same thing from different corners of the world. Unidentified Woman: (Foreign language spoken) GIFFORD: At a downtown event, someone is reading from "Ulysses" in Serbian. Back at the James Joyce Centre, though, it's something of a relief to hear the confessions of three friends, Brendan Hughes(ph), Michael Nash(ph) and Liam Coldwell(ph), who have been celebrating Bloomsday together for more than a decade. Mr. BRENDAN HUGHES: I read the first page and then I gave up. Mr. MICHAEL NASH: Well, I would admit to not comprehending everything that was in it. Mr.

LIAM COLDWELL: We're actually here because we love it, but we haven't read it -if you know what I mean. (Soundbite of laughter) Mr. COLDWELL: We love it because we haven't read it, actually. (Soundbite of laughter) GIFFORD: So it's not strictly necessary to have read "Ulysses" to enjoy Bloomsday. Now, that's a holiday that a few of us might be able to get into. All the same, I'm leaving with a commitment to myself to try again. Rob Gifford, NPR News, Dublin. Copyright © 2009 NPR. All rights reserved. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc. , an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Accuracy and availability may vary. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.

BLOOMSDAY IN IRELAND BLOOMSDAY IN IRELAND Details BLOOMSDAY 2014 Dublin – the capital city of Ireland and the home to more than a handful of history’s literary greats. W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde and Jonathon Swift among others all have ties with the city of Dublin, but there is one writer in particular whose stamp on the annals of time stands out - James Joyce - author of Ulysses, one of the greatest literary creations of all time. James Joyce was born James Augustine Aloysius Joyce on February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland. Joyce was one of the most revered writers of the 20th century, whose landmark book, Ulysses, is often hailed as one of the finest novels ever written. His exploration of language and new literary forms showed not only his genius as a writer but spawned a fresh approach for novelists, one that drew heavily on Joyce's love of the stream-of-consciousness technique and the examination of big events through small happenings in everyday lives. The story recounts a single day in Dublin.

The date: June 16, 1904, the same day that Joyce and Barnacle met. On the surface, the novel follows the story three central characters, Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, a Jewish advertising canvasser, and his wife Molly Bloom, as well as the city life that unfolds around them. But Ulysses is also a modern retelling of Homer's Odyssey, with the three main characters serving as modern versions of Telemachus, Ulysses, and Penelope. With its advanced use of interior monologue, the novel not only brought the reader deep into Stephen Bloom's sometimes lurid mind, but pioneered Joyce's use of stream of consciousnesses as a literary technique and set the course for a whole new kind of novel. But Ulysses is not an easy read, and upon its publication in Paris in 1922 by Sylvia Beach, an American expat who owned a bookstore in the city, the book drew both praise and sharp criticism. Although the memory of Joyce may be constant in this thriving city, where numerous reminders of his legacy can be found, there is one day of the year when his story truly comes alive – Bloomsday.

On the 16th June every year Joyce fans the world over celebrate the life of this most famous of Dubliners and none do it better than Dublin. Now is your chance to step into the pages of Ulysses and live life through the eyes of Leopold Bloom for a day. Bloomsday is celebrated every year around the world on June 16th. It has since become an international festival in Dublin and events begin as early as June 10th until the day itself on June 16th. Bloomsday celebrates Thursday 16 June 1904 as that day is depicted in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. The day is named after Leopold Bloom, the central character in Ulysses. The novel follows the life and thoughts of Leopold Bloom and a host of other characters – real and fictional – from 8am on 16 June 1904 through to the early hours of the following morning.

© 2016 The Celtic Times Risk Management – James Joyce Meets ERM by Morgan O'Rourke | June 2, 2012 at 2:33 pm June is not a big month for holidays in the United States. Sure there is Flag Day and Father’s Day, but those don’t even merit a day off of work. June does contain the first day of summer, which is particularly great if you are a student looking forward to two months of vacation, but that’s about it. Unless you consider June 16. For the literary minded, June 16 is Bloomsday, a day that commemorates the life of Irish writer James Joyce and coincides with the date that events take place in his most famous novel, Ulysses. The name is derived from Leopold Bloom, the main protagonist in the book, and on that day there are performances, readings and parties around the world to celebrate what many consider to be the greatest book ever written. It’s pretty impressive. After all, aside from the Bible, how many books inspire their own holiday? I’m an avid reader and I have long been aware of Ulysses‘ lofty reputation.

The Modern Library’s list of the best English-language novels of the 20th century, which I actually used to carry with me in case I was ever in a bookstore and at a loss for what to buy, ranked Ulysses number one. And despite having read as many of those classics as possible, Ulysses still eludes me. It is not for lack of trying, however. The truth is I have started the book at least three separate times and never gotten past the first 100 pages, mainly because by that point I’m usually thoroughly confused. Ulysses is a notoriously challenging novel that frequently uses an experimental, stream-of-consciousness style that is very hard to follow for someone who isn’t living inside James Joyce’s head. This is probably best exemplified by its final section, which contains a supposedly classic run-on sentence that, at 4,391-words-long, once held the title as the longest sentence in English literature.

(To give you an idea of how long that is, this column is roughly 700 words.) Joyce himself said that Ulysses includes “so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant.” Of course, I have never gotten close to the end, so I can’t tell you if the book lives up to the hype. I mean to find out though. There have been other classics that have taken me multiple attempts to get into — Moby Dick and Atlas Shrugged come to mind — and I have usually found that once I finally tackled them, the experience proved to be worth the initial struggle. So it’s probably time to give Ulysses another chance. Now you’re probably asking yourself, “What does any of this have to do with risk management?” Well, believe it or not, I see some parallels between my quest to read Ulysses and many risk managers’ experience with ERM and strategic risk management. Just as Ulysses is considered one of the most important books ever written and a must-read for anyone with literary aspirations, ERM is widely considered to be among the most important endeavors to help advance risk management within an organization.

But like Ulysses, these concepts aren’t new. The book was written in 1922, and ERM has been around in one form or another for decades. These days, however, the promise and hype of ERM seems to have reached a tipping point. At the recent RIMS 2012 Annual Conference & Exhibition in Philadelphia, for instance, every educational session with ERM (or its cousin SRM) in the title was booked to capacity. At this point, not implementing an ERM program may actually be doing a disservice to your job as a risk manager. Kind of like not reading Ulysses may be doing a disservice to my job as a writer (as I continue running this analogy into the ground). Like reading James Joyce, implementing ERM is certainly a difficult process that takes a lot of perseverance, but risks have simply become too complex to not consider their larger organizational and strategic implications. The fact that it is difficult may no longer be a valid excuse. As the recent “Excellence in Risk” survey conducted by Marsh and RIMS reports, company leaders want risk managers to take on greater strategic roles within their organizations. So maybe it’s time for all of us to listen to the experts.

It sounds like the benefits in both cases will be well worth it. Granted, reading a novel like Ulysses won’t have quite the same business impact as starting an ERM program, but at least you won’t have to face any colossal, 4,000-word sentences. Archives – Literary – Irish Culture Bay Area Trevor Joyce • Green Arcade, SF, Nov 2 Green Arcade, Market St. SF, 7pm. website For almost fifty years, since publication of his first book in 1967, Trevor Joyce has been a unique voice in Irish writing. His early work explored some possibilities of the lyric, and began a lifelong engagement with translation. Successive books explore the possibilities of found text, computer-mediated composition, writing under constraint, and radical approaches to translation. Joyce co-founded, in Dublin, the New Writers’ Press and its journal The Lace Curtain in the late sixties, and then the annual SoundEye Festival in Cork in the nineties. He was elected to Aosdána, the Irish affiliation of artists, in 2004, and has just been awarded the 2016 N.C. Kaser Poetry Prize.

His latest book is Selected Poems 1967-2014, Shearwater Press. more Charlotte Headrick on Irish Women Playwrights • Nov. 20 ILHS Speaker Series continues with Dr. Charlotte Headrick, Ph.D.in drama from the University of Georgia, and professor of Theatre Arts at Oregon State University. She has directed the American Premieres of several Irish plays and is widely published in the field of Irish Drama and has also presenting numerous papers nationally and internationally on Irish women dramatists. Her research specialty is Irish women dramatists. In the spring of 2013, she was a Moore Visiting Fellow at National University of Ireland, Galway where she was working on a production history of Eclipsed by Patricia Burke Brogan. UICC 5pm more James Joyce and Irish Song • October 30 The ILHS Speaker Series welcomes Professor Fran O’Rourke – James Joyce and Irish Song, Sunday Oct 30th @ 5pm in the St. Patrick’s Room, Stage Area, UICC (2nd Floor) Music and song were central to the creative work of James Joyce. There are an estimated 3,500 musical references throughout his writings.

These include operatic arias, children’s rhymes, hymns from Catholic liturgy, music hall songs and jazz. There are also hundreds of references to Irish songs which have been relatively ignored. Joyce’s interest in classical music, especially opera, is well documented; less well known are the important allusions throughout his writings to songs from the Irish tradition. Joyce’s work is inconceivable without such traditional songs as ‘Lass of Aughrim’, ‘Last Rose of Summer’, and ‘Croppy Boy’. Professor O’Rourke will perform these and other popular songs from the Irish tradition, and provide explanations of their origin, content, and significance to Joyce. Fran O’Rourke is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University College Dublin, where he taught for thirty-six years. Besides ancient, medieval, and contemporary philosophy, he has written on philosophical aspects of James Joyce’s work. He has also researched Joyce’s extensive use of Irish traditional song. He has given recitals in the National Concert Hall, Dublin, the Conservatorio in Trieste, and the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco.

In 2012 he sponsored restoration of James Joyce’s guitar, which is preserved in the Joyce Museum in Sandycove, location for the opening scene of Ulysses. With John Feeley, Ireland’s leading classical guitarist, he has recorded a CD of Irish songs from Joyce’s writings Renowned Irish language scholar and teacher Liam Cunningham joins us from Oideas Gael school in Glencolmcille, Co. Donegal to speak on the state of the Irish language today. UICC St. Francis Room, 5pm Setting Donegal on Fire • October 2 Book launch of Setting Donegal on Fire by Diane Lovegrove Bader, at UICC. In 1877 Daniel Sweeney, a wealthy Irish immigrant who owned the first stockyard in the City, leaves San Francisco and returns to Ireland with his wife and eight children. Appalled at the miserable conditions in which he finds the rural people of his native land, he challenges what he believes is a policy of neglect by both landlords and the authorities. This book provides insight into a true story of one returning immigrant’s encounter with the people he loves, the landlords he despises and the law under which he suffered.

Meet Diane Bader, his great granddaughter, who has just returned from her book launch in Ireland which was attended by Joe McHugh, Minister of the Diaspora Los Gatos – Listowel Writers’ Festival • Oct 6-9 The heart and soul of Irish culture comes to the Bay Area with the debut of the Los Gatos-Listowel Writers’ Week. Listowel is sister city to Los Gatos, and home to one of Ireland’s most influential and internationally acclaimed literary festivals. The program—featuring over 15 Irish writers and poets traveling from Ireland to join their local counterparts—will consist of over 40 events designed to bring together writers and audiences in the historic town of Los Gatos over the course of four days and nights, October 6-9. The festival will include Mike McCormack, author of highly acclaimed novel, Solar Bones, Irish-German author and award-winning playwright Hugo Hamilton, a trio of women crime writers Louise Phillips, Niamh O’Connor and Claire McGowan, and a year-end tribute to Ireland’s uprising of 1916; in addition, local Irish writers Emer Martin and Ethel Rohan—and even a politician or two—are scheduled to join this lively contingent during festival entertainment and workshops.

Mark your calendars for the first annual Los Gatos – Listowel Writers’ Festival. More info Writing Contest Finalists Los Gatos – Listowel Writing contest finalists have been announced in the Short Story and Adult Poetry Categories. Short Story: Long list results on festival website Final three short stories are in the hands of Kevin Barry and the overall winner will be announced soon. Adult Poetry Finalists: “Ursa Major” by Leigh Lucas, “Across and Down” by Kathleen McClung, “The woman sitting next to me” by Karen O’Connor, and “Message From the Beyond” by Laura Foley. Winner will be announced Sep. 26th Deadline for Youth Poetry is Sep. 26th Knights of the Borrowed Dark For all Fantasy fans and future writers, Irish author Dave Rudden will be at The Booksmith, on Haight St. SF, to sign copies of his new bestselling fantasy novel Knights of the Borrowed Dark. He’ll also be available to talk to any tweens or teens who have ideas or stories that they hope to turn into a book, providing free consultations, book recommendations, writing tips, and encouragement to get your project going. Come with your ideas and leave with a copy of Knights of the Borrowed Dark.

About Knights of the Borrowed Dark: Denizen Hardwick doesn’t believe in magic – until he’s ambushed by a monster born of shadows and sees it destroyed by a word made of sunlight.That kind of thing can really change your perspective. Now Denizen is about to discover that there’s a world beyond the one he knows. A world of living darkness where an unseen enemy awaits. Fortunately for humanity, between us and the shadows stand the Knights of the Borrowed Dark. Unfortunately for Denizen, he’s one of them . . . “Like the Percy Jackson series, The Hunger Games or the Shiver Trilogy, KOTBD is dark, compelling and builds an addictive universe of characters, high stakes and evocative imagery.” —Jeffrey Cranor, co-author of the New York Times Bestseller – Welcome to Nightvale.

1644 Haight Street, San Francisco Saturday, August 27, 12pm – 3pm 1916 Risings Most Enigmatic Hero • August 21 An afternoon of conversation and reflections on the life of Roger Casement, one of the great heroes of the 1916 Rising by Diarmuid Philpott and Alan Lewis, song by Erin Thompson, readings by Josephine Coffey, Donagh McKeown & Valerie McGrew and a video presentation and celebrate the launch of Dying for Ireland: The Last Days of Roger Casement by San Francisco writer Alan Lewis . Mr. Lewis, the grandson of an Irish Jew, has been researching Casement’s life for more than a decade in hopes of bringing this remarkable story to American audiences. He will give a short reading and will be available for sales and signing. August 21, 3-5pm at the United Irish Cultural Center – Sponsored by the Patrick J.

Dowling Library SF Labor History Walk • July 9 Part of SF LaborFest – with Lawrence Shoup and Peter O’Driscoll San Francisco Waterfront Labor History Walk 1835 – 1934 There are many stories about labor struggles in San Francisco. The walk will focus on the maritime industry from 1835 until the burning of the blue book in 1934. Also, labor historian Larry Shoup will discuss the history of the 1901 transportation workers strike led by the Teamsters, which the San Francisco police attempted, but failed, to smash. After an over two-month long struggle, the workers emerged victorious, and the Union Labor Party won the election of 1901, taking control of the city. This was the first large city in the United States to have a union labor party in office. July 9 at 10:00 AM. Free. Meet at 75 Folsom St. – Entrance of Hills Brothers Coffee Building. Bloomsday Lunch • June 16th Eat, Read, Walk on the Wild Side of Dublin!

A special Bloomsday menu will be served with community readings of Ulysses by James Joyce and lively conversation. Bring your books and favorite passages – Bloomsday attire is welcome. Thursday, June 16, 2016 – 12:00pm at the Mechanics’ Institute, SF. Admission includes lunch and libations. more… June Events Wilde Irish Bloomsday • June 16 Join Wilde Irish Productions for an evening of performed readings from James Joyce’s illustrious masterpiece Ulysses. Music by Shay Black of the Black Brothers. Admission is free and open to all. San Francisco Main Public Library (Latino Hispanic Community Room) 6pm more Bloomsday Lunch Event • June 16 Eat, Read, Walk on the Wild Side of Dublin! A special Bloomsday menu will be served with community readings of Ulysses by James Joyce and lively conversation. Bring your books and favorite passages – Bloomsday attire is welcome. Thursday, June 16, 2016 – 12:00pm at the Mechanics’ Institute, SF. Admission includes lunch and libations.

more… Bay Area Book Festival, Berkeley • June 4, 5 The Bay Area Book Festival returns to downtown Berkeley the weekend of June 4-5. The two-day, free festival will welcome 280 local, national, and international authors and speakers in 120 literary sessions (panels, interviews, keynotes and performances) throughout a 10-block radius of downtown Berkeley. Organizers expect to top last year’s attendance of 50,000 visitors. Big names include Sherman Alexie, Richard Russo, Dana Spiotta, Colm Tóibín and Jacqueline Winspear. On June 4th Colm Tóibín will be joined by Irish writers Sara Baume and Belinda McKeon. more June 4th: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You: Ireland and the Nurturance of Its Writers June 5th: Freedom to Write, Perchance to Dream. Colm Tóibín in conversation with UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks, introduced by Cherilyn Parsons, festival founder and director.

Colm Tóibín, author of “Nora Webster,” “The Master,” “Brooklyn,” and many other books, delivered the Arthur Miller “Freedom to Write” address that caps each year’s PEN World Voices Festival. Chancellor Dirks leads a university that launched the Free Speech movement and is ranked the top public university in the world. In this conversation, they explore why intellectual and creative liberty matters so much and where we need to agitate today. more April events Voices of the Easter Rising 1916 • April 28 (event has passed) Voices of the Easter Rising 1916: A Theatrical Evening of Irish Poetry, Stories and Song at the Mechanics’ Institute, San Francisco expresses the passions of poets, protesters and activists in the quest for independence. more Matt Horton, ILHS Speaker • April 24 Matt Horton is a doctoral candidate in Social & Cultural Studies at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education with a designated emphasis in Critical Theory. His research is at the nexus of Critical Whiteness Studies and Irish Studies, and he is currently working on a dissertation about “Protestant” Irish Nationalists.

Horton’s talk is titled: “The Gravesite of Thomas Desmond, legendary Fenian and veteran of the Fremantle Mission”. He will view the social and political history of the Irish Republican movement in California through the gravesite of Thomas Desmond, legendary Fenian and veteran of the Fremantle Mission. It will consider the historical context of nineteenth century Irish California and the development of the Fenian movement here, Desmond’s early life in California, his participation in the famous jailbreak, his thirty year political career in San Francisco that followed, his legacy, and the centrality of his grave as a site for commemorating the Easter Rising today. UICC, 3:00PM (please note time change) Discussion on Thomas Cahill’s Novel • April 25 Join us to discuss Thomas Cahill’s book How the Irish Saved Civilization. In his entertaining and compelling narrative, Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era and argues that, without the help of Irish monks and Irish culture, that transition could not have taken place. Discussion led by Lynn Harris. more Word for Word Performances To April 3rd.

Word for Word ‘s latest full production features performances of stories by Emma Donoghue and Colm Tóibín at Z Space, Florida St. San Francisco, from Feb 24 – April 3. Use code “ICBA” for $5 discount on tickets. See dates “Night Vision”, Directed by Becca Wolff Emma Donoghue’s “Night Vision”, from The Woman Who Gave Birth To Rabbits, tells of young, blind Frances Browne who thrived on education when it was allowed her, and whose determination made her one of Ireland’s most renowned poets. “Silence”, Directed by Jim Cave In “Silence”, from The Empty Family, Tóibín recreates the story of the transient and intense love-affair between Lady Gregory and the young poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Their affair was secret, but partially revealed in the love-poems she gave him to publish as his own work. Her self-containment and reserved passion are impressively imagined: women’s interior lives are one of Tóibín’s great strengths. These stories combine to provide an evening showing the power of the word, the thirst for learning, and the profound desire to create.

more Women’s Roles in the 1916 Rising • March 31, April 2 Sinéad McCoole has published No Ordinary Women: Activists in the Revolutionary Years 1900-1923 and Hazel: a Life of Lady Lavery, as well as Easter Widows: 7 Women who Lived in the Shadow of the Easter Rising. She is currently director of the Jackie Clarke collection. As a curator, she has originated and collaborated on a number of important exhibitions on Irish history and Irish art both in Ireland and the US. Her areas of expertise include The Rising, the War of Independence, and Civil War, with an emphasis on the role of women. Sinéad is currently the Curatorial Advisor to Ireland’s 2016 Centenary Programme. On April 2, during the 1916 Easter Rising Centennial Commemoration Event Series at the Poet and Patriot in Santa Cruz, there will be a reading of Easter Widows, and a conversation with Sinéad McCoole.

1:30 PM- 3PM March events Elaine Feeney Poetry Reading • March 24 Elaine Feeney is part of a new movement of political poetry in Ireland and has been called “the freshest, most engaging and certainly the most provocative poet to come out of Ireland in the last decade.” Her writing has been published widely in literary magazines, journals and anthologies and has been translated into many languages. Her next collection, Rise, is forthcoming. West Portal 7pm. more Passing of a Local Gem Writer, singer and actress Renée Gibbons passed away December 20th after a long battle with cancer. See obituary and memorial details here Born in a Dublin tenement, she escaped to Paris when she was seventeen where she fell in with actors, writers and musicians. Restless and full of dreams she spent years working her way around the world. On a ship bound for Egypt with her year-old daughter Aisling she met and fell in love with a longshoreman from San Francisco, the city where she spent the rest of her life. Her memoir, ‘Longing for Elsewhere‘, explores the themes entangled in her journey: identity, adventure, creativity, the burden of history and the passion for justice.

more on Renée A celebration of Renée’s life will be held on Friday February 5, 2:00 PM at the San Francisco Columbarium, One Loraine Court, San Francisco . Obituary ILHS Annual Banquet • Mar 13 Guest speaker Professor Bob Tracy will talk about The Proclamation of the Irish Republic as both a work of literature written by poets, and a political document modeled on the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and emphasizing civil rights, women suffrage, and of course independence from foreign rule.Don’t miss this “Poetry and Politics: The 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic” with presentation by Professor Tracy, and performances by special music guests Kyle Alden singer and guitarist, and Catherine John, fiddler and vocalist. more Family Stories Workshop • March 13 Irish-American Crossroads is pleased to once again present author and educator, Margaret Cooley, as she teaches this popular facilitated workshop on the research and composition of family histories. Participants will receive a genealogy search form to fill out and return no later than one week before the workshop. Margaret will bring the results of the search to the workshop. Participants may also bring a family photograph or record.

Margaret will assist them in using vital records and photographs to begin to tell their family stories and make their own books. more January events Author Timothy Egan • March 2 Part of the 1916 Easter Rising Centennial Commemoration Event Series at Mechanics’ Institute, co-sponsored with the Irish-American Crossroads Festival, Irish Literary and Historical Society, Humanities West. The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero Timothy Egan tells the Irish American story through the life of Thomas Francis Meagher. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a prison colony. He escaped and six months later was heralded in the streets of New York — the revolutionary hero back from the dead, at the dawn of the great Irish immigration to America. Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter, a New York Times columnist, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in nonfiction, and the author of seven books, most recently Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher.

His previous books include The Worst Hard Time, which won a National Book Award, and the national bestseller The Big Burn. more February events ILHS Series with Author Ethel Rohan • Feb 28 Ethel Rohan, a Dublin native and San Francisco resident, is an award-winning author that focuses on writing from emotional experience versus actual experience. Writers are all too familiar with the golden rule ‘Write What You Know.’ The adage rightly champions honesty and authenticity in writing, but can also hamper and even shutdown writers’ creativity. Fiction writers who try to adhere to only writing what they know are often faced with dilemmas: I’m a woman, but want to write from the point-of-view of a male character. I’m White, so does that mean I can’t write from the point-of-view of a Black character? I’ve never flown a plane, but really want to write this great story about a pilot. For memoir and non-fiction writers, there are also dilemmas around memory, perspective, and fact versus truth.

For Ethel, this particular golden rule is better understood and more useful artistically when it’s qualified to ‘Write What You Know Emotionally.’ Ethel Rohan’s debut novel, The Kingdom Keeper, will publish from St. Martin’s Press, 2017. She is also the author of two story collections, Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone, the former longlisted for The Edge Hill Prize and the latter longlisted for The Story Prize. An award-winning story and memoir writer, her work has appeared in The New York Times, World Literature Today, PEN America, Tin House Online, Guernica Magazine, BREVITY Magazine, The Rumpus, and more. Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, she lives in San Francisco. Visit Ethel Rohan’s website here United Irish Cultural Center, SF at 5pm January Events Joyce Discussion, Mechanics’ SF • Feb 24 Widely considered to be one of the best English-language novels of the 20th century, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man will be discussed over two meetings of the World Literature Book Group. This modernist bildungsroman traces the religious and intellectual evolution of Stephen Dedalus.

Joyce’s debut novel uses literary techniques the author would develop further in his later works, and concerns the awakening and self-exile of Joyce’s fictional alter ego – who will appear again in Ulysses. more ILHS Speaker Series • January 31, 2016 Tony Bucher will speak about “Old Saint Mary’s – San Francisco’s Irish Monument” The deep and varied story of the Irish in San Francisco is intrinsic to the history, character, and physical structure of the City, yet the Irish barely register in popular conceptions of San Francisco’s general history. In this sense the story of Irish San Francisco is a hidden story, kept alive in the memory of succeeding generations, and represented in a few very visible monuments with deep historical and personal resonance. One such monument is Old Saint Mary’s Cathedral in Chinatown. The structure was the largest building in the City when it was completed in 1854 in the raucous Barbary Coast era, at the very beginnings of American San Francisco.

Standing at the head of the first block of the steep rise of California Street on Nob Hill, it rests prominently positioned above the forest of buildings that steadily grew into an orderly and sober downtown in succeeding years.Old Saint Mary’s served as a key seat of institutional power in the early development of the City and the greater West, and as an important focus of community for a significant portion of the population for generations. Beyond the story of the church itself and its features and biographical details, Old Saint Mary’s has broader significance as a metaphor for a history nearly unknown in the City the Irish helped build, with the remains of Kathleen Sullivan, the Irish benefactor, interred in the basement of her Irish church, hidden in plain sight. United Irish Cultural Center, SF at 5pm Poetry Reading, Berkeley • January 15 Judy Wells was born in San Francisco and raised in Martinez, California. She taught writing and literature at Bay Area colleges before a career as an Academic Counselor in the School of Extended Education at Saint Mary’s College of California, and as a faculty member of the Graduate Liberal Studies Program. She has published eleven collections of poetry including: I Dream of Circus Characters, Little Lulu Talks with Vincent Van Gogh, Call Home, and Everything Irish.

She was honored in 2015 to read at the San Francisco Crossroads Irish-American Festival from her latest collection, The Glass Ship, in which an imaginary woman sailing captain visits a series of magical, “other world” islands. Her works-in-progress include her New England to California Dickinson ancestor project and “Senior Moments: The Old People Monologues.” Dale Jensen was born in Oakland, California, graduated from UC Berkeley, and received a master’s degree in experimental psychology from the University of Toronto, with which he said goodbye to academia forever. In 1999, when he took early retirement from a twenty-five year career with Social Security. He lives in Berkeley. Dale’s poetry, which is heavily influenced by the Surrealists and such cut-up writers as William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, has appeared in many magazines, journals, and anthologies. He published and edited the experimental poetry magazine Malthus from 1986 through 1989 and published several books through Malthus Press.

He also has published six books and three chapbooks of poetry, including Purgatorial (2004), Cyclone Fence (2007), Oedipus’ First Lover (2009), Auto Bio (2010), and Yew Nork (2014). He is currently working on a new book and a series of coffeehouse poems. Judy Wells and Dale Jensen will read at 7 pm on Friday, January 15, 2016, at Expressions Gallery, 2035 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. December Events Crossroads Salon – Oakland, December 13 The upcoming Crossroads Salon on December 13 features artist Flora Skivington who will show her film, Oscar and Isabelle. Set on the coastline of Northern Ireland and narrated by the consciousness of the house, Oscar & Isabelle details the end of a fifty-year-old love affair between Isabelle, a retired music hall singer, and Oscar, her 150 year-old house.

The Crossroads Salon is a forum for writers and artists who have Irish or Irish-American heritages or are interested in exploring Irish-American themes, as well as for readers and viewers who want to participate in this exploration. Participants are asked to bring work or questions related to the theme of place. How do you relate to place? How does place inform your sense of self, community or belonging? How does a sense of place relate to Irish or Irish-American identity and the books we choose to read/art that we choose to view? Each participant’s offering is limited to 8-10 minutes. See calendar for more information. November Events ILHS Speaker Series • November 22 Kathleen Walkup, Professor of Book Art, Mills College, Oakland presents a talk titled: Pulling the Devil by the Tail: Cuala Press, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and the Ghost of Albert Bender on Sunday November 22 2015, UICC at 5pm One of the more iconic images in the history of printing is that of Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, dressed in a long smock, printing at an Albion handpress. Behind her a woman is preparing to ink the press; in front of her another woman sits at a table reading proofs.

The image is often seen as an example of the genteel art of amateur printing by the ‘ladies’, part of the move toward finding ways for the privileged women of the Arts & Crafts era to keep themselves occupied. In fact that reading could not be further from the truth. In 1902 Elizabeth became a printer and proprietor of what would become Cuala Press, an Irish private press whose editor was her brother, William Butler Yeats. In 1922, Elizabeth began a correspondence with the Irish-American collector Albert Bender. This correspondence lasted until her death in 1940. Some fifty-five letters from Elizabeth to Bender have survived and are housed at Mills College. This talk will examine the history and legacy of Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and Cuala Press, with a particular focus on her correspondence with Bender. The paper will also draw on research at the National Library of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin and Boston College. Kathleen Walkup is Professor of Book Art and Director of the Book Art Program at Mills College, where she teaches typography and letterpress printing, artists’ bookmaking and seminar/studio courses that combine print culture and book history with studio projects.

She is also Book Art Director for the MFA in Book Art & Creative Writing, the first such program in the country. Her research interests include the history of women in print culture and conceptual practice in artists’ books. Her most recent curatorial project is Hand, Voice & Vision: Artists’ Books from Women’s Studio Workshop (Grolier Club, New York, 2010; it is still travelling). Her talk, The Book is a Public Place, will be published in the anthology Threads in 2016. In 2015 she was a Stephen Botein Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. She is a co-founder of College Book Art Association. For the past seven years she has written a seasonal blog, New Irish Journal. ILHS Speaker Series • November 1 This month at the Irish Literary and Historical Society’s monthly speaker series, Clare Moriarty will speak about “Berkeley’s Marvelous Mathematics”. George Berkeley is undoubtedly Ireland’s most celebrated philosopher, but his role in the history of mathematics is less renowned. In a heated debate between the British and Continental academies over who truly invented calculus (between Newton and Leibniz), Berkeley’s contribution was to publicly scorn the intelligibility of the theory.

The speaker’s interest is in Berkeley’s unusual motivation in these attacks, which seem to be the result of learning that certain mathematicians had been ridiculing religion on the basis of its ‘unintelligible’ ideas. Despite majority agreement that Berkeley’s mathematical criticism was correct, and instrumental in guiding the project of fixing early calculus, the question remains as to whether Berkeley cared more about sticking his finger in people’s eyes than he did about the mathematics. Clare Moriarty is a doctoral candidate at King’s College, London, and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. Saint Francis Room, UICC. Sunday, November 1, UICC at 5pm. (previously scheduled for October 25th) Presented by the Irish Literary and Historical Society October Events Readings of Emma Donoghue’s Works • Oct 18 Word for Word Performing Arts Company is an ensemble whose mission is to tell great stories with elegant theatricality, staging performances of classic and contemporary fiction. Join them on Sunday, October 18 at 3 p.m., for a reading of “The Long Way Home,” set in 1870’s Arizona – a great piece by the brilliant Ms. Donoghue.

Z Below, 470 Florida, SF – more Litquake 2015 • October 15 • Original Shorts: Love-Hate One of the many Litquake 2015 events features Dubliner and SF resident Ethel Rohan . Ethel’s first novel, The Kingdom Keeper, will publish from St. Martin’s Press in early 2017. She is also the author of two story collections, Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone, the former longlisted for The Edge Hill Prize and the latter longlisted for The Story Prize. Original Shorts: Love-Hate, Make-Out Room San Francisco, Thursday October 15, 2015 @ 7PM more Litquake events From Hardback to Hollywood: The Expansive Career of Dennis Lehane Event takes place at Jewish Community Center of San Francisco Oct 12. Irish American author Dennis Lehane has had the kind of career most authors would kill for. Already riding high with a string of New York Times bestsellers, Lehane found his door being knocked upon by Hollywood producers hungry for his novels’ dark plots, unforgettable characters, and cinematic thrills.

From the multi-Oscar-winning Mystic River (for which he was nominated for adapted screenplay) to Gone Baby Gone to Shutter Island and The Drop, Lehane is increasingly in demand in the film industry, including writing gigs for acclaimed series such as The Wire and Boardwalk Empire. On October 12 Lehane will discuss his book-to-film career, as well as his most recent novel, World Gone By, with film noir expert Eddie Muller. Co-presented by the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. Michael Parker on Seamus Heaney • October 6 “Facing the Music: Public Imperatives in Seamus Heaney’s Late Poetry” A talk and presentation by Michael Parker, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Central Lancashire. Parker is wide-ranging scholar of modern and contemporary literature, who is completing a major critical monograph entitled Seamus Heaney: Legacies, Afterlives. Parker’s visit to UC Berkeley will be a double event.

First, he will give a talk entitled “Facing the Music: Public Imperatives in Seamus Heaney’s Late Poetry.” And then he will present Noli Timere: Reflections on the Life and Work of Seamus Heaney, a multi-media performance work on Heaney, including readings, commentaries, music, and video. Tuesday, October 6 4 pm — 6 pm. English Department, 322 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley, CA 94720-1030 September Events Hilary McColum Reading, September 12 Everything that mattered to Frances Moriarty was left behind in famine-ravaged Ireland, including the love of her life. Beset with grief and guilt, she is scraping out a shadowy existence as a New York shoeshine boy when word spreads: gold lines the riverbeds of California. Determined to find her fortune, Frances sets out on the overland trek to California’s gold fields. But her steps are haunted by the past. A free event at the New Conservatory Theatre celebrating the American launch of Hilary McCollum ‘s historical novel, Golddigger, a love story and epic quest spanning the California gold rush and Irish famine.

Ahead of LGBT history month, Irish writer Hilary McCollum explores the role of fiction and drama in reclaiming lost LGBT lives and filling in the gaps in LGBT history. At this event, Hilary will discuss the hidden histories of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans communities. No RSVP required. Reading at San Francisco’s New Conservatory Theatre where “For the Love of Comrades” runs through October 11 more See calendar for details and tickets Philip Mullen on Edwardian Dublin • September 27 It’s well known that James Joyce was meticulous in researching the details for the recreation of his beloved Dublin in Ulysses, but even the great writers sometimes get it wrong. Mr. Bloom’s Potato is a light-hearted look at a some of Joyce’s mistakes and a few hidden details that his readers could not possibly have been expected to notice. Such as: Who is Parnell’s brother’s unnamed chess opponent? How could Joyce, of all people, get the two Dublin canals confused, and what is Mr. Bloom doing with that potato?

The Irish Literary & Historical Society Speaker Series will resume on Sunday, September 27, 2015 with “Mr Bloom’s Potato.” Dublin-based independent scholar Philip Mullen will discuss intricate details of Edwardian Dublin as they are reflected in James Joyce’s Ulysses, as well as some of the things Joyce gets wrong. Philip Mullen, a native of Dublin, has a life long passion for James Joyce’s fiction, is a member of The Joyce Institute, and co-founder of The Diddlem Club, who have been involved in Bloomsday street performances for over twenty-five years. United Irish Cultural Center, September 27th at 5pm. See ILHS August Events Crossroads Salon, Oakland • August 30 The Crossroads Salon is a forum for writers/artists who have Irish or Irish-American heritages or are interested in exploring Irish-American themes, as well as for readers/viewers who want to participate in this exploration. This month’s Salon features Linda Norton who will read from her forthcoming work, Dark White. Crossroads Salon organizers ask that participants bring work or questions related to the theme of place: How do you relate to place? How does place inform your sense of self, community or belonging?

How does a sense of place relate to Irish or Irish-American identity and the books we choose to read? In addition, please bring work from a writer/artist about a relationship to place that especially resonates with you. Each participant’s offering is limited to 8-10 minutes long. see calendar August 30 for details JULY EVENTS 14th Annual Bloomsday Celebration • June 16 (event has passed) 14th Annual Bloomsday Celebration: Re-Joyce in the Stacks. Muses, Music and Dramatic Readings from James Joyce’s Ulysses. Co-sponsored by the Mechanics’ Institute, the Irish Literary & Historical Society and Irish American Crossroads. Sojourn though the streets of Dublin with Leopold Bloom and other characters featured in James Joyce’s quintessential novel Ulysses and other works. The evening includes dramatic readings and song performed by Bruce Bierman, John Ilyin, Esther Mulligan, Melanie O’Reilly, Josiah Polhemus, and Laura Sheppard. Fiddler Anne Goess and musicians offer lively accompaniment with a selection of traditional and well known Irish music. See calendar for details – advance reservations required.

Bloomsday Celebration at the UICC • June 16 (event has passed) Celebrate the life and work of Irish writer James Joyce at the Patrick J. Dowling Library at the United Irish Cultural Center of California. Read an excerpt from Ulysses yourself! Or listening to others read. Be part of the worldwide Bloomsday celebrations held in Dublin, San Francisco, and throughout the world. Readings will be limited to five minutes per person. Period costume is encouraged, but not required. more JUNE EVENTS Crossroads Salon: John Norton, open mic June 7 Join Crossroads at Intersection for the Arts in the Mission for their second Salon, featuring John Norton. Author of poetry collections Air Transmigra (2010), Re: Marriage (2000), The Light at the End of the Bog (1989) and Posthum(or)ous (1985), John is a past winner of the American Book Award, and has served as Board President for Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center and the Irish Arts Foundation. Reading from John’s work will be followed by an open mic session where participants can present work that can be read and/or performed in a 5-7 minute window.

The Crossroads Salon is a forum to highlight and explore the work of local writers and artists who either have Irish or Irish-American heritages or are interested in exploring Irish-American themes. See calendar for details . MAY EVENTS Irish Hill – Potrero’s Lost Neighborhood • May 17 The Irish Literary and Historical Society welcomes local historian Steven Fidel Herraiz who will discuss Irish Hill, a 1860-1918 Irish neighborhood near San Francisco’s shipyards. This neighborhood was known for its infamous saloons, bare-knuckle boxing matches, and boarding houses. Steven brings it all to life with his research, archived news clippings and photographs. St. Francis Room, United Irish Cultural Center. ILHS members free; visitors $5. APRIL EVENTS Miracles of Development: From Irish Pigs to Celtic Tigers April 26th. The Irish Literary & Historical Society presents Professor Sarah Townsend as guest speaker on April 26th, at the United Irish Cultural Center. A lighthearted and erudite exploration of representations of the animals applied to the Irish from the 19th century through the recent economic crisis.

This talk examines Patrick McCabe’s 1992 novel The Butcher Boy and Enda Walsh’s 1996 play Disco Pigs, arguing that the two works deploy and upturn pig stereotypes in order to critique late twentieth-century Irish gentrification. Through their protagonists’ pig-themed defiance and ultimate violence, which borrow elements from both the American counterculture and the imperial archive, McCabe and Walsh demonstrate the long effects of porcine Irish stereotypes that emerged in colonial racial discourses and reappear in contemporary discussions about the Celtic Tiger and European debt. The two works challenge the aspirational consumerism of a bourgeois Ireland that would prefer to forget its rural and colonial past, as well as the capriciousness of a global capitalist culture that alternatingly rewards and punishes excessive consumption. Sarah L. Townsend is an Assistant Professor in English at the University of South Dakota. She specializes in modern and contemporary Anglophone literature with an emphasis in Irish Studies. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on British and Irish modernism, contemporary fiction and drama, Anglophone world literature, postcolonialism, and human rights. Her work appears in the Journal of Modern Literature, Modern Drama, and the edited collection Animals in Irish Culture.

She is completing her first monograph, supported by a 2014-15 Visiting Fellowship at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, which examines Irish literature’s radical transformation of developmental discourses during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She received her Ph D in English from UC Berkeley. You Don’t Look Irish A Reading and Conversation with Multiracial Writers of Irish Heritage. Friday, March 27. USF (event has passed) Irish-American Crossroads Festival “You don’t look Irish!” is a comment some of the featured authors have heard about their Irish heritage, if they are bi-racial or multi-racial. Words like these, from a schoolteacher, prompted Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu to write about the experience of growing up as an Irish-Japanese American. A similar comment to Leslie Ryan’s first grader son from a Mom at school, prompted her to write her children’s book “I am Flippish” (Filipino-Irish). During our reading you’ll hear from writers of various multi-racial backgrounds, all of whom claim Irish heritage.

Sometimes the authors’ writing deals head on with heritage, at other times the theme of heritage is just part of who the writer is. Come and listen to: Dylan Amaro-McIntyre, Caroline Mar, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, and Clare Ramsaran, four very different writers and join in the conversation about what Irish heritage “looks like” in the 21st Century. Saint Patrick’s Day 2015 Readings La Movida Wine Bar, 3066 24th St. Noe Valley. The popular reading series celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with an all-Irish lineup of writers: Emer Martin (Baby Zero), Eanlai Cronin (Girl in Irish), Michael Sheahan (Once Upon A Clock), Alan O’Gorman and others. Guest MCd by virtuoso fiddler Colm O’Riain (Bridge Across the Blue). website Folio Books, 24th St. Noe Valley, SF – 7-9pm. Part of Noe Valley’s 9th annual literary festival Word Week, Irish and Irish American Writers celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with by reading — and singing —from their work.

Readers are Renee Gibbons, Byddi Lee, Noe Valley’s Mary Jo McConahay, Ethel Rohan, and Eddie Stack. Free Irish music, food, and drink. Folio Books 3957 24th St. SF . website Ralph Josiah Bardsley, SF Main Library 6pm Brothers is Ralph Josiah Bardsley’s debut novel about the Corks and the Malloys, two sets of brothers growing up in the Irish American enclave of South Boston. The story examines the strong bonds of brotherhood in Irish families and how those relationships shape the coming out experience for gay Irish Catholics in America. Born into an Irish American family in a small town outside of Boston, Ralph Josiah grew up as a Coast Guard brat, wandering around helicopter hangers in New Orleans, Cape Cod, coastal North Carolina, and Sitka, Alaska. He currently resides in San Francisco and Boston with his husband and partner of more than fourteen years, Dana Short. Main Library, Civic Center, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco.

Ulysses eBook by James Joyce - 9786050326093 | Kobo Show more Show less Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach in February 1922, in Paris. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature, and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". According to Declan Kiberd, "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking." However, even proponents of Ulysses such as Anthony Burgess have described the book as "inimitable, and also possibly mad".Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904.

Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem (e.g., the correspondence of Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, Molly Bloom to Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus).Ulysses is approximately 265,000 words in length, uses a lexicon of 30,030 words (including proper names, plurals and various verb tenses), and is divided into eighteen episodes. Since publication, the book has attracted controversy and scrutiny, ranging from early obscenity trials to protracted textual "Joyce Wars." Ulysses' stream-of-consciousness technique, careful structuring, and experimental prose—full of puns, parodies, and allusions, as well as its rich characterisations and broad humour, made the book a highly regarded novel in the Modernist pantheon. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

Joyce fans worldwide now celebrate 16 June as Bloomsday. Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach in February 1922, in Paris. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature, and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". According to Declan Kiberd, "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking." However, even proponents of Ulysses such as Anthony Burgess have described the book as "inimitable, and also possibly mad". Buy the eBook

Question: June 16 is a day to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and to relieve the events in which of his novels?
Answer: Ulysses