1) to mute yourself -- look for the little microphone--usually in the lower left corner. Click on the microphone to mute or unmute;

2) to use Speaker Mode - in the upper right corner: the grid icon is for gallery mode - with all participants visible. Click on the full-screen icon to select "Speaker" view if not already selected. When the text or a video is being shared, this will show the speaker in a small rectangle

Our Joyce Scholars:

Robert Aubry Davis is the host of the Around Town PBS show, as well as the creator and host of the Millennium of Music program (featuring music before Bach). A native Washingtonian, he is a Joyce guru, music authority and accomplished actor.

Christopher Griffin came to the US from County Galway by way of Trinity College Dublin. He has been a professor of Irish literature and history at various universities - he is an Irish expert for Smithsonian journeys and often teaches courses at Politics and Prose.

Dan Mulhall is Ireland's 18th Ambassador to the United States. He pursued undergraduate and graduate studies at University College Cork and is author of A New Day Dawning: A Portrait of Ireland in 1900 (1999) and co-author of The Shaping of Modern Ireland: A Centenary Assessment (2016). Since 1978 he has had a varied and particularly distinguished career at the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs that has included several ambassadorships. He was a member of the Irish government's delegation with respect to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. His social media activities include daily updates on his Twitter account @DanMulhall and regular blogs on the Embassy's website.

OUR SCRIPT

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James Joyce's Ulysses

(1988) Documentary Directed by Nigel Wattis

(featuring TJ McKenna as the citizen):