BLOOMSDAY BY OLLI 2021
Wednesday, June 16 from 3:30 to 7:30 PM EDT
Enhanced by Zoom
James Joyce painted by Jacques Emile Blanche in 1935
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Program outline and Cast
Participating Scholars' Bios
Script
Program
Film
Rick Steves Ireland Videos
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COMPARATIVE JOYCE
Our Program this year is about links:
That is to say links of one sort and another between passages in different works of James Joyce (primarily pairings with Ulysses excerpts).
This includes all kinds of relationships and correspondences e.g. - the same subject treated differently - different aspects of a subject - events that follow from one another in time. We are looking at developments in Joyce's life that are reflected in his writing as well as developments in the lives of Joyce's characters - this is basically a space/time experience.
Our virtual program will begin at 3:30 PM on Wednesday, June 16.
There will be live readings of linked passages and a film screening.
We will be reading 15 sets of comparative passages taken from Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake.
Our guest readers include Joyce scholars, Robert Aubry Davis, Christopher Griffin, and Dan Mulhall, as well as Barnaby Powell (China authority - most recent book China Goes Critical, 2018), and Patrick Willard (accomplished and acclaimed actor). They join members of Osher Institute-American University.
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Our Readers:
Vi Baluyut
Robert Aubry Davis
Brian Fasing
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Marilyn Wong Gleysteen
Christopher Griffin
Dorothy Haase
Richard Hoffman
Enid Hyde
Bob Kolodney
Sarel Kromer
Gail Lelyveld
Sandy Leibowitz
Patricia Aycock Mertz
Daniel Mulhall
Virginia Paige
Mary Poole
Barnaby Powell
Patrick Willard
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Our Joyce Scholars:
Robert Aubry Davis
Christopher Griffin
Ambassador Dan Mulhall
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):
RICK STEVES IRELAND VIDEOS
(Series includes Dublin, Kinsale,Waterford, Dingle, Galway, Islands, Northern Ireland) His suggested itinerary for a 21-day tour is at ITINERARY)
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FINNEGANS WAKE
- There's nothing to it!
