Round out your Bloomsday – the annual celebration of James Joyce’s Ulysses – at MoLI on Monday, 16 June, with our annual Dedalus Lecture, and our famous MoLI Bloomsday Party – and don’t miss out on free admission to the museum during the day.
Set across a single day in Dublin in 1904, James Joyce’s Ulysses continues to captivate and inspire readers and writers across the world. Join us for new perspectives on Joyce and language from writer Naoise Dolan, and experience live music with a glass in hand in our beautiful gardens at our MoLI Bloomsday Party. And don’t forget to catch a glimpse of the very first copy printed of Ulysses, on display at MoLI.
This year’s Dedalus Lecture (5.30pm) is delivered by novelist, essayist and critic Naoise Dolan (Exciting Times, The Happy Couple). In her lecture, titled ‘The Exophonic Ulysses’, Dolan will weave insights about multilingualism with an understanding of Joyce as a linguist – his love of Italian, French and Latin, and his more fraught relationship with Irish, before offering a broader reflection on adventures in multilingual writing.
The MoLI Bloomsday Party (7pm to 10pm), presented in partnership with Teeling Distillery, is a guaranteed highlight of the summer in Dublin. With free admission for MoLI Members, the party takes over the entire museum and gardens, featuring some of the most joyful live music around from Dundalk’s neo-soul band Negro Impacto and Samba D’Brazilis’ echoes of Brazil. Includes a welcome drink on arrival. Tickets are strictly limited and booking is essential. Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult.
To mark Bloomsday, we’re offering free admission to our exhibitions all day (10.30am to 4.30pm). What better time to catch a glimpse of Copy No. 1 of Ulysses– inscribed by Joyce to his patron Harriet Shaw-Weaver – or witness the writer’s manuscripts up close? While there, don’t miss out on our new exhibition on Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, or our playful collaboration with the annual arts journal HOLY SHOW.
