Joyce on Film

Amharc Éireann 1962

Bloomsday ‘62’ James Joyce Tower Opened/ Osclaíodh Túr James Joyce ar Bloomsday ‘62’

11th June 2020

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Eagrán 159.1   Sylvia Beach, the American who published Ulysses in 1922 under the imprint of her Paris bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, opens the Sandycove James Joyce Museum on 16th June 1962. D’oscail Sylvia Beach, an Meiriceánach a d’fhoilsigh Ulysses sa bhliain 1922 faoi inphrionta a siopa leabhar i bPáras, Shakespeare and Company, Músaem James […]

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Animation

Ulys

11th June 2020

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Tim Booth’s playful animation is both a reflection on Joyce’s struggle with the writing of Ulysses (which he declares to be “a real bollix of a buk”), and a whistle-stop tour through the book itself.  It offers a potted outline and uses hand-drawn animation to conjure the fevered imaginings of Leopold Bloom and the characters […]

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Drama

Pitch ‘n’ Putt with Beckett ‘n’ Joyce

11th June 2020

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Writer/director, and now film critic, Donald Clarke audaciously parodies the personae and writing styles of not one but two Irish literary giants in this short drama which finds James Joyce (Martin Murphy) and Samuel Beckett (Arthur Riordan) attempting to tee off  on a windswept green in Zurich in 1922.

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Drama

Joyce’s Dublin

10th June 2020

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Directed by Mike O’Connor, and written by his brother, Joycean scholar Ulick O’Connor, this documentary portrays the Dublin in which Joyce lived and worked before his departure for Europe in 1904. Narrated by Micheál MacLiammóir, Joyce’s writing is woven through the scenes as significant locations from his life are revealed: the house in Brighton Square […]

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Faithful Departed

22nd August 2016

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This short documentary draws on the photographs of Robert French from the William Lawrence Collection held in the National Library. The photos illustrate the Dublin of 1904 which served as a backdrop to James Joyce’s Ulysses. Directed in 1968 by renowned drama and documentary maker Kieran Hickey, the film traces Joyce’s childhood and adolescence, his […]

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