15 June: The Week Ahead on ICC Digital

ICC Digital has had a tremendous reaction to last week's Tribute to W.B Yeats and this week we are turning to another titan of Irish literature, James Joyce, as the 16th of June is Bloomsday and ICC Digital will dedicate this whole week to celebrate James Joyce’s writings and his life. We start off with a mini concert from the well-known musical family from Dublin, The Doyles. Deirdre, Denice and David Doyle will play you some tunes that James Joyce loved and featured in his books. We have Frank Grimes’ acclaimed one-man show about Joyce ‘The He & The She of It’. Actress Nora Connolly will peform the famous ‘Molly Bloom Soliloquy’ from deep in a wood in London. Duke Street Gallery Dublin open their archive for ‘Moments of Joyce’ and we meet Ireland’s most internationally known sculptor John Behan who argues that Dublin should a have a statue of Leopold Bloom erected on Duke Street, as it is synonymous with Ulysses. Niall McDevitt returns with his own version of a London Bloomsday as he reflects on the year Joyce came to London to marry Nora Barnacle after living with her for twenty years or so in sin. And finally we have a great version from Phelim Drew of Finnegan’s Wake, sang with the same gusto as his father Ronnie when he sang with The Dubliners. Happy Bloomsday and please spread the word!