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The James Joyce Centre Dublin The James Joyce Centre is a museum and cultural institution dedicated to James Joyce and Irish literature.
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Are you The Write Stuff ready? We are back in the beautiful surroundings of The James Joyce Centre continuing our collab...
16/10/2026

Are you The Write Stuff ready?
We are back in the beautiful surroundings of The James Joyce Centre continuing our collaboration with Dublin By Dusk in partnership with the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport Fáilte Ireland Dublin City Council DublinTown | Promoting the Best of Dublin City and Dublin for our Oct. 29th gathering.

Curated & hosted by Steve O’Toole, a street stalking creative, poet, storyteller, artist, and the creative force behind The Write Stuff. Originally performing in the mid 90’s as support to Irish writer ‘Pat Ingoldsby’. It was early 2023, when Steve returned after a far too long hiatus.

Not one to sit on the fence, Steve firmly wears both his heart and mind on his sleeve, delivering forceful versed commentary by the page full. He will be launching his long awaited and over procrastinated debut observational and reflective anthology ‘Don’t Judge My Book By My Cover’ in November 2026.

Note: This is a very limited ticketed event, and expected to book out quickly.
📣 THUR. 29th Oct. .
📍 The James Joyce Centre
ℹ️ TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE AT ⬇️
🌐 https://www.thewritestuff.ie/

© The Write Stuff

Welcoming to the The Write Stuff mic the one & only Dermott Hayes / for our next Dublin By Dusk in collaboration with T...
11/10/2026

Welcoming to the The Write Stuff mic the one & only Dermott Hayes / for our next Dublin By Dusk in collaboration with The James Joyce Centre and the support of Department of Culture, Communications and Sport Fáilte Ireland Dublin DublinTown | Promoting the Best of Dublin City Dublin City Council and BEST OF IRELAND | Cathal & John 🙏

Dermott is an author, poet and film maker.
* Lectured in NCAD, 1977/79, BA in History & Politics.
* Tutored in UCD Politics.
* Author of postgraduate EU study on Parliamentary Committee Systems.
* Economic research, Irish Management Institute 1979/80.
* Freelance journalist, 1981 / 1995 - Press Group, Irish Times, Cork Examiner, Evening Echo, Daily Mirror, The Sun, Daily Mail. Also Rolling Stone, Q Magazine, Select, MOJO. Social diarist, Evening Herald 95/2000, Showbusiness Editor, Mail on Sunday Ireland, 2002/5

Publications:
* So Different, a biography of Sinead O’Connor 1992
* Postcard from a Pigeon, collection of short stories 2009
* Tito’s Dead, novel 2011
* The Lonely Distance 2019, first collections of poems
* 1916 Souls of Freedom, short film, released 2016

📣 A NOT TO BE MISSED GATHERING THUR. 29th Oct.
📍 The James Joyce Centre
ℹ️ TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE AT ⬇️
🌐 https://www.thewritestuff.ie/

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Are you ready for the return to the The Write Stuff mic of the enigmatic & thought provoking The Vagabond Queen on Thur....
10/10/2026

Are you ready for the return to the The Write Stuff mic of the enigmatic & thought provoking The Vagabond Queen on Thur. 29th Oct. for our continuing collaboration with The James Joyce Centre and Dublin By Dusk series. In partnership with the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport Fáilte Ireland Dublin City Council DublinTown | Promoting the Best of Dublin City and Dublin
 
Dragging spoken word straight out of its skin, The Vagabond Queen is the sonic embodiment of a one woman revolt - collapsing her performance art into a seductive assault to the senses. An unpredictable ritual rooted in the presence of transformation.
 
Her immersive expression is a living force: brutal in its beauty, unflinching, intimate and shaped by the raw truth of lived experience that refuses to remain silent. Her work is dedicated to the voiceless, the unheard and the issue of the soul tarnished in a world obsessed with deception.
 
An Irish and international performer described as magnetic, powerful and hypnotic, she is a devastatingly honest voice that speaks from grit and bone. This is spoken word from another world, unconventional to its core, alluring and unbound.

The Write Stuff are gatherings in collaborative storytelling, poetry & music. Curated & hosted by Dublin writer Steve O’Toole. At each gathering, storytellers, and poets, are joined by showcase musicians, working to a pre-agreed theme. Thus, delivering a continuous, collaborative flow of original work.

📣 THUR. 29th Oct. .
📍 The James Joyce Centre
ℹ️ TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE AT ⬇️
🌐 https://www.thewritestuff.ie/

© The Write Stuff

Finally getting to welcome to the The Write Stuff mic, the wonderful & talented Colm Gavin Thur. 29th Oct. for our conti...
08/10/2026

Finally getting to welcome to the The Write Stuff mic, the wonderful & talented Colm Gavin Thur. 29th Oct. for our continuing Dublin By Dusk series in collaboration with The James Joyce Centre and in partnership with the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport Fáilte Ireland Dublin City Council DublinTown | Promoting the Best of Dublin City and Dublin for our Oct. 29th gathering.

Colm Gavin…
‘One of the most significant songwriters of his generation’
Beo Records president Tim Jarvis

‘Songs this beautiful deserve to be heard’
American songwriter and ASCAP President, Paul Williams (Barbra Streisand, Carpenters).

‘A labelmate of Moya Brennan at BEO Records, Gavin traverses many old-timey influences on his new LP, with its eight songs covering everything from Jazz duets, bluesy foot-stompers, and ragtime picking tunes’
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The Write Stuff are gatherings in collaborative storytelling, poetry & music. Curated & hosted by Dublin writer Steve O’Toole. At each gathering, storytellers, and poets, are joined by showcase musicians, working to a pre-agreed theme. Thus, delivering a continuous, collaborative flow of original work.

📣 THUR. 29th Oct. .
📍 The James Joyce Centre
ℹ️ TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE AT ⬇️
🌐 https://www.thewritestuff.ie/

© The Write Stuff

Please join us on Friday, 23 October at 6.30pm for "Alcoholic Family: The Sobering Reality of the Joyces," a lecture abo...
08/10/2026

Please join us on Friday, 23 October at 6.30pm for "Alcoholic Family: The Sobering Reality of the Joyces," a lecture about alcoholism and the Joyce family by author Christine Dwyer Hickey.

To grow up in an alcoholic home is to grow up among chaos. Chaos brought about by fear, shame, guilt and even grief. To survive, family members adapt certain strategies: they enable, cover up and deny their own feelings. They take on various roles in order to protect the family unit: Hero, Enabler, Scapegoat and Lost Child, Clown. This is how the Alcoholic Family is built. In short, if Tolstoy’s unhappy families are all unhappy in their own way, alcoholic families are unhappy in a way that is remarkably similar and depressingly predictable.

There can be no doubt that John Stanislaus Joyce was a chronic alcoholic. But what impact did his drinking have on his family? This lecture will consider the Joyces as the quintessential ‘Alcoholic Family’ as defined by psychologists and medical professionals. It will also discuss the influence brought to bear on the work and life of the eldest son James, who would go on to become the most gifted and famous writer of the 20th century.

Doors open at 6pm. Tickets are €5.

The talk will be followed by a w**e reception 🍷

Christine Dwyer Hickey is a novelist and short story writer. She has published nine novels and a short story collection. Christine has won many awards including the Walter Scott Prize 2020 and the Dalkey Literary Award for her novel The Narrow Land and the Kerry Group Novel of the Year for The Cold Eye of Heaven.

The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/alcoholic-family-the-sobering-reality-of-the-joyces-tickets-2003007164348

Join us for an evening with Portuguese writer Sandro William Junqueira on Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 6.30pm. Junqueira ...
08/10/2026

Join us for an evening with Portuguese writer Sandro William Junqueira on Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 6.30pm. Junqueira will discuss his new novel, The Architecture of Fear. Moderated by Sinéad Mac Aodha, Director of Literature Ireland, the event is organised by the Embassy of Portugal to Ireland in collaboration with Literature Ireland. This literary gathering will will foster a wide-ranging discussion about this exciting new novel.

All are welcome, including book enthusiasts and members of the Portuguese-speaking community in Ireland.

Sandro William Junqueira is a Portuguese writer, theatre director and drama teacher whose work is distinguished by its literary depth and its focus on the psychological and symbolic dimensions of the human experience. His novel There Are No Lemons in Heaven (No Céu não há Limões) was a finalist for the 2015 Portuguese Writers’ Association’s Grand Prize for Fiction.

Doors open at 6pm. This event is free but booking is essential.

The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/literary-gathering-with-the-portuguese-writer-sandro-william-junqueira-tickets-2003130451102

The James Joyce Centre and The Write Stuff are delighted to continue our collaboration with Dublin by Dusk in partnershi...
07/10/2026

The James Joyce Centre and The Write Stuff are delighted to continue our collaboration with Dublin by Dusk in partnership with the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport Fáilte Ireland Dublin City Council Dublin Dublin Town and Best of Ireland for our Oct. 29th gathering.

The Write Stuff are gatherings in collaborative storytelling, poetry & music. Curated & hosted by Dublin writer Steve O’Toole. At each gathering, storytellers, and poets, are joined by showcase musicians, working to a pre-agreed theme. Thus, delivering a continuous, collaborative flow of original work.

Please note: This is a very limited ticketed event, and expected to book out quickly. Performing artists to be announced over the coming days.

📣 THIS THUR. 29th Oct. .
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The Embassy of Spain and The James Joyce Centre are delighted to bring to the Samuel Beckett Theatre the extraordinary K...
06/10/2026

The Embassy of Spain and The James Joyce Centre are delighted to bring to the Samuel Beckett Theatre the extraordinary Karlik Danza Teatro from Cáceres, Spain, and their production "Lucia Joyce, a small drama in motion," written by Itziar Pascual with direction and dramaturgy by Cristina D. Silveira, on Sunday, 18 October 2026 at 7.30pm.

The life of James Joyce’s daughter, Lucia, is a fictionalized secret. Even her leading scholars have had to combat the intentional destruction of numerous letters, reports, and documents. Lucia was a passionate woman who devoted herself to creativity. She lived through the birth of modern dance but also suffered the fierce legacy of the James Joyce and the Joyce family, marked by exile, economic instability, talent, psychological suffering, and emotional devastation. Her story speaks of the difficult coexistence with a genius when a woman's role is merely to be a muse, not an artist.

"In “Lucia Joyce, a small drama in motion,” we want to pay tribute to all those female artists silenced by the geniuses of patriarchal society. At the same time, we take a brief journey through the birth of modern dance, with references to artists such as Margaret Morris, Martha Graham, Mary Wigman and Pina Baush. With a theatrical tribute combining dance, theatre and audiovisual elements, we bring the audience closer to the short story and drama of Lucia Joyce, daughter of the author of Ulysses." - Cristina D. Silveira, Director

Tickets are €20.

🎟️ Get Tickets at: https://beckett-theatre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873690419

The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.

30/09/2026

The James Joyce Centre cordially invites you to an evening celebrating the Irish translation of and art exhibition based on James Joyce’s “The Dead” on Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 6.30pm.

We will be treated to a presentation by Irene Duffy Lynch of "Na Mairbh," her Irish translation of "The Dead" (Coiscéim 2026) and a presentation by Penny Stuart of her exhibition of charcoal drawings inspired by "The Dead" with her accompanying art book: "Líníocht le Penny Stuart ar NA MAIRBH le James Joyce : Penny Stuart Draws The DEAD by James Joyce." We will hear music of James Joyce’s era and talks by guest speakers.

The event is free but booking is essential. Doors open at 6pm.

Bios

Irene Duffy Lynch was born in Mayo. She was educated in Univeristy College Dublin and Trinity College, Washington DC. She has written two books, "Treasures of our Elders" and "Beyond Faith and Adventure." She has translated works by John McGahern, Chinua Achebe, Sándor Márai and Viktor Frankl. She lives in Dublin.

Penny Stuart is an Irish visual artist whose practice centres on charcoal life drawing, portraiture and literature. Her ongoing The Gretta Drawings project, is inspired by ‘Gretta Conroy’, the central character in James Joyce’s celebrated short story "The Dead."

The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.

The James Joyce Centre was delighted to lead a unique week-long literary tour of Dublin organised by the University of C...
26/09/2026

The James Joyce Centre was delighted to lead a unique week-long literary tour of Dublin organised by the University of Chicago Graham School on 14-19 September. The tour was an immersive series of seminars, performances and adventures throughout Dublin. Some of the place we saw were North Inner City and Quays, James Joyce Tower, Sweny's Pharmacy, Lincoln Place, Dublin, Experience Glasnevin - Ireland's National Cemetery and Dalkey Castle. The tour 'walked into eternity' on Sandymount Strand, stepped into the footsteps of Leopold Bloom at No. 7 Eccles Street, studied with Stephen Dedalus in Belvedere College SJ, and saw rare editions and manuscripts of Joyce's work in Museum of Literature Ireland. We ended the tour with a pint (or two) at the Gravediggers Pub.

Our special thanks to the Graham School, guides, organisers and all of those involved in the wonderful experience.

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Tuesday 10:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 10:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday 10:30am - 4:30pm
Friday 10:30am - 4:30pm
Saturday 10:30am - 4:30pm

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