The James Joyce Centre Dublin

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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The James Joyce Centre, presented in association with Poetry Ireland, invites you to "Who's He When He's at Home?", a lu...
23/05/2026

The James Joyce Centre, presented in association with Poetry Ireland, invites you to "Who's He When He's at Home?", a lunchtime gathering bringing poets and audiences together in honour of Poetry Day Ireland.

On Thursday, 28th May at 1-2pm, we will be gathering at the doorway of No. 7 Eccles Street — one of the most iconic homes in literature, as featured in Ulysses by James Joyce. Located in our courtyard, the doorway is the threshold of Leopold Bloom’s home, inviting reflection on the meaning of home through poetry. The idea of home is at the heart of Ulysses, where Joyce transforms everyday domestic life into something expansive and deeply human. No. 7 Eccles Street becomes a powerful symbol of return, intimacy, and inner life. The event invites audiences to reflect on how home is experienced — not just as a fixed place but as something shaped by movement, relationships, and imagination.

The event will feature invited poets alongside an open mic segment, encouraging participation from the public. Bring a poem by your favourite poet or read one of your own! We will be joined by award-winning poet Cormac Mac Gearailt. Tea and coffee will be served.

The event is free but booking is essential. All are welcome.

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

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/whos-he-when-hes-at-home-poetry-day-ireland-at-the-james-joyce-centre-tickets-1989549406833

21/05/2026

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Join us at The James Joyce Centre on Thursday, 11th Juneat 6pm for the formal launch of this year’s Bloomsday Festival a...
21/05/2026

Join us at The James Joyce Centre on Thursday, 11th Juneat 6pm for the formal launch of this year’s Bloomsday Festival and Bloomsday Film Festival!

The Bloomsday Festival is in full-swing this year with up to 100 events on June 11th-16th throughout Dublin. Our reception will feature talks, music, readings and some wine as we celebrate another year of Bloomsday celebrations. Join festival goers around Dublin and the world as we kick off this extraordinary time of the year.

On Bloomsday, we are all Dubliners.

The event is free but booking is essential. Doors open at 5.30pm. Ticket link at bloomsdayfestival.ie

In collaboration with The James Joyce Centre and supported by Fáilte Ireland and The Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.

21/05/2026

Suzanne Savage performing last year. 🎶

You can get tickets now for the Bloomsday Breakfast. For more information and tickets, please see bloomsdayfestival.ie

Start Bloomsday the right way at the official Bloomsday Breakfast, hosted by Belvedere Townhouse in collaboration with the James Joyce Centre. Step into the world of Ulysses and celebrate James Joyce with a lively morning of songs, readings, guest speakers, and playful recreations from the novel — all in Joyce’s former schoolhouse that we wrote about in Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

In collaboration with The James Joyce Centre and supported by Fáilte Ireland and The Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.

Behind every monster, there's a team of extraordinary women who refused to be average. 💪Meet the people who made O! O! M...
20/05/2026

Behind every monster, there's a team of extraordinary women who refused to be average. 💪

Meet the people who made O! O! Monsters! happen.

Notice what they're standing in front of.

"JUST BE AVERAGE."

They didn't.

AFFA, the Athenry Foundation for Art was built on the belief that exceptional artists deserve exceptional platforms.
Laura Angell was their first choice.

The James Joyce Centre opened its doors, its rooms, and its walls to make this
collaboration possible.

The result is O! O! Monsters!
A family exhibition that has filled this Georgian house with colour, texture, wonder and more than a little chaos.

This is what happens when passionate people back passionate artists.

Something extraordinary. 🧶

📍 35 North Great George's Street
Dublin 1 · D01 WK44
📅 Open from April 2026
🕙 Tuesday – Saturday · 10:30am – 4:30pm

Come and see what they built. 👇









She grew up in Sheffield.She studied in Galway.She never stopped making things.Meet Laura Angell ! The artist behind eve...
19/05/2026

She grew up in Sheffield.
She studied in Galway.
She never stopped making things.

Meet Laura Angell ! The artist behind every creature, every stitch, every ruffled monster you see in O! O! Monsters! at the James Joyce Centre.

Laura describes herself as an "emotional flasher."
She exposes the things we don't talk about - anxiety, failure, shame, the relentless pressure to be perfect and then stitches them into something colourful, playful and impossible to look away from.

She uses 1980s knitting machines.
Crochet. Hand embroidery. Bargello. Tapestry. Felting.
Each technique chosen not for convenience, but for what it can carry emotionally.

"The process of making becomes as important as the work itself."

Her monsters are not frightening. They are everything we have been told to hide - made large, made bright, made visible.

That is why children love them immediately.
They haven't learned to be afraid of their feelings yet.

📍 35 North Great George's Street, Dublin 1
📅 Open from 2 April 2026
🕙 Tuesday – Saturday · 10:30am – 4:30pm

What emotion would YOUR monster be made of? 👇








Meet the monsters!👾Four of Laura Angell's extraordinary handmade textile creatures, each one built from hundreds of hour...
18/05/2026

Meet the monsters!👾

Four of Laura Angell's extraordinary handmade textile creatures, each one
built from hundreds of hours of obsessive, compulsive, joyful stitching.

The one wrapped in orange lattice and exploding purple crochet.
The dark tower stacked with tiny skulls and turquoise ruffles.
The hot pink tassel column standing impossibly tall.
The fluffy yellow giant covered in bright embroidered baubles.

Every single thread placed by hand.
Every single creature entirely one of a kind.

This is O! O! Monsters!
The debut exhibition by AFFA, the Athenry Foundation for Art, in partnership with the James Joyce Centre, Dublin.

Who knows where they go next. 🧶

📍 James Joyce Centre
35 North Great George's Street
Dublin 1 · D01 WK44
📅 Open from April 2026
🕙 Tuesday – Saturday · 10:30am – 4:30pm

Which monster would you take home?
Tell us below. 👇

16/05/2026

Join us at The James Joyce Centre on Friday, 12 June 2026 at 7pm as soprano Lorna Windsor and pianist Nicole Panizza present the European premiere of Chamber Music, with the poems of James Joyce and songs of Ross Lee Finney.
This collection of beautiful poems written by James Joyce between 1901 and 1904, published in 1907, has long remained in the shadow of Joyce’s close-following famous works: Stephen Hero, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake. If Stephen Hero and Portrait of the Artist revealed much of Joyce’s personality, it can be said that there are clues, even strong hints, to those very personality traits and roots, also planted in the poems of Chamber Music. These are the poems of an exceptional young man, already marked by the weighty, vast culture he gained as a student and by his pithy and perspicacious views on life. Joyce, also a talented singer and passionate music lover, imbued his all his works with music, including the 36 poems of Chamber Music, which he deeply desired to be sung.

Tickets and more information can be found on bloomsdayfestival.ie



In collaboration with The James Joyce Centre and supported by Fáilte Ireland and The Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.

On 23-28 March 2026, Director Darina Gallagher and Dr. Josh Q. Newman visited Budapest and Szombathely, Hungary for a jo...
16/05/2026

On 23-28 March 2026, Director Darina Gallagher and Dr. Josh Q. Newman visited Budapest and Szombathely, Hungary for a job shadowing programme with the MNMKK - Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum (PIM). The programme was part of an Erasmus+ short-term mobility project, “Digital Transformation in European Writers’ Museum.”

The six-month project aims to improve digitisation competences, facilitate the accessibility and usability of collections, reach a wider audience through online platforms, enable an exciting museum experience for all people, expand the circle of cooperation partners and present the project results internationally. The project hopes to significantly improve the digitisation knowledge and skills of memory institutions in order to present the literary and cultural history of 20th-century Europe in a broader and more inclusive way.

You can read more about our experiences in our blog published in EPALE: https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/blog/digital-transformation-european-writers-museums-part-2

We wish to express our gratitude to Anna Benedek, Dr. Andrea Borbás and Dr. Andrea Parádi of PIM as well as the Embassy of Ireland, Hungary, ELTE Savaria Egyetemi Központ, and Bloomsday Szombathely.

The project is co-funded by the European Union and facilitated by Léargas. The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.

Tickets are still available for next Tuesday’s performance of SHARD. See why the Irish Times calls SHARD “Utterly compel...
15/05/2026

Tickets are still available for next Tuesday’s performance of SHARD. See why the Irish Times calls SHARD “Utterly compelling”

“Fleming’s performance is flawless.”

“Intellectually daring, surprising and at times genuinely funny.”

Do not miss this powerful performance! Get your tickets now: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/shard-an-irish-folk-horror-tickets-1987067793260

Join us at The James Joyce Centre on Sunday, June 14th at 11am for a Bloomsday Festival children’s event of fun, mischie...
15/05/2026

Join us at The James Joyce Centre on Sunday, June 14th at 11am for a Bloomsday Festival children’s event of fun, mischief, and Joyce! Author and illustrator Úna Woods will read from her new children’s book A Blooming Great Day (The O’Brien Press) and lead a drawing workshop. The children will draw scenes from the book and design their own hats! This is a great way for children to be introduced to Joyce and to partake in Dublin’s great literary tradition.
Úna Woods is a children’s book illustrator and author who lives in Dublin with her husband and two children and their ginger cat. Her previous books include Have You Seen the Dublin Vampire? and A Spooktacular Place to Be, both published by The O’Brien Press. Úna loves working with bright colours and patterns. She also loves reading and running.
Tickets are €10 or €5 each in our 2-for-1 special.

Tickets and more information can be found on bloomsdayfestival.ie



In collaboration with The James Joyce Centre and supported by Fáilte Ireland and The Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.

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35 North Great George's Street
Dublin
D01WK44

Opening Hours

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

Website

https://www.eventbrite.ie/o/james-joyce-centre-44248525573, https://www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/

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