Virag in Hades, a rehearsed reading of an excerpt from the Circe episode of Ulysses, with Barry McGovern
‘FW81’ a celebration of the 81st anniversary, on 4 May 2020, of the publication of Finnegans Wake
Paddy Dignam’s Month’s Mind, a socially-distanced sortie on 16 July 2020 with stops at Newbridge Avenue, Sandymount and Glasnevin Cemetary.
The Heaventree of Stars, presented from Dunsink Observatory in association with the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS). Contributors included Professor Peter Gallagher, Director of the Observatory; Emeritus Professor Luke Drury; Barry McGovern, Eoin Gill, Darina Gallagher and Sinead Murphy. Audience members joined from Boston, Brooklyn, San Diego, Tokyo, Rome, Trieste, Copenhagen, Corcha Dhuibhne and Dublin.
'Two Gallants', a reading of the story from Dubliners, adapted for Zoom by Darina Gallagher
'Von der Sirenen Listigkeit', a recording by David Scott of this early seventeenth-century song which features near the end of the Eumaeusepisode of Ulysses
'Ivy Day in the Committee Room', dramatised reading in collaboration with the Thirsty Scholars reading group, Boston
'Joyce in Tarry Easty', a reading of a play by Debbie Wiess of Boston, which was originally intended to be part of the Trieste James Joyce Summer School 2020.
'The Dead', a rehearsed reading with Rachael Dowling and Maria McDermottroe from the original cast of John Huston’s 1987 movie.
'The Tower', a rehearsed reading of Joe Joyce’s play, featuring the ghosts of James Joyce and Oliver St John Gogarty, followed by a Q&A with the author. The audience included members of both the Melbourne and Toronto Bloomsday Festival organisations.
