77. Bloomsday 2024: Part 2 - Drumcondra Performances

Episode 77 is also dedicated to Gerry Enright, Kerryman, lover of life, literature and Dublin, with us from March 19, 1960 to July 8, 2019.

Episode 77 is the final instalment of Bloomsweek 2024 (or should that be Bloomsfortnight?) and features performances from the annual Drumcondra Joycean Jaunt on the 120th anniversary of Bloomsday. It is the second part of the Bloomsday 2024 recordings with Episode 74 being the first part.

Drumcondra Joycean Jaunters convened at the current day shrine of the Blessed Virgin in Our Lady’s Park on the banks of the Tolka, across from Fagan’s, to celebrate the day. They followed the short route taken by Stephen Dedalus to his home on Millbourne Avenue. There, under the shadow of the Drumcondra Library, they celebrated the day in the spirit of the first Bloomsday “jant” held 70 years ago in 1954, when amongst others, Patrick Kavanagh (whose first Dublin home was in Drumcondra), set out on a Ulyssesean pilgrimage.

The Ireland Podcast would like to express huge gratitude to Jerome Corby and friends for their efforts in the recording of this podcast. Jerome hosts his own podcast called ‘Country - What It Is’. Definitely worth checking out for all you lovers of American Country Music.

Contents

Paul Reardon - Welcome

Declan Roche - Introduction

Seán mac Gabhann - "Stately, Plump Buck Mulligan..."

Denis Kehoe - A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man

Jerome Corby - Oft In The Stilly Night (Thomas More)

Declan Roche - "Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls..."

Paul Reardon - The original Bloomsday

Fiona Dalton - Down By The Salley Gardens (William Butler Yeats)

Jane Kelly - Penelope Unbound (Mary Morrissy)

Kieran Rogers - an appreciation of Finnegan's Wake

Clodagh Malone - Thunder words in Finnegan's Wake / A Letter from Martha to Bloom

Martin Groves - Dubliners - Gas From A Burner

Carl Lombard - Joyce, Ibsen & Hemingway

Jerome Corby - Going to Paddy Dignam's Funeral / Oh! Oh! Antonio

Declan Roche - Barney Kiernan's Pub

Antonio Argentieri - My Way

Jerome Corby interviews Carl Lombard

Relevant Links

https://www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/event/drumcondra-joycean-jaunt-2/

https://jamesjoyce.ie/

https://www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/

https://open.spotify.com/show/36vYXjUXAhoKal1SldsNDq?si=c85776a0b45b4c83

https://www.theirelandpodcast.com/latest-podcast/episode/55a1bd63/74-bloomsday-2024-part-1-drumcondra-interviews

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