Details
$456 general / $366 members (inclusive of $6 service fee)Date(s)
Apr 17, 2024 – Jun 12, 2024
5:00pm
Contact
Box office: 888-616-0274
10am-6pm, Monday-Friday
info@irishartscenter.org
Location
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Overview
Jonathan Goldman, Wednesdays, 5pm—6:30pm
9 weekly sessions beginning April 17
Have you always wanted to read Joyce's Ulysses but not gotten around to it—not had the time, not felt ready to tackle a famously difficult novel? Have you been thinking about this lately, what with the hubbub over the novel's 100-year anniversary in 2022?
The time is now! Join Jonathan Goldman, president of the James Joyce Society and internationally recognized Joyce scholar, in what will be part reading group, part class. All are welcome, whether you have read the novel before or are completely new to it or its author altogether.
The goal of the course will be to walk participants through some of the novel's difficult passages and themes to facilitate not only understanding, but an appreciation of its humor and humanity. The emphasis will always be on the pleasures of consuming Joyce’s masterpiece.
Taking on between one and four chapters each week, we will end in time for Bloomsday, June 16, at which point we will celebrate what is a real achievement: finishing—and hopefully loving—Ulysses.
Our Supporters
Irish Arts Center programs are supported, in part, by government, foundation, and corporate partners including Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office and the New York City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Howard Gilman Foundation; Tourism Ireland; the Jerome L. Greene Foundation; the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation; the Charina Endowment Fund; the Ireland Funds; the Shubert Foundation, Inc.; the Arnhold Foundation; the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; the Irish Institute of New York; the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York; Northern Ireland Bureau; Invest NI; CIE Tours International; the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate of Ireland in New York; and thousands of generous donors like you.
