This year, we will celebrate Bloomsday with two events: Note that, for security reasons, the maximum capacity for the event is 50 guests. Please book your places as soon as possible (and no later than by this coming Tuesday, June 9, 8 a.m.), via 044 211 03 01 or info@joycefoundation.ch.

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Step back in time with the Zurich James Joyce Foundation as we recreate the historic 1929 banquet celebrating the French translation of James Joyce’s literary masterpiece, Ulysses. Join us at the James Joyce Restaurant & Bar on Friday, September 4, 2026, from 5.30 p.m. and enjoy a curated menu, authentic Irish music performed by Tale…

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Nora and Jim – an original play written for the Centenary Celebrations of Ulysses on Bloomsday 2022 – charts the tempestuous relationship between the Irish writer James Joyce and his partner and muse, Nora Barnacle. Following acclaimed performances in Dublin, London, Edinburgh, Los Angeles, Trieste, Glasgow, and beyond, Nora Connolly’s masterful play finally makes its…

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Als der Musiker und Künstler Roman Rutishauser diesen Satz im Ulysses von James Joyce entdeckte, war er begeistert: Wie oft krampft man vergeblich nach Worten, um Musik zu beschreiben, nur um einmal mehr feststellen zu müssen, dass es dafür letztlich keine Worte gibt. Umso deutlicher hört man beim Lesen förmlich das Bild vom Klavierspieler und…

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Join us for a free reading and discussion with Lisa McInerney, author of the award-winning Cork trilogy The Glorious Heresies, organized by the UZH Swiss Centre of Irish Studies. Lisa began her writing career with the blog The Arse End of Ireland, which chronicled an Ireland “populated by chancers, boy racers, beleaguered mammies, local hard…

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Join us for the second edition of the literary series Irish Voices, with the poet, novelist and short story writer Caoilinn Hughes, organized by the UZH Swiss Centre of Irish Studies. Caoilinn Hughes is the author of Orchid & the Wasp, which won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary…

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Join us for the second series of the free literary event “Irish Voices”, organised by the UZH Swiss Centre of Irish Studies! Lucy Caldwell is the award-winning author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and three collections of short stories. Her latest novel, These Days, won the 2023 Walter Scott prize for…

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The Zurich James Joyce Foundation is proud to host the event “Authentic Expression: Literature and the Struggle for Freedom” with Sahar Tavakoli. As a publisher, translator and poet in Iran, Sahar Tavakoli experienced directly the pressures and limitations of producing literature under an authoritarian regime. Living in exile in Switzerland since 2023, she has also…

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The Zurich James Joyce Foundation is proud to host a book launch with Arianna Autieri, celebrating the publication of James Joyce’s Music Performed: The ‘Sirens’ Fugue in Experimental Re-Translation. Fugues are complex musical compositions whose intricate contrapuntal texture enchants listeners and performers alike: but how can they be composed from written words, silent on the…

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The Zurich James Joyce Foundation is proud to host a reading with the novelist Clare O’Dea (Website: https://clareodea.com/). Moderator: Rafaël Newman. Author of two non-fiction books, two novels and a collection of articles, Clare has been telling stories of Switzerland since she first came to live in the country in 2003. Formerly an Irish Times…

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