News
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RTÉ Broadcast: 65th Anniversary of Joyce’s Death
To commemorate the 65th anniversary of James Joyce’s death in Zurich on January 13, 1941, Ursula Zeller, Ruth Frehner and Fritz Senn from the James Joyce Foundation shared their stories with RTÉ producer Kevin Reynolds and visited some of Joyce’s haunts in Zurich with him. You can find the RTÉ broadcast here: https://www.rte.ie/radio/dramaonone/1551751-james-joyce-in-zurich-by-kevin-reynolds.
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Joyce at the National Museum of Taiwan Literature
The new exhibition “Love Loves to Love Ireland: Extremely Distant and Incredibly Close” (Dec 19, 2026 to March 8, 2026) at the National Museum of Taiwan Literature features items on loan from the Zurich James Joyce Foundation. The items include James Joyce’s original walking sticks and the suitcase in which the Foundation received the Hans
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Ab Januar 2026: Neue Dubliner-Lesegruppe
Starting in January 2026, our Tuesday 6 p.m. reading group will focus on James Joyce’s short story collection Dubliners. Each session will concentrate on one of the fifteen stories (except for the final story “The Dead,” to which we will devote two sessions). Note that the Dubliners reading group will be offered in German as
Events & Workshops
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20.01.2026: Start of “Dubliners in 17 Sessions”
Our new reading group “Dubliners in 17 Sessions” (in English) starts on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, at 6 p.m. For details, please consult the PDF schedule: We also invite you to join our Ulysses and Finnegans Wake reading groups. Further information is available under Reading Groups.
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20.02.2026: Reading with Novelist Clare O’Dea
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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27.03.2026: Online Lecture on Ulysses with Sam Slote
We are pleased to announce that Sam Slote (Trinity College Dublin) will be the inaugural speaker in our new Online Lecture Series. Sam Slote’s lecture “Tales of Brave Ulysses: From Swerve of Censorship to Bend of Copyright” will take place on Friday, March 27, 2026, at 6.30 p.m. Zurich time. In this lecture I will