James Joyce’s works have been adapted into films, plays, music, comics, etc. In addition, there are literary rewritings and appropriations. Below, you can find some examples.

Examples of Adaptations of Joyce’s Works

• Films
  • Ulysses (USA/UK 1967, dir. Joseph Strick) – IMDb
  • Bloom (Ireland 2003, dir. Sean Walsh) – IMDb
• Stage Plays
  • Frank McGuinness, The Dead (English – Abbey Theatre, 2012 – Faber & Faber, 2012)
• Musicals & Operas
  • James Joyce’s The Dead – Music: Shaun Davey / Book: Richard Nelson / Lyrics: Shaun Davey & Richard Nelson (Playwrights Horizon, NYC, 1999 – Libretto published)
• Other Types of Music
  • Hibsen, The Stern Task of Living (Songs inspired by Dubliners / 2023, available online or on CD from our Shop).
  • Choral Scholars of University College Dublin: Chamber Music by James Joyce (2024, available on CD)
• Comics
  • Nicolas Mahler, Ulysses (German – Suhrkamp, 2020)
• Prose Fiction
  • Harris, Thomas, Dubliners 100: 15 New Stories Inspired by the Original: Fifteen New Stories Inspired by the Original (Tramp Press, 2016)

More systematic overviews on the following categories of adaptations will be made available by the summer of 2026: