Note: A list of stage plays in languages other than English will be added at a later stage.
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Plays in English
| Title | Author | Premiere | Call Number | Based on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Dublin Bloom: An Original Free Adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses | Bolger, Dermot | 1994 | X 34 | Ulysses |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Riordan, Arthur | 2018 | t.b.d. | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| All Joyce | McKenna, Siobhan | 1982 | — | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chamber Music (selection of poems), “Gas from a Burner,” Dubliners: “Clay,” Pomes Penyeach (selection of poems), “Ecce Puer,” Finnegans Wake |
| Bloomsday | McClelland, Allan | 1958 | — | Ulysses |
| Mouths Making Water | O’Gorman, Marc-Ivan | 2015 | t.b.d. | Finnegans Wake |
| Circe | O’Hanrahan, Paul | 1983 | — | Ulysses |
| Dead City: A Modern Riff on Joyce’s Ulysses | Callaghan, Sheila | 2006 | t.b.d. | Ulysses |
| Dublin One | Leonard, Hugh | 1963 | — | Dubliners: “An Encounter” / “Counterparts” / “Grace” / “Ivy Day in the Committee Room” / “Two Gallants” / “A Little Cloud” |
| Dubliners | West, Michael & Annie Ryan | 2012 | — | Dubliners |
| Dubliners | Walker, Paul | 1982 | — | Dubliners |
| Dubliners’ Women | O’Kelly, Katie | 2016 | — | Dubliners |
| Finnegans Wake | Heefner, David Kerry | 1969 | — | Finnegans Wake |
| Finnegans Wake | O’Sullivan, Desmond | 1987 | — | Finnegans Wake |
| Giacomo Joyce | Layde, Pat | 1977 | — | Giacomo Joyce |
| Gibraltar | Fitzgerald, Patrick | 2013 | — | Ulysses |
| Here Are Women: The Women of Joyce & Shaw & O’Casey & Yeats & Synge & Stephens & Beckett, etc. | McKenna, Siobhan | 1970 | — | Ulysses & Finnegans Wake |
| Ivy Day | Manning, Mary | 1966 | — | Dubliners: “Ivy Day in the Committee Room” |
| James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Ewen, Frederic, Phoebe Brand & John Randolph | 1962 | — | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man & Stephen Hero |
| James Joyce’ Women | Flanagan, Fionnula | 1979 | — | Ulysses & Finnegans Wake (Note: The play also features women from Joyce’s life.) |
| Joycemen | Morissey, Eamon | 1980 | — | Ulysses |
| Molly Bloom | Wilshire, Donna | 1977 | — | Ulysses |
| Molly Bloom Is at La Mama | Peled, Joanna | 1987 | — | Ulysses |
| Mr. Bloom and the Cyclops | Carroll, Joseph | 1982 | — | Ulysses |
| Nightfall | O’Hanrahan, Paul | 1985 | — | Finnegans Wake |
| riverrun | Fouéré, Olwen | 2013 | — | Finnegans Wake |
| Stephen D. | Leonard, Hugh | 1962 | W. SH 10 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man & Stephen Hero |
| The Coach with the Six Insides | Erdman, Jean | 1962 | CD 35 | Finnegans Wake |
| The Dead | McGuinness, Frank | 2012 | X 43 | Dubliners: “The Dead” |
| The Dead | Leonard, Hugh | 1967 | — | Dubliners: “The Dead” |
| The Dead, 1904 | Muldoon, Paul & Jean Hanff Korelitz | 2016 | t.b.d. | Dubliners: “The Dead” |
| The Voice of Shem: Passages from Finnegans Wake | Manning, Mary | 1958 | X 13 | Finnegans Wake |
| Ulysses | Bolger, Dermot | 2017 | t.b.d. | Ulysses |
| Ulysses | Walsh, Ronnie & Anthony Cronin | 1988 | — | Ulysses |
| Ulysses | Rumbelow, Steven | 1981 | — | Ulysses |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Neil, Tom | 2012 | t.b.d. | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| Ulysses in Nighttown | Barkentin, Marjorie | 1958 | t.b.d. | Ulysses |