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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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  • From January 2026: New Dubliners Reading Group

    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

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  • “So This Is Dyoublong?”: 30th International Joyce Symposium (Krakow, June 15–19, 2026)

    The IJJF have announced that the Joyce Symposium for 2026 will be held in Poland, in the beautiful city of Krakow, hosted by the Jagiellonian University (June 15–19, 2026). Call for papers will be posted in September, 2025.

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  • Visual Highlights from Our Visitors’ Books Online

    The Zurich James Joyce Foundation holds a collection of visitors’ books that date back all the way to 1985, the year when the Foundation was established. A gallery with some visual highlights from these guestbooks is now available on our website.

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