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Wednesday, February 9, 2022

100 years of James Joyce's ULYSSES (1922 - 2022): Notre Dame Hesburgh Library exhibit and lecture

 Wed. Feb. 9, 2022

"Joyce, Proust, Paris, 1922," a lecture by Barry McCrea

The exhibition will occur from 2 to 5 pm. in the Hesburgh Library's Rare Books and Special Collections Room (first floor). It will feature a first edition of Ulysses and other rare and interesting editions, including one illustrated by Matisse. Also featured will be contemporary artistic works inspired by Leopold Bloom's and Stephen Dedalus's wanderings. (Some components of the exhibition, including the first edition, will be on display all semester in the anteroom of the Rare Books and Special Collections Room.)

At 3:30Barry McCrea, Keough Family Chair of Irish Studies and Concurrent Professor of English, Irish Language and Literature, and Romance Languages and Literatures, will give a short talk on "Joyce, Proust, Paris, 1922."

Brief remarks as well by:

Ms. Sarah Keating, Ireland's Vice-Consul to Chicago and the Midwest

Laura Knoppers, George N. Shuster Professor of English Literature and Chair, Notre Dame Department of English

Aedín Ní Bhróithe Clements, Irish Studies Librarian and Curator of Irish Collections at the Hesburgh Libraries.

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