James Joyce – Near FM

Northside Today – Interview with Tommy Creagh, curator of the Bloomsday Film Festival

paula June 1, 2023

Paula Wiseman chats with Tommy Creagh, curator of the Bloomsday Film Festival. The film festival was set up as a celebration of cinema, literature, and artistic innovation, inspired by the long reaching arm of Ireland’s patriarch of modernism, James Joyce. It will…

Ballad Tours Dublin singer Sean Fitzgerald talks about his job as a musical tour guide around the historical landmarks of Dublin. Sean Fitzgerald also has recently set the poetry of Seumas O’ Kelly to music and Sean recorded the songs recently as The Connacht Peep Show.

admin February 12, 2021

Ballad Tours Dublin singer and racontuer Sean Fitzgerald conducts walking tours around historical Dublin sites and landmarks. At every stop he sings a song for his audience in order to tell the stories of the history of Ireland. At the conclusion of…

Northside Today 15 – 06 – 2020, Olivier Cornet – The Morphing Feminine

George Mulcahy June 15, 2020

Blooms Day Festival Exhibition. Ciarán Murray spoke to Olivier Cornet about ‘The Morphing Feminine’, a visual artist’s response to various aspects of the feminine in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses and in the author’s life. https://www.oliviercornetgallery.com/the-morphing-feminine The online launch is Tuesday 16th at 7pm on https://www.facebook.com/oliviercornet.gallery/ with a live…

Gavan Kennedy Director of Finnegan Wakes Film Project

admin October 4, 2019

Gavan Kennedy, Director of Finnegan Wakes Film Project speaks to Glen about his complex and cyclical take on Joyce’s most notoriously “difficult” novel

Northside Today: Jessica Yeats of the James Joyce Centre

admin June 14, 2019

Jessica Yeats of the James Joyce Centre joins Donie to discuss the Bloomsday Festival inspired by the James Joyce novel Ulysses.

Walks through James Joyce’s Dublin: Episode 1 – Introduction to Joyce

admin May 7, 2019

Walks through James Joyce’s Dublin is a brand new series from Near FM and the James Joyce Centre that follows the mercurial world of James Joyce and his characters through Dublin’s fair city. In this audio series Dublin comes alive through the Joycean walking…

The Arts Show: Interview with Vincent Altman O’Connor

admin June 8, 2018

Maura Walsh chats to Vincent Altman O’Connor about his great grand uncle Albert Altman the Saltman who could be the real life bases of Leopold Bloom, from James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Reading Together Part 9

admin August 6, 2013

On this, the last programme of the series, we’ll go back to TARGET Trinity Adult Resource Group for Education and Training in Donaghmede, where Nearfm recorded the reading of James Joyce’s Grace, one of the stories in the book Dubliners. We also…

Reading Together Part 8

admin August 6, 2013

On this programme we’ll listen to the two James Joyce’s Dubliner’s stories that were adapted and dramatised by the near drama group, Ivy Daz in the Committee Room and A Painful Case. But before we start we’ll listen to Jack Byrne, who…

Reading Together Part 7

admin August 6, 2013

For this programme we’ll visit Raheny Library and TARGET Trinity Adult Resource Group for Education and Training in Donaghmede, where Nearfm recorded the readings of Clay and Counterparts, two of the stories of James Joyce’s Dubliners. First, we spoke to librarian Terri…

Reading Together Part 6

admin July 31, 2013

On 8 March this year, we visited the Axis Arts and Community Resource Centre in Ballymun to celebrate international Women’s Day with the reading of two of the Dubliners stories that focus on women’s life, A Mother and The Boarding House. We spoke…

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