Local media coverage of the launch by Senator David Norris of Navan Ulysses Reading Group

Above is a selection of the mentions of the Navan Ulysses Reading Group launch in the local media. The Group was launched on 2^nd February 2011 by Senator David Norris. [click on images to display larger format]

22nd February 2011: Chapter 4 – “Calypso”

“Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.”

In these words, the opening ones of chapter 4 of Joyce’s Ulysses, one of the most endearing and intriguing characters of modern literature is introduced. A husband, a father, a son, an ad-salesman, a Jew, Leopold Bloom is many things to many people.

Join Navan Ulysses Reading Group on Tuesday 22^nd February 2011 in Navan Library between 6:30 and 8:30 as we meet the Blooms at home in 7 Eccles Street. There is mystery and deception afoot for Bloom as well as the death of a friend, some post from his daughter and preparing his wife’s breakfast in bed. Molly has a lie in, reads in bed, and ponders a promising business engagement later that afternoon ...

Everyone welcome. Suggested contribution €5.

Local publicity for the launch of Navan Ulysses Reading Group

We are delighted to have received this fine piece of publicity in ‘Meath News & Sport’ newspaper. Thanks to all concerned. Spread the word about the launch of the group next Wednesday 2^nd February 2011 at 7:30 in the Solstice Arts Centre, Navan.

Senator David Norris to launch Navan Ulysses Reading Group

We are delighted to announce that Navan Ulysses Reading Group will be launched by Senator David Norris on Wednesday 2^nd February 2011. The group will be launched in Navan’s Solstice Arts Centre at 7:30 pm.

Senator Norris is a human rights activist and Joycean and we are extremely pleased that he has agreed to launch our reading group. The launch will take place on James Joyce’s birthday which is also the day on which Ulysses was published in 1922.

The launch is open to the public and we’d be delighted to see you there.

8th February 2011: Chapters 1 & 2 – ‘Telemachus’ and ‘Nestor’

“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air.”

With these words begins James Joyce’s Ulysses, a mock-heroic epic, depicting the events and non-events of one day in the life of the citizens of Dublin. On our first evening together, the Navan Ulysses Reading Group will be taking a look at the first two of the book’s eighteen chapters. (Don’t be put off by the strange titles of the chapters –‘Telemachus’ and ‘Nestor’ – there’s an easy explanation!) Beginning in the Martello Tower, Sandycove, we join Stephen Dedalus, Buck Mulligan and their English house-guest, Haines, for a morning fry-up followed by a dip in the forty-foot.

So come along to Navan Library between 18:30 and 20:30 on Tuesday 8^th of February and get acquainted with your fellow readers as well as the characters in the opening sequence of Ulysses.

See you there!

Navan Ulysses Reading Group begins 8th February 2011

The Navan Ulysses Reading Group is open for members. The group will begin its first reading session on February 8^th 2011 at 18:30 in Navan Library.

Are you looking for an interesting and stimulating pastime for the spring and early summer 2011? Well, if so, then join the group! Make the acquaintance of Stephen Dedalus, Leopold and Molly Bloom, Blazes Boylan, Buck Mulligan and a host of other fascinating characters.

The Navan Ulysses Reading Group will meet once a fortnight, on a Tuesday evening from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. The group will wind its way through the chapters of Joyce’s greatest work in time for the Bloomsday celebrations in 2011.

The group will be facilitated by a postgraduate student of English literature who has previously worked for two years in Dublin’s James Joyce Centre on North Great George’s Street. Sessions will be conducted in an informal, relaxed atmosphere in which we can explore and enjoy the book together.

No previous knowledge of Joyce is necessary to take part. A charge of €10 per person per evening will be requested.