{"id":1124,"date":"2022-01-31T18:30:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T18:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2022-02-01T11:01:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T11:01:16","slug":"the-bloomsday-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/the-bloomsday-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bloomsday Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/whatson3.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<h2>\n<h1>The Bloomsday Poem<\/h1>\n<\/h2>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>Each year the James Joyce Centre has the honour of commissioning a poem for Bloomsday. For Bloomsday 2021, \u00c9il\u00eds N\u00ed Dhuibhne created the beautiful &#8211; Lower Drumcondra. The Irish Times filmed Darina Gallagher, Director of the James Joyce Centre reading the poem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/lower-drumcondra-a-poem-for-the-bloomsday-festival-2021-1.4592293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>LOWER DRUMCONDRA<\/h3>\n<p>Griffith Park has beauty.<br \/>Willows, dandelions<br \/>And tumbling chestnuts<br \/>Choirs of children laughing.<br \/>In the bubbling river <br \/>a heron always stands<br \/>Watching, on a rock,<br \/>Like any artist.<\/p>\n<p>These shining slopes<br \/>Are built upon a dump.<br \/>Once the Millmount hills<br \/>Were lumps of rubbish,<br \/>mouldy offal,Micky Mud.<br \/>How it must have stunk.<\/p>\n<p>He spread his wings<br \/>And headed south<br \/>Through Dorset Street<br \/>and Eccles.<br \/>North Richmond which is blind.<br \/>And on and on <br \/>and on.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen moves<br \/>Before he reached the boat.<br \/>Not quite a house for every year.<br \/>But close.<\/p>\n<p>When he was twelve<br \/>He lived on the riverside<br \/>He saw the heron,<br \/>legs delicate and long,<br \/>Enchanting midstream <br \/>In the land of tundish.<\/p>\n<p>She stands in the river still<br \/>Sublime upon her rock <br \/>Listening to the best English<br \/>The ardent river song.<\/p>\n<p>The Joyce\u2019s house is gone.<\/p>\n<h3>About the poet\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>\u00c9il\u00eds\u00a0N\u00ed\u00a0Dhuibhne\u00a0was born in Dublin in 1954 and is a graduate of UCD.<\/p>\n<p>She lived for one year in Copenhagen, and otherwise has always lived in Dublin. She has two grown up sons and two grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Eilis went to school to Scoil Bhr\u00edde, now in Ranelagh, and to Scoil Chaitr\u00edona, on Eccles Street. Then she studied at UCD, for almost ten years. She focused on literature and narrative studies, studying Pure English for the BA, doing an M Phil in Middle English and Old Irish, and finishing in 1982 with a Ph.D., dealing with the relationship of oral and written narrative. From 1978-9 she studied at the Folklore Institute in the University of Copenhagen as a research scholar, while researching her doctoral thesis.<\/p>\n<p>Eilis worked in various jobs while she was studying \u2013 in Greene\u2019s Bookshop, as a still room waitress on the Isle of Wight and on the Friesian Islands, in St James\u2019s Hospital as a nurse\u2019s assistant. For many years she worked as an assistant keeper, a librarian, in the National Library of Ireland. She has been lecturer in Creative Writing in UCD, and Writer Fellow at Trinity College. She was Burns Scholar at Boston College for Fall 2020.<\/p>\n<p>She started writing short stories when she was a student and published her first story in the New Irish Writing Page in\u00a0the Irish Press,\u00a0in 1974 (the story was called \u2018Green Fuse\u2019), under the pseudonym Elizabeth Dean. For about ten years she wrote occasional short stories, many of which were published in the Irish Press. \u00a0Her first collection of stories was published in 1988,\u00a0Blood and Water,\u00a0and since then she has written 25 books, including \u00a0novels, collections of short stories, several books for children, plays and non-fiction works. She writes in both Irish and English. A list of the books is available on this website: see PUBLICATIONS on the menu on the left of the front page.<\/p>\n<p>She has won several awards for her writing over the years. Among them are The Bisto\u00a0Book of the Year Award, the Readers&#8217; Association of Ireland Award, the Stewart Parker Award for Drama, the Butler Award for Prose from the Irish American Cultural Institute and several Oireachtas\u00a0awards for novels and plays in Irish. The novel\u00a0The Dancers Dancing\u00a0was shortlisted\u00a0for the Orange Prize for Fiction. In 2015 she was awarded the Irish PEN award for an outstanding contribution to Irish literature, and in 2016 she was given a Hennessy Hall of Fame award for lifetime achievement. \u00a0Her stories are widely anthologized and translated. Her latest novel for young people,\u00a0Aisling, was published in 2015; her\u00a0Selected Stories\u00a0were published in 2017 by Dalkey Archive Press, and a memoir,\u00a0Twelve Thousand Days, in 2018. She recently published a collection of short stories,\u00a0Little Red and Other Stories\u00a0(Blackstaff Press 2020.<\/p>\n<p>She was elected to Aosd\u00e1na, the academy of Irish writers and artists, in 2004. 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