{"id":3350,"date":"2024-06-14T13:29:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T12:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/?post_type=events&#038;p=3350"},"modified":"2024-06-18T14:32:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T13:32:09","slug":"bloomsday-festival-2024-the-other-mrs-joyce-on-the-day-before-bloomsday","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/events\/bloomsday-festival-2024-the-other-mrs-joyce-on-the-day-before-bloomsday\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Mrs Joyce on the Day Before Bloomsday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bloomsday Festival 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>15 June 2024 at 1pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/penelope-unbound-420.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/penelope-unbound-420.png 420w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/penelope-unbound-420-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/penelope-unbound-420-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us at the James Joyce Centre on <strong>June 15th at 1pm<\/strong> for <strong>The Other Mrs Joyce on the Day Before Bloomsday<\/strong>. Award-winning novelist Mary Morrissy will talk about and reads from&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bansheepress.org\/shop\/p\/penelope-unbound-by-mary-morrissy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Penelope Unbound<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>(Banshee Press), her recently published counterfactual novel about Nora Barnacle. In it, she splits the Joyces up and gives Nora a wholly different life without him; she also plays matchmaker for Joyce and finds him a new wife. This event is about her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On their arrival in Trieste in 1904, James Joyce left Norah Barnacle outside a railway station while he went to scare up money. He got embroiled in a fight with a couple of sailors and was locked up for his troubles. A penniless Norah was left alone for almost an entire day and night sitting on their suitcases at the station in a city where she knew no one and where she didn&#8217;t speak the language. In real life, Norah waited for him. This novel asks &#8211; what if she hadn&#8217;t? In&nbsp;<em>Penelope Unbound<\/em>, one of our greatest living novelists weaves a spellbinding speculative history. By unhooking Norah from her famous husband, Morrissy gives her a compelling new voice, with heartbreak and humanity all her own. Sensual, inventive and uproariously funny, Penelope Unbound reimagines a Joycean heroine for the 21st century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Praise for&nbsp;<em>Penelope Unbound<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA novel of great brilliance and inventiveness, a remarkably \u2013 and mysteriously \u2013 moving story of what might have been. . . a stylistic tour de force that Joyce himself would surely have admired.\u201d \u2013 John Banville,&nbsp;<em>The Observer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGiven Nora\u2019s iconic status, I\u2019d say it took considerable courage and chutzpah to carry this novel off.\u201d \u2013 Carlo Gebler,&nbsp;<em>Irish Independent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c(a) compellingly reimagined Norah, who is, like the novel itself, richly compelling and startlingly alive\u201d \u2013 Kevin Power, author of&nbsp;<em>White City<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mary Morrissy is the author of four novels,&nbsp;<em>Mother of Pearl<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Pretender<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Rising of Bella Casey&nbsp;<\/em>and most recently,&nbsp;<em>Penelope Unbound<\/em>. She has also published two collections of stories,&nbsp;<em>A Lazy Eye<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Prosperity Drive<\/em>. Her work has won her the Hennessy Prize and a Lannan Foundation Award. A member of Aosd\u00e1na, she is a journalist, teacher of creative writing and a literary mentor. She blogs at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/marymorrissy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/marymorrissy.com<\/a>&nbsp;and curates a website dedicated to the work of Dublin painter, Una Watters:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unawattersartist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/unawattersartist.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets are \u20ac10. To purchase tickets, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ie\/e\/bloomsday-festival-2024-the-other-mrs-joyce-on-the-day-before-bloomsday-tickets-895438138577?aff=oddtdtcreator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsdayfestival.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Bloomsday Festival<\/a><\/strong> is organised by the James Joyce Centre in partnership with F\u00e1ilte Ireland, Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3374,"parent":0,"template":"","event_cats":[20,17],"class_list":["post-3350","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_categories-bloomsdayfestival","event_categories-reading"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Other Mrs Joyce on the Day Before Bloomsday - James Joyce Centre, Dublin, Ireland<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Other Mrs Joyce on the Day Before Bloomsday - James Joyce Centre, Dublin, Ireland\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bloomsday Festival 2024 15 June 2024 at 1pm Join us at the James Joyce Centre on June 15th at 1pm for The Other Mrs Joyce on the Day Before Bloomsday. 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