{"id":5198,"date":"2025-05-08T15:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/?post_type=events&#038;p=5198"},"modified":"2025-05-17T17:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T16:11:53","slug":"ellmanns-joyce-zachary-leader-in-conversation-with-terence-killeen","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/events\/ellmanns-joyce-zachary-leader-in-conversation-with-terence-killeen\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellmann&#8217;s Joyce: Zachary Leader in Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Friday, 16 May 2025 at 6.30pm<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" data-id=\"5200\" src=\"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/13525au-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/13525au-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/13525au-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/13525au-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/13525au-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/13525au-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"692\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"5201\" src=\"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/61-XlWXb2UL._SL1500_-1-692x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/61-XlWXb2UL._SL1500_-1-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/61-XlWXb2UL._SL1500_-1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/61-XlWXb2UL._SL1500_-1-768x1136.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/61-XlWXb2UL._SL1500_-1.jpg 1014w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"5261\" src=\"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Terence-Killeen-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Terence-Killeen-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Terence-Killeen-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Terence-Killeen-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Terence-Killeen-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Terence-Killeen.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The<strong> James Joyce Centre<\/strong> invites you to a special lecture by <strong>Zachary Leader <\/strong>on <strong>Friday, 16 May 2025 at 6.30pm. <\/strong>Leader will discuss his latest book <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/books\/9780674248397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ellmann&#8217;s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and its Maker<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (2025, Harvard UP), a biography of leading Joyce biographer Richard Ellmann. It is the first book about Richard Ellmann and his <strong><em>James Joyce<\/em><\/strong> (1959), called the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leader will discuss his book and his findings with Joycean scholar <strong>Terence Killeen.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zachary Leader<\/strong> is an Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton and the biographer of Kingsley Amis and Saul Bellow. He is also General Editor of the Oxford History of Life-Writing and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Terence Killeen\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>is Research Scholar at the James Joyce Centre. He has published in the<em><em>James Joyce Quarterly<\/em><\/em>, the<em><em>James Joyce Literary Supplement<\/em><\/em>and the<em><em>Joyce Studies Annual<\/em><\/em>. A former journalist with the<em><em>Irish Times<\/em><\/em>, he continues to write on Joyce-related matters for the newspaper. He is a former trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tickets are free but booking is essential. Doors at 6pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The James Joyce Centre is supported by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ie\/en\/organisation\/department-of-tourism-culture-arts-gaeltacht-sport-and-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ie\/e\/ellmanns-joyce-zachary-leader-in-conversation-with-terence-killeen-tickets-1354816997109?aff=oddtdtcreator\">Get Tickets<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5200,"parent":0,"template":"","event_cats":[14],"class_list":["post-5198","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_categories-lecture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ellmann&#039;s Joyce: Zachary Leader in Conversation - 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=\"Ellmann&#039;s Joyce: Zachary Leader in Conversation - James Joyce Centre, Dublin, Ireland\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lecture Friday, 16 May 2025 at 6.30pm The James Joyce Centre invites you to a special lecture by Zachary Leader on Friday, 16 May 2025 at 6.30pm. 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