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Bloomsday Festival 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Monday, 16 June 2025 at 6.30pm<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Join us at The James Joyce Centre for a special Bloomsday live podcast recording that tries to answer a question that could not be more topical: Could an AI write Ulysses<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On\u00a0Bloomsday, Monday, June 16th at 6.30pm<\/strong>,\u00a0Kelly Bryan\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Dermot O\u2019Connor<\/strong>\u00a0of the\u00a0Blooms & Barnacles Podcast<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0discuss\u00a0Ulysses<\/em>\u00a0through the lens of current generative AI technology. Could a chatbot become the 21st century\u2019s James Joyce? Maybe not, but could AI at least help us analyse and understand Joyce\u2019s work better? In this discussion, Kelly and Dermot explore the artistic use case for generative AI and what it tells us about the future of creativity and literature. The two will be joined by Dr. Josh Q. Newman<\/strong>, an assistant at the James Joyce Centre and one of the organisers of the Bloomsday Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blooms & Barnacles<\/strong> is a podcast hosted by Kelly Bryan and Dermot O\u2019Connor born out of the desire to prove to the other casual intellectuals out there that not only can you read and understand Ulysses<\/em>, it can also be fun. There is a sense of dread or failure often attached to the name Ulysses: an unfinished phantom mocking you from your bookcase. It\u2019s a novel we pick up hopefully and set down dejectedly. It\u2019s long, it\u2019s obtuse, and it doesn\u2019t love you or care about you. It carries with it the stink of failure for the casually intellectual among us. Inspired by the Ulysses<\/em> Support Group (a.k.a. Book Club)<\/strong> at Portland, Oregon\u2019s T.C. O\u2019Leary\u2019s Irish Pub, Blooms & Barnacles hope to create an entertaining companion for anyone making their way through Joyce\u2019s masterpiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelly Byran<\/strong> is a founding member of T.C. O\u2019Leary\u2019s Ulysses<\/em> Support Group (a.k.a. Book Club). Together, the Support Group read the entirety of Ulysses<\/em> out loud from Bloomsday 2017 to Bloomsday 2018. She has never really stopped reading Ulysses<\/em> since then. She does not have an English degree. She has failed to be accepted to Ph.D. programs twice and decided to just write this dang blog instead. Kelly lives in the west of Ireland with her husband, Dermot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dermot O\u2019Connor<\/strong> is the titular \u2018angry animator\u2019 of his animation blog. He provides cartoons and sketches for the blog and is the Barnacle to Kelly\u2019s Bloom. He has never read Ulysses<\/em> but has enjoyed reading passages from it on occasion. He is currently attempting to dissuade Kelly from reading Finnegans Wake<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The podcast will be recorded live in front of an audience in the James Joyce Centre as well as streamed online.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tickets for both options are \u20ac10.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bloomsday Festival<\/a><\/strong> is supported by F\u00e1ilte Ireland, Olhausen\u2019s Sausages, and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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