The James Joyce Tower will be open on Bloomsday 2025 from 8am – 4pm

• 08:00 – Tower opens to visitors
• 09:00 – Raising of the flag by An Cathaoirleach
• 09:30 – TELEMACHUS
• 11:00 – Reading by Jim Norton
• 14:00 – Recital – Druidy Druids
• 17:00 – A Taste of Joyce

See below full programme for the Bloomsday Festival 9-16 June.

Photo: Nick Bradshaw, Irish Times

James Joyce Tower 

Bloomsday Festival Programme 9 – 16 June 2025

 

TELEMACHUS 

Two performances a day from 9-16 June | 09:30 and 11:00 | 40 mins running time | James Joyce Tower | €20 | BOOK HERE

Step inside the iconic Martello Tower in Sandycove, Dublin, and experience the opening episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses brought to life with this extraordinary production by VOLTA Theatre Company

 

CYCLOPS

Monday 9 June | 18:00 – 19:00 | Studio Theatre | DLR Lexicon Library | €20 | BOOK HERE

Tuesday 10 June | 18:00 – 19:00 | Studio Theatre | DLR Lexicon Library | €20 | BOOK HERE

VOLTA Theatre Company preforms the CYLOPS episode of Ulysses. Leopold Bloom finds himself in the proverbial lion’s den of Barney Kiernan’s, where the ‘broadshouldered deepchested stronglimbed’ Citizen demonstrates the ugly side of Irish Nationalism.

 

Druidy Druids

Wednesday 11 June 19:00 – 20:30 | James Joyce Tower | Round Room | €10 | BOOK HERE

The Druidy Druids perform an array of songs and music referred to in Joyce’s works, including his own “Bid Adieu”.

 

Bloomsday Lecture

Thursday 12 June | 18:00 – 19:00 | Level 3 | DLR Lexicon | Free | BOOK HERE

This year’s Bloomsday Lecture :”Discovering James Joyce’s Dublin by Reading and Running” will be delivered by Barry Sheehan creator of jj21k.com, a research portal exploring Joyce’s work and the city.

 

Molly’s Soliloquy

Friday 13 June | 16:00 – 17:00 | James Joyce Tower | Round Room | €10 | BOOK HERE

Reclining on a bed in the round room, Cáitriona Ní Threasaigh transports us to number seven Eccles Street as Molly Bloom reviews her day and, indeed, her life in this soliloquy from the final episode of Ulysses.

 

Bloomsday Belles

Saturday 14 June | 12:00 – 13:00 | James Joyce Tower | Forecourt | Free | BOOK HERE

Sunday 15 June | 12:00 – 13:00 | James Joyce Tower | Forecourt | Free | BOOK HERE

Emer Kenny and Rosie Murphy on Harp and vocals perform original music and song inspired by the female characters in Ulysses. Listen to selected excerpts as music and text is interpreted by contemporary dancer, Polina Skarha.

 

Ulysses aWake

Saturday 14 June | 14:00 – 15:30 | James Joyce Tower | Forecourt | Free | BOOK HERE

‘All the Ghosts of Ulysses’ is the original music at the heart of this play. Joyce’s characters are set free at the Tower to share their stories in the guise of the Idrone Players’ 18 actors, singers, dancers, and live musicians.

 

Happy Birthday John McCormack

Saturday 14 June | 16:00 – 17:00 | James Joyce Tower | Round Room | €10 | BOOK HERE

Recital with singer Noel O’Grady performing his “Ode to James Joyce: Portrait of a Tenor” and celebrating John McCormack’s birthday.

 

Bloomsday for Kids – The Cat and the Devil

Sunday 15 June | 13:30 – 14:00 | James Joyce Tower | Forecourt | Free | BOOK HERE

This is a children’s story written by James Joyce for his grandson Stephen performed by Moonfish Theatre.

 

Finnegans Wake – Suite Of Affections

Sunday 15 June | 14:00 – 16:00 | The Studio | DLR Lexicon | €20 | BOOK HERE

Electro-acoustic composer Roger Doyle performs original music inspired by Finnegans Wake with many voices reading .

 

Another Taste of Joyce

Monday 16 June | 17:00 – 18:00 | James Joyce Tower| Forecourt | Free | BOOK HERE

Join Lua McIlraith and The Lilliput Players  for an afternoon of readings, poems, dramatisations of the works of James Joyce and songs associated with him.