Join the Harvard Club of D.C., the Embassy of Ireland, Busboys & Poets, Osher Institute at AU, OLLI, MIT and Wharton Club and Smithsonian Associates.
Thursday, June 16, 2022, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM EDT
Category: Events
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Join the Harvard Club of D.C., the Embassy of Ireland, Busboys & Poets, Osher Institute at AU, OLLI, MIT and Wharton Club and Smithsonian Associates.
Wednesday, June 16, 2022
6:00-9:00pm
Celebrate the Centenary of Ulysses
Busboys & Poets, 450 K Street NW Washington D.C. 20001
This meeting will be in person AND conducted on Zoom. Instructions will be provided upon registration. Vaccination required. Please be prepared to provide proof of vaccination.
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Featuring Ambassador Daniel Mulhall and Robert Aubry Davis
This year our in person Bloomsday event celebrates the Centenary of Ulysses, the book that impacted modern literature by influencing thousands of others and created an academic industry of James Joyce Scholars.
Our event, Bloomsday 2022, features superb readers including H.E. Daniel Mulhall, Ambassador of Ireland to the United States and Robert Aubry Davis, host of the PBS Around Town Program.
We will read the opening of Ulysses, the most dramatic chapter, Cyclops, and the end of the book, the close of Molly Bloom's soliloquy, the most famous ending in all of literature.
Program:
6:00pm Registration desk open (cash food and bar open) 6:30pm Introductory remarks by H.E. Daniel Mulhall, Ambassador of Ireland to the United States 6:45pm Reading of selected passages from Ulysses:
Episodes/Readers:
Telemachus - Episode 1 (Brief Passages)
Dan Mulhall
Cyclops - Episode 12 (Entire)
Dan Coyle Robert Aubry Davis Dorothy Haase Eleanor Heginbotham Bob Kolodney Dan Mulhall Richard Palmer Mary Poole Patrick Willard Susan Willens
Penelope - Episode 18
Susan Willens
FEE: IN PERSON & VIRTUAL: Bloomsday 2022: The Centennial of the Publication of Ulysses w/Amb. Mulhall $10 for any club or association constiituent. VIRTUAL beginning at 6:30: $5.00 for all
For questions, contact Bob Kolodney '63 at [email protected].
Support the Yale Club of Washington, DC
The Yale Club of Washington, DC offers this event to our members and alumni. However, we do ask for your support in one or both of the following ways:
1) Please become a member if you are not one already.
2) Donate to the Yale Club of Washington, DC (see option on registration page).
Membership dues and donations are both critical income sources for the Club, which enable Club operations, programs, and financial viability.
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Contact: Bob Kolodney Harvard '63 at [email protected].
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