James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Talk by Terence Killeen
Terence Killeen is a leading expert on James Joyce and Research Scholar at the James Joyce Centre, Dublin
Terence Killeen, a leading expert on James Joyce, will be discussing the 18 episodes in Ulysses that inspired artist Aidan Hickey’s exhibition ‘Painting Ulysses’, currently showing at the ICC.
Terence will be referencing his well-known book, Ulysses Unbound: A Reader’s Companion to James Joyce’s Ulysses which has been described as ‘an indispensable guide to a modernist classic’, with Colm Tóibín claiming that it connects ‘the world of scholarship to the world of the ordinary reader coming to the book for the first time’.
2022 is the centenary of the publication of Joyce’s masterpiece, as well as ICC’s 25th anniversary year. The exhibition comprises 18 magnificent large-scale paintings, depicting each of the 18 chapters in the novel. This event is a unique opportunity to view Aidan Hickey’s exhibition, while simultaneously learning more about the masterpiece that inspired it!
Please note: This event is accessible to anyone interested – whether you have read the book or not!
Doors: 6.30pm; Starts: 7.00pm
Tickets: £8
About the Speaker: Terence Killeen
Terence Killeen, a leading expert on James Joyce, is the Research Scholar at the James Joyce Centre, Dublin. He has written extensively on Joyce’s works and he has published numerous articles in the James Joyce Quarterly, the James Joyce Literary Supplement and the Joyce Studies Annual. A former journalist with the Irish Times, he continues to write on Joyce-related matters for the newspaper. He is a former trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation.
Terence has taught for many years at seminars at the Dublin James Joyce Summer School and the Trieste Joyce Summer School. He has also lectured at both schools, at the James Joyce Centre, at Trinity College Dublin, at various International and North America James Joyce Symposiums and at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris.
His book ‘Ulysses’ Unbound. A Reader’s Companion to James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’, has been re-published to celebrate the centenary of the novel’s first publication in 1922. It is widely acknowledged as an indispensable guide to Ulysses.
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