Music of all kinds was of great importance to James Joyce, but he was passionate about early music and once planned to tour the south of England with a lute. He also wove Renaissance music into the ‘Eumaeus’ episode of Ulysses, where Stephen Dedalus enthuses to Leopold Bloom about Shakespeare’s songs, Elizabethan composers and their continental contemporaries.
Inspired by the episode, harpsichordist (and Festival stalwart) Malcolm Proud joins tenor Stuart Kinsella for this special concert celebrating the music of Joyce’s most beloved 16th-and-17th-century composers, including William Byrd, Claudio Monteverdi and John Dowland. To complement the music, Susan Proud reads excerpts from Ulysses, together with a poem from Joyce’s first publication, Chamber Music. Join us for a captivating journey through the musical landscape that fuelled Joyce’s imagination.
Stuart Kinsella tenor
Malcolm Proud harpsichord
Susan Proud narrator
Book Tickets
| Sat 15 Aug, 3.00p.m. | €23 | Book Now |
