Vicki Mahaffey has been teaching and writing about James Joyce for decades, at the Rosenbach but also at University of Pennsylvania and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. And yet she has more to say on the topic. Her new book, The Joyce of Everyday Life (Bucknell University Press), feels like a book Joyce himself might have …
Upcoming Events
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Bloomsday Festival 2024
(Philadelphia) – The international Bloomsday Festival returns to Center City Philadelphia on Sunday, June 16, celebrating the literary genius of James Joyce and his groundbreaking novel Ulysses. Celebrated around the world since 1954, the Rosenbach has made Philadelphia the North American destination for the event for over 30 years. An all-day affair featuring a public …
Written In My Heart: James Joyce & Irish Authors | Behind the Bookcase (in-person)
Date / Time
- June 5, 2022
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Behind the Bookcase tours are sponsored by Robert K. Urquhart Registration Admission is $25. 50% off for Rosenbach members, free for the Delancey Society. Not a member? Learn more. This is an in-person program at The Rosenbach and requires proof of vaccination. Please check your spam folder for your email confirmation. If you have questions, please call (215) (more…)
Written In My Heart: James Joyce & Irish Authors | Behind the Bookcase (in-person)
Date / Time
- April 14, 2022
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Behind the Bookcase tours are sponsored by Robert K. Urquhart Registration Admission is $25. 50% off for Rosenbach members, free for the Delancey Society. Not a member? Learn more. This is an in-person program at The Rosenbach and requires proof of vaccination. Please check your spam folder for your email confirmation. If you have questions, please call (215) (more…)
In Conversation with Colm Tóibín, Music in Ulysses (virtual)
Date / Time
- June 7, 2022
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Registration This is a FREE virtual program held on Zoom. Please check your spam folder for the Zoom link. If you have questions, please call (215) 732-1600 or email [email protected]. Registration opens for Delancey Society members on March 2, for members on March 9, and for the general public on March 16. Colm (more…)
SOLD OUT! In Conversation with Daniel Mulhall, Ulysses: A Reader’s Odyssey (Bloomsday Program) (in-person)
Date / Time
- June 13, 2022
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
This program is generously sponsored by Arthur Spector and Leslye Silver Registration Admission is $15. 50% off for Rosenbach members, free for the Delancey Society. Not a member? Learn more. This is an in-person program at The Rosenbach and requires proof of vaccination. Please check your spam folder for your email confirmation. If you have questions, please call (215) (more…)
Course | Reading Ulysses with Ambassador Daniel Mulhall (in-person and virtual) [in-progress]
Date / Time
- April 25, 2022
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm - May 9, 2022
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm - May 23, 2022
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm - June 6, 2022
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm - June 13, 2022
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
This course is sponsored by Lenore H. Steiner and Perry A. Lerner. Thanks to their generosity, scholarship opportunities are available. Details below. Registration Tuition for this course is $220. 10% off for Rosenbach members for the Delancey Society. Not a member? Learn more. This course is limited to participants who are 17 years of age or (more…)
Meet The Winners of the 2021 Bloomsday Artwork Contest
This blog post was written by Andrew White That the winners of an art contest devoted to James Joyce’s Ulysses should incorporate text and collage is fitting—considering the earthiness of Joyce’s imagery and the centrality of collage to modernism in general. 2021 is the second year the Rosenbach has held a Joyce-inspired art contest as …
Meet the winners of the Bloomsday Artwork Contest
This being the inaugural year of the Bloomsday art contest, none of us were sure how it would go. Were there artists out there who would be inspired to use Ulysses as the basis for some art? Well, the answer is yes, I said yes, there are, yes. Our first prize winner is Mike Sgier, …
“We Simply Must Dress the Part”: A Bloomsday T-shirt Gallery
In addition to the great pleasures of hearing and talking about Ulysses, a Rosenbach Bloomsday brings smaller pleasures, one of which is people-watching. Government officials and philanthropists, actors and academics, artists and students, dogs and babies mingle in the crowd. Some (well, not so many of the dogs or babies) bring their own well-worn books …