James Joyce's Ulysses - A Novel of Two Peoples

Joyce famously described his book as 'a novel of two peoples', the Irish and the Jewish. For Joyce enthusiasts worldwide, 16th June marks Bloomsday.

Join us for the first ever 'kosher' Bloomsday at JW3, in partnership with Jewish Literary Foundation and London Irish Centre. Elte Rauch shares her Joyce enthusiasm with Zachary Leader whose recent Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and its Maker was a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, and award-winning Irish novelist Eimear McBride who counts Ulysses as one of her biggest inspirations.

Eimear McBride is the author of four novels: ‘A Girl is a Half-formed Thing’, ‘The Lesser Bohemians,’ ‘Strange Hotel’ and ‘The City Changes Its Face’, as well as the non-fiction work ‘Something Out of Place: Women & Disgust’ and the short plays ‘Mouthpieces.’ She held the inaugural Creative Fellowship at the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading and, in 2022, wrote and directed A Very Short Film About Longing (DMC Films/BBC), which screened in the London Film Festival. She is the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Goldsmiths Prize, Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Award, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.She lives in London with her Irish-Jewish family.

Zachary Leader is an Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton in London and is the author or editor of a dozen books on modern British and American literature and English Romantic Poetry, among them biographies of the novelists Kingsley Amis and Saul Bellow and the recently published Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker. He is the General Editor of The Oxford History of Life-Writing, a seven-volume series, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has dual UK/US citizenship, and lives in London.