Links to Ulysses Videos
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Videos on YouTube
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Ninety-minute lecture by Coilin Owens presented by Friends of the Takoma Park (Maryland) Library. Owens, Professor Emeritus of English Literature, George Mason University, was born in Co. Roscommon and resided in the DC Metropolitan Area. He died in 2019 at age 76. Video posted by Takoma Park City TV. You may watch this video on the viewer below.
A whimsical twenty-minute synopsis of the novel that makes use of Playmobil figurines. Created by Michael Sommer who teaches ancient history at the Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. You may watch this video on the viewer below.
A one-hour documentary with dramatized segments of the novel (David Suchet portrays Bloom). Commentary by Anthony Burgess and academicians. From the series Ten Great Writers of the Modern World produced by London Weekend Television. You may watch this video on the viewer below. Note that there is video static in the first 15 seconds of this analog recording.
A one-minute book review posted by Why I Love This Book. You may watch this video on the player below.
"Readings, conversation, and music celebrating Nora Barnacle, her life in Galway, and her role in the Joyce odyssey." One hour thirty-four minutes. Produced by the Galway Public Libraries. You may watch this video on the player below.
A fifty-minute documentary produced and directed by Antony Sellers. It "... draws an interwoven picture of Joyce's family and their situation, his social and religious environment. It contrasts the geography of the city as he knew it with the Dublin of his writings ..." You may watch this video on the player below.
Syliva Beach (1887-1962), first publisher of the complete novel Ulysses, was guest of honor at the June 16, 1962 opening of the James Joyce Museum, Sandycove Martello Tower. That day, she was interviewed by Niall Sheridan for the RTE television series Self-Portrait. The twenty-four minute, filmed interview aired on October 2, 1962, three days before Beach died in Paris. You may watch this video on the player below.
The interview took place at Gerach House, home of the Irish architect Michael Scott, founder of the Joyce museum. The house, designed by Scott, is adjacent to the Martello Tower. Click on the Gerach House and Tower image for a larger version that will open in a popup window.
Gerach House and Tower
Sylvia Beach, c. 1920
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Videos on Other Websites
First video of a nine episode series on Cornell University's Cornellcast website. These short lectures are by Daniel R. Schwarz, the Stephen H. Weiss Professor of English at Cornell University and author of Reading Joyce's Ulysses.
The Cornell University Library's "Rare and Manuscript Division owns a significant collection of the private papers of James Joyce, focusing on his life and works before 1920. The Joyce collection came to the Cornell Library beginning in 1957 from the widow of James Joyce's younger brother Stanislaus, through a gift of William G. Mennen. Later additions to the collection were made by Victor Emanuel and C. Waller Barrett. The Joyce Collection is one of the richest in the world dealing with Joyce's early writing career and life before 1920. It includes letters by Joyce, letters to or relating to Joyce by his family and friends, many of his early manuscripts, and other documents."
n/ The Joyce Collection, Cornell University. Link to the Joyce page on the Rare and Manuscript Collections website. It will open in a new browser window.
Mennen's father founded the Mennen Company, maker of the after-shave products that bear the family name.
Forty-minute lecture by Johnna Purchase presented by the Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress.
A June 16, 1954 attempt to trace Leopold Bloom's footsteps by Irish writers Brian O'Nolan (Flann O'Brien), Patrick Kavanagh, and Anthony Cronin plus A.J. Levanthal (Registrar of Trinity College) and Tom Joyce (a distant relative of James Joyce). The commemorative event turned into a booze-up and the celebrants never made it north of the Liffey. The group progressed from the Martello Tower, through Sandymount and Irishtown, then on to John Ryan's pub on Duke Street. Ryan, an artist, publisher, and man of letters, arranged the event and made this one-minute film. The video is on Edwin Turner's blog, Biblioklept.
For more about the First Bloomsday, read Mike Springer's article on the website Open Culture. It contains an extract from a book by Peter Costello and Peter van de Kamp, Flann O'Brien: An Illustrated Biography (London: Bloomsbury, 1987). Click on the link and the page will open in a new browser window. For a photo of the celebrants at Sandycove (excepting Levanthal), click here. The photo is also on Open Culture and will appear in a popup window. From left to right are Ryan, Cronin, O'Nolan, Kavanagh, and Joyce.
