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Montreal to Have a Finnegans Wake Reading Group Next Week

So you bought the book and it’s been sitting in your bookshelf for awhile now. But have you mustered up the courage to finally open up and read James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake? Have no fear! Montreal...

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Finnegans Wake Group Begins

riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. This is the first line of  The Wake… Last night...

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New Links Added

Note that we have added two links: 1. A Plot summary of Ulysses developed by the Rosenbach Library in Philadelphia 2. A link to the complete on-line text of Finnegans Wake Also – take a look at our...

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Bloomsday at St. Patrick’s Parade

The intrepid Bloomsday team of Miriam, Alex, Yves, Kevin, and Louise proudly hoisted the Bloomsday banner high during the Saint Patrick’s Parade on Sunday, March 22.  David and Judith only made it as...

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See our new updates

We have made some changes on our Sponsorship page.  Our valued partners are listed there.  Click on the appropriate logo and visit their websites for more information. Also updated is the information...

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MCGILL PACE COURSE: From Bray to Bloomsday: James Joyce’s Life and World...

This course, offered by McGill’s PACE Program, begins on Tuesday, April 21st and runs until June 9.  It is from 6 to 8 p.m. and is offered by our very own Kerry McElroy – last year’s fantastic event...

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Get on over to the Segal Centre to see TRAVESTIES

This play by Tom Stoppard opens on Sunday, April 12th.  At 11 a.m. there will be a talk (Sunday@The Segal) by Concordia English professor Andre Furlani who has been involved with Bloomsday in the past...

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CANTIAMO’s magical spring concert is coming next week

For music lovers everywhere: Plan to attend CANTIAMO’s magical spring concert on Saturday April 18 at 7:30 pm This new Montreal Ensemble is directed by Kris Epps – the talented musician who is also...

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Festival Bloomsday Montréal Starts on June 12th

Bloomsday Montréal 2015 is now open for registration. All events are listed on our “Registration for events” page which is always kept updated. Events run from June 12 to June 16th Click here to go to...

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Bloomsday News about Storytelling, Film, Birmingham

Story and Song at Atwater Library on Friday, the 12th at 12:30:  Lots of registrations for this event.  We’ll be singing “Molly Malone,”  a beautiful Irish song about a young woman who sold cockles and...

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Off to a great start and what to take in today

So happy the Festival has gotten off to such a great start.  Atwater Library welcomed a capacity crowd and major applause for Jan Gregory’s and Margaret Nicolai’s stories and Susan Palmer’s harp and...

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NEW YEAR – NEW LOOK

Notice that Festival Bloomsday Montréal has a new look that is clean and refreshing. It is making its appearance today here as well as on our Face Book and Twitter pages. While it still is early, we...

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Book Launch: I See Words, I Hear Voices BY DORA GARCIA

The book Mad Marginal Cahier # 4: I See Words, I Hear Voices, a Book by Dora García will be launched at the Westmount Library on Wednesday, September 16, on the occasion of a group reading of James...

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Celtic Harmonies International Festival

To all Celtic Lovers and Irish culture vultures – Attend the Celtic Harmonies International Festival Celebrating Nature Through Music, Dance and the Arts October 2 – 11, 2015 Eastern Townships, Québec,...

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DONATE to Festival Bloomsday Montréal

To all our supporters and lovers of Joyce and Irish literature and culture we call on you to help us bring you great new programming for June 2016.  This will be our 5th Festival and is now the largest...

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Happy Celtic New Years Folks

The night we call “Halloween” in English is Oíche Shamhna: literally “Samhain Eve”. It is pronounced SAH-win and means summers end. “The festival of Samhain began the winter half of the year. It was...

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Donate to Festival Bloomsday Montréal

We are currently organizing the fifth annual Festival Bloomsday Montréal that will take place June 12-16, 2016. With readings from Ulysses, world class lectures by Joyce experts, film and storytelling...

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James Joyce: 134th Birthday

TODAY IS JAMES JOYCE’S BIRTHDAY  Joyce was born February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland and as author of Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake, proved himself one...

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Grosse-Île: A Choral Story/ Une Histoire Chorale

March 12th and 13th:  50 artists will take the stage at the Palais Montcalm in Quebec City to sing the story of Grosse-Île quarantine station, summer 1847.  Projections depict the island and relics of...

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Grosse Île 1847-1848: “We Rise Again”

BY SUBMITTED BY HUBERT RADOUX, CO-AUTHOR AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF GROSSE ÎLE : UNE HISTOIRE CHORALE / ACHORAL STORY PUBLISHED ON: MARCH 9, 2016 – 13:07 In the summertime, my wife (Mary Moseychuck, a...

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