The Polish capital joins in the worldwide tribute to James Joyce’s Ulysses.
The place to go is the Warsaw University Library which, together with the Irish Embassy, is organizing the event. The programme includes a lecture on Joyce’s civic imagination, a recital of traditional Irish songs used in the writer’s books (by Fran O’Rourke of University College, Dublin) and a multi-media show by Emilia Gowin-Pacuła Leopold Bloom’s Phantasmagories.
The show combines photographs from the Bloomsday celebration in Dublin in 2004 with a selection of quotations from Ulysses, in English and Polish.
The first Polish translation of James Joyce’s Ulysses, by Maciej Slomczynski, was published in 1969.