12/11/2025
"... snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, on the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried."
Ever been curious about how the Salon works? There is a great (as in, low time commitment, great reading, lively facilitators) opportunity coming up for a reading of two short stories (well, one is more a novella than a short story but still) from James Joyce's Dubliners collection. and it's Joyce so everything is there-- humour, pathos, love, death, s*x, music, banquets, corpses, paralysis, gnomons, family issues...PERFECT for pre-winter holiday reflections!
From the website description:
The stories in Dubliners (1914) provide a rich feast through which to taste the world of James Joyce. In both The Sisters and The Dead, the stories which bookend the collection, Joyce seeks flashes of illumination – epiphanies – when clarity is suddenly attained, not in occasions of great victory or of obvious importance, but in mundane moments when pieces fall into place and profound truths are revealed.
Nothing – NOTHING – in Joyce is casual. Each image, reference, description carries symbolic resonance. Career Joyce scholars may try to align all the references, but I like W. Tindall’s attitude:
“The text is not a system of mathematical equations but a flexible relationship of possibilities..."
William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to James Joyce
Come and explore the possibilities with us! Virtual study so if you can make the timing work, you can Zoom in from anywhere
3 Sessions: Tuesdays Nov 25th, Dec 2nd & 9th
17:30-19:30 GMT
And if the cost gives you pause, we have subsidised places available...just message me.
Three-meeting live online study of James Joyce's short stories The Dead and The Sisters, led by Toby Brothers and Paul Caviston.
