Light Theatre Company is delighted to be collaborating with Newry City Library to host this year’s Bloomsday Festival
2026 BLOOMSDAY IN NEWRY
Join us for an afternoon of fun and entertainment
- Dress up in your finest Edwardian clothes -
Szombathely is a Beautiful small town in Hungary from which Virag - the father of Leopold Bloom, the hero of James Joyce’s Ulysses, came from. Every year the town hosts a Bloomsday festival and in 2025 the Mayor of Szombathely invited Csilla and Alistair to join them in celebrating Bloomsday. Csilla’s 2007 ‘Bloom Mystery’ documentary was screened at the festival and will be shown again at this year’s Dublin Bloomsday Film Festival.
Bloomsday in Szombathaly, Hungary
Based on the life story of James Joyce’s daughter Lucia, Light Theatre Company is developing this ambitious Immersive Dance Drama.
An Immersive Dance Theatre Project
LUCIA DANCES
Enemy Alien Project
By Csilla Toldy with colour illustrations by Agnes Tamcsu
Published by Light Theatre Company as a resource for Holocaust Education with funding form the Heritage Lotteries Council and Private Donations
Based on the true story of Walter Sekules, Csilla Toldy tells the inspiring story of how a ten-year-old boy and his Austrian family survived the Holocaust and came to Northern Ireland in 1947 where they set up a knitwear business in Kilkeel, Co. Down, employing up to 300 local women (many of them single parents) .
Copies of the book have been donated to local libraries and schools in NI and England.
