A Workshop with Daniel Mulhall
In Beautiful Rostrevor in 2023
Light Theatre Company was privileged to present:
ULYSSES and SOCIETY
Daniel Mulhall
Speaking directly to promoting a peaceful and shared society and using the text of ‘Ulysses’ as a starting point, Daniel Mulhall explored themes in James Joyce’s Ulysses that are as relevant today as when the novel was first published.
Themes including censorship, religion, nationalism and prejudice. As Ulysses central character, Leopold Bloom says: "It is a patent absurdity on the face of it, to hate people because they live around the corner and speak another vernacular, in the next house so to speak.”
Daniel retired as Ireland's Ambassador to the USA shortly before going to Rostrevor for this event.
He has been appointed by New York University as: 'distinguished professor in Irish studies’ and was later that year the Parnell Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Throughout his distinguished career he has used ‘Ulysses’ as a window through which to introduce an understanding of Ireland and its society wherever he has been the Ambassador. His book "Ulysses, a Readers Odyssey " was published to coincide with the centenary of the epic novel and was compiled from the talks that he has given throughout the world on Ireland and it's society and by extension globally.
DANIEL MULHALL, HAS SPENT 40 YEARS EXPLORING, THINKING, TALKING & WRITING ABOUT JAMES JOYCE’S NOVEL
Explored some of the Major Themes in Ulysses