,For Bloomsday 2021, NCBI (National Council for the Blind of Ireland) and
The James Joyce Cultural Centre are celebrating the importance of James
Joyce as a visual impaired writer. From childhood, Joyce suffered with his
eyesight and had to overcome ten difficult eye operations. Yet despite all
the pain and challenges this brought to his life and work, it's the clarity
of his writing and the extraordinary vision and insight in his sense of
character and place that still astounds the reader today.
June Tinsley, NCBI Head of Advocacy and Communications said "the connections
between Joyce and vision impairment and NCBI are numerous from his own
experiences of being vision impaired through to some of his characters being
blind to his father's death in our NCBI national headquarters in the former
Drumcondra fever hospital. Together with the James Joyce Cultural Centre,
we've created a series of videos to celebrate these many connections through
a range of presenters reading or singing extracts of Joyce's work."
Darina Gallagher, Director of James Joyce Cultural Centre said "people often
overlook or are unaware that James Joyce was visually impaired. It is
important to celebrate this part of him and how it influenced his highly
acclaimed work. It demonstrates how his vision impairment did not hinder his
artistic talent and accomplishments. A lesson that is equally important
today when we need to focus on ability rather than disability".
The videos include:
* Senator David Norris reading an excerpt from A Portrait of an Artist
as a Young Man
* Emilie Conway (a visually impaired artist) doing a dramatization
from a scene from Ulysses
* Maya Kostick (12-year-old digital Braille reader) reciting an
extract from A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
* Frank Callery (historian) discussing the connections between the
Joyce family, Joyce's characters and vision impairment
* Darina Gallagher (Director of James Joyce Cultural Centre) reading
from Ulysses.
Also, in celebration of Joyce, the NCBI Library Access Service has produced
copies of: James Joyce, A Biography in audio, Braille and digital formats.
These copies will be available from the NCBI Library Access Service on
Bloomsday 2021.
All videos are available from the NCBI YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3vW7th1Ge51XVdfTsYpx1Nz4AEJltFwK
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