A golden opportunity to view Joyce’s Ulysses
To celebrate Bloomsday 2022 and the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, Cork County Council Library and Arts Service is planning to exhibit its first edition copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses. This book forms part of a donation to Cork County Library by the Peter Golden Committee and this act of generosity is also celebrated in this exhibition.
In addition to displaying the actual book, staff in the County Library’s local studies section have also researched fascinating details about how the book made its journey from Paris to New York in 1922, its connection to Peter Golden and the Joyce family’s own connections to Cork.
This particular copy has very special connections to Cork. It was owned by Macroom native Peter Golden who emigrated to the US in 1901 and who for nearly twenty years worked to promote the cause of Irish Independence in North America.
Joyce’s family also had close connections to Cork. Joyce’s paternal grandfather James Augustine was born close to Castlehyde near Fermoy and his father John Stanislaus was born in Cork in 1849.
The exhibition is open to the public on June 16th 17th 20th and 21st, 9am – 5.30pm.
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