Thanks to all the people who came out to the Couth Buzzard
this afternoon to hear us read from Joyce, Yeats, Roddy Doyle,
Dervla Murphy, Eavan Boland, and many more for our
20th anniversary reading.
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A Celebration of Irish Writers: An afternoon of readings from the works of
W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Billy Collins, Pádraig Pearse,
John McGahern, Flann O’Brien/Myles na gCopaleen, Joseph O’Connor, Roddy Doyle,
Kieran O’Malley, and others, by the Wild Geese Players of Seattle.
Founded in 1998 by Kieran O’Malley, the Seattle-based Wild Geese Players have publicly
read a chapter from James Joyce’s Ulysses on Bloomsday, June 16th,
every year since, and proudly celebrate their 20th anniversary with this event.
The Celebration will take place on Sun, Oct 21, 2018, at 2pm
at the Couth Buzzard in Seattle. The Couth Buzzard is a bookstore and gathering
place for writers, and a venue for literary and musical events.
Sun, Oct 21, 2018, at 2pm
The Couth Buzzard,
8310 Greenwood Ave N,
Seattle, WA 98103
Phone: (206) 436–2960
The public is invited and there is no charge for admission. Yep, it’s FREE.
The Couth Buzzard also offers a fine selection of
beer, wine, and food, as well as an espresso bar.
Please RSVP at the Facebook event.
Sláinte!
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We believe that poetry and certain novels are best read aloud,
that some words are better heard than read.
Every year, we perform a staged reading of part of James Joyce’s novel
Ulysses.
Occasionally, we do other readings too.
Ulysses takes place on June 16th, 1904, the date now known as
Bloomsday.
The book follows the wanderings of Leopold Bloom, a Jewish everyman,
and Stephen Dedalus, a young writer and Joyce’s alter ego,
as they wander the streets of Dublin.
The centenary of Bloomsday, June 16th, 2004, was celebrated worldwide.
Bloomsday: Lestrygonians and Scylla & Charybdis Reading: June 16th, 2018
For our twentieth anniversary,
we will present a
staged reading
of the second half of Chapter 8, “Lestrygonians”
and all of Chapter 9, “Scylla and Charybdis”
at the Seattle Central Library,
More about our Lestrygonians/Scylla & Charybdis Reading
| Press Release.
The Players
The Wild Geese Players of Seattle have been staging readings of Irish literature,
by writers such as James Joyce and
W.B. Yeats,
in Seattle since 1998.
We are a diverse group of people
with an interest in Irish literature,
and most of us are either Irish-born or have Irish connections.
More generally, the Wild Geese refers to the
Irish diaspora,
after the original
Wild Geese,
exiled Irish soldiers and their descendants who served in European armies in
the 16th—18th centuries.
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