Wild Geese Players of Seattle

Irish Week Reading of Irish Literature

As part of Seattle’s Irish Week, the Wild Geese Players will be reading an hour-long selection of Irish literature from the likes of James Joyce, Flann O’Brien, W.B. Yeats, Roddy Doyle, Dervla Murphy, Samuel Beckett, Bram Stoker, and Seamus Heaney. Our reading is part of the weekend-long Irish Festival at the Seattle Center Armory. Join us in the Upper Level from 2–3pm on Sunday, March 17th, 2019.

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The Other Bloomsday - Seattle 2019

The Wild Geese Players of Seattle will present a staged reading of Chapter 10, “Wandering Rocks”, adapted from the 1922 edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses, on June 16th, 2019.

Our annual Bloomsday readings started in 1998. After concluding Ulysses in 2013, we started afresh five years ago. This year, we’re reading Chapter 10, “Wandering Rocks”.

Chapter 10: Wandering Rocks

Chapter 10 “Wandering Rocks” happens at 3pm in the streets of Dublin. Nineteen vignettes …

Reading at the Seattle Central Library, June 16th, 2019

2:30pm on Sunday, June 16th, 2019,
The Seattle Central Library,
Level 4, Room 2 — Howard S. Wright Family & Janet W. Ketcham Meeting Room,
1000 Fourth Ave,
Seattle, WA 98104

Map.

Donations towards costs of posters and props are welcome. Please arrive before 2:30pm to find a seat. The reading will take about two hours.

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Poster

We encourage you to download [poster TBD] and post it around town.

Press Release

This is our twenty-second year of Bloomsday readings. (Press Release).

Commentary

Wandering Rocks (Chapter 10)

• Text of Chapter 10
• The Joyce Project: Wandering Rocks
• Kennesaw Guide
• Cliff Notes
• Sparknotes
• The Joyce Portal
• The Sheila Variations
• Joyce Images
• Paul Debraski
• Shmoop Summary and Analysis
• Groden Notes
• Joyce’s Moraculous Sindbook: Suzette Henke — “Hades”: The Hibernian Underworld, “Aelous” and “Wandering Rocks”: The World as Machine
• The Modern Word
• James Joyce’s Ulysses: Where It’s Always June 16, 1904 and Wandering Rocks II
• RTÉ 25-hour broadcast of Ulysses (history)

Other Wild Geese Events

See our archives for details of our previous readings.

Recap: 20th Anniversary Reading

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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Irish Ambassador’s Message to our Audience

Ambassador Mulhall welcomes you to our 20th anniversary reading.