In Ulysses, Joyce repeatedly references trees and the nature of Irish forestry in 1904. The talk explores Joyce’s arboreal world and transposes the narrative to what was actually happening to rescue Ireland’s vastly depleted forests at the time. While the customers in Barney Kiernan’s public house in Dublin are bemoaning the decline of Irish forests in the “Cyclops” episode of Ulysses, Avondale Estate, Co. Wicklow, is being purchased by the State, which begins a new chapter “to reafforest the land”.

This is a free event taking place in the Visitor Centre Auditorium.

Booking advised.