"We must write dangerously and be willing to risk failure" - James Joyce
Date: Tuesday June 16th 2026
Time: 7:00 PM
Price: €12 ( including signed book from Rob Hennessy)
CRAICLY is doing something a little bit different for this particular evening!
We are joining our friends from Insurgent Press for their first evening in Ireland, where we will enjoy an evening of readings from writers, poets, storytellers - and celebrate the launch of Rob Hennessy’s poetry book. The Winding Stair bears more than a passing resemblance to the Shakespeare & Co bookshop in Paris, where James Joyce first published Ulysses.
Under the gaze of James Joyce, and in the heart of Dublin, we will be celebrating new writing works from Irish Writers, and a few Joycean odes along the way.
Ulysses is now recognised as one of the most important works of literature in the English language, a modernist masterpiece. However, the novel’s path to publication was far from straightforward. Having been first serialised in an American journal - The Little Review, the novel was published in its entirety following the support of Sylvia Beach, publisher and owner of Shakespeare & Co Bookshop in Paris. It was this intervention, following a chance meeting at a dinner party, that allowed Joyce to finally publish his masterpiece following repeated rejections from other publishing houses.
(If you’d like to tell a little story let me know!!) - jane@craiclystories.com