Boston Public Library Hosts Joyce Display
-- Library Journal, 10/25/2004
As part of this year’s celebration of the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, the Boston Public Library (BPL) played host to a traveling exhibit on the life and work of James Joyce. Dubbed International Joyce, the exhibit launched in Berlin last April and has moved across Europe and other continents. BPL will be the 31st stop on the tour with 15 additional locations to go. Created by the Cultural Division of Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs, the exhibit, which consists of 22 panels depicting the author’s life in photos and text, was created by Michael Barsanti, associate director of Philadelphia’s Rosenbach Museum and Library, which owns the Ulysses manuscript, and Declan Kiberd, professor at University College, Dublin. According to the Boston Globe, the exhibit "examines Joyce’s family, his love/hate relationship with Ireland in general and Dublin in particular, and his fascination with the story of Odysseus, the meandering Greek warrior."
