I want to be honest my MND is getting worse, I cannot walk any longer unless I have a walking stick. But other things are deteriorating as well.. But I keep promising while I have a breath in my body I am going to continue to extend the hand of friendship.Love you all.

dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-ne… Very interesting & thanks to Mark O'Brien

Nice to see. A letter in today's Irish Times from the Irish Ambassador in Brussels Ambassador Kevin Conmy Embassy of Ireland, Belgium following my article yesterday about the Flanders Fields Bursary Scheme at In Flanders Fields Museum irishtimes.com/opinion/letter…

La géométrie percutante de Vassily Kandinsky 📐 Comme sous l'impact de forces centrifuges, les formes aux contours nets et aux angles aigus volent ici en éclats en suivant des lignes diagonales. Seule la forme violette recourbée vers le centre semble amortir ce mouvement. Pour

Looking forward to presenting at Chicago Irish Film Festival premiere: "Fintan O'Toole on James Joyce's Evolution as an Artist." Care to guess the theme? Toronto Irish Film Festival The James Joyce Centre Dublin International Film Festival EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum Daniel Mulhall Canada Ireland Foundation

102 today!

Fantastic initiative from The James Joyce Centre @bloomsdayfilmf1 👏👏👏

There's lots happening around Ireland this weekend for St. Patrick's Festival 🇮🇪🐍☘️💚 ☘ We're busy at #BFF HQ, watching some of the wonderful films that have been submitted for #Bloomsday2024 Submissions are NOW OPEN DM for a #StPatricksWeekend discount!☘ filmfreeway.com/BloomsdayFilmF…

With the deadline for submissions now passed, its time to get down to some serious work!📺 We say "work" but seeing the fantastic quality of films so far- its really not hard work! Watching some wonderfully diverse &eclectic films from all over the world and Ireland!

This is a unique Bloomsday event in Dublin: a fully dramatised adaptation of Ulysses compressed into 80 action filled minutes. 16 June, 2024 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Blackrock Shopping Centre

I welcome the amazing portal on North Earl St. Was there today, saw a big crowd around the portal, & also around and on the plinth of the James Joyce statue. There was no access to the statue and both the iconic statue & the portal are too close to each other. Daithí de Róiste

Let the Games Begin... starting @JamesJoyceCentre for the 2024 @BloomsdayFestival in Dublin & environs, globally. Honoured to be invited to contribute this film, with music by the Irish folk ensemble hibsenmusic. The International James Joyce Foundation Just Joyce link-->> vimeo.com/931836324/

Bloomsday on the way! God, we simply must dress the character. (Quote: Ulysses Chapter 3 Proteus) Bloomsday 16th June. Photo courtesy Brian Lawless @gezzamacoz The Irish Times The James Joyce Centre Bloomsday ReJoyce Bloomsday Festival #Bloomsday #Ulysses #JamesJoyce

Ha… I made the hat and took the photo.

June 15th is Shevlin hat day & also my birthday! ( #ShevlinHatDay ) An initiative from Canadian Documentary Film maker/ friend, Godfrey Jordan, to correspond with my birthday. It encourages SHEVLIN hat wearers to post photos wearing a Shevlin hat. Hashtag #ShevlinHatDay

FYI - October 6th is IVY DAY in Ireland... ... dedicated to the memory of Charles Stewart Parnell. "IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM" as composed & performed by hibsenmusic is one of their original songs inspired by Joyce's "Dubliners." Bloomsday Festival Smock Alley Theatre Frank McNally

May 15 - National Straw Hat Day Toquilla straw from Peru is woven for classic Panama hats. A specialty of Dublin milliner Shevlin Millinery I filmed him making this hat for me... then tried it on yer man himself in Stephens Green, Dublin Just Joyce BTW June 15 #ShevlinHatDay

Where else? The James Joyce Centre Bloomsday Festival Shevlin Millinery

What’s another year? Or: WHAT?… ANOTHER YEAR?!