Literary Gems – Dalkey Dublin

Discover Dalkey’s Literary Gems

Performance Show @ Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre

‘On Yer Bike with Dalkey’s Writers’

 This is a stage show featuring a compilation of the work of famous local writers – James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Hugh Leonard, Flann O’Brien, Maeve Binchy, John Millington Synge, Van Morrison, Seamus Heaney, Joseph O’Connor and more. The show lasts approx. 55 minutes.

The performance, with linking script written by award-winning playwright, Shay Linehan, has a Flann O’Brien like character who will conjure up characters to play various well known scenes from the work of the writers listed. The show is part of our ‘Discover Dalkey’s Literary Gems’ series. It is an entertaining and enlightening whistle-stop ‘taster’ through the work of our internationally acclaimed writers, who were all associated with Dublin and Dalkey.

‘On Yer Bike’ will be performed on Friday March 4^th 2016, against the beautiful backdrop of St Begnet’s Church at Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre. All attendees will have the opportunity to browse the fabulous Writers’ Gallery after the show.

Advance booking is necessary as places are limited. Tickets are €10 and are available from the Reception at Dalkey Castle or on-line at www.dalkeycastle/book-tickets

Guided Joycean Walk

@ Bloomsday 16^th June

Guided Joycean Walk in Dalkey on Bloomsday. See the location where Joyce taught in the spring of 1904. Chapter two of ‘Ulysses’ the Nestor Episode is set in the Dalkey Schoolroom. The Walk will take place after the dramatisation of the Dalkey Schoolroom Scene at Dalkey Castle.

For bookings / enquiries please contact
Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre:

Castle Street
Dalkey,
Co. Dublin
t. (353 1) 285 8366
w. www.dalkeycastle.com
e. info@dalkeycastle.com
f. fb.com/dalkeycastleandheritage

Guided Flann O’Brien Walks

@ Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre

‘The Dalkey Archive’, ‘The Third Policeman’ & ‘At Swim–Two-Birds’ all have references in the Dalkey landscape.

Sergeant Fottrell of the Dalkey Police puts forward the famous ‘Mollycule theory’. Mollycules were ‘as lively as twenty punky leprechauns doing a jig on the top of a flat tombstone’. He contends that the vigorous interaction of two solid bodies would result in an exchange of mollycules between the bodies…”you would be surprised at the number of people in country parts who are nearly half people and half bicycles”!

(Must be pre-booked, with a minimum number of six)