Barry Sheehan “James Joyce and People in his Works”

The Embassy of Ireland and Latvian Society of Anthropologists, in partnership with the National Library of Latvia, invite you to a talk “James Joyce and People in his Works” by Barry Sheehan of Technical University Dublin. The talk will take place on 7 February at 17:00 at the Reading Room of East Asia Studies of the National Library of Latvia.

Barry Sheehan is an architect and Head of Design at the Technological University in Dublin by profession and is hugely passionate about running and about James Joyce. It all started in 2014, when Barry came up with an idea to combine his two passions and turn Joyce’s four major works into half marathons. As Barry writes, “Cities are not just economic engines, and we all use them in different ways. Joyce was playing with the city of Dublin, while in exile, using it differently and for a different purpose to…