James Joyce's Zurich

  • Free to visit

Wednesday, 12 August 2026

Event times:

18:30 - 19:30

Event location:

James Joyce Centre

Event price:

€0.00

About this event

Join us for a talk about James Joyce and Zurich by Martin Mühlheim, Director of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation. The event is free but booking is essential.

When Joyce decided to leave Ireland in 1904, he and Nora Barnacle intended to move to Zurich. Things didn’t quite work out this way – and yet they would return to the Swiss city on the river Limmat time and again, over the coming years.

This lecture will explore some of the stories related to Joyce’s stays in Zurich. We will examine the traces the city has left in Joyce’s poetry and prose. We will also focus on Joyce’s Zurich afterlife: his grave at Fluntern cemetery, as well as a few highlights from the collection of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation.

Martin Mühlheim is a Swiss philologist and historian, a research assistant at the English Department of the University of Zurich, and the Director of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation.

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