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Apr 17 2025

Paula’s show explores rich life of Nora Joyce

The remarkable life of Galway’s Nora Barnacle – later Nora Joyce – is celebrated in the one-woman show A Rare Journey; Nora Joyce’s Odyssey, which comes to the city’s Town Hall Theatre on May 13.

The 75-minute drama will bring the audience through Nora’s extraordinary life, giving full rein to her razor-sharp and often lethal wit, and featuring songs and music that she and her husband, author James Joyce, loved.

A Rare Journey separates Nora from her famous literary alter-ego, Molly Bloom, and dispels the sometimes lazy myths that have often cast Nora as an appendage of her famous husband.

This is Nora’s story, and Paula Greevy-Lee’s aim in writing it was to separate the reality of this complex, compassionate and intelligent woman from the half-truths that have dogged her since her death in 1951, aged 67.

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Read the full article on the Connacht Tribune website.