Writers’ Tears Irish Whiskey simply launched a limited-edition bottle of its Copper Pot expression that commemorates the 100-year anniversary of James Joyce’s pivotal literary work, Ulysses.
The bottle, designed by Studio Minerva of London, options paintings of Sweny’s Pharmacy, which Joyce visited in 1904 and options in Episode 5 of Ulysses.
Nowadays, Writers’ Tears helps help Sweny’s Pharmacy, which is a cultural heart devoted to celebrating Joyce and Eire’s different nice writers by way of each day readings, each on-line and within the pharmacy.
The particular Writers’ Tears Copper Pot whiskey is proscribed to five,442 bottles and is obtainable in Eire (together with at The Loop in Dublin Airport), Austria, Canada, France, Germany and the UK at a prompt retail worth of €45/£35.
Bernard Walsh, creator of Writers’ Tears and managing director of Walsh Whiskey, stated in a ready assertion, “Celebrating Eire’s literary greats has all the time been on the core of Writers’ Tears and there’s none larger than James Joyce. We’re delighted to play our half in supporting Joyce’s legacy by way of Sweny’s Pharmacy, which is a chunk of completely preserved residing historical past from Joyce’s Victorian Dublin.”
Joyce’s epic novel is about common individuals going about their lives on a single day in Dublin, June sixteenth, 1904. The novel is well known on the identical date yearly. The day is called “Bloomsday,” after the primary character Leopold Bloom, and Joycean lovers gown in Victorian apparel and go to venues that characteristic within the novel all throughout Dublin.
Writers’ Tears will rejoice the centenary of Ulysses with a program of actions together with:
- Sunday, June twelfth – A drinks reception on the Worldwide James Joyce Symposium on the Museum of Literature Eire in Dublin.
- Wednesday, June fifteenth – A studying from Ulysses and whiskey tasting night led by Bernard Walsh (creator of Writers’ Tears) at a Joycean venue (Dublin, Eire).
- Thursday, June sixteenth (Bloomsday) – Complimentary ‘Sizzling Toddy’s’ (whiskeys) for swimmers and spectators at Fitzgerald’s of Sandycove, a pub near Dublin’s Forty Foot bathing place – the venue of the opening scene in Ulysses.
- Supporting the screening of the documentary Exceptional Ladies, in regards to the girls who influenced the primary publication of Ulysses, on the Museum of Literature Eire in Dublin.
For extra data on the particular bottle or particulars of the Writers’ Tears Ulysses Centenary actions, try their social channels at www.instagram.com/writerstearswhiskey or www.twitter.com/WalshWhiskey.
