The ''Ulysses'' broadcast occurred on

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1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C ...

when the Irish state broadcaster,

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, transmitted an uninterrupted 30-hour dramatised radio performance, by 33 actors of the RTÉ Players, of the entire text of

James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the Modernism, modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important ...

's epic 1922 novel, '' Ulysses'', to commemorate the centenary of the author's birth (born 2 February 1882).''1982 Recordings''
RTÉ. Retrieved: 2010-09-12. The broadcast was carried by live relay internationally and won a Jacob's Broadcasting Award in recognition of its achievement. The full 30-hour broadcast was repeated for the first time in 38 years on RTÉ Radio 1 Extra on 16 June 2020, beginning at 8 am. The decision to repeat the broadcast was influenced by the death of Joyce's grandson and literary estate executor, Stephen Joyce, in January 2020 and by the quarantine introduced in Ireland to limit the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The novel ''Ulysses'' contains about 265,000 words from a vocabulary of 30,030 words. This record-breaking and historic live literary broadcast was originally released to the public, after the broadcast, as a recording on 20

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in 1982 and later digitally remastered on CD in two formats: as a 32-CD

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, and as a three-CD set of MP3 audio files, released in 2004 (

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Track listing (MP3 version)

Broadcast personnel (the RTÉ Players)

Narrators
RTÉ. Retrieved: 2010-09-12. * Conor Farrington * Peter Dix *

Brendan Cauldwell Brendan Cauldwell (25 October 1922 – 12 January 2006) was an Irish radio, film and television actor. Early life and education Cauldwell was born in Fairview, Dublin. He was educated at O'Connell's Irish Christian Brothers School and went on ...

* Aiden Grennell * Tomas Studley * Deirdre O'Meara Cast *

Leopold Bloom Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's 1922 novel '' Ulysses''. His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/ Odysseus in Homer's ep ...

– Ronnie Walsh *

Molly Bloom Molly Bloom is a fictional character in the 1922 novel '' Ulysses'' by James Joyce. The wife of main character Leopold Bloom, she roughly corresponds to Penelope in the ''Odyssey''. The major difference between Molly and Penelope is that while P ...

– Pegg Monahan * Stephen Dedalus – Patrick Dawson *

Buck Mulligan Malachi Roland St. John "Buck" Mulligan is a fictional character in James Joyce's 1922 novel '' Ulysses''. He appears most prominently in episode 1 ''(Telemachus)'', and is the subject of the novel's famous first sentence: "Stately, plump Buck ...

– Gerry McArdle * Mr. Deasy – Brendan Cauldwell * Myles Crawford – Seamus Forde * Bantam Lyons – Jim Reid * Simon Dedalus –

Eamon Keane Eamonn Patrick Keane (born Edmund Keane; 30 March 1925 – 7 January 1990) was an Irish actor. Keane was born in Listowel, County Kerry and was a brother of the playwright, John B. Keane. He was a member of the Radio Éireann Players and appear ...

* Haines – Laurence Foster * Miss Douce – Colette Proctor * Miss Kennedy – Barbara McCaughey * Nosy Flynn – Gerald Fitzmahony * Ben Dollard – Breandán Ó Dúill * Ned Lambert – Denis Staunton * W.B. Murphy – Liam O'Callaghan * Cyril Sargent – Brendan Conroy * Colm – Colm Hefferon * Zoe Higgins – Marcella O'Riordan * Bella Cohen – Eileen Colgan * John Henry Menton – Eoin White * The Nymph – Cathryn Brennan * Virag –

Christopher Casson Christopher T. Casson (20 March 1912 – 9 July 1996) was an English-born actor who became a citizen of Ireland in 1946. His work included stage, screen, radio and television roles. His portrayal of a Church of Ireland canon in the long-runni ...

* Old Gummy Granny – Neasa Ní Annracháin * Stephen's Mother – Joan Plunkett * Mrs. Yelverton-Barry – Daphne Carroll * Cissy Caffrey – Kate Minogue * Alf Bergin – Joe Taylor * The Gaffer – Ivan Hanly Production personnel * Text Consultant – Roland McHugh * Sound Supervision – Marcus Mac Donald * Executive Producer – Micheál Ó hAodha * Director – William Styles

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Photograph of actors at recording

''Ulysses''
audiobook: the entire recording
The entire recording in 18 parts
at RTÉ Culture {{James Joyce Literature albums by Irish artists Audiobooks by title or series Live spoken word albums Bloomsday RTÉ Radio Ulysses (novel) Spoken word albums by Irish artists 1980s spoken word albums