Join contemporary composer Dr. Alastair White at the Thomas MacDonagh Museum, Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary, as he begins the ambitious task of adapting James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake for the musical stage.

This week-long open residency, curated by the writer Gemma A. Williams, invites audiences to see opera in the making and witness how literature, theatre, fashion and music can intersect and redesign one another.

White’s work has been hailed as “a whole new exciting genre of art” (BBC Radio 3), and this latest project seeks to capture the joyful, multidimensional beauty of Joyce’s text through an approach that treats it as a surface rather than a depth. The open studio offers an opportunity to engage directly with this creative process and experience opera not as a finished product — but as a living, evolving form.

Part of Irish Design Week, this inaugural event will lead to a series of works over the next decade and more: culminating in a festival 100 years after the book’s publication in 1939.

All areas of the ground floor, the Museum, heritage exhibitions and galleries are fully accessible. The upstairs room has limited accessibility. A wheelchair accessible toilet is located on the ground floor. Please contact the museum directly for weekend slots on

[email protected] or 0505 42785.

Wheelchair Accessible • Suitable for All Ages

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