{"id":41292,"date":"2026-05-11T15:51:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/shut-your-eyes-and-see\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:51:47","slug":"shut-your-eyes-and-see","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/shut-your-eyes-and-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Shut Your Eyes and See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irish visual artist <a href=\"https:\/\/artistclaremclaughlin.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Clare McLaughlin<\/strong><\/a> presents&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/artistclaremclaughlin.org\/shut-your-eyes-and-see-exciting-new-event-for-bloomsday-tuesday-june-16th-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Shut Your Eyes and See<\/strong><\/em><\/a> on <strong>Bloomsday, Tuesday, 16 June<\/strong> at Sandymount Strand. Running from <strong>10am to 5pm<\/strong> in 20-minute sessions, the free event invites participants to experience selected passages from James Joyce\u2019s <em>Ulysses<\/em> through touch, imagination and guided sensory engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Clare\u2019s work centres on opening up gallery spaces that are often assumed to be inaccessible to blind and visually impaired people. With <em>Shut Your Eyes And See<\/em>, McLaughlin turns to Joyce as both a literary giant and a writer whose visual impairment shaped his experience of the world. For McLaughlin, this offers a powerful and underexplored way into <em>Ulysses<\/em>: through touch, sound, memory and imagination, not only through sight. In her works: \u201cJames Joyce was visually impaired, and that changed the way I read <em>Ulysses<\/em>. When I discovered more about his eyesight and returned to the book, its sensory descriptions made new sense to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This project invites people to encounter Joyce through those sensory elements. Clare hopes to bring wider attention not only to Joyce\u2019s visual impairment but also to the importance of making art and culture accessible in meaningful, imaginative ways.<\/p>\n<p><span>The event is free. Early registration is advisable. Please email <\/span><a href=\"mailto:claremclaughlinemail@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>claremclaughlinemail@gmail.com<\/strong><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":41293,"template":"","class_list":["post-41292","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shut Your Eyes and See - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Irish visual artist Clare McLaughlin presents&nbsp;Shut Your Eyes and See on Bloomsday, Tuesday, 16 June at Sandymount Strand.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/shut-your-eyes-and-see\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shut Your Eyes and See - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Irish visual artist Clare McLaughlin presents&nbsp;Shut Your Eyes and See on Bloomsday, Tuesday, 16 June at Sandymount Strand. 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