Join us on the Feast of Epiphany for our annual screening of John Huston’s pitch-perfect adaptation of James Joyce’s The Dead.

As the New Year dawns in 1904, the elderly Misses Morkan and their niece Mary Jane, a music teacher, prepare for their annual dinner and musical soirée. Among their guests are friends old and new and young Miss O’Callaghan, one of Mary Jane’s students.  John Huston’s subtle direction, a wholly distinguished ensemble of Irish actors, and Angelica Huston and Donal McCann’s delicately wrought performances perfectly capture the social atmosphere and emotional nuance of Joyce’s original text. For Huston, the film served as an elegant and melancholic farewell to Ireland and to life itself.

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn

The Dead is screening in a 2k digital restoration, supported by the Screen Ireland Digital Restoration Project.

The screening will be preceded by a recorded introduction by the film’s cinematographer Fred Murphy.