Performed by Alma Kelliher and part of the Ulysses 2.2 series, made in partnership with MoLI
This response to Episode 10 of James Joyce’s Ulysses, explores the pressures of national identity and contemporary life, with three songs at 18 key locations along the Liffey, the central nerve of Dublin. The Death of Nelson, an English Nationalist folksong, is sung by a one-legged sailor on Eccles Street in Ulysses, while The Croppy Boy comes to Tom Kernan as he encounters the place where Robert Emmet was executed. The third is offered as a potential replacement for these two contradictory tunes.
Running time: 5 minutes 53 seconds
Owen Boss / ANU Productions
The Death of Croppy Nelson
Owen Boss / ANU Productions
The Death of Croppy Nelson
Owen Boss
Owen Boss is a Dublin based visual artist and designer. In 2009 he co-founded ANU Productions. His work is predominantly made as large-scale multi-room immersive installations and employs collaborative practice, ethnographic research, installation and film. Alma Kelliher is a composer, sound designer and musician based in Dublin. She works across a range of media from large scale theatre on the West End to dance, live art, film, commercials and everything in between.
