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As part of our 2026 Bloomsday Supplement, Rochford Street Review is republishing Molly Twomey’s poetry film ‘The Citizen’s Wife’. The original piece is reproduced below.
Molly Twomey, one of Ireland’s most vibrant contemporary voices. marked the centenary of Ulysses by James Joyce in 2022 with The Citizen’s Wife, a poetry film by SoFFt Productions which was commissioned by ANU, Landmark and MoLI in partnership with Poetry Ireland and premiered on-line on 16 June 2022.
We celebrate the remarkable centenary of Ulysses by James Joyce with a response by Molly Twomey, one of Ireland’s most vibrant contemporary voices.
The work searches for answers to the question ‘What is My Nation?’ from the perspective of a woman who has been doomed to the margins of Ireland’s historical archives.