Based on an intriguing premise, this one act opera (or dramatic recital), images the novelist and poet James Joyce as a very young man, squaring off in a singing competition with the soon to be internationally renowned Irish singer John McCormick at the Antient Concert Rooms in Dublin in May of 1904. Joyce's mother, May and his then girl friend, later wife, Nora Barnacle observe and comment on the antics of the competing peacocks. The resulting fifty minute scene touches on the nature of the cre...

• 1. Salley Gardens
• 2. The Harp that Once
• 3. You're as Welcome as the Flowers in May
• 4. Tho' the Last Glimpse of Erin
• 5. The Croppy Boy