James Joyce in Luxembourg exhibition

The exhibition looks at Joyce in Luxembourg in the 1930s Photo: BNL

Irish author James Joyce once described Luxembourg as “a lovely quiet rose-growing part of dirty old Europe”, with this exhibition at the national library dedicated to era of his visit in the 1930s.

The exhibition features letters and other correspondence Joyce wrote during a stay in Luxembourg, using the opportunity to examine the city as a tourism destination in the 1930s. The show also looks at how Luxembourg journalists reviewed Joyce’s work and the impact the grand duchy had on its celebrated novel Finnegan’s Wake. 

The exhibition is free during the library’s opening hours. For more information, visit