El 16 de juny de 2015 (Bloomsday) a Dublín, es va celebrar a la sala de concerts nacional durant dues hores, l'espectacle Nora Barnacle , un cicle de cançons de Shaun Davey i Nuala N í Dhomhnaill, sobre la vida de Nora Barnacles des del moment en què va conèixer James Joyce fins que va morir; va resultar ser un èxit indiscutible.
No conec que hagi estat enregistrat, però a Youtube sí que hi ha algunes cançons
The song titles gave the clues as to how their life unfolded through the years. The show opened with ‘I met a young man in Dublin’. ‘The Boat Train’ took us to Trieste, a rooftop in Rome, Cinema Volta, Lucia’s madness and conluded with ‘Roaring with the Lions’. The only song which relied on words from Joyce’s work was ‘I rush into your arms’ taken from the last pages of Finnegans Wake. If there was a criticism to be made it came early in the first half when there seemed to be a sameness to one or two of the songs. However, once the story moved from the lethargy of the heat of Trieste and Rome, the excitement of Stannie, Jim and Nora going to the opera changed the mood entirely. It changed again when Nora declared ‘I won’t look at you Jim’ in frustration at JJ’s drinking, the disastrous Volta Cinema venture, and when the cold winds of war are first felt and Stannie is interned. ‘Lucia’s Dance‘ and ‘Lucia is Mad’ were poignant reminders of how life dealt an unfortunate hand to Lucia Joyce. The concluding numbers ‘I rush into Your Arms’ and ‘Roaring with the Lions’. were a perfect finale for a great show. Nowhere in the song cycle do we hear about the deeply erotic relationship with Joyce. Did we need to, though? The ‘dirty letters’ shared by Joyce and Nora are already famous/notorious for their frankness.
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