We rounded off Bloomsday at the MoLI Bloomsday Garden Party – held across the museum’s exhibitions and gardens we got to celebrate 102 years of Joyce’s Ulysses with a glass in hand and live music from Ireland’s most exciting musicians and rappers.
Scroll our feed below to see various activities from our sponsorship of MoLI.
You will see photos from our press launch, rationale for the Ebow brand creative that lives on the internal museum screens as well as a recent radio interview.
We rounded off Bloomsday at the MoLI Bloomsday Garden Party – held across the museum’s exhibitions and gardens we got to celebrate 102 years of Joyce’s Ulysses with a glass in hand and live music from Ireland’s most exciting musicians and rappers.
The European Commission hosted a celebratory event at the museum in early January to celebrate MoLI winning the Europa Nostra Grand Prix. It was be a lovely event with speeches from the European Commissioner Mairead McGuinness and UCD President Orla Feely.
The Museum of Literature Ireland is remarkable in its success in reaching out to lovers of literature and non-traditional audiences alike and in raising awareness of Ireland’s rich literary heritage. Through an exceptional programme of events, MoLI has attracted and maintained a diverse, multigenerational audience, also thanks to the potentials offered by digital transformation.
Ebow The Digital Agency, spearheaded the creation of a cutting-edge website to announce their prestigious sponsorship of the Museum of Literature Ireland. Appropriately, the website embodies a unique synthesis of the languages of literature and computer code.
We are proud to see it nominated for Best Technological Innovation at the Digital Media Awards.
If you’ve seen today’s Irish Times Business supplement, you may already know that Ebow and the Museum of Literature Ireland have been nominated for a Business to Arts award in the category of Best Large Sponsorship for Digital @ MoLI.
It’s a great achievement and we’re all super excited and hoping to win against some amazing other finalists.
Have you been to see The Holy Hour yet?
In this captivating audio-visual installation, writer Patrick McCabe brings visitors on a profound, often hilarious – and at times almost psychedelic – voyage through glimpses of Brendan Behan’s life & work.
We are delighted that MoLI has been shortlisted in the Museums + Heritage Awards for Best use of Digital – International for Digital at MoLI. The Museums + Heritage Awards celebrate the very best in the world of museums, galleries, and cultural and heritage visitor attractions.
Digital at MoLI encompasses a huge range of the museum’s work, including RadioMoLI, digital exhibitions, their online learning programme that includes MoLI in the Classroom, along with lots else.
If you’d like to find out more about the digital work taking place at MoLI, visit the link below and keep an ear out on Radio MoLI for Ebow MD David Douglas’ voiceover.
A great night last night at the launch of The Holy Hour, a brand new installation at MoLI created by Patrick McCabe, which brings visitors on a profound, often hilarious – and at times almost psychedelic – voyage through glimpses of Brendan Behan’s life and work.
MoLI’s Writer Presents series invites writers to produce a radio programme focusing on and exploring a chosen subject that is close to their heart. In the third episode of Writer Presents, writer and zine creator Sarah Maria Griffin looks at the importance of zines to her throughout her life and guides the listener through creating a zine of their own.
Writer Presents is produced with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Ebow The Digital Agency
First Fridays saw a superb night with a talk by illustrator and muralist Holly Pereira and a haunting, yet fun, performance and talk by uilleann piper Maitiú Ó Casaide, along with a reading by Cristín Leach.
MoLI is full of fun every First Friday of 2023 and as part of the promotion of these excellent, free events, there is a campaign on Dublin Bus and DART.
We were VERY proud to see our logo there.
MoLI is full of fun every First Friday of 2023 and as part of the promotion of these excellent, free events, there is a campaign on Dublin Bus and DART.
We were VERY proud to see our logo there.
Continuing our sponsorship and commitment to content first thinking we enjoyed the launch last Friday evening for the new digital exhibition of The Parish, The Universe Patrick Kavanagh and World of the Literary Magazine.
First Fridays, September began with an excellent poetry reading by Hazel Hogan.
Hazel’s poem ‘Grangegorman’ is on the Junior Cert syllabus.
The wandering i, curated by Anne Enright, is an interactive audio-visual experience, which uses eye-tracking software and responsive soundscape to show your unique reading of Ulysses – with one person admitted at a time.
The wandering i is an interactive audio-visual experience, which uses eye-tracking software and a responsive soundscape to show your unique reading of Ulysses.
Reading is something most of us take for granted, but it is an incredibly complex skill. Far from being a plodding business of looking at one word and then the next – reading is a dance of difficulty, interest and delight.
Our eyes skip across the sentences, while our brains fill in the blanks.
And Ulysses is full of blanks: it is full of things we don’t entirely understand. More than any other book, Ulysses happens in the reader’s head. Joyce demands that we figure the meaning out for ourselves, and this makes it a profoundly democratic work. Each unique reading makes Ulysses bigger, by the choices we make and the meanings we take, as our eyes move across the page.
Pictured above is a gaze map, which represents one of our unique readings of Ulysses.
David discusses Ebow The Digital Agency’s sponsorship of The Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) on the Dublin Chamber section of Good Morning Dublin, Dublin City FM.
“From Asterix to Iris Murdoch” and how COVID-19 and the internet’s propensity for un-researched content highlighted his wish to align the agency with quality content from quality sources.
Also discussed is the Ebow’s way of working regarding meeting and pitch space in MoLI.
All our new team photos have all been taken in the mezzanine room of MoLI. The backdrops, light and surroundings are superb.
To do these photos we enlisted the help of Irish photographer Kate Swift.
With the recent launch of The Ulysses100 digital platform, celebrating the Centenary of Ulysses – which launched on February 2nd, the time is right for Simon O’Connor, Director of the Museum of Literature Ireland and David Douglas, Director of Ebow, The Digital Agency to announce a partnership between the two organisations, which is an investment by Ebow in the ongoing development of the digitisation of the museum, an alignment of professionals who understand the value and potential of the digital space and who share a belief in the importance of digital engagement for culture, education, literature and so much more.
Pictured are David Douglas, MD of Ebow The Digital Agency with Simon O’Connor, Director of MoLI and Zoe Brady, Fundraising and Finance Officer at MoLI.
Pictured are David Douglas, MD of Ebow The Digital Agency with Simon O’Connor, Director of MoLI and Zoe Brady, Fundraising and Finance Officer at MoLI looking at our visuals for the museums display screens.
You can see the screens in situ when you visit the museum.
Pictured are David Douglas, MD of Ebow The Digital Agency with Simon O’Connor, Director of MoLI and Zoe Brady, Fundraising and Finance Officer at MoLI looking at our visuals for the museums display screens.
You can see the screens in situ when you visit the museum.
We chose Dame Iris Murdoch as she was a second cousin (or thereabouts!) of our MD.
Iris was played by Kate Winslet and Dame Judi Dench in the Oscar nominated 2001 film, Iris.
The picture used is from the Bill Evans and Jim Hall album ‘Undercurrent’.
You can see the screens in situ when you visit the museum.
We chose this Samuel Beckett quote as it is tattoo’d on the arm of one of David’s first cousins, the director, Molly McGlynn (The Wonder Years, Grace and Frankie).
We like that Molly is now in MoLI.
This Pat Ingoldsby quote was chosen by Aiden Grennelle as it is one of his favourite quotes, MoLI is situated on Stephen’s Green and published a book of poems by Irish legend Pat Ingoldsby.
You can see the screens in situ when you visit the museum.
We have various creative on the screens in MoLI with some nice reasons behind the choice of theme, imagery or artist.
This one was an obvious inclusion as 2022 is the centenary of James Joyce’s Ulysses.
We wrote the tagline ‘Crafting Richly Rewarding Experiences’ for our sponsorship of the museum. We wanted a line that we felt represented a common ground in what both organisation strive to achieve.
You can see the first edition of the in the famous Hellenic Blue colour at MoLI.
You can see the Ebow screens in situ when you visit the museum.
At Ebow The Digital Agency we are committed to bringing brands, companies and content to life.
As an agency we know that content and creativity in crafting a brands message is intrinsically linked to insights, strategy and context.
We felt The Museum of Literature was the perfect partner to showcase this kind of thinking.
One of the many reasons behind our sponsorship was to allow our team the ability to create the kind of content they want and showcase the agencies range.
It allows our clients to see us at our best and it allows all our team members the chance to exercise their own style(s).
We seed this content out across all our social platforms but its first home is our website.
What we are enjoying is the ability to tell a wider story uses several pieces of content.
Like literature we hope that it all pulls together to form an overarching message.
One about what Ebow The Digital Agency stands for.
We continue to develop our relationship with MoLI and get to know one and other even more.
An offshoot of this is the ability to share and co-promote each others content.
Where there is synergy and common ground, both organisations’ followers can remain engaged by new and interesting content.
