Rite & Reason: Joyce knew far more about Catholic dogma than many of his detractors
James Joyce
The Ulysses European Odyssey stretches across 18 European cities that have produced artistic responses to the novel
Reviewing works by Diego Marani, François-Marie Luzel, María Bastarós, Sasha Salzmann and Anna Stern
Some writers seek to delve into the inner workings of their characters’ hearts and minds using this unbridled technique. We talk to four
Radio: Talk of saints and babies has the RTÉ broadcaster in flighty mood. Over on Today FM, Matt Cooper has the better show
Books by Pat O’Connor and Donal Manning, and an anthology of writing by 33 women
The ghost of Barnacle’s onetime sweetheart Michael Bodkin haunts Joyce’s literature in secret ways, the word ‘bodkin’ always used ambiguously
Fascinating insights into cuts, revisions, alternative endings and censorship in the work of Austen, Joyce, Bennett, Chandler, Kafka, Imlah, Oswald and more
Laura Kennedy: Every emigrant has a little of Joyce in them — the longing for home and awareness of why some leave
We have in Brigid the ancient and the ever-new, a symbol of the malleable moment that opens new possibilities
Rite & Reason: James Joyce was our Cole Porter, our Bob Dylan, our Bessie Smith, and every story in Dubliners is a song
I had the privilege of seeing a group of actors recreate the scene, with spine-tingling effect, in the place where it happened
Stinging Fly, The Pig’s Back and Tolka brim with excellent fiction of inclusivity and ambition
The Nobel laureate is a master of the short novel – but none of them rivals Septology, an 800-page, single-sentence masterpiece
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