A portrait of the artist as poet – An Irishman’s Diary on James Joyce

Biden saluted Joyce the poet

House of The Dead: What to do with Joyce’s literary landmark?

If the core and front of the house are safe, does it matter what else gets built around it?

Do you want ice with that? An Irishman’s Diary about wintry literature and drink

Soft Day in South Galway – An Irishman’s Diary about cross-country running and mud

From Bram to Brooklyn: 10 great films adapted from Irish literature

Lenny Abrahamson’s Room and John Crowley’s Brooklyn vie for the best picture Oscar this weekend. They are part of a grand tradition

Food for thought – An Irishman’s Diary about James Joyce, ‘The Dead’, and Ada Rehan

Dinner time

The ghosts in James Joyce’s modern machine

Although the writer’s literary experiments were utterly modern, they were haunted by ghosts, shadows and Irish legends

Anthony Burgess on James Joyce: the lost introduction

Written in 1986 as the introduction to a Dolmen Press edition of ‘Dubliners’ illustrated by Louis le Brocquy, but never used, this brilliant essay, recently found among the papers of the author, who died in 1993, appears here for the first time