Author of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
At a time when Irishness in the US is sometimes used to service ‘white power’ messaging, it is imperative to uncover the recognition of past Irish ‘off-whiteness’ in Irish-American writers
The name Lucy shares its origins with the word lux, Latin for light, so it’s no coincidence her feast day coincides with the darkest time of the year
The material includes rhetorical flourishes, humour and a Joycean fictional ramble through Dublin
The Bulgarian author on the dangers of nostalgia, his 2023 Booker-winning novel Time Shelter, and Irish writers he admires
Theatre: Marty Rea and Maeve Fitzgerald star as Gabriel and Gretta Conroy in Louise Lowe’s promenade staging of the beloved Dubliners story
Featuring Marty Rea, Maeve Fitzgerald and Marie Mullen, Louise Lowe’s re-creation is taking over Newman House, on St Stephen’s Green in Dublin
Dublin 1 could become one of the most exciting neighbourhoods in Europe... if we want
The Oscar winner stars in The Room Next Door, a euthanasia drama that is Pedro Almodóvar’s first feature in English. It’s an ideal film for her to appear in
The city is a soulful playground for the kind of people who have spectacles on their nose and autumn in their hearts
Intermezzo author explains how she treats quotation marks in her writing
Unthinkable: Always treat humanity not as a means but as an end, said the philosopher Immanuel Kant
Plus: Alan Shatter seeks to protect the inheritance; a campaign for a Colm Meaney statue in Killarney; and Clare Daly’s political future
Intermezzo author reflects on Joyce, how Christianity has shaped her thinking, and her dislike of the limelight
The Reverend Psychopath: Suffer Little Children, Terror, Tears and Tragedy: The Mount Cashells and the Notorious Divorce Case of 1876, and Under the Metal Man: Sligo in Yeats
Dublin City Council has requested Brimwood UC submit revised drawings with a reduction in the number of proposed units
Planning report on behalf of developer claims residential use of landmark building would be more suitable than as tourist hostel, as was previously authorised
Me and My Money: Pascal Donohoe is Minister for Public Expenditure
Brimwood UC has submitted a planning application seeking to develop 10 apartments at the Dublin 8 property
Divisions grow following efforts to handle complaints of inappropriate behaviour
If anything will embitter you, it is researching and writing a history of Irish women’s writing
Fritz Senn barred from James Joyce Symposium in Scotland following allegations he harassed a young woman
Allegations of inappropriate behaviour at James Joyce events have led organisers to introduce safeguard to protect participants
Performances and fun across Dublin for commemoration of the 120th year since the day on which James Joyce’s Ulysses is set
Among €25 T-shirts for sale at James Joyce Centre, those reading ‘Stately Plump Buck Mulligan’ sold out quickly
My five-year-old and I are heading home to Hungary after a weekend visiting family in Lucan. Our bag is full of chocolate and paints
Imagine the attention were Ireland to have a public holiday celebrating a fictional character
Joyce had an astute understanding of government and the political system, of politicians and how they worked
This country teased a lightness out of me. But so many people leaving Ireland for Australia is down to more than sunshine
Joycean events to mark the 120th anniversary of Leopold Bloom’s many steps across Dublin are being held across the capital and beyond
Rite & Reason: Joyce knew far more about Catholic dogma than many of his detractors
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
Colin Murphy’s script explores the 1933 legal battle to allow US publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses
Donors can secure 80% of the value of accepted works as a credit against outstanding and future tax bills
Film review: Gabriel Byrne and Fionn O’Shea play the writer to great effect but the pedestrian writing bogs proceedings
The problem with the novel is that it remains bound to Joyce
Investigating a possible allusion to a man not yet deceased
University College Dublin’s James Joyce Library has undergone a renovation that reveals the power of space to sit and think
Presenting runners with a tribute to Yeats featuring a line he almost certainly never said is an embarrassing travesty for a city that prides itself on its literary heritage
New to the Parish: Ginna Álvarez came here from Mexico almost a year and a half ago
The singer shattered our perfect circle of denial about abuse and trauma. If you had been abused and traumatised, you were probably half-cracked and since you were half-cracked, who could believe you?
Theatre: Branar’s take on James Joyce is surprisingly simple for such a complicated novel – and a great introduction to its appeal
The island has been enjoyed by pleasure-seekers, sportspeople and nature-lovers, but the greater context in which its history will be forged is the wider story of climate change
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
