James Joyce

I did what I could to connect the playwright with Ireland, but it was a stretch

While most towns have squares, for some reason they’re called diamonds in the North – whatever shape they are

Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity explores the connections between Irish myths and modern stories and the classical world

After the Easter Rising, her patriotic ballads struck a chord with the public

The podcaster Blindboy Boatclub on autism, social media and mental health

Both men had considerably different views on life, but their worlds intersected through writing

Some Lizzy veterans must have worried they’d slipped into the next world

Could a magic wand finally reverse this gross example of urban vandalism, or will the Green lobby and preservationists intervene?

Strung-out Joyceans will use any excuse for a hit

In a Word ... Inertia

Our chance to see another side of writers, perhaps one that won’t be flattering

The science writer presents a series of case studies inspired by strange animal behaviour

Its English origins stem from a holiday James Joyce and his family spent there in the summer of 1923

For scholars of Joyce or Irish women’s writing, this study should prove a valuable resource

Barbara Bergin’s huge, complex new play takes aim at some Irish heroes as it covers a century of life in the capital

November 29th-December 5th, 2025: The best music, theatre, art and more coming your way this week

Theatre: Louise Lowe’s returning production honours Joyce without embalming him, letting his world breathe again

Stylish four-bed home on Brighton Square features landscaped gardens and a cinema room

Court proceedings brought against homeless squatters by firms linked to Seamus ‘Banty’ McEnaney

When the train pulled into a significant city, they thought they had reached their destination

L&H rescinds plans to offer Joyce medal to author due to what many regard as his offensive views on transgender issues

Many Irish women writers have engaged with Joyce - both challenging and building on his legacy in their fiction. In studying them, I was also studying myself

Unthinkable: Parents may be partly to blame for heightened anxiety among under-30s

Washington Irving was a native New Yorker who had no known connection with Kilkenny

As with tour guides inventing stories, here’s hoping the phenomenon is not on the rise

Address is famed as the one at which James Joyce imagined Leopold Bloom to be born in Ulysses

Terns continue to flock to Lady’s Island Lake despite damage from algal bloom

Poems, plays, films, visual and performing arts have all been travelling a lot recently, expanding the horizons of Irish culture

The American academic succeeds in mitigating the sustained perception that reading Joyce is a challenging, intellectual exercise of great seriousness

Take a look at centuries of Irish revolutionaries and you’ll find links to Norman history

The publisher celebrates its 90th anniversary this month

The Leitrim author’s debut novel sees 19 reality TV contestants isolated in the desert

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook have a genuine interest in Irish history – when I got a chance to discuss Michael Collins and Henry Wilson with them I jumped at it

But Dorset Street is still too busy being itself to celebrate being immortalised in fiction

To celebrate Bloomsday on June 16th, we explore spots that inspired famous writers to create their classics

In a Word ... Precocious

Michael D Higgins uses last Bloomsday speech in office to denounce treatment of people in Gaza and decry ‘dangerous authoritarianism’ in US

In 1954 Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and Anthony Cronin embarked on a drunken pilgrimage including public urination on Sandymount Strand

Perry’s Joyce is a might-have-been who ‘wrote a book and it was pulped’

Six pages of James Joyce’s masterpiece every night for five months, that shouldn’t be too hard. Right?