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The year of Ulysses: 2022 marks centenary of Joyce’s experimental masterpiece

Beloved by millions, incomprehensible to millions more, the novel is now firmly embedded in Irish culture

Guts and garters: A Joycean treasure hunt and an infamous murder

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‘Utterly engaged’ Macron talks up support for Ireland on Dublin ramble

Joyce, Brexit, Kabul and Sophie Toscan du Plantier among wide variety of topics

Racing Uncertainty – Frank McNally on myths, mistaken memories, and the Ascot Gold Cup

An Irishman’s Diary

Bloomsday 2021: Everything you need to know

How to celebrate Ulysses, James Joyce’s great novel, set in Dublin on June 16th, 1904

David McWilliams: A city must not be just an amusement park for the well-off

A proper living city provides home for people of all income levels and backgrounds

The Irish Times view on the banning of Ulysses: lessons on censorship

A hundred years from now, perhaps people will look back and laugh at our fumbling attempts to censor online speech

Name and R-Number – Frank McNally on typos, tour guides, unusual baby names, and digging up the Hill of Tara

Fintan O’Toole: The newly visible dads, and an ordinary and wonderful kind of love

Fatherhood is a kind of makey-up thing, but it has come into its own in lockdown

Royal flush: Frank McNally plumbs the depths of Ascot, Bloomsday and GBS

Irish writers have done more to promote Royal Ascot, surely, than English writers ever did

Bloomsday buy: Ulysses pub in Dublin 7 on the market for €700k

No 9 Little Britain St played starring role as Barney Kiernan’s pub in Joyce’s Ulysses

Paris on a shoestring – Frank McNally on James Joyce, TS Eliot, and the art of revenge hospitality

Dating Game – Frank McNally on writers getting their datelines crossed, from Joyce to Elmore Leonard

Taking coronavirus stress out on your teeth? Get a mouthguard

Bruxism is brought on by anxiety and stress and can cause teeth to wear, crack or split

Carry on trading: The businesses working hard to keep us fed, and workers paid

Meet the business owners who have had to change overnight to keep going during the Covid-19 crisis

How Joyce paid the ferryman

Frank McNally on the man who never visited Dublin but landed a key role in Ulysses

How the Mity have Risen – Frank McNally on the (short) literary history of cheese mites

In a Word: Rejoice

On James Joyce’s birthday we can rejoice in the power of language to gladden our hearts

Conor Pope’s mission to find the best gym in Dublin

'Over and over again he tells me that if I want to have a lean physique, I will need a time machine'

Fintan O'Toole: The big question of the last decade is...

The Decade in Culture: t’s up to us to reclaim the private self from Google and Facebook

Found in Translation – Frank McNally on echoes of James Joyce in Japan and a rediscovered ‘Ulysses in Irish’

Butcher boy: Conor Pope’s day behind the counter at FX Buckley

‘There’ll be no pigs’ heads. Sure who would buy a pig’s head? And why would I need to touch it?’

Loving Joyce and all things offal

Food and literature: both feed mind and body and give us energy to get through the day

Turning a corner – Frank McNally on the mysteries of one of Dublin’s more unusual civic honours

In a Word. . . Bloom

Patsy McGarry: Bloomsday should be a national holiday

A Nightmare of New York – Frank McNally on the real-life maritime disaster that haunts James Joyce’s Ulysses

Holy Orders – Frank McNally on biblical Joe Biden, James Joyce’s Dublin, and pubs with no beer

How did Ulysses become a talking point in the US election?

James Joyce’s epic trends on Twitter after Pete Buttigieg picks it as his favourite novel

Six great Irish love stories, six great romantic getaways

From Dublin to Cork to Wicklow, follow in the footsteps of Joyce, Collins and Kitty O’Shea

‘I tried to let myself back into my flat through a first-floor window’

In Conversation: Graham McLaren and Neil Murray of the Abbey Theatre

Yours Gaelicly – how modern hurling pucked off on the letters page of ‘The Irish Times’

An Irishman’s Diary

Sweny’s Pharmacy made famous by Joyce included in building sale

Literary chemist that featured in Ulysses included in €3.25m building sale

Step inside as Stoneybatter’s celebrated houses open doors

Northside neighbourhood festival offers programme of 100 weekend events

Philip Roth: ‘the great American novelist of our postwar world’

Colm Tóibín pays tribute to great author who was a ferocious critic of Donald Trump but a close friend of Edna O’Brien

LongMyles Road – An Irishman’s Diary about Conor McGregor, Flann O’Brien, and the Tallaght Gaeltacht

‘Suddenly, I was in Leopold Bloom’s kitchen, circa 1904, trying to fry kidneys (which burned, with the result that I smelled smoke)’

Luck be a Saint – An Irishman’s Diary about the changing fortunes of June 24th

Racy Literature – An Irishman’s Diary about James Joyce, adultery, and the Ascot Gold Cup

The alleged Gold Cup scandal of 1904 was among this year's colourful Bloomsday talks

Joyce taken up to Monto as inner-city Dublin celebrates ‘Ulysses’

Author set chapter in what was once one of Europe’s biggest red-light district

James Joyce, the emigrant who left Dublin in body but not in mind

Joyce never set foot in Ireland again after 1912, despite living for another 29 years

The rise and fall of western syphilisation – An Irishman’s Diary about a once-dreaded disease

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