Ulysses for cheats, chapter by chapter (feel free to skip the first three)

Frank McNally: Skim, slice and dice James Joyce’s masterpiece, from opening to climax

Mind the Gap – Frank McNally on a great Irish institution, the month’s mind, from Shakespeare to Joyce

An Irishman’s Diary

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

An Irishman’s Diary

A Bit of Afters – Frank McNally on a cornerstone of Hiberno-English

An Irishman’s Diary

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

How Joyce paid the ferryman

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

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

Festival of Flann – Frank McNally on a big homecoming for Dublin’s funniest writer

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

In a Word . . . Ulysses

We began our day at the Martello Tower in Sandycove where ‘Stately plump, Buck Mulligan’ began ‘Ulysses’

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

Dead Heat – An Irishman’s Diary on the high-speed funerals of old Dublin

Video

Bloomsday: If you haven’t read Ulysses yet, start here

Eileen Battersby details five good reasons to dive into a truly great work of fiction

Bloomsday: What would Molly Bloom make of Joyce and ‘Ulysses’?

Eileen Battersby imagines what the central players of Joyce’s Ulysses think about the novel that made them famous and how they feel about the man who wrote it