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

For the Irish, silence is a way of dealing with, and surviving, traumatic exile

A new, digital version of James Joyce’s ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ celebrates the centenary of the book’s publication

A soft, ambiguous and contingent Brexit could be possible – with Ireland’s help

The collective works in our series show how molten and defiant Irish artworks can be

When a culture is threatened, its people will dig in their heels and defend it without analysis or criticism

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

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

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

James Joyce showed that universal experiences were to be found, not with gods or heroes, but in mundane urban lives

RF Foster’s ‘Vivid Faces’ and genealogy

Today’s elite students are technically gifted but risk-averse and typically stressed, says former Yale professor William Deresiewicz

An encounter with a book about everybody

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

This extract from ‘The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses’ traces the genesis of a classic

At a grand dinner many years ago, Heaney made a nice gesture in honour of my father, who had recently died

It’s Bloomsday tomorrow, and if you haven’t read Ulysses you should give James Joyce’s masterpiece a go. It can be pure entertainment

Cycling does not need to cramp your style

When he was nine, the young writer composed and printed a poem about Charles Stewart Parnell of which only a fragment is recorded. For a rare-book dealer, it’s thrilling to think a copy might be waiting to be discovered. Could it be hidden somewhere in Ireland?

Around-the-world bikers Carl Clancy and Walter Storey enjoyed a steam-heated room in the Corneille