Bloomsday: Ringsend reclaims its Joycean heritage but, alas, no ‘superior tawny sherry’
More than most places in Dublin, Ringsend is pivotal to Ulysses, as the focal point of the first date between James Joyce and Nora Barnacle
Ulysses
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On Bloomsday, if you take just one message from Ulysses then it should be this one
James Joyce didn’t trade in false hope, but he reminds us how political optimism, even if foolish, is never wasted
Bloomsday: If I lived in Ireland I may never have started this slightly insane art project
Irish artist Natalie Forrester’s is painting each page of Ulysses, and has just reached a Guinness milestone
‘Indecent’ Ulysses: The British ban and how it was lifted
James Joyce reportedly said he wanted his books to keep the critics busy for 300 years. His most famous one kept the British post office and customs busy until 1936
Frank McNally: Ulysses updated, with apologies to James Joyce
On Bloomsday, how would Joyce rewrite his masterpiece for a Dublin of Deliveroo, Instagram, Lidl and Tinder?
All about the Bass – Frank McNally on a Joycean angle to a million-pound question
No small beer for winner of TV quizshow’s jackpot
‘Fine tang’ of Dublin
A revenue-raising opportunity awaits to rebrand the smell of stale urine in the city
‘Magic in human form’: Michael Lyster funeral hears of a devoted family man
Former presenter of RTÉ’s The Sunday Game remembered as ‘one of the great broadcasters and one of the great people’
Jürgen Habermas lived to see a return of the fascist ghosts he once helped exorcise
The German philosopher, who has died aged 96, was young enough to carry no culpability for the Nazi era yet old enough to carry lifelong scars
A cast of characters: Hamnet, Hamlet, William Shakespeare and James Joyce
I did what I could to connect the playwright with Ireland, but it was a stretch
Mark O’Connell: You’re not on the right side of history – there is no right side
‘History’ has become final arbiter of rights and wrongs, a secular ‘you better get right with Jesus’
The Joyce of Everyday Life by Vicki Mahaffey: A persuasive case that his writing is best embraced in a spirit of lively amusement
The American academic succeeds in mitigating the sustained perception that reading Joyce is a challenging, intellectual exercise of great seriousness
Yellowface author RF Kuang: ‘I’m actually not happy with any of my earlier novels’
The author’s latest novel, Katabasis, began as ‘a kind of silly satire – a romp through hell as a commentary on academia’
Zealous book bans and brilliant writers forged strong Irish Penguin links from the start
The publisher celebrates its 90th anniversary this month
Using ChatGPT to write an essay is a bit like using a forklift to lift weights
Just as you can’t get someone, or something, to work out for you, there is nobody and nothing that can think on your behalf
Bloomsday: Aficionados enjoy a Full Joyce for breakfast then devour extra helpings of Ulysses
But Dorset Street is still too busy being itself to celebrate being immortalised in fiction
James Joyce: ‘For a boy of his age in a Dublin day school, he seems to have had considerable sexual experience’
In a Word ... Precocious
Reading Ulysses: Splendid literature that can suck the life out of you and your family
Six pages of James Joyce’s masterpiece every night for five months, that shouldn’t be too hard. Right?
You’ll See...: Ulysses for kids, with a star turn from the charming, funny, knowing Helen Gregg
Theatre: Branar’s take on James Joyce is surprisingly simple for such a complicated novel – and a great introduction to its appeal
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