The Irish Literary Times

James Joyce, Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier at the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris.   By Peter McDermott Intrigue, betrayal, suspense and mystery. These are some of the elements promised for a 2022 hybrid feature documentary film about

A planned overhaul of the Dublin home that was the setting for the writer’s short story “The Dead” was opposed by writers, artists, academics and heritage groups.

A 36-hour Zoom reading is among the events amid this year’s celebrations of James Joyce

Bloomsday, the annual celebration of Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses, is a fine day to remind yourself of his genius. Test your knowledge with our 16 questions for 16 June

James Joyce's 'Ulysses' is one of the most important works of modernist literature. The book chronicles the passage of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, 16 Jun

The Scandal of Ulysses Aramis Sporting Times, no. 34 (April 1922) After a bored perusal of James Joyce's Ulysses , published in Paris

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Eimear McBride, Finn Fordham, Eleanor Lybeck and Derek Pyle join Matthew Sweet to discuss Joyce's novel that attempts to 'reconstruct the nocturnal life'.

Colm Toibín lectures on “The Myth of Paternity: James Joyce and his father”

While the fathers left behind letters or diaries, the women in their lives often became the elusive, mysterious ones

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first appearance of James Joyce's Ulysses—it was first serialized in The Little Review between March 1918 and December 1920—and today is the 96th anniversary of its very first publication in book form, by Sylvia Beach. It's also Joyce's birthday, by the way, and no—that

Some 99 years after the publication of James Joyce’s, Ulysses, Writers’ Tears Irish whiskey is providing support for the production of Left Bank – a hybrid documentary film about how four women made Joyce’s banned, burned and censored book a reality. The film, which will be released internationally in 2022, the centenary year of Ulysses, […]

Great writers such as Joyce are the Irish equivalent of the pyramids in Egypt, the Colosseum in Rome

Every year on June 16, Dublin City is one big party for Bloomsday, the day celebrating James Joyce's Ulysses. From the James Joyce Center to Davy Byrne's Pub to Howth Hill and the Martello Tower, here’s all there is to do in Dublin on Bloomsday.

The story of Ulysses unfolds through the food Leopold Bloom eats as he travels around Dublin by day and night

Locked down fans of Ulysses from Brazil to Canada and Ireland are finding ways to continue the annual events commemorating the novel

Book review: This lovely, lyrical book shows how androgynous marriages can be

In 2000, the Irish novelist Edna O’Brien wrote a biography of the famed Irish writer James Joyce.

Mr. James Joyce has been obliged to leave Paris and he is at present, with his wife, his son and his grandson, in a little village in the unoccupied part of France, not far from Vichy. Due to the fact that he is a British citizen, his position in France is precarious. His daughter is seriously ill in a hospital on the coast near Nantes, which is under continual bombardment. Mr. Joyce has mad

Almost 70 years since the University of Buffalo bought the greatest collection of Joycean materials ever assembled, plans are afoot to bring the priceless manuscripts, first editions, notebooks, letters and even canes and eye-glasses of the famed author to Ireland.

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