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

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

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

Dermot Bolger carves out the human core of Joyce's expansive masterpiece, focusing the play around the human drama of the novel.

Learn more about the epic Irish work of literature “Ulysses” by immersing yourself in the Dublin of James Joyce through virtual reality.

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, […]

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

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

Today is the publication anniversary of James Joyce's novel Ulysses; it is also Joyce's birthday. Elsewhere on Literary Hub, I took a look at the very different responses other famous writers have had to Joyce's most notorious work, but what about your everyday bookworm? Turns out, regular readers are just as torn as

James Joyce died 75 years ago this week, leaving a lifetime of books beloved by many... and Ulysses, heralded as both the best novel in the English language and the hardest to read. So what do you do if you get stuck?

Arguments made in Dublin debating societies by Yeats in 1865 and Joyce in 1900 would transform obscenity law and free a beautiful, truthful novel from censor’s shackles