Bloomsday

Hundreds of James Joyce enthusiasts flock to Sandycove and surrounds for readings, song and more

In a Word: Two public holidays so close together? That’s nothing: the French had five last month

The Easter Rising is seen as a catalyst for global processes of decolonisation, in the same way as Joyce is a catalyst for literary modernism

A new work by Thomas McCarthy

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Dereliction, dirt and degradation are the predominant features of summer in much of the city

A blizzard of festivals hits this weekend. From stage times to getting there, here’s a lot of what you need to know if you’re heading to these events

A poignant coincidence

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Gravediggers Bar deputised for Barney Kiernan’s as backdrop for Bloomsday performance of Cyclops episode

Paris gave Joyce a lens through which to see his native city as a modern urban environment

Nora Barnacle wanted him repatriated but was refused. We must right this wrong

Like every Dubliner, in the end we are all bit players in short chapters within Joyce’s universe

Annabel Abbs, author of The Joyce Girl, asks why was Lucia Joyce, a beautiful woman and talented dancer, left to languish by her family for 50 years in an English asylum?

James Joyce populated his chronicle of a day in Dublin with hundreds of people, famous and ordinary, Irish and foreign, contemporary and historical. Knowing who they were throws light on many passages of Joyce’s masterpiece

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