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Aaron Sorkin’s debut film isn’t going to get as many Oscar nominations as predicted

Does the scale of the universe make human life pointless?

Unthinkable: Reflecting on our place within the cosmos can be deflating

Racy Literature – An Irishman’s Diary about James Joyce, adultery, and the Ascot Gold Cup

The alleged Gold Cup scandal of 1904 was among this year's colourful Bloomsday talks

'Marriage was a licence for sex': Ireland and women in 100 quotes

The Women’s Podcast celebrates its 100th episode with 100 quotes by and about women in Ireland

Number Seven’s Son – An Irishman’s Diary about the cryptographer and friend of Joyce, John Francis Byrne

Famous Blue Joyce – An Irishman’s Diary on Leonard Cohen’s debt to Dublin

The late singer’s work was peppered with Joycean imagery and references

I love Bloomsday for all its profoundly cynical philistinism

Unlike most national festivals, from Bastille Day to Thanksgiving, it does not commemorate death and destruction

Street Feast kicks off Bloomsday festivities in Dublin

More than 120,000 people answer the annual call for those tasty events to celebrate Ulysses

Bloomsday: If you haven’t read Ulysses yet, start here

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

Bloomsday: What would Molly Bloom make of Joyce and ‘Ulysses’?

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

Showstopping villa in Terenure for €950,000

Somerton is a stunning four-bedroom home with modern extension and period features

Her eyes were beautiful – I was only telling the truth

Dermot Healy once remarked that the people with the most beautiful eyes in the world often live by the ocean, which is certainly true for Belmullet

Brought to Book: Joseph O’Connor on why reading is a more creative act than writing

‘If there is a Hell being prepared for me, it will be a dinner party. But I’d like to be in a bar, late at night in New York, with Colm Toibin, Patti Smith, Dickens, St John of the Cross, Toni Morrison, Keats and Emily Bronte, with her brother Branwell leading the singsong while arm-wrestling’

Actress of incredible strength with great capacity for emotion in a role

Eileen Colgan: January 2nd, 1934 - March 10th, 2014

Word for Word: How a classic crosses over into song

The Irish and Asian Buddhism is a story that goes back 14 centuries

Opinion: Religion now being accepted as normal in a society that was once very intolerant of difference

Hit them for six in 10 days

The 10 Days of Dublin festival is in full flow, with about 200 acts for audiences to choose from before the festival ends on Saturday. It’s an uncurated, open-format festival; to narrow it down, we’ve selected one show to see for each remaining day

‘You learn to read upside-down and backwards in this trade’

Molly Bloom wanted to write a book about her husband. Steve Cole may do it for her

‘You learn to read upside-down and backwards in this trade’

Molly Bloom wanted to write a book about her husband. Steve Cole may do it for her

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