Easter travel deals to get egg-cited about
Travel News: Take a grown-up break at the Shelbourne, or get away with the family to Kerry
Founding feathers – Frank McNally on the surname Barnacle and other Irish oddities
An Irishman’s Diary
Ulysses for cheats, chapter by chapter (feel free to skip the first three)
Frank McNally: Skim, slice and dice James Joyce’s masterpiece, from opening to climax
The year of Ulysses: 2022 marks centenary of Joyce’s experimental masterpiece
Beloved by millions, incomprehensible to millions more, the novel is now firmly embedded in Irish culture
Dua Lipa, Stephen Rea and Emma Dabiri: This week’s unmissable online events
Plus Marian Keyes, Frank McGuinness, Mick Fleetwood and the National Symphony Orchestra
In a Word: Rejoice
On James Joyce’s birthday we can rejoice in the power of language to gladden our hearts
James Joyce: Return writer’s remains to Ireland, say Dublin councillors
Dermot Lacey says Dublin Joyceans told him noted author wished to be buried in Ireland
Superquinn, Xtra-Vision and Roches Stores: The shops we loved so much
Pricewatch: They may be gone, but the once household names are certainly not forgotten
Ulysses first edition to auction for between €70,000 and €90,000
Copy signed by James Joyce is from the earliest print run of the world renowned book
Give it a lash: 100 questions to test your Irishness
Win a €250 Kenny’s hamper, delivered anywhere in the world. Ah, go on, go on, go on ....
Six great Irish love stories, six great romantic getaways
From Dublin to Cork to Wicklow, follow in the footsteps of Joyce, Collins and Kitty O’Shea
Colm Tóibín walks the ‘intense, haunted’ streets of Dublin
The city is full of ghosts ... in the house where Wilde grew up, the library where Yeats studied
Cosy in the cabin: Nuala O’Connor’s writing hideaway is full of eclectic charm
Pieces of Me: The writer and poet enjoys the peace of her creative space
Bones of contention – Why the remains of James Joyce are still in exile
Frank McNally: An Irishman’s Diary
The lost story of James Joyce’s daughter as a Parisian dancer
James Joyce’s daughter Lucia was a remarkable dancer – something that has been buried in her troubled history
Is it normal for a woman to fart when she orgasms?
It doesn’t bother my boyfriend, but I’m incredibly embarrassed by it
James Joyce, the emigrant who left Dublin in body but not in mind
Joyce never set foot in Ireland again after 1912, despite living for another 29 years
Our Wedding Story: Meeting in Yamamori and a first date in Bewleys
David Hallinan and Hinata Yamagishi
Irish Roots: The origins of Molly Bloom get curiouser and curioser
Marion Bruére Quin may have partly inspired Joyce’s character, and provided a link with Lewis Carroll
Anthony Burgess on James Joyce: the lost introduction
Written in 1986 as the introduction to a Dolmen Press edition of ‘Dubliners’ illustrated by Louis le Brocquy, but never used, this brilliant essay, recently found among the papers of the author, who died in 1993, appears here for the first time
Naval Service ship names row may reopen
No decision yet on naming third new Naval patrol ship after another literary figure
James Joyce: down and out in Dublin
His landmark collection ‘Dubliners’ finally appeared 100 years ago. The struggle to publish it cut Joyce off from the Irish literary movement
James Joyce and me
It’s Bloomsday tomorrow, and if you haven’t read Ulysses you should give James Joyce’s masterpiece a go. It can be pure entertainment
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices