Gabriel Conroy
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A portrait of the artist as poet – An Irishman’s Diary on James Joyce
- Opinion
- January 25, 2021, 00:01
We well know by now that America’s new president Joe Biden likes to quote Irish poets, particularly Seamus Heaney. His eve of inauguration reference t(...)

House of The Dead: What to do with Joyce’s literary landmark?
- Heritage
- November 16, 2019, 05:00
On a freezing cold winter’s night in 1987 I was dancing by myself on the first floor of a derelict squat at the wrong end of Dublin’s quays. Debris, d(...)

Do you want ice with that? An Irishman’s Diary about wintry literature and drink
- Opinion
- March 2, 2018, 00:01
One of the many events that succumbed to the weather this week was the launch in Dublin of a “James Joyce Gin”. It was supposed to happen in The Baile(...)

Soft Day in South Galway – An Irishman’s Diary about cross-country running and mud
- Opinion
- February 15, 2018, 00:01
I woke up last Sunday thinking of the famous closing passage from James Joyce’s The Dead. This was partly because of the weather, which was broadly si(...)

From Bram to Brooklyn: 10 great films adapted from Irish literature
- Film
- February 24, 2016, 06:00
Even the doziest domestic observer will have noticed that Irish cinema is passing through an unprecedented period of fecundity. Others are blowing ou(...)

Food for thought – An Irishman’s Diary about James Joyce, ‘The Dead’, and Ada Rehan
- Opinion
- January 8, 2016, 01:00
Rain was general all over Ireland on Wednesday night. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly up(...)

The ghosts in James Joyce’s modern machine
- Books
- December 3, 2015, 06:00
WB Yeats is often viewed as being away with the fairies in the Celtic twilight, whereas James Joyce is considered a man of this world, grounded in th(...)