Stephen Dedalus
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How Ireland’s relationship with the UK has evolved with our role in in the EU
- Opinion
- December 14, 2020, 20:00
While the current imbroglio between the UK and the EU (perhaps more accurately between England and the EU), whatever its outcome, is of great signific(...)

Fintan O’Toole: The newly visible dads, and an ordinary and wonderful kind of love
- Parenting
- June 20, 2020, 06:00
Fatherhood is a kind of makey-up thing, it has to be invented every time, but it has come into its own in lockdown During the lockdown, almost e(...)

Fury Brothers – Frank McNally on the history of boxing, James Joyce, and the curse of cold Guinness
- Opinion
- February 25, 2020, 18:30
Despite being contested by men named “Wilder” and “Fury”, the latest world heavyweight boxing title bout was a calmer affair than the one that inaugur(...)

Found in Translation – Frank McNally on echoes of James Joyce in Japan and a rediscovered ‘Ulysses in Irish’
- Opinion
- October 10, 2019, 18:30
There is no escaping James Joyce, even in Japan. Last weekend there, I learn, not long after the Irish rugby team laboured to victory over Russia, ano(...)

Cardinal John Henry Newman: Canonisation imminent for ‘greatest of English prose writers’
- Opinion
- September 24, 2019, 01:00
On Friday, November 3rd, 1854, the Catholic University, under its rector John Henry Newman, opened its doors at 86 St Stephen’s Green in Dublin to rec(...)

Hugh O’Conor: ‘I had to go to Irish college rather than be in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’
- Film
- June 15, 2019, 05:00
Hugh O’Conor is pondering the years after his breakthrough role in My Left Foot. “I didn’t do some jobs I was offered,” he says. “My parents said I h(...)

Seán Moncrieff: Public discussion is devolving into meaningless shrieks
- Drink
- May 25, 2019, 06:00
Ineluctable modality of the visible. What? It’s the first five words of the Proteus episode of Ulysses: which I wanted to use because, you know, it mi(...)

Philip Roth: ‘the great American novelist of our postwar world’
- Books
- May 24, 2018, 06:00
“If I’m not an American, I’m nothing,” the writer Philip Roth once said. Roth, one of the giants of American literature, passed away on Tuesday night (...)

Joyce taken up to Monto as inner-city Dublin celebrates ‘Ulysses’
- Irish News
- June 16, 2017, 19:53
There was no Chapel of Love, no Unchained Melody and certainly no Rock the Boat in Ulysses. Neither was there a wedding but it it did not stop the No(...)

Why we should stand up for Aosdána this Bloomsday
- Opinion
- June 16, 2017, 01:15
It feels strange to be celebrating Bloomsday without the living presence of Anthony Cronin. The genesis of our modern Bloomsday celebration is a famil(...)