The Groundhog Day Challenge

A very happy birthday to my friend and former neighbour on this very special Bloomsday. Some years ago I was fortunate enough to meet...

I love photographing book signings and authors with their books and I know over the years some of my friends have really appreciated...

Speaking at the book launch of Arias of Consolation, Dominic Taylor of Revival Press said, Liddy’s Limerick Let me say first off I’m...

I never imagined hearing the Rolling Stones perform live even though The Simpsons predicted that they would be touring for decades but...

Despite butchering the pronunciation of "impudent" I enjoyed the feed of vocabularly that I had to quickly digest for this month´s James...

Everything about Joyce's Ulysses was controversial so I can't help but imagine that he would expect me to take a photograph next to a...

Originally posted by @allthingsjoyceandwilde on Instagram Nora was as important to ‘Ulysses’ as she was to Joyce. She didn’t only endure...

When I lived and worked in Dublin, I was no stranger to Eccles Street and during six months while working as a delivery driver in Dublin...

I was talking with a literature professor on Instagram and what started out as a like and comment turned into a discussion on different...

GET HIS WORDS OUT OF YOUR HEAD On March 27th 2022, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air was crowned King Richard and received the accolade of a...

(A eulogy to the writer who introduced me to Joyce) I invited myself along on a Camino with a seasoned pilgrim of the Camino de Santiago...

Margaret Franklin who I know from my hometown, Athlone, in the heart of Ireland, shares this fantastic family heirloom owned by her late...

So far on this blog I have focused on reading Ulysses, listening to Ulysses audiobooks, attending monthly Bloomsday readings of Ulysses,...

Based on the idea of a Catholic Mass because of Catholicism’s relevance to Ireland, Joyce, and literature, the new musical, Ulysses Missa...

With war and pandemics it is hard to make plans to travel anywhere but after two long years waiting for the European People's Festival to...

Here is a lesson in literature An open letter for all future writers At the end of the day, you need me to say yes I belong to an amazing...

While I really enjoyed engaging with everyone on social media about their interest in James Joyce, my second radio interview, just after...

Speaking on Midlands 103 on the morning of Groundhog Day, the presenter Will Faulkner immediately admitted that he has never read Ulysses...

The title James Joyce's Women sounds quite negative and possessive for International Women's Day but without certain key women, Ulysses...

I'm not sure what he meant when he wrote it but I was delighted to see that Joyce wrote, "Hand me my Wordsworth" as I read my Wordsworth...