The Groundhog Day Challenge

I went to the European People's Festival in Luxembourg this year with two goals, one was to introduce James Joyce as part of the Irish...

I first imagined including James Joyce in the Irish cultural show of the European People's Festival, when we had the last festival in...

Ahead of Bloomsday, I thought it would be fun to create a jigsaw of James Joyce. Taking a Stanley knife and a cheap €2 blank jigsaw board...

Joyce's Ulysses really does go beyond the Pale when talking about Dublin. Bloom was a jew, his father was from Hungary, and his wife from...

NICE TO SEE PEOPLE TAKING PRIDE IN THE PLACE While it is great to see people taken pride in the place, and when I took this picture of a...

Isn't it sad when Independence Day turns into Groundhog Day? I created this horrible meme after tragedy in Ulvade, Texas, the preventable...

The colony that became a Superpower, the sparks that fly in the sky on this date, since 1776 because of the tea dumped overboard and the...

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,...