The Groundhog Day Challenge

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...

Just as we were about to celebrate the centenary of Ulysses on Groundhog Day and the anniversary of James Joyce’s birth, I was talking...

Win a collection of James Joyce’s books Thanks to Wordsworth Editions, five lucky winners will receive a collection of James Joyce’s...

Despite all the controversy and censorship that Ulysses attracted a century ago, people have read it and loved it and reread it and loved...

It is worth remembering the amount of money generated by and in the name of William Butler Yeats, John Count McCormack and James Joyce....

Hailing all frequencies, are there any Jame Joyce fans out there in the Trekkie universe? I watched an old Star Trek Voyager episode from...

As I write this, I have 100 pages left to read but have spent the last 100 days trying to celebrate the last 100 years and have...