The Groundhog Day Challenge

Could the European People's Festival do with some Joyce for the Cultural Show? Since moving to Spain, I have come to appreciate the works...

In a packed intimate environment, people gathered in a beautiful bookshop called Desperate Literature in the centre of Madrid to read...

I don't normally post nudes but I'll make an exception for New York artist Spencer Tunick. Written back in 2008 and published in the...

Joyce Korean style Joyce spoke as many as 17 languages which is absolutely amazing but how incredible was each and every translated...

I wrote this last Easter after noticing some interesting details in a music video and while I am reluctant to include this in a series of...

With less than a month to go to Groundhog Day and the centenary celebrations of Ulysses and the 140th anniversary of the birth of James...

NOTE: (Completely unrelated to James Joyce and the centenary celebration of Ulysses but I was challenged to post something about James...

From Hiroshima To The Moon, there is literally so much to unpack here. I am unpacking the hundreds of books left behind on Marilyn...

There are so many books that I will have to read and reference at the end of The Groundhog Day Challenge and one of them is Aloysius The...

I know it's a little cliché to say you can't judge a book by its cover but surely the cover and blurb should persuade us a little when it...

If 2022 sounds too much like 2020 two then one thing worth repeating would be the Bloomsday 2020 video A New Day Will Be. For Bloomsday...

Spain is the champion of Coronavirus cases in Europe but before you celebrate, let's remember that this is nothing to be proud of. What...

It's a new year and hopefully it will be a good year but it is the anniversary year and there are only 30 days to go until the centenary...

Inspired by an article in the journal.ie just before Christmas Day where the RNLI held a Christmas ceremony to celebrate the crew members...

(Well about an hour) While it has taken me months to break the back of Ulysses, there is more than one way to skin a little pusheen and I...

A car started beeping its horn aggressively behind the 657A Express bus from Pozuelo to Madrid and I wondered what the lunatic was doing,...

As 2018 came to a close, the Bloomsday Society in Madrid saved the best till last with some fantastic readings on the night in both...

Already more than half way through this 100 day celebration and I am just shy of the half way mark in reading Ulysses by the centenary...

65 Days to go and it is not going so well. Where am I? There are (or at least were when I penned this draft) 65 days to go but how well...

The Irish Embassy in Madrid hosted a film in Cine Doré on Monday 29th of November ahead of International Day of Human Rights and the film...