The Groundhog Day Challenge

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...

While Ulysses will keep me busy for the next 78 days until Groundhog Day, the idea behind the Groundhog Day Challenge comes from a...

“I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more...

My love for Joyce has come about as a result of monthly readings of the Bloomsday Society in Madrid, and the drinks and discussion we...

If Phileas Fogg could travel around the world in 80 days then maybe I can finish Ulysses in the 80 days until the centenary celebration...

Last year, all I did was grow a mustache for Movember and post pictures on Instagram. It was very easy to do as I had online classes and...

A bit of a long shot here and I'm very unlikely to land this one on the green but I have just spent the last hour trying to contact...

My article in The Irish Times that takes us back to the COP25 in 2019. Not very Joycean I know and unrelated to The Groundhog Day...

"Tell us a story sir, oh do sir, a ghost story," our story begins at Wilde´s front door but ends thousands of miles away in Europe, with...

I am a couple of hundred pages into Ulysses but still have many chapters to read if I am am to finish the book by Groundhog Day which is...

Leinster House is an absolutely beautiful building that I always enjoyed working in and within the large complex of offices, meeting...

The Groundhog Day Challenge wouldnt exist without the passion and enthusiam of the Bloomsday Society in Madrid, and a comment made by...

Try to lose yourself, only to discover strange places, interesting people and the Irish village reaching out around the world, affecting...

After meeting with Sara Canto at El Ateneo theatre to talk about The Groundhog Day Challenge and The Bloomsday Society's first monthly...