The Groundhog Day Challenge

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...

STOP PUTTING OFF ULYSSES, EAT THE FROG While attending a team building exercise for an academy where I teach, our guest speaker spoke...

“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” A NEW DAY...

For me there is only one Martello tower which is now known as Joyce Tower but in reality, Ireland alone had as many as 50 with more than...

As of today, October 25th, you have just 100 days to try and finish James Joyce's Ulysses by the time of the centenary celebrations on...

A New Day Will Be I discovered a bittersweet story when looking for images of Bill Murray reading, I found a story about that final scene...

Joyce spent as much of his life abroad as he did in Dublin´s fair city and I was very interested in the comments made by Maria when she...

I was delighted to see one of the members of the Festival Bloomsday Montreal Ulysses reading group sharing a picture of their bookshelves...