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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...
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100 days to celebrate 100 years
The Groundhog Day Challenge
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- Dec 15, 2021
- 4 min
65 Days Left
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...
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- Dec 3, 2021
- 5 min
Yes, We Said Yes, Yes
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...
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- Nov 18, 2021
- 2 min
At It Again´s Titbits
While Ulysses will keep me busy for the next 78 days until Groundhog Day, the idea behind the Groundhog Day Challenge comes from a...
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- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
Was Ulysses made for the internet age?
“I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more...
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- Nov 15, 2021
- 3 min
Ulysses & Cocktails
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...
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- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
80 days left to Groundhog Day
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...
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- Nov 12, 2021
- 1 min
MOVEMBER
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...
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- Nov 12, 2021
- 3 min
Have you seen Phil Conners golfing around Ireland?
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...
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- Nov 9, 2021
- 4 min
Time to COP on about Climate Change
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...
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- Nov 8, 2021
- 4 min
A Ghost Story, & A Symbol of Irish Art
"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...
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- Nov 8, 2021
- 1 min
Overwhelming at times
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...
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- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
The librarian and her book
Leinster House is an absolutely beautiful building that I always enjoyed working in and within the large complex of offices, meeting...
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- Oct 29, 2021
- 2 min
Something Special for 2/2/2022
The Groundhog Day Challenge wouldnt exist without the passion and enthusiam of the Bloomsday Society in Madrid, and a comment made by...
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- Oct 28, 2021
- 2 min
Longest way round is the shortest way home
Try to lose yourself, only to discover strange places, interesting people and the Irish village reaching out around the world, affecting...
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- Oct 28, 2021
- 2 min
El Arpo Media and Evening with Joyce, and Fake News
After meeting with Sara Canto at El Ateneo theatre to talk about The Groundhog Day Challenge and The Bloomsday Society's first monthly...
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- Oct 28, 2021
- 1 min
Eat The Frog
STOP PUTTING OFF ULYSSES, EAT THE FROG While attending a team building exercise for an academy where I teach, our guest speaker spoke...
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- Oct 27, 2021
- 4 min
"A NEW DAY WILL BE" if we make changes today
“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...
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- Oct 26, 2021
- 2 min
Martellos
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...
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- Oct 25, 2021
- 1 min
100 Days To Go
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...
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