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Brosnan remembers meeting John Huston to discuss a role in the director’s famous 1987 adaptation of James Joyce’s story The Dead.

A group of people who only remember “the cover was blue” is called a patron.

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‘Pounds with dark energy, the prose as hypnotic as the dance music that pulses from clubs’ Daily Mail

We Used to Dance Here by @davetynan.bsky.social is published next week!

Four used copies of different editions of Finnegans Wake stack on top of each other.

Do you have a used/battered copy of Finnegans Wake that you will not use ever again? At the James Joyce Centre we are happy to collect these copies to help an artist build a sculpture made of them.

Contact info@jamesjoyce.ie if you would like to donate your copy.

The Superior, The Very Reverend John Conmee S. J. — Blooms & Barnacles “The tidal waterway, the Anna Liffey, mother of Dublin, plays as ever her part in Joyce’s Dublin. As a creative force she is older and greater than Christ or Caesar. If Christ left Dublin the city wou...

New blog post: everything you ever wanted to know, and probably some things you didn't, about Father Conmee's appearance in Ulysses

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Best hour listening to Kevin Barry trace his love for music and inspirations from Disco to Nirvana to John McCormick
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2 excellent Irish debut story collections coming soon.

EVERY ONE STILL HERE by Liadan Ní Chuinn –'Deserves to be considered among the best Irish books of the 21stC’ IRISH TIMES

WE USED TO DANCE HERE by Dave Tynan –‘Sharp, funny & vivid...Brilliantly attuned to the messiness of life’ WENDY ERSKINE

I was an adult on an excavation in Cyprus when I tried to wash my feet in a sink After successfully cleaning one I put it down on the tile floor without drying it and when I put the other one in the sink slipped backwards and cracked my back so hard I was bedridden for 2 days

What does Hamlet’s ghost smell like? Well thanks to @sebemina.bsky.social always spectacular Read Me now we know sergelutens.fr/products/iri...

I am so excited to see this with my son Cosimo who just finished his sophomore year a Tisch NYU Theatre

The art of making ‘a little mess’ brings Nicolas Party’s showstopper to Bath Artist borrows from past masters to create centrepiece of latest show, his first major mural in England There was a time when Nicolas Party would be pursued by police for decorating trains and buildings across Europe with his distinctive street art. Now, grand galleries and museums invite him to unleash his visions on their walls. His latest extraordinary piece, a large mural in soft pastel inspired by the works of a 17th-century Dutch artist and an 18th-century British master has materialised at the Holburne Museum in Bath. Continue reading...

The art of making ‘a little mess’ brings Nicolas Party’s showstopper to Bath

An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter is a Tragedy Dear Mr. RFK Jr., (The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.) You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That...

"Autism doesn’t erase potential. It reshapes it. Sometimes it’s quiet. Sometimes it’s nonlinear. Always, it’s human."

An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter is a Tragedy Dear Mr. RFK Jr., (The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.) You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That...

"You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That they’ll never pay taxes or write poems. That they are, in essence, collateral damage. I’d like to introduce you to my daughter."

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My May the 4th is Finnegans Wake published on this day 1939 ‘as modern as tomorrow afternoon and in appearance up to the minute’
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An incredible devotion - in awe - zero words ❤️🌹❤️

Beware if it’s shaped like a horse

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Q&A with the editors of Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories - Edinburgh University Press Blog A Q&A with the editors of Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories, a new essay collection on the work of Irish author James Joyce.

✨Q&A with the editors of "Finnegans Wake: Human & Nonhuman Histories"✨

Richard Barlow and I answer your questions about our new volume of essays on non/human bodies & histories in James Joyce's enigmatic final work – available now from @edinburghup.bsky.social!
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