Happy Birthday Mr Joyce - 144 today!

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I love Donal Fallon’s new book The Dublin Pub, which brings back vivid memories of my first visit to Dublin in 1981. I had a drink in the Brazen Head, and took the blurry photo of the landlady, Mrs Cooney…she’s on the cover of the book too.

"You're traveling through another dimension - a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's a signpost up ahead: your next stop: the Twilight Zone!"

Seasons greetings from the other dimensions!

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My bonfire night guy, last night on the beach in Hove

RIP Roland McHugh, whose funeral was today. What a loss to Finnegans Wake readers.

You can now buy prints from Atelier atelierbrighton.co.uk/collections/...

“We Started Drinking at Six”: Sparring and Slurring With Gore Vidal In an excerpt from his new memoir, ‘Baggage,’ the actor Alan Cumming remembers the highs and lows of a whisky-soaked evening 20 years ago with the famously combative author at his villa on the Amalfi ...

Alan Cumming on a night at Ravello with Gore Vidal
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The Darktown Film Club exhibition posters are now online at atelierbrighton.co.uk/collections/...

The Darktown Film Club Shop, Gallery & Art and Craft Classes on Brighton Seafront, offering a wide range of creative activities and the best in art and craft to inspire and surprise our local community and visitors to our c...

The Darktown Film Club exhibition is all online now. I love Jo Neary’s two posters for The Rebel and Sharon Hannnah’s Night of the Demon atelierbrighton.co.uk/collections/...

Sharon Hannah did a great Night of the Demon painting. I had to finish drawing Little Hansel’s ball at the opening

Had a lovely opening of Jonny Hannah’s Darktown Film Club, which is on at Atelier by the Sea Brighton until 16 November atelierbrighton.co.uk/blogs/news/t...

Parts of a painting I’ve made for the Darktown Film Club Exhibition which opens this Saturday at Atelier on Sea Brighton. Can you guess the film? atelierbrighton.co.uk/blogs/news/t...?

Does anyone else remember Aaargh! the wonderful comics exhibition at the ICA in 1970-71? We had a family trip there and, aged 12, I wandered on my own into a dark screening room where they had a slide show of Robert Crumb’s Despair comic. A life changing experience.

Frank Grimes performing his Joyce show at the launch of David Collard’s Multiple Joyce in 2022 at the Bloomsbury Hotel. We went for a drink after in the French House and look who walked in by chance. A lovely man.

James Joyce at the Victoria Palace Hotel A blog about James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

A Bloomsday pilgrimage to the Victoria Palace Hotel in Paris, which James Joyce described as a ‘caravanserai peopled by American loudspeakers’, yet he wrote the best parts of Finnegans Wake here. peterchrisp.blogspot.com/2025/07/jame...

Frank Grimes obituary Actor who had a long career on the London stage, mentored by Lindsay Anderson, and appeared in films and popular TV series

Thanks David - I joined to say how sad I was to hear that Frank Grimes has died. He gave such a good Joyce performance at your book launch of Multiple Joyce in 2022. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/a...