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# James Joyce

This year
2023
Poll: Have you ever lied about reading Ulysses?
Go on. Admit it.
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Jun 16th 2023, 10:34 AM
Last year
2022
The Irish For: Joyce’s The Dead is not white Christmas - my thoughts on 'that ad'
Darach Ó Séaghdha shares his thoughts on one of the most recognisable Christmas ads on Irish TV.
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Dec 28th 2022, 7:00 AM
Poll: Have you read any James Joyce?
Bloomsday is set to be celebrated with both in-person and online events this year
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Jun 16th 2022, 10:21 AM
Poll: Have you read James Joyce's Ulysses?
Joyce’s masterpiece was published on this day 100 years ago.
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Feb 2nd 2022, 10:29 AM
New James Joyce artefacts and personal letters donated to British university
Joyce’s grandson, Stephen James Joyce, and his wife Solange, have donated a collection to the University of Reading.
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Feb 2nd 2022, 7:45 AM
Ulysses 100 years on: A story of love, lust, anger, jealousy and all human feeling
It’s 100 years this week since the publication of Joyce’s classic tale of a day in the life of the Irish capital.
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Feb 1st 2022, 9:54 AM
New stamps to mark 100 years since publication of James Joyce's Ulysses
The An Post CEO said the stamps “reflect the unique mix of modernism and classicism that define” Ulysses.
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Jan 27th 2022, 6:15 AM
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Anjelica Huston writes to Minister for Arts to save James Joyce's 'House of the Dead'
The house was the setting for James Joyce’s short story ‘The Dead’ and is set to be turned into a 54-bed tourist hostel.
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Jun 16th 2021, 1:25 PM
Poll: Have you read Ulysses?
This year’s Bloomsday Festival will run all week with most events accessible online.
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Jun 16th 2021, 11:00 AM
Protest held outside James Joyce's 'House of the Dead' over plans to turn it into hostel
Actors gathered to mark their opposition to plans to turn the ‘House of the Dead’ into a hostel.
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Jun 15th 2021, 9:31 PM
James Joyce's 'House of the Dead' to become hostel despite planning appeal by author Colm Tóibín
Permission was initially granted by Dublin City Council last year.
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Apr 21st 2021, 11:56 AM
Colm Tóibín, An Taisce and others launch appeal against converting James Joyce's House of the Dead into tourist hostel
Dublin City Council granted permission last month for the house at 15 Usher’s Island, Dublin 8 to be redeveloped into a hostel.
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Nov 12th 2020, 2:25 PM
Council gives green light to convert James Joyce's House of the Dead into a tourist hostel
The house at 15 Usher’s Island, Dublin 8 was once home to James Joyce’s grand aunts.
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Oct 16th 2020, 4:39 PM
Poll: Have you ever read any James Joyce?
Bloomsday will be celebrated a bit differently this year.
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Jun 16th 2020, 8:14 AM
'It's normal people before Normal People': Celebrate Bloomsday with a mammoth Ulysses broadcast
RTÉ will be broadcasting a 30-hour-long production of Ulysses to mark a socially distanced Bloomsday.
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Jun 14th 2020, 11:00 AM
Quiz: How well do you know James Joyce?
Bloomsday is going to look very different this year.
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Jun 13th 2020, 10:00 PM
New diaries reveal how a top Irish diplomat helped James Joyce's family flee Nazi-occupied France
Seán Lester was the last Secretary General of the League of Nations and tried to help Joyce as he fled the Nazis.
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Jan 19th 2020, 9:30 AM
Plans to turn James Joyce House of the Dead into a hostel put on hold by council
The house was the setting of Joyce’s famous short story The Dead.
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Dec 22nd 2019, 3:45 PM
James Joyce House was 'not designed for intensive daily use' as a 56-bed hostel
It was built “nearly 250 years ago and was not designed or constructed for intensive daily use,” the Irish Georgian Society said.
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Nov 26th 2019, 6:00 AM
'Not my right to interfere with views of the family': Councillors drop James Joyce repatriation bid
Labour councillor Dermot Lacey said he did not regret tabling the motion at the committee meeting.
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Nov 22nd 2019, 12:05 AM
'James Joyce did not wish to go back to Ireland': Head of Joyce Foundation says there would be 'resistance' to repatriation
Joyce is buried in a grave in Zurich with his wife Nora Barnacle and their son.
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Oct 16th 2019, 12:05 AM
Poll: Should we bring James Joyce's remains back to Ireland?
The repatriation would be ahead of the centenary of the publication of Ulysses.
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Oct 15th 2019, 9:27 AM
Councillors table motion in bid to have James Joyce's remains returned to Ireland
Councillors say they want to honour his memory while others worry it would be a money-making exercise.
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Oct 15th 2019, 12:05 AM
A Joycean time capsule: This former Dublin chemist's shop has barely changed in more than 100 years
The pharmacy opened in 1847 and was in business right up until 2009.
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Mar 10th 2019, 7:30 PM
Dublin pharmacy made famous by James Joyce fundraising to help cover increased rent
Sweny’s Pharmacy, located at 1 Lincoln Place in Dublin 2, first opened in 1847.
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Mar 3rd 2019, 8:00 AM
Which Dublin Statue Are You?
Are you more ‘Tart with a cart’ or ‘The prick with a stick’?
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Jul 16th 2018, 9:00 PM
Lucia Joyce: Why she was more than the 'mad daughter of a genius'
A new dance show looks at exploring another side to Lucia, daughter of James Joyce, who was herself a professional dancer.
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Jun 26th 2018, 6:30 PM
By day, John Shevlin makes hats, but once a year he transforms into James Joyce
Meet Dublin’s go-to James Joyce lookalike.
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Jun 16th 2018, 8:30 AM
'And then a rocket sprang and bang': We asked David Norris to read his favourite section of Ulysses
Happy Bloomsday.
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Jun 15th 2018, 8:30 PM
What happened to Stephen Ireland?
10 years on from his winning goal against Wales at Croke Park, the Stoke star has become one of Irish football’s most elusive figures.
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Mar 23rd 2017, 9:00 PM
Joyce thanks Yeats for his 'helping hand' in letters just bought by the State
Arts Minister Heather Humphreys said that an extra €500,000 had been allocated to acquire the letters.
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Feb 16th 2017, 5:24 PM
Nutty gizzards, free readings and bus tours: Here's your Bloomsday 2016 event guide
We look at the events celebrating James Joyce’s Ulysses, running from today until Thursday.
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Jun 13th 2016, 7:00 AM
The greatest Irish short story ever written is getting a makeover
It’s gone opera.
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Dec 9th 2015, 2:51 PM
Have you seen this man?
He has been known to frequent the Donegal area in the past.
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Jul 6th 2015, 8:32 PM
David Norris: The most common advice about reading Ulysses is 'absolute rubbish'
“If you’re bored or confused, forget about it, move on.”
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Jun 16th 2015, 11:55 AM
6 emotions people who haven't read Ulysses experience on Bloomsday
It’s an emotional rollercoaster.
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Jun 16th 2015, 11:54 AM
David Norris on Stephen Fry and replacing wombs with 'bazookas'
This is going to be one LIVELY conversation.
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Jun 16th 2015, 10:30 AM
Ireland's most famous writers have been turned into believable hipsters
James Joyce in a Vampire Weekend t-shirt.
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Mar 20th 2015, 2:15 PM
James Joyce was a rugby fan? It's TheScore.ie's 50 favourite sports articles of 2014 (part 1)
Also featuring articles on Luis Suarez, Munster coach Anthony Foley and Kobe Bryant.
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Dec 24th 2014, 12:00 PM
That 'Irish alcoholism' job rejection? There's now a Craigslist response from Seoul...
… who is pretending to be a drunk James Joyce.
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Nov 6th 2014, 12:16 PM
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