For those with a literary bent, with legal training, interested in censorship or with a James Joyce obsession, this book about the American trials in which Ulysses was alleged to be pornographic is an engaging and enlightening read. Continue reading
Filed under Of Literary Interest …
Birds At Bundanon
Birds amplify
the silence; their calls,
borne on the wind’s leafy roar,
lodge in the mind, the marrow. Continue reading
Gods, Graves And Scholars
Williams refers to the Túatha as the ‘god-people’ to convey their indeterminate status between humanity and divinity Continue reading
The Wing Orderly’s Tales.
It might all lead to dull or grim stories, but Gebler’s characters are all human, damaged certainly, but each with his own story.
Continue reading
Joyce with his Nose in the Air
Handed such a whiffy text, director Wayne Pearn took a deep breath and turned it into a play piece of encaptivating ingenuity Continue reading
2017 Global Irish Diaspora Congress, Dublin, August 15-19
Proposals are invited for Research Papers and/or Sessions and/or Posters Continue reading
Killurin to Kalgoorlie: the making of Hugh Mahon
The Honourable Hugh Mahon is one of the most interesting personalities in the national legislature. There has been more stirring incident in his career than in a dozen ordinary men’s lives. Continue reading
‘1904 and all that…’: Barry Jones on James Joyce
James Joyce was one of a long list of great writers who failed to win the Nobel Prize for Literature: Ibsen, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Zola, Hardy, Henry James, August Strindberg…. Continue reading
Poetry by Maria Wallace
this island scorns, defies life
from sunrise to the midnight moon
Bloomsday Events – Getting Up James Joyce’s Nose
James Joyce’s literary masterpiece IS to be sniffed at. Continue reading
Tinteán 