The 29th International James Joyce Symposium in Glasgow last month was meant to have been the start of a new era for an academic community troubled...
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One of the world’s foremost James Joyce scholars was formally asked to leave a prestigious academic conference last week after organisers upheld a complaint of sexual...
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The craic was ninety on Bloomsday in Dublin: narrowly beaten only by the number of “yeses” in Molly Bloom’s soliloquy which, as all James Joyce scholars...
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I am leaving Ireland. I don’t know how sad I am entitled to feel, given tens of thousands of Irish people emigrate to Australia every year...