James Joyce

My five-year-old and I are heading home to Hungary after a weekend visiting family in Lucan. Our bag is full of chocolate and paints

Imagine the attention were Ireland to have a public holiday celebrating a fictional character

Joyce had an astute understanding of government and the political system, of politicians and how they worked

This country teased a lightness out of me. But so many people leaving Ireland for Australia is down to more than sunshine

Joycean events to mark the 120th anniversary of Leopold Bloom’s many steps across Dublin are being held across the capital and beyond

Rite & Reason: Joyce knew far more about Catholic dogma than many of his detractors

The Ulysses European Odyssey stretches across 18 European cities that have produced artistic responses to the novel

Reviewing works by Diego Marani, François-Marie Luzel, María Bastarós, Sasha Salzmann and Anna Stern

Some writers seek to delve into the inner workings of their characters’ hearts and minds using this unbridled technique. We talk to four

Radio: Talk of saints and babies has the RTÉ broadcaster in flighty mood. Over on Today FM, Matt Cooper has the better show

Books by Pat O’Connor and Donal Manning, and an anthology of writing by 33 women

The ghost of Barnacle’s onetime sweetheart Michael Bodkin haunts Joyce’s literature in secret ways, the word ‘bodkin’ always used ambiguously

Fascinating insights into cuts, revisions, alternative endings and censorship in the work of Austen, Joyce, Bennett, Chandler, Kafka, Imlah, Oswald and more

Laura Kennedy: Every emigrant has a little of Joyce in them — the longing for home and awareness of why some leave

We have in Brigid the ancient and the ever-new, a symbol of the malleable moment that opens new possibilities

Rite & Reason: James Joyce was our Cole Porter, our Bob Dylan, our Bessie Smith, and every story in Dubliners is a song

I had the privilege of seeing a group of actors recreate the scene, with spine-tingling effect, in the place where it happened

Stinging Fly, The Pig’s Back and Tolka brim with excellent fiction of inclusivity and ambition

The Nobel laureate is a master of the short novel – but none of them rivals Septology, an 800-page, single-sentence masterpiece

Colin Murphy’s script explores the 1933 legal battle to allow US publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses

Donors can secure 80% of the value of accepted works as a credit against outstanding and future tax bills

Film review: Gabriel Byrne and Fionn O’Shea play the writer to great effect but the pedestrian writing bogs proceedings

The problem with the novel is that it remains bound to Joyce

Investigating a possible allusion to a man not yet deceased

University College Dublin’s James Joyce Library has undergone a renovation that reveals the power of space to sit and think

Presenting runners with a tribute to Yeats featuring a line he almost certainly never said is an embarrassing travesty for a city that prides itself on its literary heritage

New to the Parish: Ginna Álvarez came here from Mexico almost a year and a half ago

The singer shattered our perfect circle of denial about abuse and trauma. If you had been abused and traumatised, you were probably half-cracked and since you were half-cracked, who could believe you?

Theatre: Branar’s take on James Joyce is surprisingly simple for such a complicated novel – and a great introduction to its appeal

The island has been enjoyed by pleasure-seekers, sportspeople and nature-lovers, but the greater context in which its history will be forged is the wider story of climate change

The placing of a plaque beside Joyce’s grave rectifies an accident of history and restores his daughter, Lucia, to her rightful place with the rest of her family

The songwriter’s debut solo album was born out of a feverish spell of lockdown creativity, unmoored from any requirement for radio-friendliness

The best opening lines have poise, excite immediate attention or simply impress

Hundreds of James Joyce enthusiasts flock to Sandycove and surrounds for readings, song and more

In a Word: Two public holidays so close together? That’s nothing: the French had five last month

The Easter Rising is seen as a catalyst for global processes of decolonisation, in the same way as Joyce is a catalyst for literary modernism

Dereliction, dirt and degradation are the predominant features of summer in much of the city

That’s Maths: many authors use mathematical metaphors with great effect

Dr Audrey Whitty wants to ‘showcase our beautiful building, introduce our national collections and meet visitors face to face’

The humanities are faltering, but, amid the rise of artificial intelligence, we have never needed than more than we do now