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Nancy Cunard, inspired James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Constantin Brâncuși, Langston Hughes, Man Ray, William Carlos Williams and many more...

Nancy Clara Cunard (born March 10, 1896, in London) was an English poet, editor, and political activist. Born into the British upper...

Edith Rockefeller supported James Joyce with a monthly benefaction whilst writing Ulysses

Edith Rockefeller McCormick (August 31, 1872 – August 25, 1932) was an American socialite and the daughter of John D. Rockefeller,...

T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf supported and admired James Joyce

Virginia Woolf declined to print the first chapters of Ulysses in 1918, though she changed her mind about Joyce's novel after T. S. Eliot...

Harriet Weaver, Joyce's patron and publisher of the first UK edition of Ulysses

Joyce’s most important patron was a prim London spinster named Harriet Shaw Weaver, whose dedication to Joyce puzzled Londoners as well...

Sylvia Beach, founder of Shakespeare and Company, where "Ulysses lay stacked like dynamite in a revolutionary cellar"

Born as Nancy Woodbridge Beach on March 14, 1887, in Baltimore, Maryland, Sylvia would later choose her name — a name that would resonate...

Dora Marsden, a renegade suffragette who would radicalize Ezra Pound and publish James Joyce's first novel

No one exemplified the interchange between radical politics and art more than Dora Marsden, a renegade suffragette who would radicalize...

Margaret Anderson, the founder and editor of "The Little Review", serialized much of Ulysses from 1918 to 1921

The most important magazine for Joyce, for Ulysses and possibly for modernism, was a homespun Chicago monthly called The Little Review,...

Nora Barnacle, The Enigmatic Inspiration Behind James Joyce’s Ulysses

Of all the people who made Ulysses possible, the most important is Nora Barnacle, the woman who fled Ireland with Joyce when he decided...

John Quinn, a wealthy New York lawyer and art collector, defended Ulysses against obscenity charges in 1921

John Quinn was a finance lawyer with connections to Wall Street, Tammany Hall and Washington, D.C. He started his own law firm when he...

James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Ford Madox Ford in 1923

In this iconic photograph, James Joyce sits alongside Ezra Pound, John Quinn [off picture to right], and Ford Madox Ford. Their...

Episode 1, Telemachus // Crafted by The Kilbeggan Distillery, in the oldest working pot still in the world

Release date: June 16th 2024 Nestled along the banks of the meandering River Brosna, Kilbeggan Distillery stands as a testament to...

Episode 6, Hades // Celebrating the centenary of the French translation of Ulysses with Distillerie des Menhirs

Release date: June 16th 2029 The Distillerie des Menhirs story began in 1921, (Ulysses was first published in Paris the following year),...

Episode 12, Cyclops // PUNI, Italy's pioneering whisky distillery

Release date: June 16th 2035 Located in the Venosta valley of South Tyrol, just outside the city walls of Glorenza, stands Italy's first...