Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878–1957) was an Irish poet, surgeon, and wit whose flamboyant life embodied the exuberance of Dublin’s literary revival. A close friend—and later caricatured rival—of James Joyce, he served as the model for Buck Mulligan in Ulysses. Educated at Trinity College Dublin, Gogarty was both a skilled ear surgeon and a celebrated raconteur, known for his sharp humour and classical allusions. A senator in the Free State’s first Seanad, he combined nationali

Joyce's landmark modernist novel not only captivated readers in its original English but also reached a global audience through numerous translations, each of which was a monumental task given the novel’s complex structure, rich intertextuality, and intricate wordplay. During the course of the past century, Ulysses  has been translated into German, French, Czech, Japanese, Spanish (+ Catalan, Galician and Basque), Italian, Greek... in fact, we can now enjoy Ulysses  in forty

June 16th dawns again. Across the world , readings echo from Ulysses , glasses are raised in pubs from Dublin to Trieste, and the spirit...

The morning of June 16th, 1904, in Dublin. A Thursday. The day that would become known as Bloomsday. A city waking up to its own rhythms...

This is one of only two surviving recordings of James Joyce’s voice — a fiery passage from the “Aeolus” episode of Ulysses , in which...

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Founded by James Joyce, when he was only 27 years old, the Volta Cinematograph Theatre, Ireland's first dedicated cinema, holds a unique...

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Following extensive research and development in collaboration with Harvard University and the UMPRUM school of art and design in Prague,...

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James Joyce’s Ulysses first edition copies have become prized items in the world of rare book auctions, fetching remarkable prices and...