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 nationalism with...

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 languages,...

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