Letters to the Editor, October 12th: On Wednesday’s strike, prisoner rehabilitation and growing fruit and veg
Government’s approach reflects ‘staggering disconnect from frontline realities’
James Joyce
Author of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
Darkness into light: Frank McNally on a history-themed quiz in Joyce’s Nighttown
The pub quiz was just around the corner from World’s End, and one of the more famous corners in world literature
Dead Ringer – Frank McNally on a tragic real-life counterpart of a fictional Joycean character
Eveleen Nicolls drowned while trying to save a girl on the Great Blasket in 1909
Author Niall Williams: ‘I will always be an outsider, even here after 41 years’
Author describes how he arrived ‘fictionally home’ in the imaginary village of Faha and how he celebrates the generosity, dignity and humour of his community
Gilla Band: Pugnello review – Magnificently unhinged, hauntingly beautiful
The Irish band’s fourth LP is an endurance test. Stick with it to find diamonds in its void of howling, screeching anti-pop
Shafts of Light: Frank McNally on accidentally joining the golf correspondents’ club
Also: St Brendan’s voyage to the White House, and why AI talks like James Joyce and Flann O’Brien
How Seamus Deane reinvented the Irish public intellectual
Critic’s interrogation of the Irish intellectual tradition began by questioning whether there was one worthy of the name
The new map of Earth is a wake-up call for Ireland
On the Equal Earth map, Ireland suddenly looks a lot more northernly and a lot less central - no longer the much-vaunted ‘island at the centre of the world’
The five-decade love story of a forgotten Irish literary power couple
Padraic Colum’s death made front-page news in the New York Times in 1972, while F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway feared his wife Mary’s rapier wit
Site of Dublin’s historic Ormond Hotel sold in off-market deal for €12m
Malaysian owners dispose of property which featured in James Joyce’s Ulysses after 13-year odyssey
Do you sit on the fence? It could be your Irish Mind (but I’m not sure)
For philosopher William Desmond, being Irish is bound up with a ‘sense of doubleness’
From Homer to Heaney: Ray Burke on Ireland’s enduring connection to The Odyssey
The Odyssey predates the earliest evidence for Ireland’s Táin Bó Cúailnge by around 1,400 years
The Irish Times view on The Odyssey: from epic poem to blockbuster
Every age has remade the poem in its own image
Going Gone – Frank McNally on the rise and fall of Irish go-go dancing
Plus: Diplomacy requires envoys of bad luck to avoid Spain’s and Argentina’s embassies on Sunday
Christopher Nolan interview: ‘It’s exciting to bring The Odyssey out. It’s also terrifying’
Christopher Nolan on big-budget pressure, finally conquering Ulysses and why The Odyssey, his highly anticipated adaptation of Homer’s epic, deserves to be seen on the big screen
Happy birthday, Mel Brooks: 100 gloriously tasteless years. Long may you remain above ground
Brooks continues to live one of the great American lives. Let’s break with tradition and celebrate him while he’s still alive
‘My sister was, like, you don’t have to fit in – you’re weird, and it’s okay that you’re weird’
The triple Grammy winner Cécile McLorin Salvant makes music that’s restlessly experimental and entirely her own
New arguments against abortion surface in a ‘retro’ Kieran Cuddihy Liveline show
Radio: When the Liveline host revisits reliably contentious subjects, he’s not just indulging in nostalgia
Bloomsday: Ringsend reclaims its Joycean heritage but, alas, no ‘superior tawny sherry’
More than most places in Dublin, Ringsend is pivotal to Ulysses, as the focal point of the first date between James Joyce and Nora Barnacle
In pictures: Dublin celebrates Bloomsday 2026
People have been marking the literary occasion with Edwardian dress and re-enactments from James Joyce’s Ulysses in the capital
Stories from Dubliners review: Back for Bloomsday, Joyce’s stories get a dollop of comic energy
Jim Roche and Liam Hourican of Volta Theatre Company stage their adaptations of Two Gallants, A Little Cloud and Counterparts
On Bloomsday, if you take just one message from Ulysses then it should be this one
James Joyce didn’t trade in false hope, but he reminds us how political optimism, even if foolish, is never wasted
Bloomsday: If I lived in Ireland I may never have started this slightly insane art project
Irish artist Natalie Forrester’s is painting each page of Ulysses, and has just reached a Guinness milestone
Beery Men and Peatsmoke: For Bloomsday, an Irish perfumer in Paris creates the smells of Ulysses
Meabh Mc Curtin is bringing to life 14 scents from Joyce’s novel, from Molly Bloom’s perfume to the ointments of Sweny’s Pharmacy
‘Indecent’ Ulysses: The British ban and how it was lifted
James Joyce reportedly said he wanted his books to keep the critics busy for 300 years. His most famous one kept the British post office and customs busy until 1936
Frank McNally: Ulysses updated, with apologies to James Joyce
On Bloomsday, how would Joyce rewrite his masterpiece for a Dublin of Deliveroo, Instagram, Lidl and Tinder?
Before reaching for your phone in the morning, breathe yourself into the present moment
There are some simple steps you can take to develop an enduring wellbeing and drown out the external noise
The controversial origins of a Dún Laoghaire hospital, 150 years old this week
Parish priest Canon McCabe was the driving force behind the creation of St Michael’s Hospital, which officially opened in Kingstown on June 12th, 1876
Deadly Buzz – Frank McNally on a belated ‘inquest’ for James Joyce’s Paddy Dignam
We know Dignam died of a Monday. But Monday is not an official cause of death, even in Ireland
Land review: Breathtaking epic marks Maggie O’Farrell as a daring chronicler of 19th-century Ireland
Hamnet author’s 10th novel urgently and passionately maps historical change driven by famine, emigration, language loss, secularisation and much more
Aldous and Joyce too: Frank McNally on a literary pilgrimage to Zurich
The odd circumstances that brought our visit about were in part the influence of another Irish novelist – Flann O’Brien
‘Ireland means a lot to us in India with our own freedom struggle,’ Gandhi’s grandson says
Academic and writer Gopalkrishna Gandhi is participating in Jaipur Literary Festival in Dublin
London calling: Ray Burke on the many plaques in the British capital honouring Irish writers
Plaques mark the home where WB Yeats lived for 23 years, and where James Joyce and Nora Barnacle spent a few months
Séamas O’Reilly: ‘As I’ve grown older I’ve realised how formative the Troubles were’
Author’s debut novel, Prestige Drama, channels humour, anger and sadness in story about a TV show set during the Troubles
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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