Louis Hay, 1926–2026; may his memory be an exogenetic blessing www.item.ens.fr/hay/

4-week reading group on “Circe” beginning February 10! Our facilitators will be Lizzie Belnap, Quinn Gruber, Casey Lawrence, Sam Slote, and Robert Spoo. joycesociety.com/readinggroups #jamesjoyce #ulysses @jamesjoycegazette.bsky.social @myexplodingpen.bsky.social @samslote.bsky.social

As the lion, in our teargarten remembers the nenuphars of his Nile …, the besieged bedreamt him stil and solely of those lililiths undeveiled which had undone him, gone for age, and knew not the watchful treachers at his wake, and theirs to stay.

I recommend people watch WALKER by Alex Cox. Forgive the trailer, they had to market it somehow, but it’s a minor miracle that Universal Pictures even theatrically released such a strong indictment of US foreign policy in Latin America at all. It’s on Internet Archive youtu.be/XImi7fT7-J0

Where are the watchful eyes of the Skibbereen Eagle when they are most needed: ‘We hope that Ireland will hold Russia accountable’, Zelenskiy tells Oireachtas. www.e-pages.dk/irishtimes/5...

Amazingly, even though Finnegans Wake is, fundamentally, fanfic about Lord Mayors of Dublin, there are no references to NYC mayors. Although, to be fair, the only ones who might have conceivably caught Joyce's attention would be Fiorello LaGuardia and 'Beau' Jimmy Walker.

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

A reminder that pg researchers and ECRs working in Romantic Studies in the UK are invited to apply for a Stephen Copley Research Award (valued up to £500) The late Stephen Copley supervised my PhD and I appreciate seeing his name live on like this #Romanticism www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

RIP Roland McHugh

Finally!

Just landed: Congrong Dai’s complete translation of Finnegans Wake

Hey look, Donald Trump — the leaders of three countries of 3 billion people got together just to laugh at you! Just imagine the fun they had discussing in detail what an idiot you are. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...

Amazing story about the political lunatic fringe in Ireland, so far, mercifully, on the fringes: www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Robert Wilson, Provocative Playwright and Director, Is Dead at 83 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/t...

Oh dear, I got my wires crossed! It’s actually September 2026!! Sorry about that folks, and please, those of you holding your breath, stop holding!

Latest arrival from the University of Florida Press’s James Joyce series: Sensational Joyce by John Gordon

Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!

The James Joyce Society has an excellent programme of events lined up for the next year joycesociety.com/events

A merry Bloomsday to all

For any dental issues this Bloomsday – James Joyce guarantees his work to be perfect!

Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible, coming soon from @floridapress upf.com/book.asp?id=...

Funded PhD studentship of €25,000/year for 4 years plus fees available @tcddublin.bsky.social to work with me on Irish women's life writing from the long 18th century! Please spread the word! @ecfjournal.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @clhlwr.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social

Richard Ellmann in 1959 be like…

Axel from KAJ (Sweden's Eurovision entry): does he look more like Joyce or like Kieran Culkin? It's the blue/black or gold/white dress conundrum for 2025.

Bargirl, hard at work

Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, and Literary Biography: a talk by Zachary Leader, Trinity Long Room Hub, 5.00pm, 15 May #JamesJoyce @tlrhub.bsky.social

Power struggles, resignations and Conor McGregor’s toxicity: The fracturing of Ireland’s far right www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

✨Q&A with the editors of "Finnegans Wake: Human & Nonhuman Histories"✨ Richard Barlow and I answer your questions about our new volume of essays on non/human bodies & histories in James Joyce's enigmatic final work – available now from @edinburghup.bsky.social! euppublishingblog.com/2025/04/11/q...

This just in: highly recommended

New Pynchon in October!

A US questionnaire seeks to establish whether funded Irish research aligns with the Trump administration’s interests. Trinity College Dublin warns staff >not< to answer US government request for diversity and equality information. More:

Just found this among my mother's papers. @samslote.bsky.social @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social @flannobriensoc.bsky.social @frankie49.bsky.social

‘I am floored’: Anne Enright on winning $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prize. Booker Prize-winning author becomes eighth Irish writer to win one of the literary world’s most generous prizes www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Please consider signing the Appeal by the International Academic Community in Support of Serbian Students & Professors forms.office.com/pages/respon...

UK Joyceans/Modernists: because of the UK's unique copyright legislation, access to jamesjoycecorrespondence.org was blocked -- until now. The Joyce letters are now open to UK users, which will make a huge difference for all of us. #jamesjoyce #correspondence #editing

Another English course gone.

Not existing is the latest fad of the 2020s

Doing some research this morning and I stumbled on this relic of Trinity's past

The Holberg Prize committee making a statement - a good choice too. Especially in relation to what's happening in the US and at Columbia... #STS #histstm #postcol

My lovely dept, The School of English at Trinity College Dublin, is hiring! We are looking for a postcolonial scholar who can also teach American literature. We’re a lovely bunch, I promise. Please spread the word!

Delighted to have a copy of the new Mandarin translation of Finnegans Wake by Sun-chieh Liang

Can't wait to hear Dr. Abu @drtaliaabu.bsky.social and Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social in conversation tomorrow! joycesociety.com/events/sqkrf...

Thanks to the Irish Women's Writing Network for sharing our #CFP for an open-access Special Issue of 'Humanities' on 'Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing'. irishwomenswritingnetwork.com/news/ Get in contact if you've an idea for a submission, we'd love to collaborate with you! #modwrite #irishstudies

We join with publishers, authors, booksellers & librarians to affirm that the White House executive order recognizing only two sexes constitutes censorship and has no place in a free society. University presses strive to give voice to the breadth of human knowledge & experience. 1/2

Guilt, Glory, and Guinness: A Poem Guilt lingers, thick as foam. Glory flares, too bright to hold. Guinness swirls, velvet-smooth, a liquid hug, the soul to soothe. Three Gs - two in the book, one in the glass I took.