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

I honestly think the “Ahab destroys the Pequod bc the White Whale bit his leg off” is pretty much perfectly reflected in “Trump destroys America bc Obama made fun of him at an event.”

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.

@drtaliaabu.bsky.social 's Guilt and Finnegans Wake has just arrived!

Horrified by news of our friend & fellow bookseller Mahmoud being arrested by Israeli forces alongside his nephew. A tireless campaigner for the power of literature, Mahmoud was in Edinburgh with us just months ago - please join call for their release! #Booksky www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

How I think I look when teaching / How I actually look

We are delighted to announce The Poems of Seamus Heaney. This is the long-awaited, definitive edition of Seamus Heaney’s poetry, featuring a number of previously unpublished poems. Out 9 October 2025: https://linktr.ee/seamusheaney

It's here! ready to be read, debated, or strategically placed on your shelf to impress guests. Huge thanks to @floridapress.bsky.social and to @samslote.bsky.social for his support and for his awesome Foreword. Join us for the online launch with the James Joyce Society, New York, on March 4.

Export from the other site! via #HWarlow Brilliant

I have a geeky new article up on James Joyce Online Notes about Dawson's speech in 'Aeolus'; plus I get to cite Peter Cook! www.jjon.org/joyce-s-allu...