Thanks so much to the great team at @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social for hosting my talk today on trees in James Joyce, and thanks to everyone who came and asked such interesting questions!

@woganchris.bsky.social reviews 'James Joyce, Rural Ireland and Modernity: Beyond the Pale' (2025) by Niall Ó Cuileagáin. Read more about this ‘unique conception of Joyce’s rural modernism’ here: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/b...

Looking forward to attending this tomorrow!

Next, @woganchris.bsky.social 's review of John McCourt's 'Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland' (Bloomsbury, 2022), an insight into the shifting response to Joyce's epic modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6397

"Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories", a 2024 essay collection I edited w/ Richard Barlow, is now available to pre-order in a much more affordable paperback edition from @edinburghup.bsky.social! (use code PAPER30 for a further 30%-off discount) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-finnega...

The Eighteenth-Century Ecologies Network (@e-cen.bsky.social) will be hosting their inaugural seminar online and in-person at Heslington Hall, Uni of York on 26th Feb at 5pm! Dr Jeremy Davies (Leeds) will present on 'Continuity and Change in Eighteenth-Century Environmental Culture’.

✨"Fizzing with ideas, 'Finnegans Wake: Human and Nonhuman Histories' offers a revitalizing contribution to Wake studies"✨ Grateful to @woganchris.bsky.social + @modernistudies.bsky.social for this attentive & generous review of our 2024 collection! modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b...

Wonderful time spent in May at the Zürich James Joyce Foundation :-)

Today's reading

Sad news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...