On July 21, Irish Ambassador Dan Mulhall and the mayor of the City of Berkeley, Jesse Arreguin, family members, and representatives of the Irish community unveiled a memorial plaque honoring the six students who perished when an apartment balcony collapsed underneath them in June 2015. The students, five of whom were from Dublin, Olivia Burke, Eoghan Culligan, Lorcán Miller, … [Read more...] about Berkeley Tragedy Remembered
James Joyce
Weekly Comment: Bloomsday Around the World
Bloomsday Around the World June 16th marks 2018’s celebration of Bloomsday, a literary anniversary commemorating the date upon which Irish author James Joyce set the events of his iconic modern novel Ulysses. Since the masterwork’s first publication in 1922, Joyce’s insightful, no-holds-barred portrayal of the inner lives of turn-of-the-century Dubliners and mastery of English … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment: Bloomsday Around the World
Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Aidan Gillen to Play James Joyce
Irish actor Aidan Gillen – best known for key roles in cable dramas such as The Wire and Game of Thrones – will get in touch with his inner Dubliner when he plays James Joyce in an upcoming film about the acclaimed Irish writer and his troubled daughter. Entitled James and Lucia, Gillen will play the Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man author as he struggles to write his … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Aidan Gillen to Play James Joyce
Weekly Comment:
It’s Bloomsday, Would You Buy a $45,000 Signed Edition of Ulysses?
Each year on June 16, bibliophiles celebrate Bloomsday in tribute to the day of wandering undertaken by the protagonist of James Joyce’s famously dense Ulysses, Leopold Bloom. Though it may be one of the most famous days in literature, a running joke about Ulysses is that it’s the most famous book most people haven’t read. But a well-known rare edition of the book with … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
It’s Bloomsday, Would You Buy a $45,000 Signed Edition of Ulysses?
The Mighty John Quinn, Defender of Ulysses
By Richard and Janis Londraville
John Quinn, the New York lawyer, originally from Ohio, had a taste for Picasso, Wyndham Lewis, Rousseau, Augustus John, and Matisse. He also owned all of Conrad’s manuscripts and the first draft of Eliot’s The Waste Land. But he never forgot his Irish roots and in his support of Yeats, Joyce, and Synge, he was indeed remarkable. Richard and Janis Londraville reports on the … [Read more...] about The Mighty John Quinn, Defender of Ulysses