Caricatured as “Buck Mulligan” in Joyce’s masterpiece, Oliver St. John Gogarty was more than just a swashbuckling figure – he was a poet, a playwright, a politician, and a renowned surgeon who operated for free on poor children. “The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit . . .” - Hippocrates Two famous Irish authors, both Dubliners (and former roommates), … [Read more...] about Oliver St. John Gogarty!
Ulysses
Paddy & Aedín Moloney’s “Reflections of Molly Bloom”
By Irish America Staff
June 15, 2016
June 15, 2016
Just in time for Bloomsday, June 16th, actress/producer Aedin Moloney and her father, Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains, are releasing Reflections of Molly Bloom, a two-volume collaborative recording featuring Aedin Moloney’s renowned interpretation and performance of “Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy” from James Joyce’s Ulysses, complimented with music by Paddy. A record release party … [Read more...] about Paddy & Aedín Moloney’s “Reflections of Molly Bloom”
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
Bloomsday 2015: Global Irish
Celebrate Joyce’s Ulysses
By Matthew Skwiat, Contributing Editor
June 15, 2015
June 15, 2015
Literary fireworks are once again set to go off all over the world as nations celebrate Bloomsday on June 16. Celebrated in honor of Leopold Bloom, the quixotic wanderer in James Joyce’s classic novel Ulysses, a smorgasbord of literary revivals and readings will take place in Ireland and across the globe. Bloom, who may have been prophetically alerted to his impending “day” … [Read more...] about Bloomsday 2015: Global Irish
Celebrate Joyce’s Ulysses