Seamus Deane warns of the dangers of sentimentalising a precolonial past (the Gaelic Eden) or idealising a postcolonial future (when the island is one, all will be well)

Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating barriers to monitoring and oversight

Please join the James Joyce Society for the latest installment in our Lunchtime Launch Series : European Joyce Studie s, vol. 34: One Long Blue Streak: Joyce and Swearing This event will mee...

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An idea to make books look a bit more used, once jokingly proposed by one Myles na gCopaleen, has been made real in German capital

10 July 2026 Christopher Wogan, University of York Published by Princeton University Press, Frank Callanan’s James Joyce: A Political Life (2026) marks a new milestone in Joyce studies. Since Richa…

10 July 2026 Dr Luke Gilfedder, Independent Researcher Joyce is an auditory writer; he writes for the ear. He was not, like his fellow Man of 1914—the Vorticist painter and draughtsman Wyndham Lewi…

10 July 2026 In our first issue following the joint Modernist Studies Association and British Association for Modernist Studies’ ‘Weird Modernisms’ conference earlier this month, we are…

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

6 March 2026 Christopher Wogan, University of York Published in the centennial anniversary year of Ulysses, John McCourt’s Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland (2022) is a compelling sy…

29 May 2026 Christopher Wogan, University of York The ecological turn in Joyce Studies has intensified in recent years, with significant works focusing on the environmental and nonhuman from ecocri…

Its precious visitor books were rescued decades later from a barrow on Dublin’s quays