The Stuart Gilbert Collection, Harry Ransom Center, Univ Texas, Austin June 15, 2018 Lucia Joyce: on Bloomsday, consider this real-life character’s enduring and mysterious appeal Helen Saunders, King's College London Little is known, but much is speculated, about James Joyce’s daughter and muse, Lucia.
A parade in St Petersburg last year celebrating Bloomsday, the day on which Ulysses is set. Shutterstock June 15, 2017 Friday essay: the wonder of Joyce’s Ulysses SF McLaren, Western Sydney University Around the world today, fans of James Joyce’s Ulysses will celebrate Bloomsday. This experimental novel can be bewildering to read, but for those who persist, it is a ‘feast’ of a book.
Flapdragon via Wikimedia Commons June 15, 2017 James Joyce the European: celebrating Bloomsday in the age of Brexit Cleo Hanaway-Oakley, University of Oxford The great Irish novelist saw himself as European first, Irish second. There’s a lesson in that for the UK.