Sam Slote

A reminder that pg researchers and ECRs working in Romantic Studies in the UK are invited to apply for a Stephen Copley Research Award (valued up to £500)

The late Stephen Copley supervised my PhD and I appreciate seeing his name live on like this

#Romanticism

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I’m only the series editor, the volume’s editors came to us with the book more-or-less fully formed. Something on online resources would make for an excellent, albeit different volume

No: its focus is on classroom pedagogy, but not just university classrooms: it also cover high school, non-traditional spaces, and teaching Joyce in prison.

An annotator's work is never done

It's been ages since I read V. My memory is that it's (only) intermittently great.

Roland McHugh at the Finnegans Wake at 80 symposium, TCD, 2019

RIP Roland McHugh

Myself triumphantly holding my just-acquired copy of Pynchon's Shadow Ticket

Finally!

Congrong Dai: Doodles family

Sun chieh Liang: doodles family

No and it's likewise unmodified in Sun chieh Liang's translation from earlier this year

Congrong Dai’s three volume translation of Finnegans Wake

Just landed: Congrong Dai’s complete translation of Finnegans Wake

Hey look, Donald Trump — the leaders of three countries of 3 billion people got together just to laugh at you! Just imagine the fun they had discussing in detail what an idiot you are. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...

The new IRB: a band of conspiracy theorists who have set up a parallel Irish ‘government’ This fringe group, drawn from the ranks of anti-lockdown protesters and business people laid low by the crash, have a cabinet, local co-ops and even a network of ‘courts’

Amazing story about the political lunatic fringe in Ireland, so far, mercifully, on the fringes: www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Robert Wilson, Provocative Playwright and Director, Is Dead at 83

Robert Wilson, Provocative Playwright and Director, Is Dead at 83 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/t...

Oh dear, I got my wires crossed! It’s actually September 2026!! Sorry about that folks, and please, those of you holding your breath, stop holding!

Latest arrival from the University of Florida Press’s James Joyce series: Sensational Joyce by John Gordon

Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century cover

Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!

Events — James Joyce Society

The James Joyce Society has an excellent programme of events lined up for the next year joycesociety.com/events

Yes I do! I retraced Bloom’s trajectory on Bloomsday 6 years ago (there are some suppositions involved): 22,203 steps

A merry Bloomsday to all

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For any dental issues this Bloomsday – James Joyce guarantees his work to be perfect!

The cover of Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century

Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century,
edited by Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible, coming soon from @floridapress upf.com/book.asp?id=...

Details of funding available for PhD studentship at TCD

Funded PhD studentship of €25,000/year for 4 years plus fees available @tcddublin.bsky.social to work with me on Irish women's life writing from the long 18th century! Please spread the word! @ecfjournal.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @clhlwr.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social

Agreed: it's the work of a master writer at the top of their game.

Major Partagaz from Andor saying 'It's bad luck G(h)orman'.

Richard Ellmann in 1959 be like…

Axel from KAJ, looking like James Joyce and/or Kieran Culkin

Axel from KAJ (Sweden's Eurovision entry): does he look more like Joyce or like Kieran Culkin? It's the blue/black or gold/white dress conundrum for 2025.

A nonchalant cat amidst books

Bargirl, hard at work

Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce (1959) has been called “the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century.” This talk, by the critic and biographer Zachary Leader, tells the story of the book and its maker, in the process arguing for the artistic claims not only of Ellmann himself, a remarkable man, but of literary biography in general.

Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, and Literary Biography: a talk by Zachary Leader, Trinity Long Room Hub, 5.00pm, 15 May #JamesJoyce @tlrhub.bsky.social

Power struggles, resignations and Conor McGregor’s toxicity: The fracturing of Ireland’s far right The Irish far right is deeply divided, riven by personality clashes and arguments over how to achieve a political breakthrough

Power struggles, resignations and Conor McGregor’s toxicity: The fracturing of Ireland’s far right
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Q&A with the editors of Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories - Edinburgh University Press Blog A Q&A with the editors of Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories, a new essay collection on the work of Irish author James Joyce.

✨Q&A with the editors of "Finnegans Wake: Human & Nonhuman Histories"✨

Richard Barlow and I answer your questions about our new volume of essays on non/human bodies & histories in James Joyce's enigmatic final work – available now from @edinburghup.bsky.social!
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Niall Ó Cuileagáin, James Joyce, Rural Ireland and Modernity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025)

This just in: highly recommended