Quick: check behind the sofa cushions! It’s your last chance to acquire Joseph Maunsel Hone’s copy of ULYSSES (no. 281). Bidding at Christie’s online is up to €13k.
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James Joyce believed he'd included 500 river names in Anna Livia Plurabelle. He'd have been delighted to learn that Wake readers went on to find more than 1100 of them, listed in fweet as 'Cluster:rivers', but identified here by Davy Cunningham.

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On S7Ep15 of a #DS9 rewatch and Sisko has just delivered a damning critique of race representation in Bridgerton.

We did it, gang. We got the Lindsay bump. We’re going to need a bigger venue for Glasgow. #IJJF24

Hats off to the Academic Committee of Paul Fagan and Katherine Ebury. In the meantime, we have also finalised the chairing policy.

“He has changed more than I thought.” Really looking forward to TJS this year!

For #TJS2024 we have a thematic cluster planned on Joyce’s biography (broadly conceived) and life-writing. Should make for an interesting thread running through the school.

Just a reminder that today is also the last day for graduate students and early career researchers to apply for a scholarship to attend Across the Waters. If you’re putting your materials together and are worried about getting the letter of recommendation in on time drop me a DM.

I’m delighted to be serving as Academic Director for the 2024 Trieste Joyce School. We have a stellar line-up organised this year – follow TriesteJoyceSchool for announcements of speakers, registration details and scholarship opportunities.

Fella in Castlepollard, listening to the radio:
Leonard Cohen: And Bethlehem inflamed us both like the shy one at some orgy.
Fella in Castlepollard: (nods in recognition)

The deadline for the International James Joyce Symposium has been extended! Get proposals and scholarship applications to us by Friday 16 February. Full details on the conference website. ijjf2024.glasgow.ac.uk/call-for-paper…

Proposal submitted for the Glasgow Joyce symposium! I’m going to talk about the woman Joyce named as his model for Molly. (Spoiler alert: it wasn’t Nora Barnacle.)

Tim Pat Coogan asks the three pertinent questions for the Irish writer.

Interested in Ovid, ecocriticism and contemporary art? Have a read!

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But but but music literally is the air she breathes.

Iris Tree was #BOTD in 1897. She ordered a copy of ULYSSES from Beach in 1921 but apparently decided against subscribing. (If she seems young, she was just one of a number of under twenty-fives who took an interest in the novel.)

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Dry sherry january almost behind us.