Topic: James Joyce

The Tender Hour of Twilight, by Richard Seaver

In the 1960s if you wanted a hit of the avant-garde — this being an era in which there still was a literary avant-garde — you needed only to take a...
A scene from Dotter of Her Father's Eyes by Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot: 'exquisite and moving'. © the artist . The story of James Joyce's...

An Irishman's Diary

HOW CIVILISED, as we were reminded on page 5 yesterday ("Jack B Yeats honoured on new €10 coin"), that the Olympic Games used to include...

first synthetic living

Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research organization, published results today describing the...

Welcome to the Forty Foot

What do you get if you throw yourself into the Irish Sea 365 days of the year? Famous as a 'men-only bathing area' before being radically reclaimed ...

Literary and science courses at the library

GOREY Library is offering free places on science and literature courses.. . For all who are interested in discovery and science, Brendan Wallace...
All this week, we've been discussing the subject of unread books (follow along on Twitter #unread). Posing a question recently answered by Lorin...

Deals: Zurich Hotels Under $150

By Adam Graham. . From the November/December issue of National Geographic Traveler magazine.. . Hotel Otter › Old Town. . Located on cobbled...

Rishma Dunlop: Life in the Candy Factory

Rishma Dunlop. . Rishma Dunlop is the author of Lover Through Departure: New and Selected Poems, newly released by Mansfield Press. She will be...
By Paul Terefenko. . Besieged through winter and defeated by spring, it can be tough finding the bright side of life when you're stumbling through...