Tag: James Joyce

  • February 2nd

    The date of the birth of James Joyce, strangely and nicely noted and commemorated this morning on the Radio 3 breakfast programme. They then played ‘Love’s Old Sweet Song’ which runs through the narrative and is used to signify Molly Bloom. Joyce had to wait until he was 40 before Ulysses was eventually published in […]

  • Bloom’s Day

    Happy Bloom’s Day, 16th June. It might be fun to be in Dublin today, drinking Guinness and eating oysters as that seems to be the tradition. So all this is about the novel Ulysses written by James Joyce. I have only ever read the first part of this tome, similarly with ‘A portrait of the […]