As someone who is reading Ulysses like I am prepping for Armageddon—Annotations splayed wide on my coffee table, pen in hand, bewitched by every wrinkle in the prose—this process seemed flatly insane.

A chocolate cake with multicolored, abnormally tall candles sat in front of a surprised Joseph Nugent, a professor in Boston College’s English department, as the students and faculty participating in ...

Buildings constructed out of words, characters made with such complexity that they can jump out the pages and stories so vivid, it feels like one is reading an epic. These words describe James Joyce’s ...

June 16 is, traditionally, Bloomsday, the day on which all the events of James Joyce's world-changing novel "Ulysses" occur. And Bloomsday is cele-brated all over the world by readings of the great ...

BC Bloomsday celebrants—some sporting James Joyce-style bowler and mustache—took turns reading Ulysses aloud during a stop in Stokes Hall. At far left are English and Irish Studies faculty member ...

June 16 is, traditionally, Bloomsday, the day on which all the events of James Joyce's world-changing novel "Ulysses" occur. And Bloomsday is cele-brated all over the world by readings of the great ...

Devotees of Irish novelist James Joyce celebrate today as Bloomsday by reading from his 1922 novel Ulysses. Actress Fionnula Flanagan shares a short excerpt from the closing pages of the book.

When I was a kid, the axis around which Dublin revolved was a huge Doric column that had stood at the center of the city since 1809. On the top was a statue of the English naval hero Vice Admiral ...