Can anyone help with a query? I'm looking for a reliable source on the history, etymology or provenance of first names. I'm specifically interested in the origin of Harold and Humphrey in the Anglo-Saxon period. (For those in the know, yes it relates to Finnegans Wake.) #names #genealogy #history

📣 COVER REVEAL Mary and Padraic Colum: Lives and the Dream The first joint biography of Mary and Padraic Colum by Margaret Kelleher, the author of The Maamtrasna Murders. A story of lives and dreams that deserves to be heard. ✨ Coming to bookstores this September! 🔗 Preorder now at ucdpress.ie

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An idea to make books look a bit more used, once jokingly proposed by one Myles na gCopaleen, has been made real in German capital

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Read the full open-access special issue "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" here: www.mdpi.com/journal/huma...

It was a lovely and sunny Friday evening for the launch of Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing in The James Joyce Centre ☀️ Two UCD Press authors, Leeann Lane (Mary MacSwiney, Dorothy Macardle, Rosamond Jacob) and Anne Fogarty (co-editor of Voices on Joyce) are contributors to the special collection 👏

@woganchris.bsky.social is next, with his review of Frank Callanan’s ‘James Joyce: A Political Life’ (2026): modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/b...

Book Review: James Joyce: A Political Life

10 July 2026 Christopher Wogan, University of York Published by Princeton University Press, Frank Callanan’s James Joyce: A Political Life (2026) marks a new milestone in Joyce studies. Since Richa…

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First, @lukegilfedder.bsky.social brings us ‘Lewis as Spaceman: Anthony Burgess on Lewis as the Anti-Joyce’, in an exploration of Burgess’s critical comparison of Wyndham Lewis and James Joyce: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/l...

Lewis as Spaceman: Anthony Burgess on Lewis as the Anti-Joyce

10 July 2026 Dr Luke Gilfedder, Independent Researcher Joyce is an auditory writer; he writes for the ear. He was not, like his fellow Man of 1914—the Vorticist painter and draughtsman Wyndham Lewi…

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On this scorching July afternoon, we are delighted to share #TheModernistReview62! With a range of excellent articles and reviews, we hope you enjoy this issue! 🌞 Check it out here: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/t...

The Modernist Review Issue #62

10 July 2026 In our first issue following the joint Modernist Studies Association and British Association for Modernist Studies’ ‘Weird Modernisms’ conference earlier this month, we are…

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XXX INTERNATIONAL JAMES JOYCE SYMPOSIUM Kraków, Poland 15–19 June 2026 conference.pais.edu.pl #JamesJoyce

Proofs from "Nightreadings: Essays on Finnegans Wake II.2", forthcoming from European Joyce Studies! It's such a great idea to dedicate a full collection to this dense episode; I'm thrilled to have contributed a chapter that reads the "Night Lessons" from nonhuman studies & ecofeminist perspectives

Les éditions Les Belles Lettres & Tschann Libraire ont la joie d’accueillir VENDREDI 12 JUIN 2026 à 19H MICHELA et MICHEL GRIBINSKI qui publient une nouvelle traduction bilingue d'ULYSSE de James Joyce Lecture et débat suivi d’un verre de l’amitié : tschannlibraire.fr/evenement/ul...

🚨SAVE THE DATE🚨 🎉 Launch of "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" (Special Issue) & "Unmarried Sisters" (Podcast Series) 📆 Friday 10 July (early evening) 📍 The James Joyce Centre, Dublin 🗣️ Katherine Ebury, Paul Fagan, Deirdre Foley, Maureen O'Connor & more

We are delighted to have Dr Martina Devlin reading from Scylla and Charybdis at Bloomsday Festival’s flagship event “Readings and Songs” at Meeting House Square in Temple Bar, free, 3pm – 6pm on 16 June 2026. #bloomsdayfestival

"Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories", a 2024 essay collection I edited w/ Richard Barlow, is now available to pre-order in a much more affordable paperback edition from @edinburghup.bsky.social! (use code PAPER30 for a further 30%-off discount) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-finnega...

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

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Next, @woganchris.bsky.social 's review of John McCourt's 'Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland' (Bloomsbury, 2022), an insight into the shifting response to Joyce's epic modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6397

Book Review: Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland

6 March 2026 Christopher Wogan, University of York Published in the centennial anniversary year of Ulysses, John McCourt’s Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland (2022) is a compelling sy…

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@woganchris.bsky.social reviews 'James Joyce, Rural Ireland and Modernity: Beyond the Pale' (2025) by Niall Ó Cuileagáin. Read more about this ‘unique conception of Joyce’s rural modernism’ here: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/b...

Book Review: James Joyce, Rural Ireland and Modernity: Beyond the Pale

29 May 2026 Christopher Wogan, University of York The ecological turn in Joyce Studies has intensified in recent years, with significant works focusing on the environmental and nonhuman from ecocri…

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Inspiring to hear Ellen Scheible & Barry Devine discuss "Teaching James Joyce in the 21st-Century" and the importance of pedagogical writing. The episode reinforced how honoured I feel to have contributed. Make sure your library orders a copy of this important book! open.spotify.com/episode/7L5t...

Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible eds., "Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century" (UP of Florida, 2025)

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Wanting to get a rough idea of whether people have read either of literary modernism's so-called "unreadable" books. #poll #Modernism #Joyce #Stein #literature Please boost! 1️⃣ James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939) 2️⃣ Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans (1925) 3️⃣ Both 📊 Show results

Annual #Bloomsday competition for young authors. Partners @marshslibrary.bsky.social ‘Finding Home.’ Inspired by #JamesJoyce #Ulysses … ✍️ 🎨 museumofchildhood.ie/bloomsday-20... @jamesjoycecentre.bsky.social @jamesjoycegazette.bsky.social @jamesjoycetower.bsky.social @fabercastell.bsky.social

This just in—a new French #translation of #JamesJoyce 's #Ulysses by Michel and Michela Gribinski, to be published by Les Belles Lettres (bilingual edition) in the very near future 😮 x.com/flr_louis/st...

Green Smoke — Frank McNally on the history of a nationalist tobacco shop, circa 1904 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i... via @frankie49.bsky.social @irishtimes.bsky.social #JamesJoyce #Ulysses

Green Smoke – Frank McNally on the history of a nationalist tobacco shop, circa 1904

Its precious visitor books were rescued decades later from a barrow on Dublin’s quays

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Oyster Monday Dublin 2026

Director Darina Gallagher and Dr. Josh Q. Newman were honoured yesterday to join Amb. Almqvist of the Embassy of Ireland in Hungary for the unveiling of the 'James Joyce Hall' at the ELTE Savaria University Centre in Szombathely. Read more here: www.savariaforum.hu/rovat/james-... 🧵 1/2