Celebrating 100 Years Since Ulysses: New Work in Joyce Studies

Casey Lawrence, Trinity College Dublin

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In 1921, Joyce reportedly said of his ambitious novel, Ulysses,

I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.^[1]

In the 100 years since the publication of Ulysses, this much has at least been proven true: Joyce has kept us busy. In the 1950s, what we now call “the Joyce industry” was born–an absolute deluge of critical interpretations of Joyce’s work emanating, at that time, mostly from the United States.^[2] Michael Patrick Gillespie argued in 2009 that the industry has grown exponentially since that time, making it nearly impossible to “keep track of” let alone “read, assimilate, and then critique” the sheer volume of work on Joyce.^[3] Nevertheless, we continue to try. A bibliography of work on Joyce has been published in the James Joyce Quarterly as part of an ongoing project to keep a “Current JJ Checklist” for decades. This checklist has been maintained by the sustained work of William S. Brockman.

Despite the steady thud of trendy academics jumping on board, the Joycean bandwagon shows no immediate sign of subsiding under their weight.^[4]

Now, with an increase in digital media studies, and with the impetus of the COVID-19 pandemic, many resources and events have become entirely virtual exercises. From digital annotation with hyperlinks to definitions, music, and video resources, to virtual reading groups (including MSI’s very own Finnegans Wake reading group, Tuesdays 4-6pm), Joyce Studies is alive and well in a virtual world.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Joyce’s Ulysses, and Joyce’s 140th birthday, I’ve put together this list of new and emerging projects on Joyce. Though our world and our views have changed, “the Joyce industry” chugs along, with scholars and laymen alike producing books, edited collections, articles, new editions of Joyce’s works, art exhibitions, podcasts, blogs and so much more!

The list was created using recommendations from Joyce scholars on Twitter and Facebook. Thank you to everyone who sent in suggestions for inclusion.

While by no means exhaustive, this taste of recent and upcoming work in Joyce studies is representative of the vibrant scholarly and public engagement with Joyce’s work, even 100 years since the publication of his iconic novel. Today, we celebrate that anniversary, and Joyce’s birthday. So, let’s all raise a glass tonight for the author that brought us all together:

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)

New Work in Joyce Studies

Annotations:

Annotations to James Joyce’s Ulysses by Sam Slote, Marc A. Mamigonian, and John Turner. Over compact and accurate 12,000 annotations to Joyce’s Ulysses covering the latest scholarship. Forthcoming 22 February 2022 from Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/annotations-to-james-joyces-ulysses-9780198864585

Art & Exhibitions:

Art of the Wake by Carol Wade. https://artofthewake.com/. An exploration of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake through painting and illustration.

Bloomy Tunes by Dermot O’Connor. A collection of illustrations for the Blooms and Barnacles Podcast depicting scenes from Joyce’s Ulysses. 2018-present. https://www.bloomsandbarnacles.com/bloomy-toons

Illustrating Ulysses, a series of watercolour paintings by Jun-Pierre Shiozawa. http://junpierre.net/ulysses.html

Illustrating Ulysses: A mixed-media project by Tasha Lewis. A visual interpretation of the text created during a residency at the Tides Museum in Eastport, Maine. Lewis’s project incorporates unconventional art styles and diverse mediums, including collage. 2016. http://www.illustratingulysses.com/

Leo Koenders Exhibit at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, 3 – 25 February 2022. https://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/agenda/collection-leo-jm-koenders

Love, says Bloom, a temporary exhibition at MoLI curated by Nuala O’Connor. The exhibit complements the museum’s existing display of NLI treasures with an audiovisual exploration of Joyce’s intensely loving family unit through film, images, narrative and contemporary song. Runs 2 February – 3 July 2022, Museum of Irish Literature (Dublin, Ireland). https://ulysses100.ie/posts/love-says-bloom

Maureen E. Mulvihill has assembled an engaging Joycean Gallery, with several images, detailed caption notes, and information on new editions of Joyce’s novel. https://www.rarebookhub.com/uploads/article_pdf/upload_file/68/ULYSSES-Final-Jan-27-2022..pdf

Odysseys, curated by Flicka Small and Michael Waldron, is an exhibition celebrating the centenary of James Joyce’s Ulysses and his overlooked connections to Cork at Crawford Art Gallery (Cork, Ireland). Runs from 22 January until 3 April, 2022. https://crawfordartgallery.ie/odysseys/

One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s Ulysses, an exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in collaboration with the author Colm Tóibín. The exhibition showcases Joycean manuscripts and notebooks made possible through generous loans from American institutions, with major contributions from the James Joyce Collection in Buffalo. Runs 3 June through 2 October, 2022 (New York City, USA). https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/ulysses

The “riverrun” exhibition. [concluded] An exhibition of Carol Wade’s Finnegans Wake paintings took place Monday 1-7 April 2019 at Waterways Visitor Centre (Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Ireland) as part of the Five Lamps Arts Festival. Digital tour available: https://artofthewake.com/riverrun-exhibition

Wake Pages, by Susie Lopez. A series of illustrated and annotated pages of Finnegans Wake. See examples on Susie’s Twitter https://twitter.com/LookUpYoga or in this article: https://lithub.com/finnegans-wake-at-80-in-defense-of-the-difficult/

Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses, an exhibition curated by Dr. Clare Hutton at the Harry Ransom Centre (Austin, Texas, USA). Delayed due to COVID, the exhibition will open sometime in February 2022 and runs until 17 July. https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/2022/women-and-the-making-of-ulysses/

Blogs:

From Swerve of Shore to Bend of Bay, blog by Peter Chrisp on reading Finnegans Wake: http://peterchrisp.blogspot.com/

James Joyce Reading Circle, blog by Don Dward posting explorations of Ulysses, Giacomo Joyce, Dubliners, and other texts. https://jamesjoycereadingcircle.com/

The Medieval Studies Research Blog is a multi-author blog site hosted by the University of Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute. Joycean blogger John Conlan is involved in a project where he examines questions of ethno-nationalism arising from Joyce’s engagement with 20th century Scandinavian historiography. This project is in collaboration with Dr. Richard Fahey and will conclude with an experimental sound-piece adapting the text from the Mutt and Jute section of the Wake, coming soon. https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/2020/09/18/how-james-joyce-used-the-middle-ages-to-have-a-good-laugh-at-history/

Modernist Studies Ireland New Writing Series 2021: “Modernist Place and Space,” featuring essays by Chris McCann, Adrian Paterson, Emily Ridge, and Casey Lawrence to date:   https://moderniststudiesireland.org/2021-modernist-place-and-space/

Mondays Wake, a blog cataloguing the progress of the Zürich James Joyce Foundation’s weekly Finnegans Wake reading group: http://mondayswake.blogspot.com/ (the group is now held online on Thursdays; see http://www.joycefoundation.ch/reading-groups/)

Pint of Ulysses, artist Robert Berry’s work in teaching and adapting Ulysses, new work from his ongoing Ulysses “seen” project (graphic novel adaptation), links to classrooms and podcasts as well as daily notes on Joyce. Available through Patreon (post are free to read, Patreon used for “tipping the host”): https://www.patreon.com/pintofulysses

Thursdays Ulysses, a blog cataloguing the progress of the Zürich James Joyce Foundation’s weekly Ulysses reading group: http://thursdaysulysses.blogspot.com/ To join, see http://www.joycefoundation.ch/reading-groups/ for more information.

Books and Book Chapters:

“Bleeding from the Torn Bough: Challenging Nature in James Joyce,” a chapter in Stepping Through Origins: Nature, Home & Landscape in Irish Literature by Jefferson Holdridge. Syracuse University Press, 2022. https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/3952/stepping-through-origins/

All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature by José Vergara. Cornell University Press, 2021. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501759901/all-future-plunges-to-the-past/

Christian Heresy, James Joyce, and the Modernist Literary Imagination: Reinventing the Word by Gregory Erickson. Bloomsbury, 2021.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/christian-heresy-james-joyce-and-the-modernist-literary-imagination-9781350212763/

Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland by John McCourt. Bloomsbury, 2022. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/consuming-joyce-9781350205840/

Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature by Jeremy Colangelo. University of Michigan Press, 2021. https://www.press.umich.edu/11677854/diaphanous_bodies

Helen of Joyce: Trojan Horses in Ulysses by Senan Moloney. Printwell Books, 2022. https://printwellbooks.com/shop/helen-of-joyce-trojan-horses-in-ulysses/

James Joyce and Classical Modernism by Leah Culligan Flack. Bloomsbury, 2021. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/james-joyce-and-classical-modernism-9781350193703/

James Joyce and Photography by Georgina Binnie-Wright. Forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Available for preorder: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/james-joyce-and-photography-9781350136960/

James Joyce in Zurich: A Guide by Andreas Fischer. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.  https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030512828

Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas by Fran O’Rourke. Forthcoming from University Press of Florida, April 2022. https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813069265

Joyce County: Galway and James Joyce by Ray Burke with a foreword by Michael D. Higgins. New edition by Artisan House Editions, 2022. https://artisanhouse.ie/

Joyce Writing Disability edited by Jeremy Colangelo with contributions from Casey Lawrence, Boriana Alexandrova, Kathleen Morrissey, Rafael Hernandez, Marion Quirici, John Morey, Giovanna Vincenti, and Jennifer Marchisotto, with a foreword by Maren Linett. Forthcoming from University Press of Florida, 2022, as part of the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles. Available for preorder: https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813069135

Multiple Joyce: 100 short essays about Joyce’s cultural legacy by David Collard. Forthcoming in May of 2022 from Sagging Meniscus Press: https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/

The New Joyce Studies: Twenty-First Century Critical Revisions edited by Catherine Flynn. Forthcoming Cambridge University Press, 2022.

One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” edited by Colm Tóibín in collaboration with the Morgan Library and Museum exhibition of the same name. Penn State University Press, 2022. https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09289-8.html

Panepiphanal World: James Joyce’s Epiphanies by Sangam MacDuff. University Press of Florida, 2020. Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles. https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813066325

“A Portrait of the Researcher as a Young Teacher: James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in the Classroom,” by Jinan Ashraf, a chapter in English Teachers’ Accounts: Essays on the Teacher, the Text and the Indian Classroom, edited by Nandana Dutta. Routledge India, 2022. https://www.routledge.com/English-Teachers-Accounts-Essays-on-the-Teacher-the-Text-and-the-Indian/Dutta/p/book/9780367610562

The Reader’s Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority of the Reader by Sophie Corser. Forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press in August 2022. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-reader-s-joyce.html

Rewriting Joyce’s Europe: The Politics of Language and Visual Design by Tekla Mecsnóber. University Press of Florida, 2021. Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles. https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813066981

“Sartor Resartus Reanimatus: The ‘Reversionary’ Art of James Joyce, the Re-tailor,” by Tiana Fischer, a chapter in James Joyce and the Arts. European Joyce Studies Vol. 29, Brill, 2020, pp. 7-20. https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004426191/BP000003.xml?fbclid=IwAR1ptSF5njTNHHr-48F9blwcin8k6-N-G163FoWgSULan2lqnlzeizSihaQ

Time and Identity in ‘Ulysses’ and the ‘Odyssey’ by Stephanie Nelson. Forthcoming from University Press of Florida, July 2022. https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813069357

Ulysses: A Reader’s Odyssey by Daniel Mulhall. An essential introduction for all readers seeking to navigate Joyce’s notoriously impenetrable masterpiece. New Island, 2022. https://www.newisland.ie/nonfiction/ulysses-readers-odyssey

Ulysses Unbound by Terence Killeen. Penguin UK, 2022. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/448/448104/ulysses-unbound/9780141999760.html

The Varieties of Joycean Experience by Tim Conley. Anthem Press, 2020.  https://anthempress.com/the-varieties-of-joycean-experience-hb

“Your Friend If You Ever Had One”: The Letters of Sylvia Beach to James Joyce edited by Ruth Frehner and Ursula Zeller. Brill, 2021.  https://brill.com/view/title/57213

Broadcasts:

BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 offer a wide array of programmes on Modernism and 1922 in celebration of the centenary; though not exclusively Joycean, these broadcasts will be of interest to many. https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/the-legacy-of-modernism

RTÉ Celebrates 100 Years of Ulysses. This week, RTÉ will be presenting a range of Joyce-themed content on television, radio, and online. See the full programme here: https://about.rte.ie/2022/01/28/rte-celebrates-100-years-of-ulysses/ For more information about Ulysses-specific content, see https://www.rte.ie/culture/ulysses/

Conferences:

“Caliban’s Mirror”: the 2022 Wilde and Joyce Symposium. May 5-7, 2022, Trinity College Dublin’s Long Room Hub. Registration opens February 2022. #WildeJoyce2022. Organized by Casey Lawrence and Graham Price, with Sam Slote. https://wildejoyce2022.wordpress.com/

James Joyce: Ulysses 1922–2022. The XXVIII International James Joyce Symposium. 12-18 June, 2022, Trinity College Dublin & University College Dublin. Registration is now open. #Ulysses100. Organized by Sam Slote, Tom Walker, Luca Crispi, and Anne Fogarty, with Valérie Bénéjam and Tim Conley. https://www.tcd.ie/English/ulysses-100/

Editions:

The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022. A forthcoming reader-friendly edition of Ulysses equipped with maps, photographs, and footnotes. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-centenary-ulysses-the-1922-text-with-essays-and-notes/1AC75776AF8EE26DADDC30EF064C0E57

The Folio Society’s Limited Edition leather-bound Ulysses, illustrated by John Vernon Lord and edited by Danis Rose and John O’Hanlon. Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies, all signed by John Vernon Lord. Includes introductory essays by Danis Rose, John O’Hanlon, and Stacey Herbert and an exclusive John Vernon Lord print. Priced at £495.00, this is an extravagant collector’s edition! https://www.foliosociety.com/ulysses-limited-edition.html 

Ulysses edited by Jeri Johnson. 2nd edition. Oxford University Press, 2022. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ulysses-9780192855107?q=ulysses&lang=en&cc=uk

Ulysses: an Illustrated Edition, illustrated by neo-figurative artist Eduardo Arroyo (1937–2018). Other Press, 2022. https://otherpress.com/product/ulysses-9781635420265/ About the edition & a sneak peek of the illustrations: https://lithub.com/eduardo-arroyos-dreamy-abstract-illustrations-of-ulysses

Events:

2 February 2022: Curator’s Introduction: Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses, an introduction to the Harry Ransom Centre Exhibition by Dr. Clare Hutton. Free registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/curators-introduction-women-and-the-making-of-joyces-ulysses-registration-250371145837

2 February 2022: Ulysses Centenary & 75th JJS Anniversary I: Clare Hutton & Jonathan Goldman. No prior registration required: https://www.joycesociety.com/events/event-four-44apr

4 February 2022: The Five Joyces: How James Joyce was Read in Russia (with José Vergara). This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting for non-NYU affiliates. NYU affiliates may attend the event in person at the Jordan Center (New York, USA). https://jordanrussiacenter.org/event/the-five-joyces-how-james-joyce-was-read-in-russia-with-jose-vergara/

10 February 2022: Brock Talks – Ulysses at 100: Time, Reputation, and Joyce’s Novel, a virtual talk by Dr. Tim Conley hosted by St. Catharines Public Library. Free registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/brock-talks-ulysses-at-100-time-reputation-and-joyces-novel-tickets-249268196887

22 February 2022: Awake Again, Finnegan! James Joyce and Jazz: Merging African American and Irish Voices. 8pm Dublin time. Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kdeGprT8qGNcj0i5hXzXxbHwMGpIttrri?fbclid=IwAR2cZVu4yNq6spFrpkJFb0G2fynTS4QtM4ii4oyaFxyvJSTJW4rvolMXAU8

10 March 2022: Finding Miss Weaver: James Joyce and the Patron of Ulysses, a presentation by Dr. Clare Hutton via the British Library. Register for £5 here: https://www.bl.uk/events/Finding-Miss-Weaver-James-Joyce-and-the-Patron-of-Ulysses

For a full list of 2022 Joycean events, see Ulysses 100: What’s On, updated weekly. https://ulysses100.ie/whats-on

Event Recordings:

Festival Bloomsday Montreal: Academic Panel 1 moderated by Geraldina Mendez, speaking with John McCourt, Casey Lawrence, and Mary Lawton. Streamed live June 14, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIKYBxYpI3g

Festival Bloomsday Montreal: Academic Panel 2 moderated by Geraldina Mendez, speaking with Cleo Hanaway-Oakley and Marcelo Zabaloy. Streamed live June 14, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB8pOCFEp5w

I Said Yes: A Celebration of Bloomsday at The Rosenbach. Rosenbach Museum, 2021, with commentators Paul Saint-Amour, Robert Berry, Vicki Mahaffey, Darina Gallagher, and Elizabeth E. Fuller. Readers courtesy of the Lantern Theater and Philadelphia Artists’ Collective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du6OCZDBp9E

Fiction:

Aloysius the Great, a novel by John Maxwell O’Brien, Propertius Press 2020. https://propertiuspress.wixsite.com/bookstore/online-store/Aloysius-The-Great-by-John-Maxwell-OBrien-p202296335

The Curious Odyssey of Rudolph Bloom by Richard Reeder. A prequel to Ulysses which follows protagonist Rudolph Virag, Bloom’s father. Forthcoming from Propertius Press, 2022. https://www.propertiuspress.com/our-bookstore/The-Curious-Odyssey-of-Rudolph-Bloom-p411766444

Dedalus by Chris McCabe. A sequel to Ulysses. Limited edition by Henningham Family Press, 2018. https://www.henninghamfamilypress.co.uk/books/dedalus/

Nora: A Love Story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce by Nuala O’Connor. Irish writer Nuala O’Connor’s fifth novel, published January 2021 by Harper Collins in the USA & April 2021 in Ireland by New Island. https://nualaoconnor.com/home/novels/nora/

Journal Articles (nonexhaustive):

“‘Beard and Bicycle’: The Human, Nonhuman, and Posthuman Bicyclist in Ulysses” by James Alexander Fraser. James Joyce Quarterly 58(1-2), 2021, pp. 131-155.

“The Facts of Resonance: Sonic Warfare, Haptic Literature and the Vibrant Body in FW II.3” by John Conlan. Forthcoming in an upcoming issue of The Dublin James Joyce Journal.

“An Incident in Hyde Park: Basil Thomson, Roger Casement, and Wakean Coincidence,” by Mark David Kaufman. James Joyce Quarterly 57(3-4), 2020, pp. 245-262.

“Their natural selections: Anthropogenesis and the Curious Lifeworld of Finnegans Wake,” by John Conlan. Forthcoming in Costellazioni, 2022.

“‘The Sassenach wants his morning rashers’: The Colonial Market and the Commodified Animal in Telemachus’” by Robert Brazeau. James Joyce Quarterly 58(1-2), 2021, pp. 19-35.

“Starting Mid-Stream: riverrunning through the first line of Finnegans Wake,” by Casey Lawrence. The First Line Literary Journal 23(1), Spring 2021, pp. 83-5.

“James Joyce and the Modern Scots,” by Eleni Loukopoulou. The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 12(1), 2021, pp. 87-124.

“Where Do I Put It? James Joyce’s Buck Mulligan, Bisexuality, and Contemporary Legislative Practice,” by Chris Wells. Open Library of Humanities 6(1), 2020, p.9. https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4616/

“Zooming Bloomsday 2020,” by Richard J. Gerber. James Joyce Quarterly 57(3-4), 2020, pp. 240-244.

Merch:

Doodles Family Business, a UK-based online store created by Joycean scholar Dr. Cleo Hanaway-Oakley and her husband, Phil. The store sells Joyce-themed t-shirts and tote bags featuring Joyce quotes, doodles, and Joycean holidays such as Bloomsday and 2/2/22. https://doodles-family-business.teemill.com/

“Ulysses 100” commemorative stamps from An Post. A national stamp, international stamp, commemorative envelope and special cancellation mark designed by Amsterdam-based Irish designers, The Stone Twins, for the 100th anniversary of Ulysses. https://www.anpost.com/Shop/Special-issue-stamps/Ulysses-100

“The World of James Joyce and Other Irish Writers: A 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle,” a 27 x 19 in puzzle to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Ulysses; the completed puzzle is a detailed illustration of Joyce’s Dublin is packed with real people and fictional characters to seek and find. Commissioned by Philip Contos with art by Michael Kirkham and an accompanying pull-out poster with guide by Joyce scholar Professor Joseph Brooker. https://www.laurenceking.com/product/the-world-of-james-joyce/ (use discount code JamesJoyce25 at checkout for 25% off)

Music and Videos:

“A Day With Joyce,” an album of 18 original Joycean songs inspired by each chapter of Ulysses, by Axel Bloom. Releases 2/2/22: https://axelbloom.bandcamp.com/album/a-day-with-joyce-2

“Elpenor in the Cities – Bloomsday 2021.” A non-linear experimental film by Vouvoula Skoura, based on the “Hades” episode of Ulysses. The narratives map a rhizome of the marks left by the people as they travel following routes of their memory / traveling to Mediterranean cities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0XEo1ms6yY

“Molly Alone,” a Bloomsday song by Catherine Ann Cullen, Poet in Residence at Poetry Ireland, June 14, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc-FN5pun78&t=1s

“Molly Molly Molly yes yes yes.” Des Kilfeather’s NFT created for Bloomsday in a revolutionary, evolving art-world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMQ69irZIy4

“Ulysses Chapter by Chapter,” a video playlist by Chris Reich. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlGs_Xj2HYA8P6E2Jy6Ub9m7eqs-9lcU

Waywords and Meansigns, an audio experience (ongoing project to set Finnegans Wake to music) created by Derek Pyle. http://www.waywordsandmeansigns.com/ 

Online Resources:

Finwake. An online gloss of Finnegans Wake. Free annotations current until 2010; a premium paid subscription is needed to access updates from 2011-2022. Desktop and Apple/Android compatible versions available. https://finwake.com/index.htm

James Joyce’s Correspondence. Antwerp: University of Antwerp, 2021. https://jamesjoycecorrespondence.org. Digitization of previously unpublished letters, postcards, telegrams, and notes written by Joyce or by others at his dictation or direction. Editorial team: Dirk Van Hulle, Robert Spoo, Michael Groden, Kevin Dettmar, Ronan Crowley, William S. Brockman, Josip Batinić, Sabrina Alonso.

James Joyce’s Dublin, A Topographical Guide to the Dublin of Ulysses by Ian Gunn and Clive Hart with Harald Beck. The revised and expanded edition of this incredible resource is available to download as a free eBook at http://www.riverrun.org.uk/JJD2.html.

JoyceImages, curated by Aida Yared. An attempt to fully illustrate Ulysses using postcards, photos, and other documents contemporary with the events of the novel. https://joyceimages.com/

Joyce Tools. Resources made available in honour of Clive Hart, one of the pioneers of the empirical study of James Joyce’s work. A collection of maps, public domain works, publications (including the entire run of the now-defunct Finnegans Wake Circular), and much more. http://www.riverrun.org.uk/joycetools.html

Ulysses Ephemera by Sabrina Alonso and Tim O’Neil. A collection of images relating to Ulysses, used to create a guide of visual annotations. Contributions welcome. https://ulysses-ephemera.blogspot.com/

UlyssesGuide.Com. Episode guides and other resources created or collected by Patrick Hastings. https://www.ulyssesguide.com/

Open Access and Online Articles:

“#MeToo is Nothing New: Even James Joyce’s Ulysses depicts workplace sexual harassment,” an article by Casey Lawrence originally published in Issue 109 (March 2019) of the Dublin Review of Books. Republished on her Medium blog with corrections: https://clawrenc.medium.com/metoo-is-nothing-new-d429b2c1784c

“The Difficult Odyssey of James Joyce’s Ulysses,” by Jonathan Goldman. The Village Voice, January 2022. https://www.villagevoice.com/2022/01/28/the-difficult-odyssey-of-james-joyces-ulysses/

“Finnegans Wake at 80: In Defense of the Difficult: On the Pleasure of Annotating One of Literature’s Most Challenging Works,” by Susie Lopez. Literary Hub, May 2019. https://lithub.com/finnegans-wake-at-80-in-defense-of-the-difficult/

“Get Started with Ulysses,” by Anne Forgarty. Ulysses 100, 2022. https://ulysses100.ie/articles/get-started-with-ulysses

“Return to Ithaca – How Joyce completed Ulysses,” by Ed Mulhall. RTÉ Century Ireland. https://www.rte.ie/centuryireland/index.php/articles/return-to-ithaca-how-joyce-completed-ulysses

Two of the latest issues of Revue Europe (in French) have been dedicated (in whole or in part) to Joyce. The January-February 2022 issue is Joyce/Ulysses/2022: https://www.europe-revue.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Livret-Ulysse-janvier-2022-R.pdf

The previous issue, November-December 2021, is on both James Joyce and John Banville: https://www.europe-revue.net/produit/n-1111-1112-james-joyce-john-banville-nov-dec-2021/

Podcasts:

Et Voilá!, the Franco-Irish podcast by the French embassy in Ireland’s cultural section, has two episodes about Joyce’s last year in France, presented by the French honorary consul for Connacht and Donegal Catherine Gagneux, with readings by actors Olwen Fouéré and Páraic Breathnach and contributions from Marion Byrne, Darina Gallagher, and our own Adrian Paterson (soundcloud.com/catherine-gagneux)

Blooms and Barnacles Podcast, a non-academic take on Joyce’s Ulysses from Kelly Bryan,featuring original art by Dermot O’Connor. 2018-present. https://www.bloomsandbarnacles.com/

Comment lire Ulysse de Joyce? a French podcast hosted by Phillipe Forest on how to read Ulysses. https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/sans-oser-le-demander/comment-lire-ulysse-de-joyce

Re:Joyce, Frank Delaney deconstructs James Joyce’s Ulysses in a five-minute podcast, reading the novel one sentence at a time. 2010-2017. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/frank-delaneys-re-joyce/id377763645

U22: The Centenary Ulysses Podcast, Catherine Flynn and her co-hosts Rafael Aguilar, Emily Moell, and Louie Poore talk with readers of Ulysses from around the world. 2022. https://u22pod.com/

Ulysses – James Joyce. A podcast by RTÉ Radio 1. Recorded in 1982, rereleased in 2020. https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/ulysses-james-joyce/id1517040628

Reading Groups:

“Modernist Studies Ireland Finnegans Wake Reading Group.” Founded by Tiana Fischer (NUIG) and Casey Lawrence (TCD). Weekly virtual reading group established in July 2020, which presently runs 4-6pm every Tuesday. Email Casey to get on the mailing list and join us via Zoom: clawrenc@tcd.ie

“New York Ulysses Book Club.” Weekly virtual book club organized by the James Joyce Society, reading one chapter per week, starting February 8 and ending June 7, right in time for Bloomsday festivities. Register for $25USD: https://www.joycesociety.com/ulyssesbookclub

Sweny’s Pharmacy has a full programme of in-person and online reading groups for Finnegans Wake, Portrait, Ulysses (in various languages), and more. Check out their website for dates & times: https://www.sweny.ie/reading-groups

Talia Abu will be leading a Ulysses reading group in Tel Aviv’s central public library in celebration of the centenary. The group will take place in Hebrew from May 11. https://www.secrettelaviv.com/best/tags/services/central-library-beit-ariela

The Zürich James Joyce Foundation hosts online Finnegans Wake and Ulysses reading groups every Thursday. For more information, see their website: http://www.joycefoundation.ch/reading-groups/

Translations:

El monalogo de Molly, traduzione in triestino. Trieste Italian translation of “Penelope” by Fulvio Rogantin with a preface by Edoardo Camurri. Trieste: Libreria Ubik: Libreria antiquaria Drogheria 28: Libreria Minerva, 2020.

Estela de Finnegan una lectura anotada del primer capitulo de Finnegans Wake de James Joyce. Annotated Spanish translation of Finnegans Wake by Juan Diaz Victoria in Peru.

Odisio, a lipogramatic translation of Ulysses. Without using the letter A, Marcelo Zabaloy translates Ulysses into Spanish.

Samra Mahfoud is currently working on translating Joyce’s work into arabic. She has just finished a book of Joyce’s poetry and is currently working on a translation of ALP.

Yulisῑs (Ulῑs). Persian translation of Ulysses by Akram Pedramnia. London: Nogaam. Vol. 1, 2019; Vol. 2, 2020.

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