Nora Barnacle may not have been an artist, but she had a genius for living that made her indispensable to her partner, James Joyce. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century, Joyce honored ...

James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, one of the most impactful ever written in the English language, will be celebrated on June 16 in an event known as Bloomsday. From Australia to Santa Barbara, devoted fans ...

“Nora” by Nuala O’Connor is the February selection for IrishCentral’s Book Club. Each month, we will pick a new Irish book or a great book by an Irish author and celebrate the amazing ability of the ...

Nora Barnacle burned most of the letters she received in 1909 from her lover who signed his name, “Jim.” But she didn’t destroy all of them. Indeed, they have survived all these years. In one of them, ...

James Joyce wrote “Ulysses,” the great Irish novel, in continental Europe, so it is just as well that New York City is staging a generous show of the man in full, in all his bawdily voluminous ...

In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to ...

Dublin councilors put forward a motion for the Irish literary giant's final wishes to be observed, and that he be exhumed from his resting place in Switzerland and buried alongside his wife in Dublin.