When we asked readers of the Book Club newsletter which classic books ... with very strong feelings about Holden Caulfield ...
The book, published in 1987 ... Anthony Atamanuik captured his chaotic stream-of-consciousness — Leopold Bloom by way of Queens — on “The President Show.” But we haven’t had many ...
As Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime broadcasts The Ministry ... the very original perspective of its two central characters, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, is a tour-de-force of imagination and ...
James Joyce's Leopold Bloom--the atheistic Everyman of Ulysses, son of a Hungarian Jewish father and an Irish Protestant mother--may have turned the world's literary eyes on Dublin, but those who look ...
The first Bloomsday - named after Leopold Bloom - celebrated in Ireland was ... and Patrick Kavanagh visited various locations from the book. In June 1962, the James Joyce Museum was opened ...
Plus, many of them trace the steps that Leopold Bloom took in the book. Landmarks in Dublin where people normally go to celebrate include Davy Byrne's pub and Glasnevin Cemetary. But before that ...
Sandymount Strand serves as the setting for both the third episode Proteus and the 13th episode Nausicaa in the book. The most controversial scene in the novel takes place here as Leopold Bloom ...
Ulysses is a book many of the R4 audience always meant ... Two characters, Stephen Dedalus (an agnostic ex-Catholic) and Leopold Bloom (a Jew), both outsiders in the traditional Irish sense ...
We stared at the Book of Kells, an illuminated 1,200-year ... Davy Byrnes is where Leopold Bloom, in Joyce’s Ulysses, partook of a “Gorgonzola sandwich and a glass of Burgundy.” ...
The Long Room in the library at Trinity College, where Beckett received his bachelor’s degree in 1927 and played on the cricket team. The sprawling, venerable Hodges Figgis bookstore may be Dublin’s ...
From Temple Bar to the Book of Kells, the Irish capital has its fair share of iconic attractions, but you’ll find just as much magic elsewhere — in its thriving music scene, new breed of after-hour ...