In 1983 Tim Ahern published Finnegans Wake, Chapter One, The Illness Traited Colossick Edition, an imaginative and idiosyncratic illumination of Joyce’s work. In 2011 he followed up with a more ambitious Final Chapter, which included a foreword by Finn Fordham.

January 26, 2023 Lots of emotions! 🗻 You can now preorder my book here: carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexe…

For you modernist radioheads... A simply surreal opportunity TONIGHT to listen to John Cage's "The City Wears a Slouch Hat" (1941) tonight at #BBKartsweek 👇 bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_…

At four she said. #bloomsday #henryflower

Dr Daniel Beer, head of the History department, explains why it is important to study history. Listen to the full round-table discussion ‘Why History Matters: Russia's War Against Ukraine’ on our YouTube channel! youtu.be/0ma1Id_zgxk #RoyalHolloway #RHUL #History

A 'UEA scraps creative writing' story is taking hold. That's not what's happening. UEA Humanities are facing redundancies across many areas that feed a brilliant writing course (including Literature). That's *worse* in the long term because it's a culture / a mindset / a library.

Yes, our holiday last month was punctuated by a v. long queue-delay wait at Dover: all of us an the dog stewing in our car for ages and ages. No, I'm not over it. medium.com/adams-notebook…

It was lovely to welcome our Classics@RHUL first-years and to start learning their first names (the latter is a seriously daunting task!). "Classics", they say, "is cool" and I couldn't agree more. Dr. Liz Gloyn (Photos from our packed Classics social) #Classics

A reminder that the #cfp for our conference on Narratives of Coercive Control York Dept of English is now live here: …cive-control-literature-network.co.uk/blank-4. Please circulate! BAVS British Association for Modernist Studies BAVS Postgrads

Just two days left until Light Moves Festival opens on Thursday, November 9th! 🎉 My two screen installation 'Somewhere in the Body' will screen as part of the festival Limerick Gallery from Nov 9 - Jan 28, 2024. Narrated by the wonderful Finn Fordham! 🎥 Info lightmoves.ie/events/in-the-…

Morning swim done at the beautiful Forty Foot in Sandycove 🇮🇪 with the James Joyce tower in the background. Great way to start the day. Thanks to my friends at An Post for making it happen.

HCE on the BBC radio hour Finn Fordham ‘All of language, all of history, all of relationships focused on a family of publicans into relating to people all around the world’ Plus a fantastic 100 letter thunderword 🌀👏👏👏

Wonderful reading by Paul Lynch from the most cosmic episode of Ulysses, plunging towards the constellation of Hercules.

Approved agricultural pesticides are significantly harming bumble bees, with colonies growing less and producing fewer offspring, according to five-year European-wide research led by Professor Mark Brown Mark Brown from RHUL Biology Royal Holloway royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/news/…

🌙 'Somewhere in the Body' based on Lucia Joyce and Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, continues Limerick Gallery as part of Light Moves Festival until Jan 28, 2024. Featuring VO by Finn Fordham 📽️ ℹ️gallery.limerick.ie/ScreenDance.ht… 📷 Maurice Gunning, LMF, and LCAG. Funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

We've lost Judith Harrington, one of our favorite Joyceans. legacy.com/us/obituaries/…

Maciej Slomczynski spent 12 years translating Ulysses into Polish. He supported himself by writing detective novels as Joe Alex. Published in 1969, his Ulysses sold out instantly. It has an appealing feature: there's a Homeric bow on the cover; inside it’s drawn.

I think one thing remains certain. We can ALL bond over the experience of reading Finnegans Wake for the first time.

‘So This Is Doublong?’ The XXX International James Joyce Symposium will take place at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, from 15–19 June 2026. The lJJF is delighted to announce that the Joyce Symposium for 2026 will be held in Poland in the beautiful city of Kraków.