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Today is the 100th anniversary of Yukio Mishima's birth and I am delighted to reveal the cover for my book on his absolutely extraordinary novels. Out in September!

Congratulations to the PhD candidate in Gaza whose PhD I examined today, online. A fine piece of work. A PhD is hard in normal circumstances. When your teachers, supervisor & Vice Chancellor are all murdered during scholasticide, the process is unimaginably difficult. أهنئك

I have a geeky new article up on James Joyce Online Notes about Dawson's speech in 'Aeolus'; plus I get to cite Peter Cook! jjon.org/joyce-s-allusi…

'How many! All these here once walked around Dublin. Faithful departed’. Leopold Bloom. So long Marianne.

Today, with @faberbooks, we are proud to announce The Poems of Seamus Heaney, edited by Bernard O'Donoghue & Rosie Lavan with Matthew Hollis. This landmark volume will celebrate SH's life in poetry, including his 12 original collections, and uncollected poems. Out 9th October

We know that tax breaks for developers and sweetheart deals for vulture funds are not the answer. Our motion in the Dáil tomorrow will set out how to increase the delivery of affordable homes. If you want to support this, contact your TDs and ask them to back our motion.

Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

Congratulations to Doireann Ní Gríofa, winner of the #Francophonie Ambassadors Literary Award in Ireland for her book ‘A Ghost in the Throat’! A tribute to a splendid work and its subtle #translation into French by Elisabeth Peellaert. 🌟 #Literature #LiteraryAward

🎞️🎞️🎞️Ulysses On Soviet Celluloid - a lecture by Yuri Leving, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University at Trinity on March 11th in the Arts Building!

The School of English at Trinity College Dublin, is hiring! We are looking for a postcolonial scholar who can also teach American literature. Please spread the word! my.corehr.com/pls/trrecruit/…

Happy St Patrick’s Day ☘️

🎥👑Professor Andrew Murphy in conversation with Conleth Hill and Fiona Bell, stars of King Lear at The Gate Theatre. Watch as they discuss their characters, the script, the process of performing and understanding Shakespeare - and more! youtube.com/watch?v=DQWIbA…

This just in: highly recommended

Have you ever gotten your copy of Ulysses stamped at the Tower? We’d love to see / share them if you have a photo #jamesjoyce #joycetower #dublin

.Seán Hewitt meditates on writing fiction inspired by folk music and its constant, changing repository of stories. lithub.com/the-timeless-t…

I spoke to some booksellers about the arrival of Amazon's Irish website and what it might mean for them (link in next post)

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BILL MURRAY as 'Nick the lounge singer' sings Star Wars on Saturday Night Live, in 1978.

Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, and Literary Biography: a talk by Zachary Leader, Trinity Long Room Hub, 5.00pm, 15 May Trinity Long Room Hub #JamesJoyce James Joyce Gazette

My column this week is about two recent images of horror, and what they mean for us all