Margaret Nolan, Director of Grá Festival, explains: “Nora Barnacle was James Joyce’s muse, his great love, and an essential ...

James Joyce was a rather more filial son than Stephen ... Parnell's death soon afterward was the occasion of Joyce's first literary effort--a poem echoed in "Ivy Day in the Committee Room ...

The challenge of serial publication gave Joyce a real momentum in his writing ... The magazine championed the poetry of the ‘Imagists’ including Ezra Pound who at the time of publication ...