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Tag Archives: james joyce
From the Dubliners Bookshelf
The current James Joyce exhibit, now on display through October 8th at the Burns Library, focuses on Joyce’s Dubliners and the books referenced in Dubliners. Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories about the inhabitants and environment of Dublin … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Projects, Exhibits & Events, Irish Studies, Rare books
Tagged arthur machen, bloomsday, bulwer-lytton, burns library, catechism, Catholic Church, dubliners bookshelf, friedrich nietzsche, grant richards, irish collections, james joyce, Last Days of Pompeii, Lord Lytton, Nietzsche, publication history, unhemmed as it is uneven
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Bloomsday at the Burns Library
“In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!” Finnegans Wake, I.5.104 In celebration of Bloomsday, the Burns Library is … Continue reading
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Bloomsday: The First Edition of Ulysses
On July 11, 1920 Irish author James Joyce met Sylvia Beach, an American transplant to Paris who had opened a bookshop called Shakespeare and Company a little under a year before. Shakespeare and Company served as the central social, literary, … Continue reading
