Significant Joycean Dates

Recordings of James Joyce Reading from his Works
Eighty-five years ago, in 1924, the first of two recordings was made of Joyce reading from his work. Read more about the recordings here.

Epiphanies
6 January is the Feast of the Epiphany and Joyce used the name epiphany to describe certain short sketches that he wrote early in life. What follows is a brief examination of Joyce’s epiphanies ...

Margaret Alice (‘Poppie’ – later Sister Mary Gertrude) Joyce
Sunday 18 January 2009 marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Margaret Joyce, Joyce’s eldest sister, known to the family as ‘Poppie.’ To commemorate the occasion, the following is an account of Poppie’s life.

75 Years Since First Authorised American Ulysses !
The first authorised American edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses was published by Random House on Thursday 25 January 1934. The run-up to this publication is an extraordinary story, and the following is an account of how it came about.

Random House 1934 by Stacey Herbert
Sunday 25 January 2009 is the 75th anniversary of the publication of the first authorised edition of Ulysses in the United States. To celebrate this we’ve given below a description of the book by Dr. Stacey Herbert.

Happy Birthday!
2 February 2009 marks the 127th anniversary of James Joyce’s birth. Throughout his life, Joyce was quite superstitious, especially about dates, and he considered coincidences of dates (particularly birthdays) to be good omens. The following is an account of some of those coincidences, contrived and actual.