NUALA O'CONNOR

Tag: James Joyce

  • PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (P)REVIEWS NORA

    I’m pleased with this (p)review of NORA, from Publisher’s Weekly: O’Connor (Becoming Belle) expands on her Granta award-winning short story, “Gooseen” in this poignant, comprehensive portrait of Nora Barnacle as a young woman, mother, and literary inspiration for the Molly Bloom character in Ulysses. Nora and James Joyce’s inseparable attachment begins in Dublin on June…

  • THE MARYS – ESSAY AT *CRAFT*

    I have a new essay today at Craft called ‘The Marys’. It’s about my lifelong love of Holy Mary statues, their meaning to me, Ulysses, Ireland in 1985, and the legacy of Catholicism. Read it here.

  • NORA BARNACLE – essay

    Nuala has an essay about Nora Barnacle and James Joyce’s first meeting on the 10th June 1904, and the days that followed, at RTÉ Culture today. Read it here.

  • NEW NOVEL ANNOUNCED

    Publishers Marketplace, aka PubLunch, announced my new novel about the wondrous Nora Barnacle today, so I can too. Delighted!

  • INTERVIEW – JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY

    Nuala recently won The James Joyce Quarterly fiction contest, which asked writers to submit their own version of the short story ‘Ulysses’ that Joyce had considered adding to his collection Dubliners. The journal interviews Nuala about her story, and her connection to Joyce, today. (The story is not available online, only in the hard copy journal which can…

  • ‘GOOSEEN’ SHORTLISTED – SHORT STORY OF THE YEAR

    I’m delighted that my short story about Nora Barnacle, ‘Gooseen’, is shortlisted for Short Story of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards. You can read all of the stories at writing.ie and vote for your favourite there, or at the #APIBAS site, which also has all the shortlisted books. Winners will be…