NUALA O'CONNOR

Tag: Ulysses

  • ULYSSES 100 EVENTS

    I’m busy, naturally, as we get closer to the Ulysses 100 anniversary on 2.2.22, so here are a few of the events & things you can catch me at: 22nd January 2022 – I have a piece about the background to writing Ulysses – how life was for Nora and Joyce – in the Irish…

  • NORA & OTHER EVENTS – LATE ’21

    I have several events coming up, many around my novel NORA, which was published here in Ireland in April with New Island Books, so I thought I’d do a preview/round-up list: 12th Sep, 9am GMT: SUNDAY MISCELLANY: I’ll be on RTÉ Radio 1 on Sunday morning with a radio essay about my relationship with my…

  • NORA & Bloomsday 2021

    NORA and I will be doing several events for Bloomsday 2021. Ahead of Bloomsday I was interviewed by Chiara Liberio for Radio Dublino on 90.3FM. The piece is here at 16 minutes in. For Bloomsday, Elisabetta D’Erme interviews me for Il Piccolo, the newspaper in Trieste, Italy, that Joyce wrote for, about Joyce, Nora, and…

  • Sunday Miscellany – Nora as Goose

    My radio essay about Nora Barnacle, James Joyce, and geese, on today’s Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, is now on the RTÉ website. My bit starts around 11:11 – listen at this link.

  • 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.

  • 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…