Nora Barnacle may not have been an artist, but she had a genius for living that made her indispensable to her partner, James Joyce. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century, Joyce honored ...

Brenda Maddox may have been best known for her biography of Nora Barnacle, who inspired some of Irish literature’s most memorable characters, but she crafted what may have been her most resonant line ...

In advance of her appearance at Kinsale Literary Festival, novelist Mary Morrissy talks about her latest speculative tale of Nora Barnacle Mary Morrissy will read at Words by Water: Kinsale Literary ...

On June 10, 1904, James Joyce, who would become one of the 20th century’s greatest, most innovative writers, crossed paths on Dublin’s Nassau Street with Nora Barnacle, a newcomer to the city from ...

On June 16, 1904, a young James Joyce went on his first date with Nora Barnacle, the woman who would eventually become his wife. Years later, Joyce set the action of his novel “Ulysses” on that date, ...

If we’re honest with ourselves, we’re in a bind over the inclination to revive histories of women’s lives, commit them to fiction or celebrate long-forgotten figures. There is much to be celebrated ...

This week, Jay Productions LTD released the original cast album of Jonathan Brielle's critically acclaimed musical "Himself and Nora" about the tumultuous romance of famed writer James Joyce and his ...

I first came across Jonathan Brielle and “River Liffey” in June 2008 when I returned to my hometown of Dublin to report on the festivities surrounding Bloomsday, James Joyce’s magical June 16, 1904, ...

What if James Joyce and his great love had split up at the start? Morrissy’s reimagining is a stylistic tour de force that the man himself would have surely admired In Dublin on 10 June 1904, in ...