Thirteen ink drawings on display at the James Joyce Centre in 2015 were produced in 2014 by the American illustrator Robert Berry to mark the centenary of James Joyce’s Dubliners. The drawings were commissioned by the James Joyce Centre to accompany a special edition of ‘The Dead’ produced by the fine art publishing house Stoney […]
Joyce also turned his hand to theatre and, inspired by the work of Henrik Ibsen, produced Exiles in 1914. Exiles features many of the themes that pop up repeatedly in Joyce’s work but, unlike A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man and Ulysses (between which Exiles was produced), never managed to attain the […]
Although not renowned for his poetry, Joyce’s work in this area is accomplished. Chamber Music is a collection of thirty-six poems, all accessible to the Joycean novice. Chamber Music is essentially a collection of love poems written in different styles, composed and revised between 1901 and 1906. Elkin Mathews of London published the first edition […]
Finnegans Wake, Joyce’s final work, was created over a period of sixteen years with composition starting in 1923. It was finally completed and published in May 1939. Like all of Joyce’s works Finnegans Wake was dogged by publication controversy. The obscurity of the text meant that many lost faith in his last artistic venture, finding […]
In this novel, Joyce sets forth the childhood, adolescence and early manhood of Stephen Dedalus, a character who represents his own alter ego in both A Portrait and Ulysses. He travels through Stephen’s mind and soul allowing us to experience his mental and spiritual development whilst witnessing the physical changes he goes through as he […]
