James Joyce

Books and topics

• Falling Through the Universe
• The Dead

Profile highlights

• He contributed to the modernist movement and is regarded among the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
• Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness.
• Filmmaker Sé Merry Doyle drops into the Book Bag to discuss his documentaries on Irish cultural themes: art and architecture, James Joyce, WB Yeats and especially his collaboration with the late, great Irish poet Niall McDevitt.