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Sam Slote

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Professor, School of English, Trinity College Dublin. Writes about Joyce, Beckett, Modernism. Quondam New Yorker. Co-author of Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses http://bit.ly/3Gngb2L He/him/his

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Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social · Nov 10

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Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social · 21d

No and it's likewise unmodified in Sun chieh Liang's translation from earlier this year

Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social · 21d

Just landed: Congrong Dai’s complete translation of Finnegans Wake

Congrong Dai’s three volume translation of Finnegans Wake

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · Sep 1

Hey look, Donald Trump — the leaders of three countries of 3 billion people got together just to laugh at you! Just imagine the fun they had discussing in detail what an idiot you are. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...

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Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social · Aug 23

Amazing story about the political lunatic fringe in Ireland, so far, mercifully, on the fringes: www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

The new IRB: a band of conspiracy theorists who have set up a parallel Irish ‘government’

This fringe group, drawn from the ranks of anti-lockdown protesters and business people laid low by the crash, have a cabinet, local co-ops and even a network of ‘courts’

www.irishtimes.com

Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social · Jul 31

Robert Wilson, Provocative Playwright and Director, Is Dead at 83 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/t...

Robert Wilson, Provocative Playwright and Director, Is Dead at 83

www.nytimes.com

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Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social · Jul 28

Oh dear, I got my wires crossed! It’s actually September 2026!! Sorry about that folks, and please, those of you holding your breath, stop holding!

Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social · Jul 23

‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ will be published by Oxford University Press on 10 September 2025. Set your watches, mark your calendars, and spread the word!

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Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social · Jul 23

Latest arrival from the University of Florida Press’s James Joyce series: Sensational Joyce by John Gordon

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Jul 15

Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!

Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century cover

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Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social · Jul 15

The James Joyce Society has an excellent programme of events lined up for the next year joycesociety.com/events

Events — James Joyce Society

joycesociety.com

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Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social · Jun 17

Yes I do! I retraced Bloom’s trajectory on Bloomsday 6 years ago (there are some suppositions involved): 22,203 steps

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Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social · Jun 16

A merry Bloomsday to all

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Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social · Jun 12

For any dental issues this Bloomsday – James Joyce guarantees his work to be perfect!

Advertisement for 'J. A. Joyce, dental specialist, 3 Upper O'Connell Street, Dublin'

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Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social · Jun 9

Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century,
edited by Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible, coming soon from @floridapress upf.com/book.asp?id=...

The cover of Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century

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Amy Prendergast @amyprendergast.bsky.social · Jun 4

Funded PhD studentship of €25,000/year for 4 years plus fees available @tcddublin.bsky.social to work with me on Irish women's life writing from the long 18th century! Please spread the word! @ecfjournal.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @clhlwr.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social

Details of funding available for PhD studentship at TCD

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Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social · Jun 2

Agreed: it's the work of a master writer at the top of their game.

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Ulysses80 @ulysses80.bsky.social · May 31

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Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social · May 30

Richard Ellmann in 1959 be like…

Major Partagaz from Andor saying 'It's bad luck G(h)orman'.

Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social · May 18

Axel from KAJ (Sweden's Eurovision entry): does he look more like Joyce or like Kieran Culkin? It's the blue/black or gold/white dress conundrum for 2025.

Axel from KAJ, looking like James Joyce and/or Kieran Culkin

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Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social · May 7

Bargirl, hard at work

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Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social · May 4

Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, and Literary Biography: a talk by Zachary Leader, Trinity Long Room Hub, 5.00pm, 15 May #JamesJoyce @tlrhub.bsky.social

Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce (1959) has been called “the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century.” This talk, by the critic and biographer Zachary Leader, tells the story of the book and its maker, in the process arguing for the artistic claims not only of Ellmann himself, a remarkable man, but of literary biography in general.

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Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social · Apr 18

Power struggles, resignations and Conor McGregor’s toxicity: The fracturing of Ireland’s far right
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Power struggles, resignations and Conor McGregor’s toxicity: The fracturing of Ireland’s far right

The Irish far right is deeply divided, riven by personality clashes and arguments over how to achieve a political breakthrough

www.irishtimes.com

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · Apr 14

✨Q&A with the editors of "Finnegans Wake: Human & Nonhuman Histories"✨

Richard Barlow and I answer your questions about our new volume of essays on non/human bodies & histories in James Joyce's enigmatic final work – available now from @edinburghup.bsky.social!
euppublishingblog.com/2025/04/11/q...

Q&A with the editors of Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories - Edinburgh University Press Blog

A Q&A with the editors of Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories, a new essay collection on the work of Irish author James Joyce.

euppublishingblog.com

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Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social · Apr 14

This just in: highly recommended

Niall Ó Cuileagáin, James Joyce, Rural Ireland and Modernity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025)

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Monster-Theory Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social · Apr 10

I honestly think the “Ahab destroys the Pequod bc the White Whale bit his leg off” is pretty much perfectly reflected in “Trump destroys America bc Obama made fun of him at an event.”

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Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social · Apr 9

New Pynchon in October!

Description of Shadow Ticket, the new novel by Thomas Pynchon

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