John Shevlin as James Joyce, unveiling two new stamps created by An Post to celebrate the centenary of the publication of Joyce’s celebrated book Ulysses. There is a kind of snobbery that went with ownership of Joyce at one point and I think people found that prohibitive in a way.”Īs writer and scholar Declan Kiberd previously noted, Joyce made a point of giving presents of Ulysses to hotel porters and waiters - “his book was for, as well as about, the common man”. "He saw it as a text for everyone, and also as the great novel of Dublin, and he wanted people there to read it. Joyce himself wrote of Ulysses: “I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.”Īccording to Fogarty, the author may have been prescient in how Ulysses would come to be studied and pored over in the field of academia but it didn’t reflect his own wishes for the book.
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