”Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.” So begins June 16, 1904, the day on which James Joyce’s modernist masterpiece Ulysses is set. One hundred years on Ireland is marking the anniversary with a five-month-long, 50-event festival.
When Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela turns 85 on July 18, one of his well-wishers will be the long-time Irish chaplain to the prison where he spent 18 years.
The alleged commander of an Irish Republican Army (IRA) breakaway group responsible for Northern Ireland’s worst act of bloodshed went on trial on Wednesday in a case unprecedented, on two counts, in Ireland’s legal history.