Joyce's Words: Readers of James Joyce Online Notes will be delighted to know that the comprehensive Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses, edited by Sam Slote, Marc A. Mamigonian, and John Turner, ...

Richard Ellmann’s The Consciousness of Joyce (1977: Appendix, p. 97-134) provides a list consisting principally of “about 600 items which comprise all or nearly all the library that Joyce left behind ...

The fourth issue of the James Joyce Online Notes contains thirty-one articles, each of which seeks to elucidate some aspect of the people, environment, language, and allusions which form the backdrop ...

The Words pages examine Joyce's vocabulary not so much to celebrate an individualistic and exuberant wordsmith, but in search of the sources of his language. In the same way that Joyce plucks ...

To Joyce's early readers, his allusions were often snippets of shared experience - snatches of song, newspaper headlines, ephemeral literature with which he and his contemporaries were familiar.

U 4.525-6: Morning after the bazaar dance when May's band played Ponchielli's dance of the hours. Technically Don Gifford (Ulysses Annotated, p. 81) is right to say that May’s band was a band ...

U 6.851-2: Devil in that picture of sinner's death showing him a woman. Dying to embrace her in his shirt. So far no picture has come to light in commentaries on Ulysses that corresponds to Bloom's ...

The aim of JJON is to provide a forum for the publication of documentary evidence that helps to elucidate the network of cross-reference and allusion on which Joyce’s fiction is based. There are ...

U 15.1692-7: No more patriotism of barspongers and dropsical impostors. Free money, free rent, free love and a free lay church in a free lay state. When Joyce wrote the so-called “Messianic scene” ...

Research has shown that virtually all the characters in Joyce's fiction are based (to a greater or lesser degree) on real people who lived in and around Dublin at the turn of the nineteenth century.

It was, indeed, Mrs. Candy; won to the imprudence by the strong weakness of love, she had prompted her maid to touch upon the future fate of her mistress, herself hid the while among the bushes.

U 6.787-9: The one about the bulletin. Spurgeon went to heaven 4 a.m. this morning. 11 p.m. (closing time). Not arrived yet. Peter. A freethinking rationalist, Foote found Spurgeon's rigid doctrines ...