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, ...

U 10.651-3: Bang of the lastlap bell spurred the halfmile wheelmen to their sprint. J. A. Jackson, W. E. Wylie, A. Munro and H. T. Gahan, their stretched necks wagging, negotiated the curve by the ...

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 first issue of the James Joyce Online Notes was published at the end of September 2011. Since then, we have published a range of new articles every few weeks and these (plus a further 21 entirely ...

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 3.230-4: M. Drumont, famous journalist, Drumont, know what he called queen Victoria? Old hag with the yellow teeth. Vieille ogresse with the dents jaunes. In spite of Kevin Egan's clear ...

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 ...

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.

U 8.600-3: Where Pat Kinsella had his Harp theatre before Whitbred ran the Queen's. Broth of a boy. Dion Boucicault business with his harvestmoon face in a poky bonnet. Three Purty Maids from School.

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 ...

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 ...