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Ready to embark on an epic literary adventure or maybe just learn what all the Ulysses buzz is about? Join your Ulysses80 team – Cliona O'Farrelly and Mark Sanford Gross – as we delve into James Joyce's Ulysses!
Starting June 1st, 2025, we're reading "Ulysses In 80 Days," finishing August 19th. Expect insightful discussions on the journey, fun detours, and recaps of our weekly chats with scholars, cultural experts, authors, and more. Never feel alone or frustrated in your own Ulysses journey. Whether you're a curious newcomer, a literary hobbyist, or a devoted Ulysses fan, tune in and enrich your experience! We're thrilled to have you.
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Clare Hutton joins Mark Sanford Gross and Cliona O’Farrelly for the final conversation in the 2026 Speakers Series, part of Ulysses in 80’s annual 80-day global reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses. A leading Joyce scholar and author of Serial Encounters: Ulysses and the Little Review, Clare brings us back to the extraordinary story of how Ulysses first reached its readers — and to the women who helped bring Joyce’s novel into the world. The conversation moves through the history of Ulysses, its ...
In this episode of Ulysses in 80, Mark Sanford Gross and Cliona O’Farrelly are joined by Daniel Mulhall, former Irish Ambassador to the United States and author of Ulysses: A Reader’s Odyssey. Mulhall comes to Ulysses first and foremost as a reader—one who has returned to Joyce’s novel throughout a diplomatic career that took him around the world. The conversation moves from his own roots in Ulysses to Ireland then and now, identity, tolerance, and why he believes Joyce’s century-old novel re...
Mark Sanford Gross and Cliona O'Farrelly are joined by Daragh O'Connell, Associate Professor of Italian at University College Cork and Director of the Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland, for a lively journey between Dante and Joyce—and some of the surprising places where their worlds meet. From Ulysses' extraordinary final voyage in Dante's Inferno to the echoes that surface in Joyce's Ulysses, the conversation wanders through Homer, Circe, Dante's famous "midway" opening, and the little nug...
As readers journey into the final third of James Joyce's Ulysses, Professor Joseph Valente joins Ulysses in 80 for a thoughtful conversation exploring identity, belonging, nation, and the enduring humanity at the heart of Joyce's masterpiece. Together, we discuss Leopold Bloom, Joyce's treatment of Jewishness, questions of gender and sexuality, the complexities of nationalism, and why Ulysses continues to challenge—and reward—readers more than a century after its publication. Rather than offe...
What happens when Ulysses leaves the page and steps onto the stage? This week, Mark Sanford Gross and Cliona O'Farrelly welcome acclaimed Irish playwright, journalist, and historian Colin Murphy for a wide-ranging conversation about James Joyce, theatre, and the remarkable legal battle that transformed Ulysses from a banned novel into one of the world's most celebrated works of literature. Colin discusses his acclaimed play, The United States Versus Ulysses, the famous 1933 obscenity trial, w...
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