READERS may well have found the novel that captures the spirit of Ireland’s post-Celtic Tiger recession in Paul Murray’s The Mark and the Void, set in Dublin two years after “the collapse of Lehman Brothers finally ignited the bonfire that was the Irish economy”.

The day named after Leopold Bloom, the central character in Ulysses, is being celebrated in Dublin this weekend.

Here’s a round up of some of the best festival line-up’s country-wide, from Ailin Quinlan.

The apparent impenetrability of Finnegans Wake ensures it is ignored by most readers. Alan O’Riordan meets a number of people hoping to address this neglect.

Joycean scholars will step back in time today, to June 16, 1904, to be precise.

The Irish actor, Milo O’Shea, has died after a short illness.

Actor Milo O'Shea has passed away.

WHAT have apple trees, the Celtic Tiger, James Joyce, and innovative food products got in common?

THIS year, James Joyce’s works came out of copyright.

An internet initiative is putting the tradition of storytelling back on the map, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

HERE’S a tale of two cities, and two men, and how the more things change, the more often they stay the same.

Three sales show strong interest among buyers for art, reports Des O’Sullivan

Joyceans all over the world are celebrating Bloomsday today, commemorating the day on which James Joyce's seminal 'Ulysses' is set.

THE Portuguese Tourist Board has combined with PAB Tours to sell three special deals this year, one of them with an Irish theme of sorts.

ON some mornings last week the slight chill in the air and the golden sunlight would make one believe autumn, “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”, had already arrived.

Several events are being organised in Dublin to mark Bloomsday, the day on which James Joyce set his masterpiece 'Ulysses'.

The writings of James Joyce will today be celebrated in the 103rd annual Bloomsday.

A first edition of James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses sold at auction in London yesterday for £30,000 (€43,500).

A HISTORIC First Folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays was yesterday snapped up by a book dealer for €4 million (£2.8m) at auction.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today said it was fitting the country’s former leader Charles Haughey would be laid to rest on Bloomsday, the annual celebration of James Joyce.

Hundreds of fans of James Joyce are expected to descend on Dublin this Bloomsday to taste the traditional Ulysses fare of kidneys, thick giblet soup and fried liver slices.

A COPY of James Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses, yesterday sold for €107,000 at an auction in London.

A copy of James Joyce masterpiece, Ulysses, today sold for €107,000 at an auction in London.

A new generation of readers should embrace the books of Dublin writer James Joyce, his elderly nephew claimed yesterday.

Organisers of the annual Bloomsday event toasting James Joyce’s once-banned book, Ulysses have called for urgent Government funding to keep going.

A dramatisation of the 1998 Omagh bombings which left 29 people dead was among five films nominated for a prestigious Irish award tonight.

Louise Hogan

TUCKING into a major work of literature for breakfast is like facing a plateful of giblets, gizzards and other assorted innards a tad on the heavy side in the delicate hours of morning.

THE tall young man surveyed the sweep of city streets before him as he stood on O’Connell Bridge considering his next step in the footprints of Leopold Bloom.

Hundreds of people from all over the world tucked into a traditional Bloomsday breakfast in honour of James Joyce in Dublin today.

Thousands of people will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday today, the date made famous by James Joyce’s novel Ulysses.

BRACE yourself, it’s Bloomsday.

James Joyce, who had a love-hate relationship with Dublin, will be remembered by thousands of people in the capital tomorrow.

Dublin's O'Connell Street has been transformed into a picnic area this morning, with thousands of free breakfasts being given away.

MORE than 130,000 James Joyce enthusiasts will be able to pore over rare, unshackled manuscripts from the literary giant.

IT’S a literary work so daunting in scale and reputation that just one filmmaker has ever had the courage to adapt Ulysses for the big screen

Efforts are under way to introduce a one-off special public holiday next year to mark one of Ireland’s most celebrated literary figures.

Dublin was today celebrating Bloomsday – the 24 hours when Leopold Bloom, the hero of James Joyce’s Ulysses masterpiece, roamed through the streets of the Irish capital.

The shooting of Ulysses in and around Dublin has been completed, following its five-week schedule under writer-producer-director Sean Walsh.

The publishers of a cleaned up "reader-friendly" edition of James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses were today accused in court of copyright infringement and "passing-off".