Calls to go on Joycean odyssey

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

As fans of Joyce celebrated Bloomsday in Dublin, 80-year-old Ken Monaghan warned that his famous uncle’s works should not just be left to university dons and students to pore over.

“I don’t think he is read much anymore. He’s not just for academics. Ordinary people should pick up works like Ulysses or Dubliners and explore them for themselves,” Mr Monaghan said in Dublin’s James Joyce Centre.