News about James Joyce

The 'golden era' of 1p flights (plus tax) when low-cost airlines began in the 1990s is long gone and, sadly, a good proportion of Europe's 800 cities are now painfully pricey. But there are still dozens of destinations prime for exploring on a very tight budget. We've picked the best bargain breaks (with flights and hotels for less than £100pp for two nights this autumn) and included a guide to the cities' affordable attractions, as well as the best restaurants and bars serving 88p pints of beer and £3.50 bottles of wine.

Neil Clark explores the often derided beachside spot. He says: 'With so many rundown traditional seaside towns it was refreshing to visit somewhere that's received some TLC.' He says: 'This is a lovely part of the world.' Read on to discover more...

With her tumbling auburn hair, green eyes, alabaster skin and seductive Irish brogue, Edna O'Brien was as glamorous as any of the women whose lives filled the pages of her best-selling novels. But there was one critical difference: a delicious aura of scandal and intrigue clung to the writer, who has died at the age of 93. Right up until old age she remained a spell-binding femme fatale about whom men, captivated by her beauty, were inclined to tell tall tales. For women, she was celebrated not just for the vividness of her prose but also for challenging conventions about their role - and particularly about sex.

One of Ireland's top independent boys' schools is seeking to capitalise on the British government 's plan to add VAT to UK private school fees.The Labour Party has said it plans to slap the 20 percent charge on fees as early as September next year. Its aim is to raise £1.5billion a year to recruit 6,500 specialist teachers for state schools and fund mental health support in every school.

Mothers love their children; they'll do anything for them. That's what we're told. But I don't believe my mother ever loved me. She certainly didn't seem to care for me - or my three younger siblings - the way other mothers did. She never hugged us or showed us affection. It wasn't until I had my son, now 28, that I realised what maternal love should look like. Instinctively, I knew I would die for him. On the other hand, my mother - who died eight years ago - made me feel unlovable. For her, I was never good enough.

The Vaccines may have become standard bearers for a slew of British guitar music in the 12 years since they debuted their second album, Come Of Age, but they haven't managed to shaken off their commitment to the folk scene's storytelling traditions. However, Pink Carnations' Pick-Up Full is an album that will debut in 2024.

Author James Patterson will re-read James Joyce's books on a desert island.

]I'm looking forward to this evening: sitting in an old Irish pub in Dublin dressed in my favorite cozy knit and sipping a glass of Guinness.

Now the Irish Embassy in Paris has contacted the authorities in the hopes of having the wording on the plaque, which is pictured correctly, changed. Although Joyce, left, appeared at many addresses in Dublin, Paris, Trieste, Zurich, and elsewhere, the apartment at 71 Rue du Cardinal Lemoine, which is adjacent to the city's Latin Quarter, is considered particularly noteworthy because it is where he wrote a large part of his masterpiece, Ulysses, from which he was born.

Google wants to enable its latest chatbot to search user photos and internet search histories. 'Project Ellmann,' is a'multimodal' ChatGPT rival's Gemini (pictured), which can recognize not only text, but also images, video, and audio. 'We trawl through your photos, looking at their tags and locations to identify a meaningful moment,' boasted the confidential documents presented at a recent internal Google summit

Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has branded the initiative to combat unlawful immigration as immoral, but it falls short of offering a positive alternative, prompting the government to do more to assist Ukrainian refugees last year. Despite grand quarters at Lambeth Palace and his Canterbury Old Palace, there is no sign of Justin giving up a room or two for homeless Ukrainians. During the 2016 Syrian refugee crisis, he did house a Syrian family in a'spare' four-bedroom cottage in Lambeth, but two years later, they were forced to move forward. Life in Lambeth was not'suitable' for a refugee family, according to an episcopal mouthpiece, whatever that means.

Gabrielle Carey, co-author of Puberty Blues alongside Kathy Lette, died suddenly at the age of 64. There are no suspicious circumstances surrounding her burial. Carey wrote a number of books, but she was most recently writing a book about Irish writer James Joyce.

According to a report, a strong storm that struck 120 years ago delivered some of the highest winds ever recorded in the UK. Many weather reports from before 1950 are now held in archives and being studied and digitized to provide a more complete picture of Britain's weather. During this process, researchers from the University of Reading discovered that 'Storm Ulysses' is one of the top four most popular ever to have struck England and Wales. The cyclone passed through eastern Ireland and northern England between February 26 and 27, 1903, killing multiple people and destroying buildings and ships. Its name derives from the James Joyce book, which is set in the year 2000, and it tells of the destruction of thousands of trees in Dublin, Ireland.

Louise Kennedy would bring a copy of James Joyce's Ulysses to a desert island. Una Mannion's second novel Tell Me What I Am.

The Big Four banks in the United Kingdom's Big Four banks have had a mixed reporting season - NatWest, Barclays, Lloyds, and HSBC. Forget the profits; city types will be well aware that the lenders have all updated their annual reports and accounts. They are all hefty tomes. Poor retail investors are eager to learn more about the banks and then have to wade through it all. They should wonder where to begin.

Susie Dent (pictured) is re-reading Louis MacNeice's most popular collection of poetry. The Oxford English Dictionary will be transported from a desert island by the television star. Thursday's Child by Noel Streatfeild let her imagination fly when she was young

In Pula, Eve McGowan sees one of the world's best preserved amphitheatres, visits Rovinj's 'Disney-pretty' town and stays in a chic waterfront cabin at Arena One 99 Glamping, where 'everything for a relaxed holiday is close at hand.' She finds that the region, which is just a two-hour drive from Trieste, Italy, has a strong Italian influence. 'Whilst the majority of visitors to Istria are Italian, German, Slovenian, and Dutch visitors who can drive or land by sea, it wouldn't be a better time for British visitors to dip a toe in the Adriatic,' she says.

Patrick McCabe, the Irish author of The Butcher Boy and The Dead School, explains Poguemahone. Poguemahone, an anglicization of the Irish word "póg mo thóin", which means "kiss my a**"), is a book about an Irish brother and sister who are living in England. Dan, the brother and unreliable narrator, shifts the focus between a squat in Kilburn, north London, and a care home in Margate, where his sister Una is living with dementia. The free-verse writing is robust, rumbunctious, and occasionally come out-loud funny. I'm also reading an early copy of The Madness, Fergal Keane's account of living with post-traumatic stress disorder. In October, it will be published as a powerful, moving tale about a man struggling to remain afloat.

PHILIP NORMAN: For decades, employees in dispute with their managers went on strike or 'worked to rule,' a term that is often described as a "gooslow." In the 1970s, however, they became increasingly identified as 'taking industrial action,' a term that was both self-righteous and duplicit, since reaction today corresponded to inaction.

Vince Cable (pictured) has just finished reading The Women Of Troy by Pat Barker. Tolstoy or Dostoevsky would be taken by the UK politician to a desert island. He says that he was always bookish and grew up before TV offered alternatives