James Joyce gazes earnestly from the wall of a parking lot in Buffalo, N.Y, but why?

Join us, on the 144th anniversary of Joyce’s birth, for a talk by Joyce enthusiast and intrepid traveller Mike Roddy. He will give a presentation on his trip last September to the University of Buffalo, which claims to have the largest archive of Joyce’s works, papers and paraphernalia in the world, and to Philadelphia, which has Joyce’s handwritten manuscript copy of his most famous novel, “Ulysses”.

Mike Roddy is a retired journalist who worked for 30 years for Reuters, in delightful places like Cyprus and Hungary but also more often than he likes to admit in war zones. In retirement he has become a volunteer at the Joyce Tower in Sandycove, is a regular attendee of the Joyce reading group that meets at Fitzgerald’s pub in Glasthule, and he is certain that he has more editions of Joyce in Hungarian translation than anyone else in Ireland.

Please come to find out a few things you possibly didn’t know about Ireland’s most famous 20th-century author but, really, we hope, to be entertained. Admission free.