Irish author James Joyce’s groundbreaking novel Ulysses was published one hundred years ago, in 1922. Since that time hundreds, if not thousands, of books. Ulysses: A Reader’s Odyssey is beautifully formatted and includes high quality photographs and a helpful bibliography for readers wanting to learn more. Mulhall generously quotes many passages from Ulysses and thereby enables readers to savor Joyce’s uniquely poetic prose. Anecdotes about the songs that characters sing and the businesses they visit enliven Mulhall’s text and also demonstrate the amazing degree to which Joyce faithfully recorded his beloved Dublin. As Mulhall observes, “No other writer managed, or even attempted, such a lavishly forensic portrait of Ireland, and that is why, especially for Irish people, reading Ulysses is an invaluable adventure.” With his deep knowledge of Irish literature and culture and his lifetime of experience with Irish history and politics, Mulhall is the ideal guide to the novel’s Irish settings and characters. While Joyce’s astonishing novel is quite international in its references and appeal, it is also profoundly Irish. Ireland’s ambassador to the United States, Daniel Mulhall, has written a warm, wise and highly enjoyable introduction to James Joyce’s classic modernist novel Ulysses. Ireland’s ambassador to the United States, Daniel Mulhall, has written a warm, wise and highly enjoyable introduction to James Joyce’s classic modernist n.
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