Not just another Irish face: Danielle Galligan conquers Netflix

By Michael Roddy Danielle Galligan is a familiar Irish face for Netflix fans, having played Lady Olivia Hedges, wife of Irish brewing mogul Arthur Guinness, in the streamer's hit “House of Guinness” and a major role in the YA sci-fi series “Shadow and Bone”. She also was among the cast of thousands for “Game of…Read more Not just another Irish face: Danielle Galligan conquers Netflix

Joyce’s “The Dead” Lives On…

  DUBLIN - One of my most daunting challenges of recent years has been preparing an introduction to James Joyce's famous short story "The Dead" for a 30-strong Irish Joyce reading group that meets at Tom Fitzgerald's pub in Glasthule of a Wednesday morning. This is the last of the 15 stories in Joyce's short-story…Read more Joyce’s “The Dead” Lives On…

Joyce’s “joke bombs” get a late laugh

DUBLIN - Bloomsday came early to Dublin this year with an exhibition by the Irish artist Elaine Byrne including videos unraveling two of the hidden joke bombs in James Joyce's "Ulysses" -- one of them deeply impenetrable because it is in Hungarian. Dublin gets into full Bloomsday mode this weekend, leading up to the June…Read more Joyce’s “joke bombs” get a late laugh