In one hundred short essays David Collard navigates James Joyce’s astonishing cultural legacy in the century since the publication of Ulysses in 1922.

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Read an excerpt on RTÉ. 

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Some of the 100 essays in this rowdy exhibit hall offer intriguing trivia; others provide literary insights, and readers of all interest levels will find something unexpected to contemplate. We may already know that Joyce wrote stories, plays and novels, one of which, “Ulysses,” is considered by many to be “the greatest novel of all full stop.”  But were we aware that the Italian perfumer Mirko Buffini created a fragrance collection based on “Finnegans Wake”? Or that Joyce favored Borsalino hats, worn today by the likes of John Malkovich and Nicole Kidman? What has “Moby-Dick” got to do with Joyce, and why is that hyphen in the title? Collard will fill you in. These short essays exude infectious delight for a universe of such arcana.

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‘Frequently bloody hilarious […] I cannot recommend this delightful, unusual work highly enough. Bravissimo.’                                (Anne Cunningham, Meath Chronicle)

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'Multiple Joyce has shot to the top of my favourite Joycean books […] absorbing, upfront, funny, erudite, and charming.’     (Nuala O’Connor, Books, Ireland)

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This year being the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, there has been a flurry of new books and republications […] But to my mind David Collard’s Multiple Joyce is the most joyful and the most Joycean […] There is a real pleasure in reading a book about Joyce that actually makes you laugh.  (Stuart Kelly, The Spectator)

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‘How heartening is Collard’s confident and spirited love of literature—of reading, of books!’ 
                                  (Barry Spurr, Quadrant)

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‘What more could you possibly want to read on June 16th, Bloomsday, apart from the novel itself?’  

                                   (Richard Clegg, Bookmunch)

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‘Multiple Joyce is a tour de force of curiosity.’

                                   (Melissa McCarthy, author)

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‘… brilliantly idiosyncratic and richly digressive…’         

                                    (Jonathan Gibbs, author)

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‘… it fizzes and astonishes at every turn…’

                                    (John Mitchinson, publisher)

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Watch a five star review by American blogger Chris Via:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HivwpWEm8Ms

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pub date: 16th June 2022
$21.95 | 378 pages
isbn: 978-1-952386-32-9 (paperback)
Cover design by Anne Marie Hantho