Highlight of this year’s Bloomsday Festival is a revival of CoisCéim Dance Theatre’s multisensory Go to Blazes, and Joyce himself would be delighted with the varied programme on offer

Several theatrical productions mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses this week, among them a Barry McGovern reading and a re-enactment of the book’s trial for obscenity in the US

The now largely forgotten figure of John Munro Woolsey was instrumental in getting one of literature’s greatest ever works into publication in the US