Finn Fordham

@CheetahBlack @left_plain @DumbDumDumbDum1 Lucky you!

@left_plain @DumbDumDumbDum1 I'm teaching FW next week. Can't wait. Always a blast.

My brilliant colleague Will Boast Wins the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction ugapress.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/wil… via @ugapress

Remarkable and courageous stuff

‘So This Is Doublong?’ The XXX International James Joyce Symposium will take place at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, from 15–19 June 2026. The lJJF is delighted to announce that the Joyce Symposium for 2026 will be held in Poland in the beautiful city of Kraków.

@StapletonAine @artscouncil_ie @projectarts @DanceIreland Good to see this is happening!

Somewhere in the Body screens at Solstice Arts #MeathMovesGathering 28 June, 11 am The film examines Lucia Joyce’s influence on Finnegans Wake, featuring dance artists Katy Vickers & Colin Dunne, with voiceover by @FinnFordham @artscouncil_ie @projectarts @DanceIreland

@bernardtjoy Herbert ‘The Collar’ ‘I struck the board and cried “No more! I will abroad!’ etc.

Which poem is your favourite in the whole world to recite out loud?

@AmericanGwyn Excellent to see Ben Hopkins great CATHEDRAL there. Should be better known!

FAVORITE NOVELS THAT DEAL WITH FAITH: 1. GILEAD, Marilynne Robinson 2. PALE FIRE, Nabokov 3. CATHEDRAL, Ben Hopkins 4. THE BOOKS OF JACOB, Tokarczuk 5. THE NAMES, DeLillo 6. LIGHT IN AUGUST, Faulkner 7. OUTER DARK, McCarthy 8. WISE BLOOD, O’Connor 9. THE BROTHERS K, Dostoevsky

@husainhusaini Thanks for coming @husainhusaini and sharing the food, the beer, the snow, and the conszonantść with me.

Krakow is lovely. Thanks @FinnFordham

@mrmarksteel Founder of Yale University is buried in St Giles church!

Here’s the big question of the year - what does anyone know about WREXHAM???

@johnstonglenn How great! And on Nora’s birthday 🎂 🗿🎉😜

Statues of James and Nora Joyce have been unveiled in Dublin. They are said to show them “in a dignified pose, reflecting their grace, steadfastness and lifelong dedication to public service” and he tired me out with statues encouraging him making him worse than he is - Ulysses

@dodgsonwood @rosammat @lukejsherlock Can confirm! Excellent place to curl up and read: instantly onto the fells and also a pub (stocked with good books) less than an hours walk away.

@rosammat @lukejsherlock It’s the tradition round here, to white wash the outside and inside, it helps keep the rain out

A few weeks ago we stayed in this 15th and 16th century cottage. This is what we found 🧵:

@pollyhember 2 pages of finnegans wake p558.33 onward. Written in 1924/5. ‘Closeup’ etc. and of course JJ opened Ireland’s first cinema in 1909. thebioscope.net/2007/05/06/vis…

I think one thing remains certain. We can ALL bond over the experience of reading Finnegans Wake for the first time.

@TaliaAbu1 @dramdarcy Likewise! Stay cool amidst the noise and haste

Maciej Slomczynski spent 12 years translating Ulysses into Polish. He supported himself by writing detective novels as Joe Alex. Published in 1969, his Ulysses sold out instantly. It has an appealing feature: there's a Homeric bow on the cover; inside it’s drawn.

@francis_ogorman Very sorry to read this. Heartfelt sympathies

Francis O’Gorman 21.ix.67 - 11.iv.24 Francis died peacefully at home. May he rest in peace.

@avaunt_la_garde @DMulrooney @sbslote Not to my recollection! Do the French think the British isles are everything beyond La Manche or something?

@FinnFordham @DMulrooney Have you seen the comment re 'britannique' @sbslote posted on Facebook? It seems to be less of an error from the French pov.

Is it reasonable to describe #JamesJoyce as ‘un écrivain britannique, d’origine irlandaise’ as described on this perplexing plaque (around the corner from Centre Culturel Irlandais), where he house-sat Valéry Larbaud’s apartment in 1921? It’s a private plaque, apparently. 🧐

@avaunt_la_garde @DMulrooney I think the plaque in Paris contains an unfortunate error. The fact JJ chose not to get an Irish passport in 1940 is maybe significant in terms of him identifying as an exile, but it doesn't make him any more British than any other Irish person.

@avaunt_la_garde @DMulrooney In 1927 it was revised to what it says now: 'United Kingdom of GB and Northern Ireland'. Passports lasted only five years so he would have to have applied for a passport with that title. Even then he was of course still Irish and still a citizen of the UK. 2/2