Born and bred in Camden Town, live in Oxford with Caroline and our children Leo and Viola
Joined May 2011
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1 Oct 2025
My brilliant colleague Will Boast Wins the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction ugapress.wordpress.com/2025/… via @ugapress
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4 Sep 2025
Remarkable and courageous stuff
4 Sep 2025
Melvyn Bragg shares a very personal story in his episode of Rosebud , when he tells @GylesB1 about the struggles he has had with his mental health - which began when he was a teenager.
We're honoured to have such brilliant guests on Rosebud, and to hear them speak so honestly.
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‘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.
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1 Jul 2024
I think one thing remains certain. We can ALL bond over the experience of reading Finnegans Wake for the first time.
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3 May 2024
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.
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3 Mar 2024
We've lost Judith Harrington, one of our favorite Joyceans. legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfg…
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15 Dec 2023
🌙 'Somewhere in the Body' based on Lucia Joyce and Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, continues @limerickgallery as part of @lightmovesfest until Jan 28, 2024. Featuring VO by @FinnFordham 📽️
ℹ️gallery.limerick.ie/ScreenDa…
📷 Maurice Gunning, LMF, and LCAG.
Funded by @artscouncil_ie
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29 Nov 2023
Approved agricultural pesticides are significantly harming bumble bees, with colonies growing less and producing fewer offspring, according to five-year European-wide research led by Professor Mark Brown @sphaerularia from @RHULBioSci @RoyalHolloway royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us…
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27 Nov 2023
Wonderful reading by @paullynchwriter from the most cosmic episode of Ulysses, plunging towards the constellation of Hercules.
27 Nov 2023
We would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to @paullynchwriter for his well-deserved Booker Prize. We were delighted to work with him in 2020 when he delivered a wonderful reading of the Ithaca chapter of Ulysses. You can watch below. youtube.com/watch?v=4mFMs8Qi…
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9 Nov 2023
Morning swim done at the beautiful Forty Foot in Sandycove 🇮🇪 with the James Joyce tower in the background. Great way to start the day. Thanks to my friends at An Post for making it happen.
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13 Nov 2023
HCE on the BBC radio hour @FinnFordham
‘All of language, all of history, all of relationships focused on a family of publicans into relating to people all around the world’
Plus a fantastic 100 letter thunderword
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11 Oct 2023
A reminder that the #cfp for our conference on Narratives of Coercive Control @UoYEnglish is now live here: coercive-control-literature-…. Please circulate! @BAVS_UK @modernistudies @BAVS_PGs
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7 Nov 2023
Just two days left until @lightmovesfest opens on Thursday, November 9th! 🎉
My two screen installation 'Somewhere in the Body' will screen as part of the festival @limerickgallery from Nov 9 - Jan 28, 2024. Narrated by the wonderful @FinnFordham! 🎥
Info lightmoves.ie/events/in-the-…
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18 May 2020
In 1983 Tim Ahern published Finnegans Wake, Chapter One, The Illness Traited Colossick Edition, an imaginative and idiosyncratic illumination of Joyce’s work. In 2011 he followed up with a more ambitious Final Chapter, which included a foreword by @FinnFordham.
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19 Sep 2023
It was lovely to welcome our @ClassicsRHUL first-years and to start learning their first names (the latter is a seriously daunting task!). "Classics", they say, "is cool" and I couldn't agree more. @lizgloyn
(Photos from our packed Classics social) #Classics
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6 Sep 2023
Yes, our holiday last month was punctuated by a v. long queue-delay wait at Dover: all of us an the dog stewing in our car for ages and ages. No, I'm not over it. medium.com/adams-notebook/do…
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26 Jun 2023
A 'UEA scraps creative writing' story is taking hold. That's not what's happening. UEA Humanities are facing redundancies across many areas that feed a brilliant writing course (including Literature). That's *worse* in the long term because it's a culture / a mindset / a library.
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18 Jun 2023
Dr Daniel Beer, head of the History department, explains why it is important to study history. Listen to the full round-table discussion ‘Why History Matters: Russia's War Against Ukraine’ on our YouTube channel!
youtu.be/0ma1Id_zgxk
#RoyalHolloway #RHUL #History
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