Probably the last #Bloomsday post of the day - a portrait of James Joyce in the @NGIreland by the French portrait painter Jacques-Émile Blanche #Bloomsday2026

You can’t have #Bloomsday without Dublin, so here’s our recommended reading list ✏️📃 Check out our website for many more Dublin-focussed books worthy of a spot on your shelves: fourcourtspress.ie Happy Bloomsday, everyone! 🧼🎩

When Joyce was a pupil of Pearse.... #Bloomsday #Ulysses

RT @DrDavidVernon: Happy Bloomsday! Ignore the cynics and the spoilsports — Ulysses remains one of the warmest, wittiest, wisest books I’ve…

Barack and I were so honored to have @AkunyiliCrosby create our portrait for the Obama Presidential Center. Her artistic brilliance shines through — and the way she infused such life and joy into the piece is truly extraordinary. We love it, and we think everyone who visits the Center will too!

Like millions of Canadians, my ancestors left Ireland in the shadow of the famine. They carried hope across the Atlantic and helped build the Canada we know today. To return to Mayo, and receive a welcome such as this, is a testament to the life they built for their children — and to the indomitable spirit of the Irish, everywhere — whose pride in their heritage is unbroken by distance and time.

This is beneath the dignity of the presidency.

So Zelensky desecrated the White House by not wearing a suit but this is ok?????

Trump used the Armed Forces Full Honor Cordon — soldiers who escort fallen heroes and heads of state — to usher UFC fighters past Abraham Lincoln’s statue like they’re celebrities on a red carpet. I am LIVID. And everyone else should be too.

“It takes a long time to make it simple.” —David Hockney (1937-2026)

Bravo !!

데이비드 호크니 1937–2026 신문의 품격을 보여주는 건 부고 기사다. 뉴욕타임스는 그런 점에서 독보적인데, 데이비드 호크니의 부고는 정말 그의 삶을 가감없이 다루는 사려깊은 글이었다. 인상적인 부분. "만년의 작업 상당수가 바쁘게 붓을 놀린 흔적처럼 보일지라도, 초기 회화 일부는 지속적인 감동을 준다. 1977년의 《나의 부모》가 그중 하나다. 어머니는 꼿꼿하되 편안하게 앉아 화가를 향해 주의 깊고 협조적인 시선을 보내고 있다. 아버지는 정장 차림이면서도 몸을 굽혀 근시안적으로 책에 골몰해 있어, 형식적인 포즈를 취할 수도 없고 취하려 하지도 않는 것 같다. 소통의 실패에 관한, 그리고 그것을 사랑으로 받아들이는 것에 관한 따뜻한 그림이다. 동성 결혼이 법제화되기 훨씬 전, 두 남자 사이의 사랑에도 이에 버금가는 따뜻한 분위기를 담아낼 수 있었다는 것, 그리고 그 따뜻함을 정치적 발언이 아닌 일상의 사실로 제시할 수 있었다는 것. 그것이 호크니의 급진적 성취였으며, 그가 가장 오래 기억될 이유가 될 것이다."

Yes we will

David Hockney, Early Morning, Sainte-Maxime

We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of artist David Hockney. In 2018, David Hockney designed The Queen’s Window, a vibrant stained-glass window in the Abbey’s north transept. Hockney's only work in stained glass, the window was commissioned to celebrate the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. It was designed on an iPad and uses Hockney's distinct colour palette of yellow, red, blue, pink, orange and green. The rural scene, featuring hawthorn blossom, was chosen to reflect the Queen's deep love of the countryside. On summer evenings, the light from the window floods the transept, bathing it in a beautiful kaleidoscope of colour. The Dean of Westminster, The Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle MBE said: “David Hockney's restless eye and eager enthusiasm for pastures new has left us with an extraordinary legacy that is rich and various and yet also unmistakably his. The window he created for the north transept lets in light that arrives with attitude and even humour, painting the statue of Gladstone in shifting shades throughout the summer months. Hockney has left his mark here and we will long remember a great and very personal genius.”

FOOTAGE OF THE LETTERS BEING REMOVED The irony of the Trump administration claiming to be the most transparent in history is never lost on me. Kennedy Center Workers used a tarp so cameras couldn’t see the removal. It’s like playing hide-and-seek with a toddler: if they can’t see you, they think you can’t see them. A huge thank you to @RepBeatty. This would not have been possible without her persistence and hard work.

My cartoon @thetimes Saturday. Prints available to buy from timescartoons.co.uk

13 June 1865. William Butler (“WB”) Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was 1st Irish person to win the Nobel Prize for literature. He’s commemorated in Sligo town by a statue created in 1989 by the sculptor Rowan Gillespie.

Words to live by. RIP David Hockney