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The woman who was Molly Bloom
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The wife of James Joyce was a plainspoken Galway girl, hardly
the linguistic match of her anything but plainspoken consort. But
Brenda Maddox has balanced the scales of their relationship in Nora:
A Biography of Nora Joyce (Fawcett Columbine, $12.95). Maddox
authenticates Nora Barnacle's unsought claim as Joyce's wellspring,
foil and inspirer, a spirited woman who shared her husband's often
madcap behavior, but also helped to keep it in check.
If contemporary feminists find Joyce r...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
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NORA JOYCE REVISITED A CLOSER LOOK AT THE OFT-BELITTLED WIFE OF JAMES JOYCE
The Boston Globe
; ... School of Economics. ("I hated it. I didn't last the year.") But she remained in London. She subsequently reported for Reuters news agency before her marriage to John Maddox, then science editor of the Manchester Guardian and now editor of Nature magazine ...
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Lynch's labour of love and lust The actress who plays James Joyce's mistress claims she doesn't crave fame or money.
Evening Standard - London
; ... Susan Lynch, the young Irish actress Murphy had cast as Nora, sat by the phone for more than two years. When the calls came, the news was usually bad and Lynch would think: "Not this year. Maybe next." Meanwhile Ewan McGregor, who'd been cast as Joyce and whose ...
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San Diego, Calf.: keeping up with the Joyces.(FRONT and CENTER)(play on the life of writer James Joyce by Sheila Walsh)
American Theatre
; ON JUNE 16, 1904, JAMES JOYCE AND NORA Barnacle went on what might just be the most famous first date in literary history. And it wasn't even the date they first agreed upon--Joyce waited for Nora on the 14th, but she didn't show up. The second try has since become Bloomsday, the single day on
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The real Molly Bloom // Biographer finds new depths in James Joyce's wife
Chicago Sun-Times
; At first glance, Brenda Maddox seems an unlikely person to write a major scholarly biography - almost as unlikely as the relationship between her subject, the uneducated and determinedly unliterary Nora Barnacle, and the decidedly cerebral novelist James Joyce. Nora was not only wife to Joyce but
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Disjointed scenes reveal little of James Joyce's Dublin
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; In "James Joyce's Dublin," the soon-to-be-famous novelist explains why he's leaving Ireland: "People live together all their lives, and they're as far apart as if they'd never been introduced." Unfortunately, the production running through February at Marquette University proves the truth of that
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James Joyce's The Dead
Pittsburgh City Paper
; There was a running gag on the old Mary Tyler Moore Show that I loved: No matter how carefully she planned it, how scrupulously she edited the guest list, no matter how much work went into the food and entertainment, every party she gave was a disaster. I wonder if she ever considered inviting
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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My dream film would be ruined by Hollywood; It's taken six years and bags of determination, but Ewan McGregor persevered and his gamble to play writer James Joyce has paid off.(Features)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
; SCOTS screen star Ewan McGregor became so obsessed with seeing his new film on screen that it became a personal crusade. The actor spent six years trying to make his dream come true after starting work on Nora, a biopic about writer James Joyce and his mistress Nora Barnacle. And he even set up his
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Portrait of two Irish rebels Flawed but worthwhile: Susan Lynch as Nora Barnacle and Ewan McGregor as James Joyce
Evening Standard - London
; EWAN McGregor may play James Joyce, but this awkwardly haunting film belongs, as the title suggests, to Susan Lynch's Nora Barnacle. Pat Murphy's long-planned adaptation of Brenda Maddox's book about the writer and his mistress/muse leaves us in no doubt as to where the power lay in their fraught
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Books: Panthers and striped coats James Joyce fans are gearing up for the centenary of Bloomsday, the day in 1904 when `Ulysses' is set. So just what has Joyce's `dear, dirty Dublin' got in store? Readings, breakfasts - and an awful lot of people wearing boaters
The Independent on Sunday
; A few years ago I happened to be in Dublin sometime in June. As the cab crawled down to the city centre, I spotted a man in peculiar garb wobbling along the pavement on an old-fashioned bicycle. Against a backdrop of Georgian terraces, it really didn't look all that strange. But further down
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 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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Loras players aim for perfection; Student performers dig deep to convey the work of James Joyce
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; ... Ireland in the late 1890s. Two sisters and their niece - music teachers - are having their annual Christmas party in Dublin. News You Can Use What: James Joyce's The Dead Where: Loras College, St. Joseph Auditorium, 1450 Alta Vista Blvd. Tickets:$10, adults ...
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