Joyce in ArtJoyce in Art accompanied the exhibition of the same title (at the RHA in Dublin), curated by the author for 16 June 2004, the centenary of Bloomsday. It is the first historical account of visual art inspired by James Joyce. At once a comprehensive and selective study, it focuses on the most original, provocative and best informed artists who took an interest in Joyce. With over 200 reproductions in colour and black and white, of artists as diverse as

Hewitt and MacDiarmid

In the years before 1916

power and self‑deception

the crude but jovial emigrant returning to Ireland for a visit

How does one handle the delicate politics of flat-sharing

the Yeats family

Mary Farl Powers

it demonstrates how power can be returned to the community

Diary of a Teddy Boy by Mim Scala 'Captures that hinge moment when everything changed from grey to colour

drawing the eye to detail upwards

George O’Brien’s narrative of his childhood in the somnolent river-valley settlement of Lismore

learning to decipher his memorably surreal turns of phrase and to parry his fascinating