The Scotties Crew
It’s very hard work and the pay off seems to be you get to dress up like a wanker and prance about Dublin.
No dice
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Tis a glorified piss up
I read it. The only positive thing I could say about it is that Finnegan’s wake is much much worse.
Gerry seemed to get a bit hot under his yellow collar there.
He did
Here we go again. Unadulterated bullshit but Hey!! it’s cool to spoof about it. A crock of shite….
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Norris will be on the news again tonight so.
A certain forumite who owns a cool Panama hat will possibly furnish a comprehensive report focussing on, among other things, the combination of stout and black pudding……
Say what you like about ulysses, its nowhere near as bad, pointless or up its own hole as that finnegans wake shite.
Have rte managed to find some oul tosspot to bring us the news that ulysses is actually incredibly funny
Yes I have been out and about all day guzzling in the Panama Hat and striped blazer. Just after a feed of stout and kidneys there on Sandymount Strand. Smashing day out and the weather is flaking.
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I’m a quarter way through Patrick McCabe’s latest effort Póguemahone and it’s fucking dreadful thus far.
I got suckered in my listening to him on about it coupled with a few reviews from columnists who appear to be escapees from some various institutions. I’ll stick with it a while more despite it being ráiméas on a par with Ulysses. As if I hadn’t enough hardships in life. You’d need a solid hour at the briars after an hour of reading.
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Brendan O’Carroll interviewed him about it a while back and McCabe was very interesting and came across well and O’Carroll absolutely gushed about the book. I must read I said to myself after listening to it.
Flann scuttered
Joyce scholar (96) asked to leave Glasgow conference over behaviour
CONOR GALLAGHER
and DECLAN CONLON
One of the world’s foremost James Joyce scholars was formally asked to leave a prestigious academic conference last week after organisers upheld a complaint of sexual harassment against him.
Fritz Senn, a 96-year-old Swiss scholar and prolific author, was barred from the 29th International James Joyce Symposium in Glasgow following allegations that he had harassed a young woman over the course of the event.
In January, President Michael D Higgins presented him with the presidential award for distinguished service to Ireland overseas.
The accusations have caused turmoil within the international community of James Joyce scholars. Many have welcomed concrete action finally being taken against alleged inappropriate and misogynistic behaviour, which, according to interviews with several academics, is a big problem within Joyce studies.
The complaint against Dr Senn, who was listed as a speaker at the conference, alleged he made inappropriate comments towards the woman, gave her unwanted gifts, solicited her contact details and photographed her without consent. These actions had allegedly made her feel unsafe, it stated.
The conference safety team held a meeting and upheld the complaint before asking Dr Senn to leave and not return.
A brief anonymised account of the incident was read out at the International James Joyce Foundation agm which took place at the close of the symposium on June 19th.
One of the symposium’s organisers later emailed associates to confirm a complaint of “sexual harassment” against Dr Senn and stating that the matter will be referred to the University of Glasgow, which hosted the symposium, so it could offer support to the complainant.
Dr Senn told The Irish Times he spoke to the young woman at the conference “on various occasions” and that he asked for her email address.
He said he usually takes photographs at such events to chronicle them.
“I also took photos of the volunteer, without her explicit consent, not being aware at the time that the volunteer might perceive my behaviour as inappropriate. If they were unsettled or offended by my actions, I sincerely regret this,” he said.
“I have learned my lesson, something like this will not happen again.”
That it was a girl surprised me more
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That’s some paragraph. A lot to unpack