Excerpt here from a BBC article about upcoming Bloomsday festivals:


But Joyce was not always celebrated in Ireland.

One reason he left the country was the difficulty he had in getting a publisher.

And his book was rejected - but not banned - until the 1960s, principally because of its sexually explicit content, including an account of one of the principal characters masturbating.

"The book was seen as pornographic, not of worthy quality," Ms Weldon said. [She's the co-ordinator of the festivals.]

"But that was very much a function of Ireland as a narrow society. When the book was originally published in 1922, it was banned in the US and it was banned in the UK - but it was never banned in Ireland."

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