The Trieste Joyce School

William Wall is the first European winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize (2017). He has published six novels, three collections of poetry and two collections of short fiction. He has won numerous prestigious prizes for his work including the Virginia Faulkner Award, The Sean O'Faolain Prize, the Patrick Kavanagh Award and the Writers Week Prize. His 2005 novel This Is The Country was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. His work has been translated into many languages and he translates from Italian.
He holds a doctorate in creative writing from University College Cork - the first such doctorate awarded in Ireland.
In 2014 he was part of the Italo-Irish Literature Exchange. He was an Irish delegate to the European Writers' Parliament in Istanbul 2010. For March 2010 he was Writer in Residence at The Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco. He was a 2009 Fellow of The Liguria Centre for the Arts & Humanities. He collaborated with artist Harry Moore to produce the Shadowlands exhibition and book in 2008.
He was born in Cork, Ireland. He studied Philosophy and English at University College Cork. He spends his time between Cork and Camogli, Liguria.
Critics have said of his work:
'Wall, who is also a poet, writes prose so charged - at once lyrical and syncopated - that it's as if Cavafy had decided to write about a violent Irish household.' The New Yorker
'Wall's touch with characterisation is light and deft: many illustrate themselves plainly with just a few lines of dialogue.' The Guardian
'Symphonic in form but written with classical simplicity, Grace's Day, by William Wall, is a novel about love and loss, the natural world, and the violent complications of family life. As the great John McGahern used to say, there's verse, and there's prose, and then there's poetry; William Wall is a poet in both mediums.' John Banville
'He is such a writer - lyrical and cruel and bold and with metaphors to die for.' Kate Atkinson
William Walls's novels are Suzy Suzy (Head Of Zeus, London, 2019), Grace's Day (Head Of Zeus, London, 2018), This Is The Country (Hodder, London, 2005), The Map of Tenderness (Hodder, London, 2002), Minding Children (Hodder, London, 2001), Alice Falling (Hodder, London, 2000, and WW Norton, New York, 2000); his poetry collections: The Yellow House (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2017), Ghost Estate (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2011), Fahrenheit Says Nothing To Me (Dedalus, Ireland, 2004), Mathematics & Other Poems (Collins Press, Ireland, 1997); his short story collections: The Islands (Pittsburgh University Press, USA, October 2017), Hearing Voices Seeing Things (Doire Press, Ireland, 2016), No Paradiso (Brandon Books, Ireland, 2006).
For further information see: http://www.williamwall.net

Vincent Altman O'Connor is an independent scholar who is employed in the Department of Agriculture in Dublin. Or, to put it in other words, the independent scholar Vincent Altman O'Connor cultivates the pluterperfect imperturbability of the Department of Agriculture in Dublin where Brexit has him literally run off his feet! In collaboration with Professor Neil R. Davison and Yvonne Altman O'Connor of the Irish Jewish Museum, he published "'Altman the Saltman' and Joyce's Dublin" in the Dublin James Joyce Journal in 2014. He also published "'Altman the Saltman', Leopold Bloom and James Joyce" in History Ireland in 2016, and has consulted on subject matter pertaining to Irish Jewry for the on-line Joyce Project edited by Professor John Hunt of the University of Montana.
Louis Hyman's History of Ireland's Jews is widely considered one of the most extensive and exhaustively researched history of Irish Jewry and he consulted frequently with Richard Ellmann on the chapter "Some aspects of the Jewish Backgrounds of Ulysses". Both the volume in general and this chapter has become, since its 1972 publication, a major source read for scholars interested in Jewish elements of Joyce's work. While Hyman relied for his research on the Minutes Book of the Dublin Hebrew Congregation those documents were regrettably destroyed. In his discussion, Altman O'Connor will explore turn of the century Irish press reports, which indeed contained much of the public news pertaining to the Dublin Jewish community during the era in which Ulysses is set. By putting figures and stories from the press into conversation with the novel, Altman O'Connor allows for new readings of a host of Jewish Dubliners who resonate in the novel.

Anne Marie D'Arcy is Associate Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Language in the School of Arts at the University of Leicester, and Visiting Research Fellow at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, where she continues to lecture on occasion, but has also held lectureships in University College Dublin, and National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She has published a number of articles on Joyce's treatment of such topics as libel law, Freemasonry, medieval Irish placelore, Dublin's water supply, anti-Semitism, medieval Irish manuscripts (most notably the Book of Kells), the Eucharistic Congress of 1932, and 'Araby' as a grail quest. She was the Principal Investigator of an exhibition in Marsh's Library, Dublin: 'James Joyce: Apocalypse and Exile', which ran from 23 October 2014 to 20 October 2015, and is now online. She is currently completing Joyce and the Irish Middle Ages: Saints, Sages, and Insular Culture, which is the first monograph devoted to Joyce's engagement with the Insular period, specifically the influence of Irish learning and artistry on Britain and the Continent from the sixth to the twelfth centuries, c. '566 A.D.' (FW 13.36; 14.7) to '1132 or 1169' (FW 391.2). She is the author of Wisdom and the Grail: The Image of the Vessel in the Queste del Saint Graal and Malory's Tale of the Sankgreal (2000), and another monograph, The Artifice of Eternity: Mariology in the English Poetic Tradition, forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Caroline Elbay lectures at Champlain College, Dublin (a satellite campus of Champlain College, Burlington, VT.) where she teaches courses in Irish literature, academic writing, and Irish music. She has also taught on the ALBA Modular degree programme at All Hallows College (Dublin City University), where she is a member of both the Programme Board and Exam Board; and on the Intergenerational Learning Programme at Dublin City University. Caroline is the co-founder and facilitator of a life long learning programme at the Dublin James Joyce Centre.
A graduate of St. Patrick's College Drumcondra (Dublin City University), where she earned a B.A. (First class honours) in English, and Music; and subsequently undertook postgraduate studies at Trinity College Dublin, where she read for both the Higher Diploma in Education, and an M.Phil in Anglo Irish Literature. She is an experienced educationalist, and has taught at primary, secondary and third level.
She was awarded a PhD by Queen's University Belfast, where her research focused on representations of gender, anti-feminism, and anti-Semitism in the works of James Joyce and Otto Weininger.
Enjoying a lifelong interest in Irish writers, Caroline was awarded the inaugural National Library of Ireland James Joyce Dedicated Scholarship in 2008. She has lectured widely on Joyce, both in Ireland and abroad, and include the International James Joyce Symposium in Utrecht (NL), James Joyce Summer School, Trieste, (IT), and the annual lecture series at the Dublin James Joyce Centre, where she also facilitates the 'Ulysses for All' study groups.

Godfrey Jordan is a Canadian Film Centre alumnus, an award-winning producer/director and an internationally published author of fiction and non-fiction whose books have been translated into five languages. Freelance assignments include Florida baseball spring training, NBA basketball, NASA space shuttle launches and tracking Halley's Comet from prime New Zealand sites. He's worked at Dublin's noted Eamonn Andrews Recording Studios, attended the original Woodstock Music Festival via press pass and gallery exhibitions of his classic rock photojournalism profile that "Summer of '69." Currently shooting the James Joyce Documentary Project with production in Canada, the U.S. and the E.U. His latest doc "Bloomsday Way" made its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto Irish Film Festival. "Portrait of the Milliner as yer man himself" just had its USA premiere at the Garden State Film Festival in New Jersey winning the International Short Documentary award. On a personal note, his grandfather attended Dublin's Belvedere College at the same time as James Joyce.

Gerard Lee is an actor, writer and director who has worked extensively in theatre, radio, television and film in Ireland. His association with performing Joyce goes back thirty years, having regularly worked with Paul O'Hanrahan's acclaimed theatre company Baloonatics, reading and performing Joyce in the streets broad and narrow of Dublin. Gerard has directed Declan Gorman's Dubliners Dilemma, based on the correspondence between Grant Richards and Joyce on the publication of Dubliners, and more recently, Declan's new Joyce piece, Epiphany, which looks at a young artist's discovery of Joyce's story The Dead while living away from his native Ireland. Gerard's debut novel Forsaken is published by New Island Books, and a number of his plays have been produced in theatres in Dublin, including Mangan's Last Gasp, which deals with an imagined and slightly surreal death-bed meeting between Dublin poet James Clarence Mangan and Dr William Wilde (father of Oscar) and in which the author also played Mangan.

Senan Molony is a non-conforming Joycean with distinct personal interpretations. A national award-winning journalist, he has had over thirty-five years' experience in the Aeolian profession, and is the author of several books, including the first full-scale treatment in half a century of the 1882 Phoenix Park Murders, a key motif in Ulysses.
He has been far too busy to read the Wake, but has lectured three times on Bloomsdays past (to packed pubs!) on aspects of Ulysses, with insights both esoteric and idiosyncratic.
Senan, who attended Joyce's Alma Mater of Belvedere College, has led and featured in a number of TV documentaries. He has also addressed conventions of the British, Belfast and Titanic International societies and discussed that ship in interviews on CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, NPR, etc.
He lectured on centenary cruises to mark the sinking of the Titanic, Lusitania and Britannic, and was a host for the Titanic Channel, now sadly cryogenically suspended.
Mr Molony lives in Dublin. His books include: Celtic Mists, The Irish Aboard Titanic; Lusitania: An Irish Tragedy; Titanic and the Mystery Ship; The Phoenix Park Murders; Titanic: Victims and Villains; Titanic Scandal: The Trial of the Mount Temple, Titanic Unseen and Titanic: Why she collided, why she sank, why she should never have sailed.

Laura Pelaschiar is programme director of the Trieste Joyce School. She graduated in English language and literature at the University of Trieste with an MA thesis on Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey. In 1994 she completed her PhD at the University of Bologna with a dissertation on the contemporary Northern Irish novel. She has worked as a translator, translating over 50 books for Mondadori, E.Elle Einaudi Ragazzi, Fazi Editore. Her research focuses mainly on the work of James Joyce and the nexus between Joycean texts, the Gothic tradition and Shakespeare. She published Ulisse Gotico (Pacini Editore) in 2009. She has also published widely on the Northern Irish novel. She teaches English literature and English language at the University of Trieste.

Flicka Small holds an MA from University College Cork and has just submitted her PhD thesis at the same insitution. Her research interests centre on how food functions in contemporary literature and on the semiotics of food, particularly in the writing of James Joyce. Her MA set out to authenticate the food in Ulysses whilst her PhD examines the Semiotics of Food in Ulysses.
She has presented on and cooked food in Ulysses, and published the chapter 'What Food Says About Leopold Bloom', in the Reimagining Ireland series 'Tickling the Palate'. In November 2017 she was a consultant for FEAST and presented a 'Tasting Joyce' event in the Dublin James Joyce centre. The following year she spoke at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin on microbes, germs and bacteria in Ulysses and published "Tasting Joyce". At UCC she teaches the seminar 'Edible Ireland: The Function of Food in Irish Fiction', an original module created and devised by Flicka herself.