Finn Fordham

Born and bred in Camden Town, live in Oxford with Caroline and our children Leo and Viola

[Finn Fordham @FinnFordham]

@CheetahBlack @left_plain @DumbDumDumbDum1 Lucky you!

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My brilliant colleague Will Boast Wins the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction https://t.co/C0HJvXvpld via @ugapress

[Dominic Cavendish @domcavendish]

Remarkable and courageous stuff

[The International James Joyce Foundation @JoyceFound]

‘So This Is Doublong?’
The XXX International James Joyce Symposium will take place at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, from 15–19 June 2026.
The lJJF is delighted to announce that the Joyce Symposium for 2026 will be held in Poland in the beautiful city of Kraków.

[Finn Fordham @FinnFordham]

@StapletonAine @artscouncil_ie @projectarts @DanceIreland Good to see this is happening!

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@bernardtjoy Herbert ‘The Collar’
‘I struck the board and cried “No more!
I will abroad!’ etc.

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@AmericanGwyn Excellent to see Ben Hopkins great CATHEDRAL there. Should be better known!

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@husainhusaini Thanks for coming @husainhusaini and sharing the food, the beer, the snow, and the conszonantść with me.

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@mrmarksteel Founder of Yale University is buried in St Giles church!

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@johnstonglenn How great! And on Nora’s birthday 🎂 🗿🎉😜

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@dodgsonwood @rosammat @lukejsherlock Can confirm! Excellent place to curl up and read: instantly onto the fells and also a pub (stocked with good books) less than an hours walk away.

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@pollyhember 2 pages of finnegans wake p558.33 onward. Written in 1924/5. ‘Closeup’ etc. and of course JJ opened Ireland’s first cinema in 1909. https://t.co/xnurRbvw4q

[Bernard T. Joy @bernardtjoy]

I think one thing remains certain. We can ALL bond over the experience of reading Finnegans Wake for the first time.

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@TaliaAbu1 @dramdarcy Likewise! Stay cool amidst the noise and haste

[Just Joyce @johnstonglenn]

Maciej Slomczynski spent 12 years translating Ulysses into Polish. He supported himself by writing detective novels as Joe Alex. Published in 1969, his Ulysses sold out instantly. It has an appealing feature: there's a Homeric bow on the cover; inside it’s drawn.

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@francis_ogorman Very sorry to read this. Heartfelt sympathies

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@avaunt_la_garde @DMulrooney @sbslote Not to my recollection! Do the French think the British isles are everything beyond La Manche or something?

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@avaunt_la_garde @DMulrooney I think the plaque in Paris contains an unfortunate error. The fact JJ chose not to get an Irish passport in 1940 is maybe significant in terms of him identifying as an exile, but it doesn't make him any more British than any other Irish person.

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@avaunt_la_garde @DMulrooney In 1927 it was revised to what it says now: 'United Kingdom of GB and Northern Ireland'. Passports lasted only five years so he would have to have applied for a passport with that title. Even then he was of course still Irish and still a citizen of the UK. 2/2