C. C. Barfoot

INTRODUCTIONIn typical Irish fashion, some would say, it was the second and not the first day of the Irish Conference in Leiden in October 1987 that the Irish Ambassador, His Excellency Mr James Kirwan, opened. Perhaps the scholars of the first day, devoted to James Joyce, in eschewing official...

INTRODUCTION: THE YEAR 88 1988 was a remarkable year for anniversaries, centenaries, bi-, ter-and quatercentenaries, as we discovered as the year progressed and more people, other events and different causes turned up to be remembered — from the Armada in 1588 to the invention of the pneumatic...