Translating a Nation: James Joyce's Language Legacy
6.30pm - 7.30pm, Thursday 9 July 2026.
Location: National Library of Ireland, 7-8 Kildare St, Dublin 2, D02 P638.
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Join Niamh Campbell, Mary Costello and Enrico Terrinoni for a discussion on how Ulysses and its many translations have influenced the perception of Ireland across Europe and helped to form generations of new Irish writers.
The series will celebrate the roles of Irish writers, publishers and translators in bringing Irish literature to a European readership and the Irish readers who read European literature in translation.
The conversations are inspired by Literature Ireland's collection of Irish literature in translation, which are also included in the the National Library's book collection.
Niamh Campbell and Mary Costello are writers whose work has clear echoes of Ulysses.
Niamh Campbell is the author of This Happy, We Were Young and Make Strange. She has won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Niamh named Joyce's 'The Dead' as her favourite short story upon winning the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award.
Mary Costello is a bestselling Irish short story writer and novelist living in Galway. Her first novel, Academy Street, won the Irish Novel of the Year award at the Irish Book Awards, and was named overall Irish Book of the Year. Her latest novel is A Beautiful Loan. Mary's novel The River Capture was described in the Guardian as a "beautifully modulated novel about a Joyce obsessive whose life has stalled, bending Ulysses to its own ends."
Enrico Terrinoni is a renowned academic, writer and translator, and has translated Irish authors such as Brendan Behan, James Stephens, Oscar Wilde, Michael D. Higgins, George Bernard Shaw and James Joyce (Ulysses, Finnegans Wake and Dubliners, all in collaboration with Fabio Pedone).
Funded as part of the Culture Programme for Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2026. In partnership with the National Library of Ireland.
Posted to News on 29 Jun 2026.