James and Nora av Edna O'Brien

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<p><font><b>One of Ireland''s greatest contemporary writers turns her attention to one of the country''s greatest novelists: James Joyce and his relationship with Nora Barnacle - in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the iconic classic ULYSSES.<br></b><br>''Both Joyce and O''Brien have a gift for beauty distilled . . . a work of love''<br><b>Daily Telegraph</b><br><br>''Short, poetic and powerful''<br><b><i>Irish Times</i></b></font><br><br>It was June 10th, Barnacle Day. He saw her in Nassau Street and they stopped to talk. She thought his blue eyes were those of a Norseman. He was twenty-two, and she, Nora Barnacle, was twenty and employed as a chambermaid in Finn''s Hotel. They agreed to meet on June 14th, outside No. 1 Merrion Square, the home of Sir William Wilde, but Nora did not turn up. After a dejected letter from Joyce they met on June 16th, a date which came to be immortalized in literature as Bloomsday.<br><br>Edna O''Brien paints a miniature portrait of an a