Dublin’s Fair City: James Joyce and Bloomsday
From January 2012 copyright on major works of James Joyce (1882-1941) was lifted by the European Union seventy years after his death. Lifting of copyright restrictions will permit performances, readings and adaptations of Joyce’s work without having to seek permission or having to make a payment to the James Joyce Estate that is controlled by the writer’s grandson Stephen Joyce, its sole beneficiary. Freed from copyright restriction are some major works including Dubliners, A Portrait of an Artist as…