The Digbeth area has long been known as the spiritual home to the city’s Irish community, but did you know that one of Ireland’s most famous literary sons – a certain James Augustine Aloysius Joyce – once resided there? James Joyce and his lover Nora Barnacle arrived in Birmingham in 1920. They were about to [...]
When I was a student at Hull University, lo those many years ago, I was involved in a cruel and unusual April Fools prank that I still feel rather guilty about now. It wasn’t my idea, you understand. I could never have dreamt up anything that reeked of so much wrong. I didn’t have much [...]
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