Author James Joyce Honored in Dublin
June 14, 1962 - James Joyce (pictured in 1928), one of Ireland’s most famous writers but one who was long condemned and neglected in his own country, is being honored in Dublin this week and next in grand style. Those who condemned him held that much of Joyce’s writing was obscene and anti-religious. While many countrymen and particularly the Roman Catholic clergy still have serious reservations, Joyce is being read more and more widely in Ireland, and Dublin’s literary commu