Tag Archives: Dubliners

Joyce’s Eveline & Vaccine Resistance

By Robin Bates | Published: April 21, 2021

Republicans refusing the Covid vaccine remind me of Eveline in Joyce’s “Dubliners.”

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Biden’s Love for James Joyce

By Robin Bates | Published: November 15, 2020

Joe Biden’s favorite poet is Seamus Heaney, his favorite fiction writer James Joyce. While he expresses admiration for “Ulysses,” I think he might prefer “Dubliners.”

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If They Lose, Irish Can Turn to Poetry

By Robin Bates | Published: January 5, 2013

Even if they lose the national championship game, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame have Ireland’s poetic legacy to fall back on.

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From Spiritual Hunger to Obesity Epidemic

By Robin Bates | Published: August 1, 2010

Spiritual Sunday My wife Julia has been telling me about a book that she’s reading, Geneen Roth’s Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything. The thesis of the book seems to be that overeating, like other compulsions and obsessions, is a means of escaping a spiritual emptiness. Or to put it another […]

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