But for author and broadcaster Frank Delaney, every day is Bloomsday. June 16th is Bloomsday, the annual celebration of the life and the work of James Joyce and the events he depicts in his novel, Ulysses. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. We will keep reading with Frank Delaney's voice in our head.Ĭopyright © 2017 NPR. He was in the middle of a 25-year commitment to reread and illuminate James Joyce's "Ulysses" line by line in a weekly podcast called "Re: Joyce" when he died this week at the age of 74. Our families became friends, and we got to know Frank's warmth and wit across dinner tables, too. And we kept asking back to talk about books, Ireland and even soccer because no one could make more of a ceremony out of a sentence. SIMON: He was a writer, broadcaster, best-selling novelist, critic, raconteur and Joyce scholar. It is a place where story is really all that matters.
It is the tiny country that won, that won its independence from a great world empire. Frank told us when his book "Ireland" came out in 2005.įRANK DELANEY: It is a place that is a symbol of David versus Goliath. Frank Delaney made you realize the Irish gift of gab is really a force of nature, the contrivance to survive bleak skies, raw weather, imperialism, hunger and bloody history with the music and the might of words.
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