Dan Mulhall is not only Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain, but a Joycean – and he will be one of the speakers at the Festival. In this piece for the Guardian he ruminates on the issues of national identity Joyce raises in Portrait of the Artist.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/28/europe-james-joyce-a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man-ireland-brexit-easter-rising-1916?CMP=twt_gu