You Think The Beckett Estate Is Difficult To Deal With? Check Out The Joyce Estate

The James Joyce estate, headed by the author’s grandson Stephen, has gone so far as to get a program celebrating James Joyce banned from Irish radio and to forbid Kate Bush to use even a few lines of Ulysses in a song; Stephen even tried to prevent the National Library of Ireland from exhibiting some of its own Joyce manuscripts. James Joyce biographer Gordon Bowker explains the difficulties.