James Joyce Award
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The James Joyce Award is an award given by the Literary and Historical Society (L&H) of University College Dublin
University College Dublin
University College Dublin ) - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin is the Republic of Ireland's largest, and Ireland's second largest, university, with over 1,300 faculty and 17,000 students...

 (UCD) for those who have achieved outstanding success in their given field. It is named after one of the society's alumni, James Joyce
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...

, the author of Dubliners
Dubliners
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century....

, Ulysses
Ulysses (novel)
Ulysses is a novel by the Irish author James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, in Paris. One of the most important works of Modernist literature,...

, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialised in the magazine The Egoist from 1914 to 1915, and published first in book format in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch, New York. The first English edition was published by the Egoist Press in February 1917...

and Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish author James Joyce, significant for its experimental style and resulting reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of seventeen years, and published in 1939, two years before the author's...

.

Joyce and the L&H

Joyce was an a student in UCD from 1898 to 1903, where he studied modern languages. In 1900, he presented a paper "Drama and Life" to the society. He also ran for the top position of auditor twice, but failed to be elected on both occasions.

Actors

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  • Alan Rickman
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  • Barry Humphries
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     - Actor and Comedian
  • Michael Sheen
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    Michael Christopher Sheen, OBE , is a Welsh stage and screen actor. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England and made his professional debut opposite Vanessa Redgrave in When She Danced at the Globe Theatre in 1991...

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  • Russell Brand
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  • Rory Bremner
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  • Aaron Eckhart
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  • Will Ferrell
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  • Eddie Izzard
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  • Michael Palin
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     - Monty Python
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     member

Musicians

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     - Lead singer of British rock band The Who
  • Sir George Martin
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     - Producer of The Beatles
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Political Figures

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  • Robin Cook
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     - British politician
  • F.W. de Klerk
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     - Former South African President
  • George Galloway
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     - British politician
  • John Howard
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     - Former Australian Prime Minister
  • John Hume
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     - Nobel Laureate and Northern Irish politician
  • Jesse Jackson
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     - US Civil Rights Advocate
  • Governor Brian Schweitzer
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     - Governor of Montana
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Scientists and Academics

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     - Academic and theorist
  • John Nash - Nobel Laureate and mathematician
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     - Swedish historian and writer
  • Richard Swinburne
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     - British philosopher
  • Steven Weinberg
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     - Physicist
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Sportspeople

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     - Skateboarder
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     - Manchester United manager
  • Ken Doherty
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     - World Snooker Champion

Writers

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  • JK Rowling - Writer of the Harry Potter
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     series
  • DBC Pierre - Writer and Booker Prize winner
  • Sir Salman Rushdie - Writer and Booker Prize winner
  • Sue Townsend
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     - Writer
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