The Irish English dialect is particularly musical and lends itself to discovering 'the music and the meter inside language,' which is why Joyce and other Irish poets (and Caribbean poets like Derek Walcott) excel at linguistic innovation.

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Dr. Michael Sugrue

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the irish version of english is one of them...it lends itself to finding the music and the meter inside of language and that's what joyce is great at

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Ulysses by James Joyce: Bibliotheca WebinarMichael Sugrue
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:27:28 AM

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