An intimate love letter written by James Joyce to Nora Barnacle in 1909 is to be auctioned at Sotheby's in London on Thursday.

For James Joyce and Nora Barnacle, it was love at first gasp. The two would remain together, though not always blissfully, for the next 37 years. Famously, they would love each other with a boundless ...

It seems to me that Dowd has given us a portrait of the artist, James Joyce, which is also a kind of self-portrait, from one courageous artist struggling with vision loss to another.

Carol O’Hagan greets us and becomes our guide. The room is filled with display cases of handwritten books, articles written by Joyce, about Joyce, letters and diary entries, scribblings and doodles.