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Brought to book

The National Library spent €98,000 on a guide to its treasures that was pulled because of a catalogue of errors. So how did it all go so wrong?

On June 14, 2004 an exhibition entitled Ulysses in Print: an interactive family tree opened in the National Library of Ireland.

Curated by Stacey Herbert, a Joycean scholar who organises the annual Bloomsday celebrations in Dublin, it began with the story of “the grand-daddy”, the first edition of Ulysses published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris in 1922.

The story of the changing editions of Ulysses, Herbert promised prospective attendees, would read like a gripping family drama, with “prodigal sons, black sheep, legitimate and bastard children, prolific progenitors and son-less mothers” all playing a part.

Of course, one reason why the saga of Ulysses is so fascinating is because the original was riddled with hundreds of errors necessitating numerous new editions, all seeking to be…

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