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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
Thanks, Harry. Wasn't considering the date of Irish independence when I made my post. But that makes things even more of a mess, doesn't it? Ulysses was published in serialized form between 1918 and 1920, and in book form in February 1922, when Ireland nominally wasn't independent yet. So Joyce was a British citizen when he published it, wasn't he? And yet it may not be included in a list of the greatest British novels? Sounds a bit arbitrary to me.
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I agree - it does seem arbitrary to make such a distinction!