Joyce in Court

'The book reads like one of [Hardiman's] elaborate court arguments and it is redolent with the knowledge for which he was renowned. It is a seemly memorial of his professional life in the courts as well as his parallel life as historian and literary scholar' Irish Examiner. 'Hardiman's detailed survey of [insurance law, libel, the tort of criminal conversation] undoubtedly renews and enriches our reading of Joyce's work as a whole ... Its treatment of individual cases is fascinating' Literary Review. 'Hardiman's enthusiastic tracing and interpretation [...] does it a great service' The Sunday Times. 'With forensic care, Hardiman takes us through the trials of Emmet and the invincibles. His advantage is that he knows the book as well as he knows the law, and so misses no chance to connect what happened legally with what enters the minds and conversations of the fictional characters ... [Hardiman] writes with clarity and with a lawyer's eye as he describes what the authorities did to prevent the book being published' Colm Toibin, Guardian. 'This tremendously well-researched and marvellously insightful book is a delight for lawyers and lovers of literature alike' Irish Independent. 'Hardiman has approached the oeuvre with refreshing clarity ... he is a highly enlightened and consistently humane reader of Joyce' Daily Telegraph. 'He has the gifts of clarity, expertise and a deep knowledge of what he is talking about ... This book is a worthy tribute to a person of many talents who fortunately chose to devote a lot of them to a body of work which was ideally suited for him' Irish Times. 'Even to those who find Ulysses somewhat impenetrable and to those who never even attempt to read Finnegans Wake, Joyce in Court is a pleasure to read and a real treasury of Joycean history in context' Dublin Sunday Business Post.