“Stephen Joyce, the highly litigious grandson of Ireland’s greatest writer, James Joyce, has devoted his life to fiercely protecting his grandfather’s copyright, setting his lawyers on those foolhardy enough to take the Joyce name in vain or to reproduce Joyce’s words without consent. But now, fearful for this month’s mammoth celebrations of Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses, Irish MPs yesterday rushed through emergency legislation which will prevent Mr Joyce from suing the government and the National Library over an exhibition which displays 500 pages of Joyce manuscripts.”