" Trilingual Joyce manages to be both painstaking and fun, no mean trick. O'Neill reminds us, as Finnegans Wake itself does, to be patient, to make our discoveries gradually, cumulatively, and by comparison. His study is attentive to rhythms and rhymes, rather than vocabulary alone (and that "alone" belies a great deal, for the Wake 's range in this regard is indeterminably broad), and is very conversant with the relevant textual history and the ongoing critical discussions about Joyce and translation." --Tim Conley, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Brock University "Not since Richard Ellmann's acclaimed biography of James Joyce have I read such an engaging account of Joyce's daily life intertwined with the full scholarly rigour of a textual analysis. Not surprisingly then, I see O'Neill is as well versed in biographical accounts of Joyce's life as he is in both 'classic' and more recent overviews of Finnegans Wake ." --Garry Leonard, Department of English, University of Toronto, Scarborough.