"SHE was the head of the ReJoyce festival in 2004, but it was Laura Barnes herself who had cause to rejoice after selling a cache of James Joyce manuscripts to the Irish state for €1.2m."

"The American academic, who bought the material from a Parisian book store about a year before reselling it to the National Library, refuses to say how much she made. But she insists that, despite her previous links to the library, where she has acted as a consultant, the deal was “kosher beyond kosher” and she did not have privileged information. "

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