April 2019 will see the launch of two Joycean events at Trinity College Dublin, one event focusing on Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake, and the other Joyce’s daughter, Lucia. “Finnegans Wake at 80” is a symposium organised to celebrate 80 years since the publication of Joyce’s most infamous work. The aim of the symposium is to encourage […]
April
On this day…30 April
On 30 April 1918 Henry Carr complained to Sykes about Joyce. The day after the successful first performance by the English Players, Henry Carr, who had played Algernon Moncrieff, complained to Claud Sykes about the payment Joyce had given him. Joyce was angered by this and the row with Carr escalated into two court cases. […]
On this day…29 April
On 29 April 1918 the English Players gave their first performance. The English Players was an amateur drama group formed by Joyce and Claud Sykes in Zurich. The group’s first performance, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, took place at the Theater zu den Kaufleuten on Pelikanstrasse on Monday 29 April 1918. Claud Sykes […]
On this day…28 April
On 28 April 1923 a sphincterectomy was performed on Joyce’s left eye. Despite an operation on his eyes in August 1917, Joyce continued to be afflicted with eye problems, exacerbated by his intense work on Ulysses. Despite Joyce’s fear that another operation would leave his eyesight in an even worse condition, by April 1923 another […]
On this day…27 April
On 27 April 1871 Paul de Kock died. Charles Paul de Kock (1794-1871) was a prolific French novelist who published his first novel at the age of twenty-eight. His novels focus on lower- and middle-class Paris and his characters were often shop girls and clerks. Though his works were considered slightly vulgar, they were very […]
