On 2 July 1903 the Gordon-Bennett race took place in Ireland. The first international motor race held in Ireland was held on a course in the midlands on 2 July 1903. Joyce used the race as the background for his story ‘After the Race,’ which was published in the Irish Homestead in December 1904. The […]
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On this day…1 July
On 1 July 1905 Joyce finished writing ‘The Boarding House.’ ‘The Boarding House’ is the seventh story in Joyce’s Dubliners, but was the fifth story he wrote. The manuscript is dated 1 July 1905. Three stories by Joyce had already been published in the Irish Homestead magazine in 1904-5, but a fourth story, ‘Hallow Eve’ […]