For the second instalment in our Spring / Summer 2019 Lecture Series, it was a pleasure to welcome Pat Callan to the James Joyce Centre to deliver his talk on Reuben J Dodd Junior, a Dublin-based solicitor, and one of the many real Dubliners who appeared in Joyce’s Ulysses. Pat’s fascinating talk detailed the legal […]
March
On this day…31 March
On 31 March 1916 Joyce agreed to Pound’s proposals to get around printers’ objections to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The publication of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in serial form in the Egoist magazine had been completed in September 1915. But all plans to publish it […]
On this day…30 March
On 30 March 1934 George Borach died. George Borach had been a student of Joyce’s in Zurich during the First World War, but they also kept in touch occasionally after Joyce left Zurich. Borach, who was just 42, was killed in a car accident on Good Friday 30 March 1934 on a road that Joyce, […]
On this day…29 March
On 29 March 1918 Ezra Pound criticised Joyce’s language in ‘Calypso.’ Writing on Good Friday, 29 March 1918, Pound warned Joyce of the possibility that the Egoist and the Little Review would be suppressed because of Joyce’s language. He claimed that he wouldn’t mind suppression on account of what Joyce had written in the first […]
On this day…28 March
On 28 March 1917 Ezra Pound wrote to Joyce about the Little Review. When Ezra Pound contacted Joyce for the first time in December 1913, he claimed to work on behalf of four magazines, two in England and two in the US. The two US magazines he mentioned were the Smart Set and Poetry in […]
