On 18 September 1904 Joyce wrote the poem ‘Bid adieu.’ Though the manuscript of the poem bears the date 18 September 1904, it is likely this is only a fair copy and that the poem was composed earlier. According to Patricia Hutchins, one of Joyce’s cousins claimed to remember him writing this poem on a […]
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On this day…30 July
On 30 July 1904 a poem by Joyce was published in the Speaker. The poem, now Chamber Music xviii, had been sent earlier in the summer, and was published on 30 July 1904 in the English magazine, the Speaker. When Joyce was about to leave for Paris late in 1902, Yeats suggested that he could […]
On this day…4 December
On 4 December 1935 William Magee sent Joyce his book Irish Literary Portraits. William Magee (who wrote under the pseudonym John Eglinton), whom Joyce had known as a librarian at the National Library of Ireland, had included two essays on Joyce in his latest book, Irish Literary Portraits, published in London by Macmillan in 1935. […]