Autumn/Winter Course 2018 Join us this Autumn/Winter at the James Joyce Cultural Centre where, led by Dr. Caroline Elbay, our Lifelong Learning programme presents CITIES IN LITERATURE AND MUSIC. This is a series of talks, music, and guest lectures on the varied roles that major cities have played in both literary and musical works of […]
On 11 April 1903 Joyce left Paris for Dublin. Having attended the Good Friday Tenebrae services, Joyce returned to his hotel late at night. Waiting for him was a telegram from his father informing him that his mother was dying. Joyce started on his journey home on Saturday 11 April 1903. It seems from the […]
On 6 March 1903 Synge arrived in Paris. Synge had come to Paris in March 1903 to quit the apartment he had been keeping at 90 rue d’Assass. He stayed for only a week, but he and Joyce met frequently during that week. Before Joyce left Dublin for Paris in December 1902, Lady Gregory […]
On 23 December 1902 Joyce met Yeats in London en route back to Dublin for Christmas. After just over two weeks in Paris, Joyce returned to Dublin for Christmas. He met Yeats between trains in London and told him that he was giving up medicine and taking up literature instead. Though his attempt to study […]
On 18 December 1902 Yeats wrote to Joyce about his poetry. In his letter, Yeats not only gave a short critique of one of Joyce’s poems but also gave Joyce advice about how he might get started into writing and publishing prose, and therefore how he might make some money. Joyce had met Yeats in […]
