On 2 September 1932 Yeats invited Joyce to join the Irish Academy of Letters. Yeats and George Bernard Shaw were working to establish an Irish Academy of Letters, a body that would represent Irish writers in general and would help in the fight against censorship in particular. Both Shaw and Yeats felt that Joyce was […]
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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…28 July
On 28 July 1924 John Quinn died. New York lawyer John Quinn was an important supporter of Joyce who also acted effectively as Joyce’s representative in America for a time. Though they had been corresponding from August 1916, they didn’t meet for the first time until 14 July 1921 while Quinn was visiting Paris. Though […]
On this day…15 July
On 15 July 1912 Joyce arrived in Dublin from Trieste. Joyce’s arrival in Dublin on 15 July was the beginning of a three-month stay with his family in Ireland. It was also to be his last visit to Ireland. After Nora and Lucia left Trieste for Ireland early in July, Joyce received only a postcard […]
On this day…6 July
On 6 July 1915 WB Yeats wrote to Edmund Gosse about Joyce’s financial situation. Yeats had been made aware of Joyce’s financial straits by Ezra Pound, and Yeats wrote to Edmund Gosse seeking assistance from the Royal Literary Fund for Joyce. Thanks to these efforts Joyce was awarded £75 by the Fund. In writing to […]