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Ulick O Connor |
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The Joyce We Knew
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Format: Paperback |
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Category: Memoir |
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ISBN: 0 86322 324 9 |
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Publication Date: Available |
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Description
Personal reminiscences by those who knew him.
These fascinating reminiscences by some of his friends and contemporaries give a deep insight into James Joyce and bring to light many less well-known characteristics. William G. Fallon and Eugene Sheehy draw vivid pictures of their schooldays with Joyce and their impressions upon meeting him after he had become famous. Padraic Colum first met Joyce when he was a student in Dublin and kept in contact with him. They met regularly in Dublin and later in Paris. Arthur Power first met Joyce in Paris, where they became good friends and spent much time together. Sean Lester, then acting Secretary-General of the League of Nations, met Joyce in Geneva less than a month before his death,finding him “completely unspoilt by his world success” but much hampered by his poor eyesight.
Readers may be surprised to find out from these intimate accounts how much of an extrovert Joyce was. He is the practical joker in the school drama society and in the gymnasium. He is the star when they play charades at genteel Dublin musical evenings, and later he will entertain the company with songs, serious and comic. He had ambitions to be a first-class swimmer. He is the perfect Edwardian “card”. How different from the withdrawn, aloof Stephen Dedalus. Thus we can draw a distinction between Joyce as he was and as he created himself in his two novels.
The Joyce We Knew is a new, expanded edition of the book of the same name published in 1967. |
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Author
Ulick O’Connor is a biographer, poet and playwright. His books include biographies of Oliver St John Gogarty and Brendan Behan; Celtic Dawn, The Yeats Companion and Biographers and the Art of Biography; in 2001 he published The Ulick O’Connor Diaries 1970-1981: A Cavalier Irishman.
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