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26th JANUARY
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JOYCE IN 1904
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In 1904 James Joyce was 22 years
old. The death of his mother the
previous year had accelerated the decline
of the family fortunes and his wastrel
father made little attempt to support
the large family in Cabra.
Joyce himself, who had just
abandoned a medical course in Paris,
was turning to literature. During 1904
he began work on his novel 'Stephen
Hero' (a first draft for 'A Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man'), wrote a number of poems and published the first
Dubliners stories in George Russell's
magazine The Irish Homestead.
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The Tower
8 a.m.
Mr. Bloom's Wak
10 a.m.
The School
10.30 a.m.
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11.15 a.m.
The Funeral
11.45 a.m .
The Heart of th• Hibernian Metropolis
12 noon
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3 p.m.
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3 p.m.
Fifteen-minute Interval
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MICH\EL DALY
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The Cabman's belter
7 Eccles Street
strength of borrowed money, he rented
a room in 60 Shelbourne Road and
hired a piano to practise for the Feis
Ceoil. The Feis took place on 16th May
but Joyce lost his certain chance of the
gold medal by refusing to read at sight.
He was unable to pawn the bronze
medal and ihrew it into the Liffey.
Later that summer, however, he was
given equal billing with John McCormack
and J . C. Doyle when he sang at a
concert in the Antient Concert Rooms in
Brunswick Street.
During this period he held a
temporary teaching post at the Clifton
School in Dalkey.
On I Oth June Joyce first met Nora
Barnacle, and it was on the 16th of June,
the day on which 'Uiysses' is set, that
they had their first rendezvous together
for a walk at Ringsend. Before long
they were meeting regularly and
exchanging passionate letters.
His courtship did not immediately
affect his drinking habits. On 20th
June he had to be carried out of the
National Theatre Society's premises
after an actress had tripped over his unconscious body and two nights later he
was given a black eye in a drunken
fight with a soldier. On this occasion
he was picked up and taken home by
a Dublin Jew named Alfred Hunter.
The Tower
During the summer Joyce's friend
Oliver St. John Gogarty, a poet and
medical student, took the lease of a
recently demilitarized Martello Tower
on Sandycove Point, on the coast
beyond Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire).
The Tower, built a hundred years
previously during the Napoleonic Wars
stood on a outcrop over Sandycove
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Har~our, with wonderful views across
Dublin Bay to Howth Head and the
city and southwards to the mountains.
Gogarty, who had grandiose phins for
its literary future , invited Joyce to join
him there, but when he took up resid·
ence in mid-August, Joyce did not appear
straight away. He was busy preparing
for his departure from the country by
composing a scurrilous broadside
named "The Holy Office" in which he
lampooned all his literary contemporar·
ies, with the inclusion of Gogarty. Thus
when his rent on Shelboume Road
expired and Joyce arrived at the tower
on 9th September, his reception was
understandably cool.
Joyce's stay at the tower lasted less
than a week. He and his host were joined
by Gogarty's Oxford friend Trench (who
was portrayed in 'Ulysses' as Haines) and
the increasing tension came to a head
one night when Trench, disturbed by
a nightmare about a black panther, pull·
ed out a gun and started shooting wildly
m the smgle room which they shared.
Gogarty then took the gun and shot
down the saucepans which hung over
Joyce's bed, whereupon Joyce got up
and left. A month later he and Nora
took the boat for Europe, to begin a
lifelong exile from Ireland.
Despite the. brevity of his stay there,
the tower held Immense significance for
Joyce, and it is fitting that all of the
buildings associated with him, this should
be the one to house the museum in
his name. Today it is recognised
throughout the world as the st?rting
pomt for the most famous literary
Odyssey of our time.
The Directors of Everyman Playhouse
wish to thank the following for their
generous sponsorship of productions
during the current season.
ROBERT NICHOLSON
BARRY'S TEA
"A Flea in her Ear"
EAMON MORRISSEY
Eamon Morrissey is well known to
Irish theatregoers and television viewers
alike. 'J oycemen' is the third work that
he has adapted for the stage as a one
man show. The first was 'The Brother'
from the writings of Elann O'Brien.
Four years later ( 1978) he presented
'Patrick Gulliver' from the works of
J on athan Swift. Both of these shows
were first presented at the Peacock and
were very well received.
Recently he appeared in the Abbey
in 'The Field' by John B. Keane and as
Joxer in 'Juno and the Paycock'.
For ten years he appoared in 'Hall's
Pictorial Weekly' on RTE and before
that played on Broadway in Brian Friel's
'Philadelphia, Here I Come' and 'Lover>'.
He is a Dubliner and is married
with two children.
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