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editions: 1916, archive 1917, ditto, 1918 1921 1922, archive, ditto, ditto 1928 html?
audio: librivox1 librivox2
annotated: genius
notes: gifford kershner spark shmoop gradesaver jjon


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played on the piano the sailor's hornpipe for him to dance. He danced:




Tralala lala
Tralala tralaladdy
Tralala lala
Tralala lala.

[Irish hornpipe dance]


Uncle Charles and Dante clapped. They were older than his father and mother but uncle Charles was older than Dante.

James' father's mother's brother, William O'Connell lived with the Joyces for ten years until his death in 1892 around age 70 [more]

Mrs. 'Dante' (ie, aunty) Hearn Conway was an heiress from Cork, ex-nun in the USA, husband disappeared with her fortune, joined Joyce family, reappears in Ulysses

c1822? William O'Connell
c1840? Mrs Hearn Conway ('Dante')
1849: 04Jul (Wed): John Stanislaus Joyce
1859: 15May (Sun): Mary Jane 'May' Murray


Dante had two brushes in her press. The brush with the maroon velvet back was for Michael Davitt and the brush with the green velvet back was for Parnell.

press

'leaders of Ireland' = Parnell (top), John Dillon and Davitt

Davitt founded the Land League [wiki]


Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.

a breath sweetener, not a cashew nut

(Joyce's brother claims this embarrassed her, so maybe the tissues were for her to use as toilet paper?)


The Vances lived in number seven. They had a different father and mother. They were Eileen's father and mother.

59yo widower in 1901?

When they were grown up he was going to marry Eileen.

the Vances were Church of Ireland/ Protestant, so this was naive

she seems to be missing from the 1901 and 1911 censuses: had she married (a Harris, per Ellmann) and left the country already by 1901?


He hid under the table. His mother said:
— O, Stephen will apologise.

longshot: Dante didn't like him playing with Eileen


Dante said:
— O, if not, the eagles will come and pull out his eyes.

she uses rhyme to make it memorable for him


Pull out his eyes,
Apologise,
Apologise,
Pull out his eyes.

Apologise,
Pull out his eyes,
Pull out his eyes,
Apologise.


he's already experimenting with rhyme and rhythm

an earlier, probably truer version without Dante appears in his Epiphanies:

"Bray: in the parlour of the house in Martello Terrace.
Mr Vance (comes in with a stick): “…O, you know, he’ll have to apologise, Mrs Joyce.”
Mrs Joyce: “O yes… Do you hear that, Jim?”
Mr Vance: “Or else– if he doesn’t the eagles’ll come and pull out his eyes.”
Mrs Joyce: “O, but I’m sure he will apologise.”
Joyce (under the table, to himself):
“Pull out his eyes,
Apologise,
Apologise,
Pull out his eyes.

Apologise,
Pull out his eyes,
Pull out his eyes,
Apologise."

1904 Portrait: "Use of reason is by popular judgment antedated by some seven years and so it is not easy to set down the exact age at which the natural sensibility of the subject of this portrait awoke to the ideas of eternal damnation, the necessity of penitence and the efficacy of prayer.His training had early developed a very lively sense of spiritual obligations at the expense of what is called 'common sense.'"


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