improve_ m~nll
consequent
upon lIil etror" tbere.
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uulen for an outea" ma.
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pecclt made in '53" by Sir
William Skeffingron, then Lord Deputy"fDublin, whocalled hi, enemies 'outcoll mastives, linered in C\! rri,h blnod'. "
1would di. pute the connection, with Mn Traven Smith'. work postulated by Mr A,herton,K bUI it is perhaps significant lhat a . ing! ep~f<<)mitisparodiedaltheopposednodeofFW,i. e. the 1. 4 trial. QSS. OS-7 Tc-peal$ the ume qUOtation as Wilde: 'I ~ alw. J'! l one of those for whom the vi. ible world exi. ted. '''
M . . . Trave. . . Smith comment. upon her wort: ? If lhe medium could be diopensed with and a . uitable "telephone" invenled hctwe<:n this world and the other, no doubt results would be Ie. . WlCVtItand clearcr. 'u This is apt: muehofill. ) i. telephone con- vc""rion. At S46. ~S-8 Xare four telephone operators interrupling m'? ? pceeh to inquire t1u: numbeT . nught and as); whet1u:r the cor- rectchangehasbeenin&crted. A. III. 3operuI withape. . . . onnamed Yawn and 1l1. 4 displays the ing,esa of daylight upon the night
of FW, the note on VI. B. S. 29 is interesting:
Yawn telegraph telephone
Dawn wirele,,"
rhought transference
"H",,,,,"T,. . . . . . . Smith. ~ M'""""f"""o. "odr;u. (I00_ ,T. Wotn<< Lauri< '_J, 1-9?
"iNd. ? . . . .
~,.
comeo from Goubrt. "/I>ii. , ~
W. . buf1<Hl. l(<"<. J. Wh;. "r. . . _
! I<"<. II. Wolsh, " /li,1m)' of'" Ci",. /
~ I. "? --II.
~Boo,"', 41.
~ Hco",. T. . . ". . . , Sm;th. , P,y. :)r;" M""". . fr- 0 . - w;u. , 6-? 1'! re ph,,"
The City 19
? 30 Tbe Sigla of JIj,. ". g"", Ill''''''.
T he rader may rein. . . my urrym, him inlo u. . micltl of. new thlJ)ler wllooot opmina be haa ! loOt ye'I sludied. How. :Vtt, Joy. . . , hinudf,plil 1I1. }" ,hi. poinl whn\h( published nts speech of Brs,. 4 in 19JO as a oepante book lIawllt CIriJdn. EwryttJller. , ? maoc:u! i"" counterpoise ,0 A~~" Lid . . PlMrabelk, now 1. 8. 'Hlveth Childe. . . ' i, an eJa,qumt I-tlf-vindication by the fourukr, arcbitect, vi. . . ,roy and Lord Mayor of Dublin l<:l<so:>pe<i into One J1"1'SQn. " is pcrmened ",Itb mediev. l Dublin placcnemcs, for example Giglones Hm, Skinner'. Alley, Big Buue. I. . . ne, Ke)'Kr'. l. . anc and Hangina T ower. VI. B. :8. l-4concain. an arny
ofLord Maron ofDublin ",lIich Joyce mewed amongs' ill ~ There are also variou. Q. . . ,rPQ from u. . 'Dublin Anml. ' of
TNJr,,', l)ir<<tory. Allhough Dublin is pr<:-em;nall, one fmdl m'lllY . UU$ionJ to (liner cities and IlIn r edifi""" or disoieu. I find in . UCC<eUion Ams,erdam, Rome, Bobyton, New Yort:, Pdin. . . Londool, OlIo, Frankfurt, Stockholm, L. i~l, Belt. . l, Bel? ,~, Riode Janeiro, Edinburgh, Moscow, Paris, Brisrol, Carth_ . . e, Washington, Naples, Bu~ Aires, Budapest, Cort, Cal- CUlla, Wa. . . . "" Prague:, Alllen! , Jerusalem, Copenhagen, St Petersburg, Granada, Con"anlinople, Sofia, Letcllworth (tile
r. . . . t Garden City), tbe c;tics of tile world', &ven WoruIel'l lJ\d Sydney .
In til. opening 11&1'" of 'Havelll Childers' m'. <'OflCO:m is 10 ;"" ifyiii,conduct,wllicllhedocswilhoul""",isu:ncy,II. >IXftding elli"" annullu. , _lie. ones. He rescnu the &landers inflicted upon lIim linco: iii. depI"U~ iust II rlu: pS)'d1ic Wilde tUma UlY. ns. lie defmds his morality by affirming llis dcwrion to IIi. wife. H. tllen describes lIis pUt life in Dublin and til.
improve_ m~nll consequent upon lIil etror" tbere. In S39. '~540. 08 lie explains IIow he arrived :ond planted hi. residence, lin. . . , wlli~h famine, di. . ,ase and ""il li. . . . . n have vanished. Durina tile inlerval
belWttn 1. 4 and tho prClCnt all 1\. 01 bttn tr:msfilJUred, as II. illus- trsl. . in 540-4J. He mentions \he disappearance 0( . harpoho<Ken,
founded hospitals and l ubdued rebeh. In iii. mayonl capacity be pt;rfotttwxl tile ceremony 0( 'rlclinl tile franclli. . . '. William Enalioh WI. bailiffin 14118 durina tIIis ptrambulation of tilt city boundaries. At one poinl the procnlion ""'r"Clled 'lOUlhwltd I I fl. n William Englisb IIi. oouse, wlli~1I they PISSed tllrough, mounting over the roofofanolh. er 0001"", and p. . . inj alto tllrou'"
tIIugt. ndiq>crs fromtheJU<<tI (540-19-32). W. bear
linl finance(s,. 4'. 07-'4)andhis'lfuul'"apinttfor. ilIl. windle" and V"1kine raidttlo (S4Q. 14- :W). He built "". . enrorb (s,p. 04-7), m,mo,ltotds,cotreehouJelandthe'ten. H. P""publiconrions,
"'"it
<S.
,we! -
? several gardens, until 'My came to the Coomb. ''' Thi' features . '543. ,6-,8 and kad. directly into a . ummary of ,be unbygienic conditions prevailing in a . ingle dweUing.
Mr Atherton bu Ixgun ,be ,,"ollotirut "f 543. n- 545. u wi,b pbrase, taken from B. S. Rownt"",'. P",,? nly. In view of tit<: amnunt written aboul tit<: obsession witb ,,! uolor in UIy. . . . it i. strange to find the only extensive use of tbi, sort of IItlIteriol in FW deriving from a . tudy nor of Dublin but of York. But Rown_ tree's rca",m for Klc. :ting Yorl< wu iu lotal unexccptionobility.
Ifconditionl in York were as bad as Rownttee seemed to be prov- ing, the overaie British town-dwell. . at the tum (Jf the century looked in a pre,ty bid way. This i. tbe universal citizen of m. univenal city. m concludes (S45. 1. ~-23) by quoting Henry II's charter grantins Dublin to tit<: ciIi""n, of Bri'tol (Tolbris Mre). He relItllins unaffocted by the ruinous housing: 'Thus Ix hd<' be
eventually say. (s. . 6. 1}).
The remainder of the chapter is overshadowed by the marrLage
of the ci,y and the river, beglnning at 546. 29. Had the Liffey ( A) turned her hack and left her bed, one might ",It wbat rival intlu- encc drew her. But it was vasdy (Jlherwise. m oonfined the river beTWccn banks and walls, lea ding her from Leix! ip {o the Looplinc Bridge (s. . 7"5- ,6). At RinR'end he perfonned another part of Ihe fraru;biK ceremony: 'he Lord ~yor burls a apear int" Ihe Ka tu delimit the ciIY" extension ('my dart '" Ihmw', 547. 20).
Land was rttlairned in thi. region (547. 23-4) and the len bridges between OJapcliwd and the river'. mouth were built (547. 29-30).
Ships' siren. were heard. m proceed. to detail his beautification of the city for hi. bride: M mentio"" the manufacture of women', dothing, fasbions, novelties, tbe importation of e. otic food, the pr<>CC1'inn. of tit<: Dublin trades guilds, exhibitions, millie halls ~ndpm",,,,imes. Next(55'? 2'-552. 07)heOOmes'". . . entialcivic architecture, lhe oomtruction of tbe Grand and Royal Canal. ,
public convenience" universities, tbe Bank of Ireland (formerly die Parliament HouK), railway termini and catbedral? . He gives
a roU ofhonour ofarchil<<=lund sculp. o,. . : Richard C. . . . . . d s, Mary Redmond, James Gandon, Sir Thorn. . Deane, Oliver Shepperd, Edward Smyth, Parke Neville, Thorn. . Heaton, B. B. Sloney, John Henry Foley, Sir Thoma, Fam:ll, Jobn Van NoS! , Homo T homeycrofl and John Hogan (552. 10- 12).
The f"",1paragraph orcS urbaniution brought 10 the point
" ) . W. . ""rton, Reo. J WIrit<. . . . . m<I Rev. R. Wd. h, A H,,,ory of'''' G,IY of DwM;. I, 95-8 t<<>>UII" the """''''''r?
TbeCity 21
? 22 The Sigla of Fim"gtms W". k~
whore t1u: injuries vi. ited by mon the ri""r', flanks are so extensive that IK> blade ofgra. . can <merge further from the stony scar ti. ,ue (553,06), S""en W<lndrous stalUes ar<: set up whilst an aureole of distant barl<ryfield$ ,upplies IJ1llrerial f"" the ""st Guinnesi ! lre_ wery, AI . he end m stands back like a rill8JIl'lSler warehing the (ir~'Ulati<m of the populace, drawn by . . varkty of (ircus hoeses,
Tbe priorities and juxtap"'itions in 'Havelh Otilders' IJ1lly appear grotesque, ignoble, sid: "" aff~. <<l. T o under-stand Joyce'. ca<icarur<: of hi, na. iv. city we should com""r<: the Dublin of
Uly. . . . as tre-. . ted by J. C. C. May,,"
Hi, commitment to Parnellism in the face of praclical alrerruttives must be =gni~ed as another an<mpt 10 view . . puresituation what historically i. partofan ongoing pro- cess, thereby relievinj hi. char. ocu:. . of the n. . . d to commil
them'l<'lves 'l<'rio""ly to the nighnn. a. r<: of history. The division betWttn '904 and the time when the book was
writt. . , and published W<lrx, to a like end. Intervening ""ents . tf~I such IJ1lllter-s as lone-for instance the "". ious ironies of'Aeol",,' ar<: augmented by iii location in an ar<:a of the city . ince halk,w<:d by na,i<)IU. lisl sen. imenl-bm such ironies are in themselves disahling: (hey do n<lt comp~ca. e bycutting across obvious surface meanings, but instead ~r . i,uationsallthe mor<: completely from their intended conscqucnttund enable them to be exploited as more or less pure medium.
William Skeffingron, then Lord Deputy"fDublin, whocalled hi, enemies 'outcoll mastives, linered in C\! rri,h blnod'. "
1would di. pute the connection, with Mn Traven Smith'. work postulated by Mr A,herton,K bUI it is perhaps significant lhat a . ing! ep~f<<)mitisparodiedaltheopposednodeofFW,i. e. the 1. 4 trial. QSS. OS-7 Tc-peal$ the ume qUOtation as Wilde: 'I ~ alw. J'! l one of those for whom the vi. ible world exi. ted. '''
M . . . Trave. . . Smith comment. upon her wort: ? If lhe medium could be diopensed with and a . uitable "telephone" invenled hctwe<:n this world and the other, no doubt results would be Ie. . WlCVtItand clearcr. 'u This is apt: muehofill. ) i. telephone con- vc""rion. At S46. ~S-8 Xare four telephone operators interrupling m'? ? pceeh to inquire t1u: numbeT . nught and as); whet1u:r the cor- rectchangehasbeenin&crted. A. III. 3operuI withape. . . . onnamed Yawn and 1l1. 4 displays the ing,esa of daylight upon the night
of FW, the note on VI. B. S. 29 is interesting:
Yawn telegraph telephone
Dawn wirele,,"
rhought transference
"H",,,,,"T,. . . . . . . Smith. ~ M'""""f"""o. "odr;u. (I00_ ,T. Wotn<< Lauri< '_J, 1-9?
"iNd. ? . . . .
~,.
comeo from Goubrt. "/I>ii. , ~
W. . buf1<Hl. l(<"<. J. Wh;. "r. . . _
! I<"<. II. Wolsh, " /li,1m)' of'" Ci",. /
~ I. "? --II.
~Boo,"', 41.
~ Hco",. T. . . ". . . , Sm;th. , P,y. :)r;" M""". . fr- 0 . - w;u. , 6-? 1'! re ph,,"
The City 19
? 30 Tbe Sigla of JIj,. ". g"", Ill''''''.
T he rader may rein. . . my urrym, him inlo u. . micltl of. new thlJ)ler wllooot opmina be haa ! loOt ye'I sludied. How. :Vtt, Joy. . . , hinudf,plil 1I1. }" ,hi. poinl whn\h( published nts speech of Brs,. 4 in 19JO as a oepante book lIawllt CIriJdn. EwryttJller. , ? maoc:u! i"" counterpoise ,0 A~~" Lid . . PlMrabelk, now 1. 8. 'Hlveth Childe. . . ' i, an eJa,qumt I-tlf-vindication by the fourukr, arcbitect, vi. . . ,roy and Lord Mayor of Dublin l<:l<so:>pe<i into One J1"1'SQn. " is pcrmened ",Itb mediev. l Dublin placcnemcs, for example Giglones Hm, Skinner'. Alley, Big Buue. I. . . ne, Ke)'Kr'. l. . anc and Hangina T ower. VI. B. :8. l-4concain. an arny
ofLord Maron ofDublin ",lIich Joyce mewed amongs' ill ~ There are also variou. Q. . . ,rPQ from u. . 'Dublin Anml. ' of
TNJr,,', l)ir<<tory. Allhough Dublin is pr<:-em;nall, one fmdl m'lllY . UU$ionJ to (liner cities and IlIn r edifi""" or disoieu. I find in . UCC<eUion Ams,erdam, Rome, Bobyton, New Yort:, Pdin. . . Londool, OlIo, Frankfurt, Stockholm, L. i~l, Belt. . l, Bel? ,~, Riode Janeiro, Edinburgh, Moscow, Paris, Brisrol, Carth_ . . e, Washington, Naples, Bu~ Aires, Budapest, Cort, Cal- CUlla, Wa. . . . "" Prague:, Alllen! , Jerusalem, Copenhagen, St Petersburg, Granada, Con"anlinople, Sofia, Letcllworth (tile
r. . . . t Garden City), tbe c;tics of tile world', &ven WoruIel'l lJ\d Sydney .
In til. opening 11&1'" of 'Havelll Childers' m'. <'OflCO:m is 10 ;"" ifyiii,conduct,wllicllhedocswilhoul""",isu:ncy,II. >IXftding elli"" annullu. , _lie. ones. He rescnu the &landers inflicted upon lIim linco: iii. depI"U~ iust II rlu: pS)'d1ic Wilde tUma UlY. ns. lie defmds his morality by affirming llis dcwrion to IIi. wife. H. tllen describes lIis pUt life in Dublin and til.
improve_ m~nll consequent upon lIil etror" tbere. In S39. '~540. 08 lie explains IIow he arrived :ond planted hi. residence, lin. . . , wlli~h famine, di. . ,ase and ""il li. . . . . n have vanished. Durina tile inlerval
belWttn 1. 4 and tho prClCnt all 1\. 01 bttn tr:msfilJUred, as II. illus- trsl. . in 540-4J. He mentions \he disappearance 0( . harpoho<Ken,
founded hospitals and l ubdued rebeh. In iii. mayonl capacity be pt;rfotttwxl tile ceremony 0( 'rlclinl tile franclli. . . '. William Enalioh WI. bailiffin 14118 durina tIIis ptrambulation of tilt city boundaries. At one poinl the procnlion ""'r"Clled 'lOUlhwltd I I fl. n William Englisb IIi. oouse, wlli~1I they PISSed tllrough, mounting over the roofofanolh. er 0001"", and p. . . inj alto tllrou'"
tIIugt. ndiq>crs fromtheJU<<tI (540-19-32). W. bear
linl finance(s,. 4'. 07-'4)andhis'lfuul'"apinttfor. ilIl. windle" and V"1kine raidttlo (S4Q. 14- :W). He built "". . enrorb (s,p. 04-7), m,mo,ltotds,cotreehouJelandthe'ten. H. P""publiconrions,
"'"it
<S.
,we! -
? several gardens, until 'My came to the Coomb. ''' Thi' features . '543. ,6-,8 and kad. directly into a . ummary of ,be unbygienic conditions prevailing in a . ingle dweUing.
Mr Atherton bu Ixgun ,be ,,"ollotirut "f 543. n- 545. u wi,b pbrase, taken from B. S. Rownt"",'. P",,? nly. In view of tit<: amnunt written aboul tit<: obsession witb ,,! uolor in UIy. . . . it i. strange to find the only extensive use of tbi, sort of IItlIteriol in FW deriving from a . tudy nor of Dublin but of York. But Rown_ tree's rca",m for Klc. :ting Yorl< wu iu lotal unexccptionobility.
Ifconditionl in York were as bad as Rownttee seemed to be prov- ing, the overaie British town-dwell. . at the tum (Jf the century looked in a pre,ty bid way. This i. tbe universal citizen of m. univenal city. m concludes (S45. 1. ~-23) by quoting Henry II's charter grantins Dublin to tit<: ciIi""n, of Bri'tol (Tolbris Mre). He relItllins unaffocted by the ruinous housing: 'Thus Ix hd<' be
eventually say. (s. . 6. 1}).
The remainder of the chapter is overshadowed by the marrLage
of the ci,y and the river, beglnning at 546. 29. Had the Liffey ( A) turned her hack and left her bed, one might ",It wbat rival intlu- encc drew her. But it was vasdy (Jlherwise. m oonfined the river beTWccn banks and walls, lea ding her from Leix! ip {o the Looplinc Bridge (s. . 7"5- ,6). At RinR'end he perfonned another part of Ihe fraru;biK ceremony: 'he Lord ~yor burls a apear int" Ihe Ka tu delimit the ciIY" extension ('my dart '" Ihmw', 547. 20).
Land was rttlairned in thi. region (547. 23-4) and the len bridges between OJapcliwd and the river'. mouth were built (547. 29-30).
Ships' siren. were heard. m proceed. to detail his beautification of the city for hi. bride: M mentio"" the manufacture of women', dothing, fasbions, novelties, tbe importation of e. otic food, the pr<>CC1'inn. of tit<: Dublin trades guilds, exhibitions, millie halls ~ndpm",,,,imes. Next(55'? 2'-552. 07)heOOmes'". . . entialcivic architecture, lhe oomtruction of tbe Grand and Royal Canal. ,
public convenience" universities, tbe Bank of Ireland (formerly die Parliament HouK), railway termini and catbedral? . He gives
a roU ofhonour ofarchil<<=lund sculp. o,. . : Richard C. . . . . . d s, Mary Redmond, James Gandon, Sir Thorn. . Deane, Oliver Shepperd, Edward Smyth, Parke Neville, Thorn. . Heaton, B. B. Sloney, John Henry Foley, Sir Thoma, Fam:ll, Jobn Van NoS! , Homo T homeycrofl and John Hogan (552. 10- 12).
The f"",1paragraph orcS urbaniution brought 10 the point
" ) . W. . ""rton, Reo. J WIrit<. . . . . m<I Rev. R. Wd. h, A H,,,ory of'''' G,IY of DwM;. I, 95-8 t<<>>UII" the """''''''r?
TbeCity 21
? 22 The Sigla of Fim"gtms W". k~
whore t1u: injuries vi. ited by mon the ri""r', flanks are so extensive that IK> blade ofgra. . can <merge further from the stony scar ti. ,ue (553,06), S""en W<lndrous stalUes ar<: set up whilst an aureole of distant barl<ryfield$ ,upplies IJ1llrerial f"" the ""st Guinnesi ! lre_ wery, AI . he end m stands back like a rill8JIl'lSler warehing the (ir~'Ulati<m of the populace, drawn by . . varkty of (ircus hoeses,
Tbe priorities and juxtap"'itions in 'Havelh Otilders' IJ1lly appear grotesque, ignoble, sid: "" aff~. <<l. T o under-stand Joyce'. ca<icarur<: of hi, na. iv. city we should com""r<: the Dublin of
Uly. . . . as tre-. . ted by J. C. C. May,,"
Hi, commitment to Parnellism in the face of praclical alrerruttives must be =gni~ed as another an<mpt 10 view . . puresituation what historically i. partofan ongoing pro- cess, thereby relievinj hi. char. ocu:. . of the n. . . d to commil
them'l<'lves 'l<'rio""ly to the nighnn. a. r<: of history. The division betWttn '904 and the time when the book was
writt. . , and published W<lrx, to a like end. Intervening ""ents . tf~I such IJ1lllter-s as lone-for instance the "". ious ironies of'Aeol",,' ar<: augmented by iii location in an ar<:a of the city . ince halk,w<:d by na,i<)IU. lisl sen. imenl-bm such ironies are in themselves disahling: (hey do n<lt comp~ca. e bycutting across obvious surface meanings, but instead ~r . i,uationsallthe mor<: completely from their intended conscqucnttund enable them to be exploited as more or less pure medium.
