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Did she fall or was she pushed?
Lenehan tries to attract Miss Kennedy's attention with a
“low whistle of decoy”. As she rises and closes her reading
“dreamily”, he asks: "Did she fall...
[more...]
Flynnlandia, or the rise (and fall) of the House of Usher "It was always a great affair, the Misses Morkan’s annual
dance."
The Morkans have a back-history, and it's here [more...]
Pronouncing
Joyce Proper names in Joyce's writing can be pronounced in Dublin English in ways which are surprising to those unfamiliar with the dialect. Often the stress falls in unexpected places (as in D'Olier Street) [more...] Aungier Street Comings and Goings: Joyce's words in the Oxford English Dictionary Work towards the Third Edition of the OED (2000-; now around 40% complete) changes the profile of Joyce in the dictionary, especially as his quotations are sometimes displaced by new first usages found in other, earlier sources [more...] | Myler Keogh: pet lamb against the Portobello bruiser Myler Keogh, sometime champion of all Ireland,
was one of Dublin’s middleweight boxing heroes during the 1890s. Many of his
fights were staged at Dublin’s Antient Concert Rooms on Great Brunswick Street
(now Pearse Street), well known to Joyce and his father. Joyce called him "Dublin's pet lamb", but what history did this expression have in Irish boxing circles...?
Sport (1899)
Read the full story at Joyce's People here.
By way of a hint, here's a snatch of an earlier fight, between Dick Curtis and the "Oxford pet".
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