Archive
Number 1 - September 2011
Contents
Introduction to the first issue
The Editors
Joyce's People
Harald Beck
John Simpson
Captain Buller: that prodigious hit to square leg
John Simpson
Some notes on the triple life of Thomas Goodwin Keohler
Eamonn Finn and John Simpson
Joyce's Words
adelite - a delightful colour word
Harald Beck
basilicogrammate: the Egyptian royal secretary
John Simpson
contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality: jawbreakers and spelling bees
John Simpson
Joyce's Allusions
Two unidentified songs in the Penelope episode
Harald Beck
Harald Beck
John Simpson
John Simpson
Clive Hart
All change at the Empire Palace
John Simpson
John Simpson
The old hag with the yellow teeth
Harald Beck
Joyce's Environs
The deleterious effect of copper sulphate on green peas
John Simpson
Harald Beck
Elster Grime and the Grand Old Opera
John Simpson
Harald Beck
John Smurthwaite
Number 2 - March 2012
Contents
Introduction to the Second Issue
Joyce's People
They simply fade away: news on the life and death of an old soldier - Joseph Casey
Fullback for the Bective Rangers
Marie Dubedat - the Irish Nightingale
Miss Douce and Miss Kennedy at a different bar
Daniel T. Sheehan: a University friend
Norman W. Tupper and the policeman's lap
Collecting the rates: Buckley, Cotter, Crofton, Henchy, and Weatherup
[including the next five items]
James Crofton: a tradition of public service
William Weatherup: what the newspapers said
Robert Henchy: a choice of two collectors
Edward Graham Cotter: another collector of rates?
Joyce's Words
Miss This Miss That and Miss Theother
Aquacity: awash with watery thoughts
I'd like my job! - Not likely! Eamonn Finn
Joyce's Allusions
Vengeance and the shores of Manhattan
Famine relief from the Sultan of Turkey
the bestest puttiest longbreak yet
Lawn Tennyson: the poetry of motion
My brandnew riddle - the Rose of Castile
Will you be my man will you carry my can
Peter Parley's Tales of the ancients
[including the next five items]
Silly Sunphonies: does Jesus want me for a sunbeam?
The Great Harmonia and the music of the spheres
Lenehan and the great outdoors
A good day for trimming your nails
Workaday workers in the Evening Telegraph office
The dragon slothfully drags her scaly folds
In Molly's hand there steals another
Corny kismet Eamonn Finn
Joyce's Environs
The destruction of the open-air pulpit at St. Mark's
Magazines for Christmas (1898)
Bewitching eyes beneath a well-drawn eyebrow line
Sporting issues and racing tissues
Reliable rubber goods - perish the thought!
That Wonder Worker Robert Janusko
Number 3 - September 2012
Contents
Introduction to the Third Issue
Joyce's People
Susy Nagle and her concertina dress
Mrs Gus Ruhlin: boxing and women's suffrage
Philip Beaufoy and the philosopher's tone
Mulrennan from the west of Ireland
Joyce's Words
The rabbits that caused all the trouble
Joyce's Allusions
My mother has married me... (Aida Yared)
William Field, the bard with the tumbling hair at Queen Dido's banquet
A heaven-sent dove with razor-sharp teeth
A perfect cretic floating down the O-hi-O
The Hidden Life of Christ Revealed
Dusty Rhodes the Popular Tramp
Perfide Albion - Perfidious Albion (Philip Keel Geheber)
Joyce's Environs
The Italian colony in South Dublin
Tom Rochford's smart idea at Crampton Court
That English invention: The Wonder Worker in nighttown (Ronan Crowley)
Pettiwidths: thrills and spills with Gerty MacDowell
Number 4 - March 2013
Contents
Introduction to the Fourth Issue
Joyce's People
The Madams of Nighttown; or, a Dublin lupanarology
including
Mrs Arnold at No 40 Lower Cumberland Street and elsewhere
Emily Lyons sets sail for Boston
J.P. Nannetti and the Lord Mayor's antecedents
Ditto MacAnaspey and the same for me, please
Joyce's Words
Praise Be! Here comes Old "Glory Hallelujurum" Purefoy
Head first and everything else behind
Joyce's Allusions
Don't leave your mother an orphan!
Joyce's Environs
The Corridors of the National Library
Number 5 - September 2013
Contents
Introduction to the Fifth Issue
Joyce's People
In Lunacy of Potterton (Homan Potterton)
Thos. H. Dennany on a spit of land
Freddy Mayer and Joseph Poole's Myriorama
Pat Claffey and the Dublin convents
Wondrous little Tommy Conneff from the short-grass county of Kildare
James Joyce and Matthew Kane (Chris Kane)
Ignatius per ignotius: the short life and extraordinary times
1: Making his way in the world
2: Fred's Brilliant Career with Sport and the Invincibles
3: More practical jokes and international sport
Addendum
5a: The eccentricities of a grandfather: Patrick Frederick Gallaher
5b: Newspapers in the blood: John Blake Gallaher
5c: Gerald and Brendan Gallaher: the next generation
Brunny Lynam the medical student
Joyce's Words
Take me to your subleader! (Terence Killeen)
The fifth quarter is the butcher's profit
Fried hencods' roe and mutton kidneys:
these are a few of his favourite things
Molly's taittering lips (Vincent Deane)
Joyce's Allusions
From Swerve of Shore to Bend of Bay
Edward FitzGerald at sea: Oxen notesheet 17
From Meredith to Mulligan via Moore
Area: the Afterlife of Opal HushTreading water to paradise
Observing from his quaint-perched aerie
Molly's sandfrog shower in Gilbraltar (Austin Briggs)
Lady Morgan and "dear dirty Dublin"
Nothing to sit down on - nowhere to put it
Pantalons Blancs and Culottes Rouges
Two poetic snippets: row me o'er the ferry
and maledictive stones (Terence Killeen)
Joyce's Environs
A tonic for that tired feeling
Number 6 - March 2014
Contents
Introduction to the Sixth Issue
Joyce's People
Wheelmen don't eat quiche (John Simpson)
'One of Britain's fighting men': Major Malachi Powell and Ulysses (Andrew Tierney)
Professor Bloody-Big-Umbrella Glynn (John Simpson)
Joyce's Words
Telling crams (Harald Beck)
Head upon shoulder (Eamonn Finn)
The tree of heaven (John Simpson)
Joyce's Allusions
Lincoln, but not Abraham (Harald Beck)
The destruction of the fittest (John Simpson)
Gimlet sounded like poetry with Hamlet (Ronan Crowley)
Mr O'Madden Burke's strong weakness (Harald Beck)
I have sinned, I have suffered (Eamonn Finn/John Simpson)
Can't you talk? (Harald Beck)
And do the brave deserve the fair? (John Simpson)
You're a rogue and I'm another (John Simpson)
Kicking the Pope before us (John Simpson)
White silence in marble (Harald Beck)
Joyce's Environs
Carlisle girls (Harald Beck)
Left-off clothes (John Simpson)
Advertising names that speak to you: 1 - Bacilikil (Eamonn Finn)
Advertising names that speak to you: 2 - Veribest (John Simpson)
Advertising names that speak to you: 3 - Uwantit (John Simpson)
Fashionable cobwebs (John Simpson)
In the carriage for Paddy Dignam's funeral: Bloom was right all along (Harald Beck/John Simpson)
Number 7 - September 2014
Contents
Introduction to the Seventh Issue
Joyce's People
The afflicted mother - two letters (Terence Killeen)
The anonymous libeller of Denis Breen (George Bergman)
Then here's a health to Mulligan's aunt (Harald Beck)
Joyce's Words
The forgotten arm-strap (John Simpson)
Philirenists: peace-loving monarchs (John Simpson)
The "charming soubrette" of the stage (John Simpson)
Unlawfully watching and/or besetting (John Simpson)
Laid on like the gas (Harald Beck)
His brain tipped over (Harald Beck)
Joyce's Allusions
The milk in the coconut - a hairy puzzle (Harald Beck)
"Is there anybody here for there?", as the railway porter asked the passengers (John Simpson)
Caught it while it was flying (John Simpson)
Beatrice Harraden guiding the thread and Clarence E. Mulford shanghaied: Nausicaa notesheets 4 and 8 (Harald Beck)
What is Sister Susie's Playing? (John Simpson)
I smell the blood of an Irishman (Harald Beck)
Give and take is not fair play (John Simpson)
Shoehorning your head into your hat (Harald Beck)
U.P: up and away (John Simpson)
Ducks swim? (Harald Beck)
Bad luck arrives at Whitsuntide (William Huth)
Chase me Charlie, chase me Charlie, chase me Charlie do (John Simpson)
Free fox, free hen-roost (Harald Beck)
Joyce's Environs
A postcard from Bolivia (John Simpson)
Stepping back to Leahy's terrace (Ian Gunn)
Number 8 - March 2015
Contents
Introduction to the Eighth Issue
Joyce's People
Flynnlandia, or the rise (and fall) of the House of Usher (John Simpson)
1: Introduction (John Simpson)
2: Patrick Flynn the elder and Patrick Flynn the younger (John Simpson)
3: Flynns - the next generation (John Simpson)
4: The Misses Flynn, their other brothers, and Mary Ellen Callanan (John Simpson)
5: The Misses Flynn's grand annual concerts (John Simpson)
6: Echoes of the Flynn family in "The Dead" (John Simpson)
Old Parkinson, the English tenor (John Simpson)
The short but remarkable life of John O'Mahony (Harald Beck)
Monks, night fathers, and day fathers (John Simpson /Harald Beck)
Joyce's Words
Altogether now for the ensemble (Harald Beck)
Undertones of the sacred offices (Harald Beck)
The benefit of speedpills (Harald Beck)
Joyce's Allusions
Mr Brown, Mr Robinson, and the average Joe (John Simpson)
Lenehan and the great outdoors: (b) Catching a cold through an open gate (Harald Beck)
Soap-eating in the Arctic (John Simpson)
What made a crocodile bite the fluke of an anchor? (John Simpson)
A Fuller picture of the Lollards (Harald Beck)
Pom! he shouted twice: Some Memories of Buffalo Bill (1919) in Ulysses (Ronan Crowley)
Brown sons (John Simpson)
Washing possible is more than possible (John Simpson)
The green gem of Ireland set in the silver sea (John Simpson)
The tonic that braces the system (John Simpson)
Fair and forty goes far in a day (John Simpson)
On the Dead Sea, afloat with a parasol (Harald Beck)
Joyce's Environs
Salty missionaries (John Simpson)
A galería masquerading under the name of "Becche" (John Simpson)
Stephen's stroll on the strand (Ian Gunn)
Number 9 - September 2015
Contents
Introduction to the Ninth Issue
Joyce's People
Death in Ennis (Harald Beck)
James Joyce to August Suter (Harald Beck)
Joyce's Words
Changing his drink (John Simpson)
All bets are "off" (John Simpson)
Hamlet's sledded poleaxe (Robert Janusko)
Joyce's Allusions
An anatomy of Gray's Eulogy (Harald Beck)
Newsboys and the child-biting bellows (John Simpson)
Milking ducks grandmother's way (John Simpson)
Orphans in the Underworld (John Simpson)
Puffed and powdered, cocked and shaved (John Simpson)
Retirement into public life (John Simpson)
The half-seas-over empire of Britain (John Simpson)
Musical breakfasts and a walk with the band (Harald Beck)
Joyce's Environs
Brown-paper suits in fashion (John Simpson)
The cost of coal from Flower and M'Donald (John Simpson)
A missing gent answering to the name of Bloom (John Simpson)
Number 10 - March 2016
Contents
Introduction to the Tenth Issue
Joyce's People
The reluctant professor MacHugh (John Simpson)
The reluctant professor MacHugh 2 (John Simpson)
The reluctant professor MacHugh 3 (John Simpson)
The reluctant professor MacHugh 4 (John Simpson)
"Fitz-Epsykure": the further adventures of Alfred and Marion Hunter (Terence Killeen)
Heinous Hainau and the Blooms (Harald Beck)
Joyce's Words
An expression tossed around like snuff at a wake (Harald Beck)
Exclaiming St Denis (Harald Beck)
The mystic yogibogeybox (John Simpson)
It's just one thing laughing at another (Harald Beck)
The swinging whiskers (Harald Beck)
Joyce's Allusions
Joyce's Environs
The crossblind crux (Harald Beck)
Joyce's Ormond Hotel (Harald Beck)
Swansway: Father Conmee's walk to Artane (Eamonn Finn and Harald Beck)
Cross words for crossed letters (Harald Beck)
A crumpled throwaway: an arresting tale (Ian Gunn)
Number 11 - November 2016
Contents
Introduction to the Eleventh Issue
Joyce's People
Joyce's Words
Pronouncing Joyce (Robert Nicholson, John Simpson, etc.)
Comings and Goings: Joyce's words in the Oxford English Dictionary (John Simpson)
Comings and Goings: June 2016 update (John Simpson)
A mess of four (Harald Beck)
Hardy annuals in the nursery of life (Harald Beck)
Joyce's Allusions
Did he bring his crocodile? (Tim Conley)
A night of Irish entertainment (Harald Beck)
Brass by gold in your pocket (Harald Beck)
Hanged of a Tuesday (Harald Beck)
To the going-out entrance (Harald Beck)
Joyce's Environs
Oxen of the Sun - allocating text in the closing paragraphs
(Clive Hart, with Harald Beck)
The demise of Ithaca (Ian Gunn)
Number 12 - June 2017
Contents
Introduction to the Twelfth Issue
Joyce's People
Stopping by Woods next-door (John Simpson)
Joyce's Words
Comings and Goings: OED September 2016 to March 2017 updates (John Simpson)
Kishes, brogues, and ignorance (John Simpson)
A rich breakfast of rashers (Harald Beck)
Joyce's Allusions
Signs of resentment: to have something
(John Simpson)
George Moore and the Brixton Empire (Harald Beck)
An old woman in Prince's street (John Simpson)
No followers allowed (John Simpson)
Joyce's Environs
The jujube-sucking King (John Simpson)
Number 13 - June 2018
Contents
Introduction to the Thirteenth Issue
Joyce's People
Charles Dawson - lecturer on talking about everything (Harald Beck)
John O'Mahony and the Language of the Outlaw (Ronan Crowley)
Joyce's Words
Comings and Goings: OED January 2018 update (John Simpson)
Pronouncing Joyce (Robert Nicholson, John Simpson)
Gods and clods (John Simpson)
Joyce's Allusions
The Jeep-crux (Harald Beck)
Joyce's Environs
Burke's! (Harald Beck)
Joyce's Libraries updated (John Simpson)
Jenny Lind soup for the professional soprano (John Simpson)
The speed of the train during prayer (Dylan Emerick-Brown)
Number 14 - June 2019
Contents
Introduction to the Fourteenth Issue
Joyce's People
Francis Irwin, TCD, in the fusty world of Garrett Deasy (John Simpson)
Joyce's Words
Pet lambs in Dublin (John Simpson)
Moechus and scortum: not so neuter words (Geert Lernout)
Joyce's Allusions
Ossian's Poems - notesheets with updates (Ronan Crowley)
Save China's millions (John Simpson)
Miss Kennedy's reading matter (Harald Beck)
The King of Spain's daughter (Terence Killeen)
“He told me about, hold on, Swinburne, was it, no?” Buck Mulligan and the poet (Geert Lernout)
Joyce's Environs
Number 15 - December 2019
Contents
Introduction to the Fifteenth Issue
Joyce's People
The girl in the toga girilis (Harald Beck)
Joyce's Allusions
Rossini, Mercadante, and Meyerbeer (Vincent Deane)
Shrieks of silence! (John Simpson)
Camille Flammarion's Astronomy for Amateurs (1904) in Ulysses (Ronan Crowley)
Joyce's Environs
Exit Carr (William Brockman and Sabrina Alonso)
A floor plan for the Holles Street Hospital (Aidan Collins)
Sanitary matters at No. 7 Eccles street (Ian Gunn)
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