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Clancy, Byrne and Joyce c1900-01 [pic source]
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Clancy, Byrne and Joyce c1900-01 [pic source]
1880: 11Feb (Fri): John Francis Byrne ('Cranly') born on east Essex street in Dublin
1883: Dec: father dies unexpectedly
1884: starts at Carmelite 'Infant's School' in Clarendon street, becomes altar boy
1885? faith healing of eye-problem by Father Charles
1885: Aug: accidentally hit by shotgun blast
1887: thinking of eternity makes him very sick at church
1888: 31May: First Communion
1888: 03Jun: ecstatic experience
1888: Sep: starts at Carmelite Seminary; called 'the boy who wouldn't tell a lie'; gift for memorization
1890: growing skepticism
no-date: befriended by Vincent Cosgrave's older brother Dillon, who teaches him about Dublin history
1892: Sep: enters Belvedere
1893: Jan: mother dies
1893: Apr: JAJ starts Belvedere
1894-95: in class of 30 with JAJ [Mikhail p2]
1894: first crush, on Norah Hogan (never resolved in the text-- could he have married her?)
1895: autumn: passes exams and enters University early
1895: Dec: watches Fr Darlington light fire with candle ends (sees it as an act of trusting intimacy) (cf PoA5)
1898: 15Aug: skips Tone monument celebration for solo trip to Vinegar Hill
JFB on JAJ: 'When J entered UC in Sept 1898, it was only natural for him to cleave to me. We had been together at Belvedere, and in the intervening years had maintained acquaintanceship.' [jfb40]
1898-99: JFB not taking classes at UC [jfb39]
famous for his solecisms [mbk172]
1898: autumn: over several months, JAJ waits while JFB plays chess at DBC with John Howard Parnell
1898: late-Oct: JAJ dubs Byrne 'Cranly' (loving the sounds of the word) [ehm5]
no-date: 'George Clancy was the one other person besides myself in UC whose companionship J courted. (There was one other whose company J accepted and in whom, to his later regret, he partially confided.) GC always called J 'Jebh' as if the 'b' were aspirated.' [jfb54-- the 3rd being Cosgrave?]
1899: Jul: Byrne reads Diseases of the Ox in library [jfb58, pc162] vs talking a long walk [pc162, SH, Mikhail p6]
1899: Jul: JFB walk to Glendalough and back with Skeffington, Merriman, Paddy Doherty and Jim O'Toole
Nov 1899: joins L&H [pc170]
no-date: reads paper for L&H on Thomas à Kempis's Imitation of Christ and the contribution of monastic discipline in barbarous medieval Europe [mbk172]
Apr 1900: "After his article on Ibsen had been published, Joyce's relationship with his few associates became impaired by either their jealousy or sycophancy; and so it happened that Joyce was forced during the next couple of years to rely more than ever on me for companionship.
1901? per Stannie, borrowed JAJ's early poems and handed them over to Father Darlington when the latter noticed and asked about them [mbk171]
summer 1901: Hellfire Club expedition with Skeffington, Merriman, O'Toole, Kettle, the Sheehys, and Alphy O'Farrelly
spring 1902: "One night in early spring, standing at the foot of the staircase in the library, he said to his friend 'I have left the Church.' And as they walked home through the streets arm-in-arm he told, in words that seemed an echo of their closing, how he had left it through the gates of Assisi." [Dana Portrait]
no-date: occasionally carries 'stout ash plant' (which he uprooted himself) or hung over arm by its crook [jfb70]
no-date: JAJ plays handball "somewhat in the manner of an unathletic girl" [jfb176]
1902: autumn: Sackville Chess Club founded, Byrne becomes champion
1902: Oct: "J gave me copies of all the poems he wrote prior to October, 1902" [jfb64]
Nov 1902: begins medical studies at St Cecilia's [pc179]
December: loses £60 (with cousin) renting but abandoning a haunted house, which is destroyed 26Feb by the big wind [jfb67]
1902: 15Dec (Mon): postcards to Byrne (w/Chamber Music XXXV: qv) and Cosgrave [pic]
Stannie claims JFB was wounded that Cosgrave got the dog-latin discussion of Paris prostitutes [L2-20]
18Apr 1903: conciliatory (?) letter to JFB
1904: Apr? Stephen Hero notes: "James Brennan"
03Jun 1904, JAJ to OG: "His Particular Intensity [JFB?] walks now unencumbered [by VC?]."
19Aug 1904: letter in latin regretting he has no money to lend, complaining of 'Holy Office' insults [L2-47]
13Nov 1906, JAJ to Stannie: sneers that Byrne thinks Skeff a 'pure' man, unlike J, and that J would become a drunkard in Europe {SL129, 131, denied jfb148]
1908: JFB moves into 7 Eccles [info] with his cousins Mary and Cicely Fleming and a big dog named Boy (until April 1910) [jfb154]
1909: 07Aug (Sat): JAJ goes to Byrne for support re Nora and Cosgrave
08Sep (Wed): JAJ and Byrne locked out of 7 Eccles after long walk (JFB claims he was weighed and measured during that walk at LB's exact height and weight-- 5'9 and 158)
1910: 08May: lands in USA
1917: 01Sep: "The Throne of Chaos" published in All Story magazine [jfb249-23]
1918: discovers 'Chaocipher' encryption algorithm
1920: idea rejected by US State Department
1927: 04Nov (week): JF Byrne visits JAJ in Paris for 3 days, for first time since 1909 [L1-261,e598]
JAJ addresses an otherwise mysterious Mrs Byrne? Gertrude! [passim]
1930: writes "A Parable in Gold" by J.F. Renby [jfb238-247]
1933: May: Byrne visits JAJ in Paris for a week [jfb235]
1937: makes expensive new model of cipher machine with 10pg booklet "Chaocipher-- the ultimate elusion"
1953: JF Byrne's memoir Silent Years includes encrypted message [jacket]
1960: death of 81yo JF Byrne [L2-41]
UTexas library collection
Pages 264-307 of Silent Years discuss a code that Byrne invented, and include 23 pages of encrypted text-- capital letters in groups of five.
If anyone can scan it in with OCR and email it to me, I will proofread and post it here so the cypherpunks can set to work on it.
"so simple it could be performed by any normal ten-year-old child... my method of disrupting the written words is identical and simultaneous with the complete restoration of order and design in the same written words... The ancient Egyptians and Babylonians could have been completely familiar with the principle, a fact which is readily deducible from a treatise on mathematics written by Hero of Alexandria [EB] in the 2nd century BC."
Hero (or Heron): detailed; info
"The first device, or machine, which I constructed, solely for the purpose of demonstrating the principle, was a little model, constructed in an empty cigar box... it looked so simple and colorful"
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