five postoffice deliveries/day, 1st collection at 1:15am [n31 via Thom's] stamps cost a penny; deliveries were at 7am, noon, 2:20, 6:10, 8pm; one on Sunday [G13.1170]

theater seat: 6p? [rff326]

cheapest trip to Paris £3; telegraphing money to Paris cost 3-4 shillings each time [L2-33] [prices]

how long was a pawn ticket good for? (eg L2-25)

pre-1898 [more]

1888-1891: admitted to Clongowes Wood College 2yrs early, at 6.5yo

1892: Nov: father JSJ loses job, sudden move to north side of Dublin [map:J93]

"Stephen began to enumerate glibly his father's attributes. --A medical student, an oarsman, a tenor, an amateur actor, a shouting politician, a small landlord, a small investor, a drinker, a good fellow, a storyteller, somebody's secretary, something in a distillery, a taxgatherer, a bankrupt and at present a praiser of his own past." [PoA5]

"He remembered the first mood of monstrous dissatisfaction which had overcome him on his entrance into Dublin life..." [SH158]

"His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivined and squalid way of life. His soul was still disquieted and cast down by the dull phenomenon of Dublin." [PoA2]

1893-98: JAJ at Belvedere college (US: jr-sr highschool) [history] practices stylistic parody under English teacher George Dempsey; regularly reads essays to appreciative family group [j&c206]

"When Joyce read, Dempsey would literally wriggle and chuckle with delight..." [ehm2, jfb147]

Dempsey of JAJ: 'a plethora of ideas in his head' [mbk58]

1893?-1904: parties at Sheehys every other Sunday [j&c219] [memoir] (declares his pet aversion is soap and water; once, JAJ is so dirty that Mrs S makes him change his shirt; Hanna describes him later as farouche) [def] (SH152 implies Cosgrave 'replaced' wearisome Sheehy-parties for JAJ after apostasy, ie spring 1901)

1894: 19May (Sat): last night of Araby bazaar [e40, pc129] cf [Araby] (his 'crush' was probably on 17yo Hanna Sheehy or ?15yo Maggie Sheehy)

1894: 08Jun? (Fri): miching (playing hooky) with Stannie leads to encounter with 'captain of 50' [pc130, e47, mbk62] cf [Encounter]

1895: first masturbation at 13yo while nursemaid pees in field behind him [e418, mbk69] [more]

housing: 29 Windsor ave, Fairview (Sept1896-Jul1899) two-storey, 'pleasant' [pc140, e68] [pic] [map:J97]

1896: 30Nov (Mon): Belvedere retreat begins, maybe w/Fr Cullen [e48, pc141] cf [PoA3]
02Dec? (Wed) JAJ confesses masturbation, in Capuchin chapel one mile sw of Belvedere [map:Ch] cf [PoA3]
1897: religious fervor, lasts at least until Nov [pc142] cf [PoA4] (mother May "the companion of his devotions" rjj10)

"One day in a wood near Malahide [map] a labourer had marvelled to see a boy of fifteen praying in an ecstasy of Oriental posture." [PoA04]

spring 1897: last of 38yo mother May's ?15 birthings is stillborn (JAJ eldest of 10 surviving) [j&c204] [siblings]

1897-1904: JAJ an enthusiastic swimmer [mbk42] "habitually a very late riser" [mbk105]

Intermediate-exam scores: [cpc7, e751-752]

                    1894   1895   1897   1898
               max  Prep    Jr     Mid    Sr
Latin         1200   700    636    642    560
English       1200   455    540    457    650
French         700   400    410    528    345
  Commercial   200                  33    102
Italian        500   211    223    342    205
Arith          600   430    250    340    145
Euclid         600   230    175    180     40
Algebra        600   130    175    230
Trig           700                         20
Natl Phil      500          190    175     10
Chemistry      500          100

(Joyce's best scores and biggest prize in middle of his fervor-phase, June 1897. cf PoA2)

no-date: translated Horace? [e50, hg45 claims c1897, style is atrocious by JAJ's ?1902 standards]

Brighter than glass Bandusian spring
    For mellow wine and flowers meet,
The morrow thee a kid shall bring
    Boding of rivalry and sweet
Love in his swelling forms. In vain
He, wanton offspring, deep shall stain
Thy clear cold streams with crimson rain.

The raging dog star's season thou,
    Still safe from in the heat of day,
When oxen weary of the plough
    Yieldst thankful cool for herds that stray.
Be of the noble founts! I sing
The oak tree o'er thine echoing
Crags, thy waters murmuring.

(i kinda like 'Boding of rivalry and sweet Love in his swelling forms')

no-date (1898): Palestrina's 1565 'Missa Papae Marcelli' performed for 1st time in Dublin at St Teresa's [G1.653]

12Jan (Wed): death of JAJ's godfather, childless 51yo Philip McCann, JSJ and JAJ attend funeral on Friday [pc143/149/172, e23, j&c212] (bequest to JAJ probably finances university fees of 10 guineas/yr)

21Jan: Synge visits WBY in London on way from Dublin to Paris [Saddlemyer p26]

[j&c208] speculates (by analogy with Bloom) that JSJ was working at Cuffe's cattlemarket around this time

09Mar-18Mar: Yeats leaves London for Dublin (and Maud Gonne) [rff192]

10Apr (Sun): Easter

"While his mind had been pursuing its intangible phantoms and turning in irresolution from such pursuit he had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things and urging him to be a good catholic above all things. These voices had now come to be hollowsounding in his ears.

When the gymnasium had been opened [c1894] he had heard another voice urging him to be strong and manly and healthy and when the movement towards national revival had begun to be felt in the college yet another voice had bidden him be true to his country and help to raise up her language and tradition. In the profane world, as he foresaw, a worldly voice would bid him raise up his father's fallen state by his labours and, meanwhile, the voice of his school comrades urged him to be a decent fellow, to shield others from blame or to beg them off and to do his best to get free days for the school.

And it was the din of all these hollowsounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms. He gave them ear only for a time but he was happy only when he was far from them, beyond their call, alone or in the company of phantasmal comrades." [PoA2]

'monstrous' impulses:

1904 minus 6: "Six years ago I left the Catholic Church, hating it most fervently. I found it impossible for me to remain in it on account of the impulses of my nature." [JAJ to Nora, 29Aug 1904, SL25]

no-date: "The monster in Stephen had lately taken to misbehaving himself and on the least provocation was ready for bloodshed. Almost every incident of the day was a goad for him..." [SH29-- bloodshed = killing insults, by analogy with Turpin Hero? info]

late-Apr: WBY from London to Paris (w/Mathers and Gonne) [rff194]

10May-25Jun: Synge's 1st visit to Aran Islands [Saddlemyer p28]

23May (Mon): celebrations begin for centennial of 1798 rebellion [etext]

28May (Sat): JAJ parodies rector (Fr Henry) in "Vice Versa"; Stannie has a small part [pc144, ehm9, j&c209, cf? e56 '10Jan'] cf [PoA2] (e56n suggests cf also 'Fr Butler' in Encounter)

08Jun: WBY with MaudG in Dublin [rff194] MG breaks arm 12Jun, WBY reads her George Moore's newly published 'Evelyn Innes'

09Jun: AE marries 'sentimental English Theosophist' Violet North [rff186]

14Jun (Tue): JAJ and Albi Connolly skip religion exam [pc145, e56] (fervor-phase definitely over-- pc151 has a group photo of the 1898 Belvedere sodality with 16yo JAJ scowling like he wishes he were anywhere else)

Jun: math and science test-scores suggest zero effort

Jun: graduation ceremony, presumably-- Jack and May's first but entirely unremembered? the whole family would have included: James 16yo, Poppie 14yo, Stannie 13yo, Charlie 12yo, Georgie 11yo, Eileen 10yo, May 8yo, Eva 7yo, Florrie 6yo, Baby 5yo

20Jun: WBY to Coole [rff195]

implausible rumor: summer job as office boy in attorney's firm? [j&c209, e751n14 consigns to endnote]

15Jul: Gogarty gets bronze medal for courage re drowning [uoc36]

08Aug (week): first prostitute after play 'Sweet Briar' [passim?] ditto? [pc151, e48, j&c210] (Alf Bergan had gone to play too, with JSJ)

no-date: JAJ practices by writing theater-reviews for every play he sees [mbk88]

"The applause following the fall of the curtain fired his blood more than the scene on the stage... He felt the quaking of the earth... He felt himself alone in the theatre." [wod96- no date]

[SH40] implies these poem-fragments were pre-Ibsen: "The spectacle of the world... filled him with such sudden despair as could be assuaged only by melancholy versifying."

And I have sat amid the turbulent crowd,
And have assisted at their boisterous play;
I have unbent myself and shouted loud
And been as blatant and as coarse as they.

I have consorted with vulgarity
And am indelibly marked with its fell kiss,
Meanly I lived upon casual charity
Eagerly drinking of the dregs of bliss. [cf Yeats 1899 qv]

Yea, for this love of mine
I have given all I had;
For she was passing fair,
And I was passing mad.

All flesh, it is said,
Shall wither as the grass;
The fuel for the oven
Shall be consumed, alas!

Of thy dark life, without a love, without a friend,
    Here is, indeed, an end.

There are no lips to kiss this foul remains of thee,
    O, dead Unchastity!
The curse of loneliness broods silent on thee still,
    Doing its utmost will,
And men shall cast thee justly to thy narrow tomb,
    A sad and bitter doom.

15Aug (Mon): JAJ and JSJ (and 100k others) celebrate slab for Wolfe Tone monument [pc151] Byrne skips celebration for solo trip to Vinegar Hill [jfb221] Yeats addresses company, Gonne on platform [rff195]

"In the roadway at the head of the street a slab was set to the memory of Wolfe Tone and he remembered having been present with his father at its laying. He remembered with bitterness that scene of tawdry tribute. There were four French delegates in a brake and one, a plump smiling young man, held, wedged on a stick, a card on which were printed the words: Vive l'Irlande!" [PoA5]

(Gonne was rabblerousing all year, and Joyce probably heard her speak at some point)

01Sep: WBY and AE at Galway feis [rff196]

03Sep (Sat): results of exams: £35 = just £1 (in books) for exam scores, £4 for best composition, £30 from 2yr-prize the year before [pc152] Magennis singles out composition as publishable [e56] (maybe £30 was applied to UC fees?)

09Sep (Fri): JAJ uses book-prize on Ruskin's "Mornings in Florence" [pc152] (this was a tour-guide, so he was imagining putting his Italian to use, but he never made it to Florence)

16Sep (Fri): WBY takes mescaline (in London?) [rff196]

continued 'shocks' (ie, occasions when he expressed his nature and others responded in shocked and shocking ways):

"...In spite, however, of continued shocks, which drove him from breathless flights of zeal shamefully inwards, he was still soothed by devotional exercises when he entered the University." [PoA04] (cf SH148 "molten rages and glowing transports on which the emotions of helplessness and loneliness and despair had first acted as chilling influences.")

"...the most that devotional exercises could do for him was to soothe him. This soothing he badly needed for he suffered greatly from contact with his new environment. He hardly spoke to his colleagues and performed the business of the class without remark or interest." [SH29]

no-date: ?10yo sister Eileen impressed to see him saying rosary on way to school [ehm61]

University College: (300-400 total students, 64 in his entering class) [pc161] [info]

UC = three houses. #85 and #86 were classy, #87 was modest red brick (ground floor housed Irish Monthly) [cpc3]

classes mid-Sept (or early Oct?) to early June?

preparatory 'matriculation course' first year [cpc4-- fixed curriculum? no Italian]

Modern Languages major (normally followed only by girls)

JAJ lists JSJ's occupation as 'Entering for competitions' [e69 via Sheehy]

'inscribed' in Sodality [e65, JAJ denied this to hg]

18.5yo JF Byrne [bio] befriends 16.5yo JAJ (JFB famous for his solecisms [mbk172], not actually taking classes that year: jfb39)

JFB: "...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] (JFB had entered UC early, in 1895, but failed many exams due to laziness according to SH)

SH on Cranly: "It was in favour of this young man that Stephen decided to break his commandment of reticence." [SH124 Ch20, where Cranly/Byrne is postdated after Madden/Clancy]

JFB: "George Clancy was the one other person besides myself in UC whose companionship J courted. (There was one other [Cosgrave, introduced by JFB per SH] whose company J accepted and in whom, to his later regret, he partially confided.) Clancy always called J 'Jebh' as if the 'b' were aspirated." [jfb54. cf? L1-357 GC called JAJ 'Jim']

(Byrne was JAJ's primary and invaluable whetstone from 1899 thru 1902. if they averaged 20 'pages' per week of dialog during this time this would total 4000 pages in which Joyce explored every sort of question about life and art and morality.)

27Sep (Tue): long freshman essay on 'Force' [pc157, e67, cw17] for WP Coyne? [cpc6]

"There was a special class for English composition and it was in this class that Stephen made his name. The English essay was for him the one serious work of the week... Stephen's style of writing, though it was over affectionate towards the antique and even the obsolete and too easily rhetorical, was remarkable for a certain crude originality of expression. He gave himself no great trouble to sustain the boldnesses which were expressed or implied in his essays. He threw them out as sudden defence-works while he was busy constructing the enigma of a manner. For the youth had been apprised of another crisis and he wished to make ready for the shock of it. On account of such manoeuvres he came to be regarded as a very unequilibrated young man who took more interest than young men usually take in theories which might be permitted as pastimes." [SH26, cf PoA2]

no-date: "Coyne: Beauty is a white light. Joyce: Made up of seven colours." [wod87, via 1904 Pola notebook. another Coyne may have been a student?]

12Oct and 30Oct: Synge spends evening with AE [lfae229]

autumn: over several months, JAJ waits while JFB plays chess at DBC with John Howard Parnell [jfb53]

late-Oct: JAJ dubs Byrne 'Cranly' (loving the sounds of the name) [ehm5, jfb44]

Sept-Dec: esthetics-debate in 'Daily Express' between Eglinton (classics-Scylla-British), Yeats (decadents-Charybdis-Irish) and AE (synthesis):

"I think that we will learn again how to describe at great length an old man wandering among enchanted islands, his return home at last, his slow gathering vengeance, a flitting shape of a goddess, and a flight of arrows..." --WB Yeats [more]

(this debate was published in May 1899 in book form-- JAJ surely saw it then, if not as it was first appearing)

late-Nov: WBY to Dublin, stays at Crown Hotel (or MaudG does, or both) , studies in Natl Library with MaudG (in private are, not in reading room w/JAJ and JFB) [rff196-200] (they are creating an "Order of Celtic Mysteries" with a tarot whose suits are Cauldron, Stone, Sword and Spear)

01Dec (Thu): Stannie's Belvedere retreat begins (3 days) [pc159, SH57 ch17]

08Dec (Thu): MaudG finally tells WBY of Millevoye and their children [rff202]

18Dec: WBY proposes to MaudG, who says 'I have a horror and terror of physical love' [rff203] MG returns to Paris, WBY goes to Sligo and takes hashish pills [rff204]

no-date: JAJ instantaneously understands spirit of Ibsen, via "hardly procured" translations [SH40] (likely: Doll's House [etext]. maybe: Peer Gynt [etext], praised by WBY)

Ibsen reconciled for SD "the spectacle of the world which his intelligence presented to him with every sordid and deceptive detail, set side by side with the spectacle of the world which the monster in him, now grown to a reasonably heroic stage, presented..." [SH40]

cf Mar 1903 review: "Ibsen has united with [1] his strong, ample, imaginative faculty [2] a preoccupation with the things present to him... this union [should be] a truism of professional criticism." [cw101, italicised bits added]

no-date: essay "The Study of Languages" anticipates 'Oxen of the Sun' plan [more] [cw25]

no-date, maybe even 1901-02: French essay on bells in tintinnabulating style [cpc23]; JAJ coins (?) idée-mère for 'leitmotif' [e60] JAJ and Clancy feign duel to tease Cadic [cpc22]

09Jan: WBY back in Dublin promoting theater [rff204]

12-14Jan: Daily Express prints Yeats letter and article on theater

14Jan (Sat): JAJ debates literature at Literary and Historical Society ('L&H') [e70] normally Saturday nights in Physics Theatre [cpc13]

27Jan: WBY's letter in Daily Chronicle explains theater will use formalised chanting, simple scenery altered by light, attempting to invoke spiritual realities [rff210]

31Jan-16Feb: WBY in Paris with MaudG, Mathers, Synge [Saddlemyer p29]

11Feb (Sat): 'Ibsen night' at L&H-- JAJ arouses interest of group "eager to back winners" [mbk128, e70]

mid-Feb: WBY returns to London from Paris [rff205]

18Feb (Sat): JAJ elected executive committee of L&H [pc160, e70] (this may have been when 21yo Skeffington started serving as JAJ's great supporter at UC)

23Feb: Millevoye arrested (MaudG has absorbed his view that England is run by Freemasons and Jews) [rff205]

08Mar (week): sees Sudermann's 'Magda' at Theatre Royal with Jack and May [pc160, e54. cf typo? j&c219 '1898'] [info]

Magda: "We must sin if we wish to grow." [e54n]

JAJ to parents: "The subject of the play is genius breaking out in the home and against the home... It's going to happen in your own house." [mbk87]

11Mar: Griffith predicts WBY's theater will fail because it will be over people's heads [rff206]

11Mar: WBY attacks Trinity College in the Daily Express [rff206]

21Mar (Tue): JAJ loses treasurership of L&H to Louis J Walsh, 5-to-2 [pc160, e70, cf Nausikaa revenge]

30Mar-07Apr: WBY and Florence Farr visit Dublin to finalise arrangements for play [rff207] (rehearsals are in London, Martyn financing professional actors; Gonne refused lead) Russell draws 'occult angels' for poster; Martyn frets about blasphemies

02Apr (Easter)

15Apr: Hugh O'Donnell attacks WBY (and published text of play) in United Irishman: 'a meandering decadent with a diseased mind' [rff209]

23Apr: WBY addresses Irish Lit Society in London about theater [rff207] praises Ibsen but challenges realism; audience highly skeptical

late-Apr: Yeats' poems 'Wind Among the Reeds' published. [etext]
According to WBY's original notes: [cite]

Michael Robartes = fire reflected in water; the pride of the imagination brooding upon the greatness of its possessions; the adoration of the Magi
Red Hanrahan = fire blown by the wind; the simplicity of an imagination too changeable to gather permanent possessions; the adoration of the shepherds
Aedh = loftiest of three; fire burning by itself; the myrrh and frankincense the imagination offers continually before all that it loves

(JAJ surely saw this then, and just as surely pondered this psychological analysis, deeply and long. It would have provided an excellent romantic counterbalance to Ibsen's classicism.)

no-date: AE to WBY re 'WATR': "I like all the verses except the "Elemental Powers" [qv] which I think the weakest poem you have yet published... Your proof-reading is abominable... irritating because your verses are so perfect... Your detestable symbols too get a reflected light from the general twilight luminousness and beauty..." [lfae31]

no-date: AE promotes 'Cathleen' in Irish Homestead [rff210]

06May (Sat): WBY speaks in Dublin on 'Dramatic Ideals and the ILT' [rff208] plans to time plays for Beltaine (May) and Samhain (Nov)

08May (Mon): JAJ hears 'Who Goes with Fergus?' [etext] at "Countess Cathleen" opening (verse play w/Florence Farr) [info], amid minor disruptions by UC students [pc161, e66] MaudG also attends but keeps low profile [rff213]

Cast: [anjask6]
1st demon: Marcus St John
2nd demon: Trevor Lowe
Shemus Rua: Valentine Grace
Teig Rua: Charles Sefton
Maire Rua: Mme San Carolo
Aleel: Florence Farr
Oona: Anna Mather [IMDb]
herdsman: Claude Holmes
gardener: Jack Wilcox
sheogue: Dorothy Paget
peasant woman: M. Kelly
servant: TE Wilkinson
the Countess Cathleen: May Whitty [IMDb]

no-date: JAJ attempts verse-play called 'Dream Stuff' [e80, probably more like 1901]

In the soft nightfall
Hear thy lover call,
Hearken the guitar!
Lady, lady fair
Snatch a cloak in haste,
Let thy lover taste
The sweetness of thy hair

09May (Tue): Martyn's 'Heather Field' performed [pc161]

Program: [yahc35]

10May (Wed): 23 nationalist UC students (incl Kettle, Skeffington, Byrne, Richard Sheehy) protest 'Cathleen' in Freeman's Journal [pc161, e67] (JAJ had refused to sign) Quote:

"...to protest against an art, even a dispassionate art, which offers as a type of our people a loathesome brood of apostates..."'

19May? (Fri): Daily Express hosts grand dinner at Shelbourne Hotel to celebrate the Theatre, with WBY, Moore, Martyn, Eglinton, JF Taylor, Douglas Hyde and many others [rff211] WBY has to defend himself against various attacks

20May: Griffith in UI attacks 'union of Butter and Poesy' (Daily Express was connected to ag co-op movement via Horace Plunkett)

21May: WBY to Coole until September [rff213]

27May (Sat): Stannie elected to Sodality at Belvedere [pc161]

31May? WBY speech at Trinity [rff589]

Jun-Sep: three months of pure vacation, devoted to Ibsen certainly and Yeats probably. Summer whetstones: Stannie, Byrne, maybe Clancy

housing: Convent ave (aka 225 Richmond road), Fairview (?Jun1899-?Sept1899) [pc162, e68] large house on corner, maybe shared with Hughes family

Jul: JAJ crams Norwegian while Byrne reads Diseases of the Ox in library [jfb58, pc162, ehm6] (thrown out by Lyster for laughing, they walk and discuss why the title is funny) cf SH124, [PoA5]

Jul: JFB walks to Glendalough and back with Skeffington, Merriman, Paddy Doherty and Jim O'Toole (no JAJ) [jfb172]

04Aug: Gogarty fails in attempted rescue of drowning person at Ballbriggan [map] [uoc36]

OG c1899

17Aug: Gogarty turns 21yo, told by mother she's spent his inheritance educating all four children

housing: 13 Richmond ave (?Oct1899-May1900) [pc163, e68, j&c221] [map:J00] shared with Hughes and family

'a ramshackle house with many spacious rooms, gates, and a garden...' [mbk93] also, happily, an abandoned piano [j&c221]

Sep: exam results: honours in Latin [pc161]

Sep: CP Curran meets Joyce [pc157, cpc4] morning honors-class in English but JAJ's attendance grew infrequent [cpc8] anecdote of 'Paolo and Francesca' ('Have you read it, Mr Joyce?' bored yes)

cf? Dec1922 note for FW: "discussing Holy war SD said he had read Motley's Rise of Dutch Republic (had read title)" [VI.B.10.86]

Nat'l Philosophy (physics) course taught by Stewart [cpc24] ('Moynihan' = Bob Kinahan) cf [PoA5]

Sep: essay on 'Ecce Homo' [pic] analyses painting as drama [pc162, e65, cw31] (this is the last surviving clearly-written student paper. supposedly there was a Ruskin tribute in 1900)

no-date: visits National Gallery from time to time? [pc162]

(Joyce in later years was indifferent to pictoral art, so we might see this phase as a failed experiment, in imitation of Ruskin, Symons, Moore, and many other literati who also wrote art criticism)

no-date: JAJ 'reads' at Natl Library every night until 10pm closing [mbk98]

cf SH122: "...every evening after tea-time... Stephen repaired to the Library where he was supposed to be engaged in serious work. As a matter of fact he read little or nothing in the Library. He talked with Cranly by the hour..."

early-Oct? JAJ contacts Courtney at 'Fortnightly Review' via Dempsey??? [pc162 via Sheehy, but no evidence for the date so more likely Jan] [etext]

09Oct (Mon): Boer ultimatum initiates two years of war (England vs Dutch in S Africa: eb); Ireland of two minds-- JSJ loudly supports Boers [pc163, j&c222]

09Oct (Mon): JAJ offers to read paper for L&H [e69]

no-date: "About this period the enigma of a manner was put up at all comers to protect the crisis. He was quick enough now to see that he must disentangle his affairs in secrecy, and reserve had ever been a light penance... he began loftily diagnosis of the younglings." [PoA04] (shift in literary style from clear to cloudy) cf also SH30 "there was no face that passed him on its way to its commercial prison but he strove to pierce to the motive centre of its ugliness"

19Oct: Gogarty gets testimonial for courage re drowning [uoc36]

late-Oct: Joyce attends Childs murder case [pc163, e91] probably hears Bushe's oratory [Eolus]

31Oct? (Tue): maybe Halloween party at uncle John Murray's (Maria O'Donohoe had been diagnosed with cancer in June, died 8Dec) [pc165] cf [Clay] (but would 17yo JAJ have gone with many younger siblings, who would also have been invited?)

Nov: JFB joins L&H [pc170, inspired by prospect of JAJ's talk. JFB would already have heard all about the meetings JAJ had been to]

Nov-Dec: Byrne recalls Joyce spending two months writing Ibsen essay [ehm7/jfb61 claims this was for the Fortnightly, but surely it was for L&H]

no-date: Curran imagines JAJ read Brandes's 'Ibsen and Bjornson' around this time [cpc117]

23Nov (Thu): JAJ attends L&H committee meeting [pc164] (still tolerating 'sodality' of 'virginities')

Xmas? JAJ plays Capt Hawtree in Maggie Sheehy's livingroom production of 'Caste' by TW Robertson [mbk111. cf e93 '1900 or later' not supported by Sheehy] (year unspecified, but JAJ must have tested his skills before the XL Cafe in March 1900)

no-date: Fr Ghezzi ('Artifoni') introduces JAJ to Dante, Bruno, Cavalcanti, Petrarch, Castiglione, Leopardi, Alfieri, Machiavelli, Tasso, Maffei, Monti, Manzoni, maybe even heretical D'Annunzio [cpc26/120, e59, speculative] no-one else in class but Eugene Sheehy [cpc24] (SH169 claims SD chose Italian for Dante, not vice versa)

no-date (1899): acquires Maeterlinck's Allodine and Palomides and Melisande and Pelleas [French] [pc160] (probably he was reading everything he saw compared to Ibsen, and bought these because M withstood the comparison)

10Jan (Wed): JAJ finishes "Drama and Life", reads to mother [e70, cw38, SH84]

no-date: mother May and father Jack try reading some Ibsen [e70, SH86]

Ellmann [e70, based on SH] imagines UC president Delany censored this paper but I don't see any evidence [e70 also cites mbk144 but that's just about 1902]

no-date: JAJ writes to Courtney offering an Ibsen article (probably 'Drama and Life' itself) [e71-- JAJ never seems to have sent the essay itself]

19Jan (Fri): Courtney responds soliciting review of 'When We Dead Awaken' [L2-6]

20Jan (Sat): JAJ reads "Drama and Life" to L&H, witnessed by JSJ, Stannie, Byrne, Eugene Sheehy, Clandillon, Murnaghan, Magennis, Coyne, Clery ('Whelan'), Hugh Kennedy, John Marcus O'Sullivan [cw38, cpc10]

no-date: JAJ rattles off Ibsen review in a week

no-date, post 20Jan: tribute to Ruskin, titled 'A Crown of Wild Olive' [mbk89]

no-date: Skeffington [bio] nominates JAJ for L&H auditor, but vote is 15-9 for Hugh Kennedy [bio] [e73]

no-date: Walsh beats JAJ again, for L&H oratory medal? [e96]

03Feb (Sat): Courtney accepts Ibsen review but demands Pinero-reference be cut [L2-6, e74]

Feb: JAJ acquires Hauptmann's 'Coming of Peace' [cpc9] (another Ibsen-survivor)

10Feb (Sat): Skeffington addresses L&H on 'The Progress of Women' [cp21]

19Feb (Mon): JAJ attends Irish Literary Theatre's "Bending of the Bough" (Moore) [e88] (1901's 'Rabblement' would dismiss Moore as lacking originality: etext)

21Mar (Wed): JAJ plays villainous Geoffrey Fortescue in Maggie Sheehy's "Cupid's Confidante" at the XL Cafe in Grafton st [e93, ehm12-- 'made his arse-cheeks blush': mbk124]

31Mar (Sat): Tom Kettle addresses L&H on 'Nationality and Education' [cp21] (Clongowes-boy Kettle was better-read than JAJ but cool-fish JAJ claimed to find him 'too demonstrative' to be a close friend)

01Apr (Sun): JAJ's Ibsen article in Fortnightly Review [e74, cw47, pc165 says late March] JAJ seeks out in Natl Lib? [pc165] Lyster congratulates him

no-date: "Immediately after the publication of the Ibsen article, J began occasionally, and when in the mood, to seek expression in writing short poems... not prolific... as he sat beside me in the library he would write and rewrite and retouch..." [jfb63, ehm8] (there were definitely earlier poems, so this was just coming out of the closet)

1898-1902? Stannie describes two exercise-books of poems, the first called 'Moods' containing 50-60 lyrics, some long, plus some translations; the 2nd called 'Shine and Dark' (after Whitman: etext) [mbk85] (Stannie dates these to a time he was still at Belvedere, so pre June 1901? mbk86) (1st ref to Whitman is Feb 1902 on Mangan; 'S&D' may have been the two-part work still being written in Dec 1902)

And orient banners they outfling
Before the ripple-bearded king.

"Am I foolish to be hopin' That you left your window open To be listenin' to me mopin' Here and singin', lady mine?" cf? FW notes: "I'd like to be pickin/ of a little bit of chickin/ a little bit of turkey or a little bit of ham/ And ain't I a good 'un/ at a little piece of pudden/ a little piece of pie ay ay or raspberry jam"

no-date: check for twelve guineas from Fortnightly [pc165] ($1260 in 1998 prices: more)

15Apr (Easter): JAJ and JSJ visit London [pc165, cf? e77] leaving just £1 with May and the sibs? [j&c223]

16Apr (Mon): 72yo Ibsen writes Archer with thanks to 18yo JAJ [e74]

19Apr (Thu): Aleister Crowley in London challenges Yeats for control of Golden Dawn (JAJ oblivious, though he'd just been in the city) [more]

23Apr (Mon): Archer passes on Ibsen's thanks [L2-7, SL6]

28Apr? (Sat) JAJ receives thanks from Ibsen via Archer, while "swinging in the garden about dawn" with 10yo (??) Susie McKernan after they returned from dance [hg69, e74. pc165 says Wed]

28Apr (Sat): JAJ writes Archer thanks for Ibsen message "I am a young Irishman, 18yo, and the words of Ibsen I shall keep in my heart all my life." [L2-7, SL6, e74]

housing: 8 Royal terrace (later Inverness rd), Fairview (May1900-Sep1901) [pc166] [pic] fine two-storey plus basement, sunken front garden, kept the piano; back lane w/nuns' madhouse

"The lane behind the terrace was waterlogged and as he went down it slowly, choosing his steps amid heaps of wet rubbish, he heard a mad nun screeching in the nuns' madhouse beyond the wall. --Jesus! O Jesus! Jesus!" [PoA5]

summer? Stannie reads (Protestant) Gospels found in ashpit, loses religion [j&c227]

May: Lady Gregory 'comes out' as Irish nationalist [rff169]

17May (Thu): JAJ and JFB attend Pearse's Gaelic League meeting (for EC?) [pc166, pc190]

May: JAJ acquires D'Annunzio's 'La Gioconda' [cpc9] [info] [Italian]

late-May: JAJ returns to London alone, visits Archer, sees 42yo Duse in 'Gioconda' (and 'Città Morta'? etext) and sends her poem of tribute [pc166, e77, rjj8]

[pic source]

Joyce keeps a pic of Duse on his desk; when she disparages Ibsen in an interview, JAJ brags to Stannie he could convert her with a half-hour's conversation [mbk186] (she's 37yo D'Annunzio's significant other, he writes plays for her; JAJ must wish for such luck!)

Jun? surprisingly good score on math final (715 out of 1200) [e756]

June: 22yo Gogarty's anonymous acrostic 'Ode of Welcome' in 'Irish Society' sells out issue within minutes, still being talked of months later (but no-one JAJ ran with was necessarily likely to hear about it):

The Gallant Irish yeoman
Home from the war has come
Each victory gained o'er foeman
Why should our bards be dumb.

How shall we sing their praises
Our glory in their deeds
Renowned their worth amazes
Empire their prowess needs.

So to Old Ireland's hearts and homes
We welcome now our own brave boys
In cot and Hall; neath lordly domes
Love's heroes share once more our joys.

Love is the Lord of all just now
Be he the husband, lover, son,
Each dauntless soul recalls the vow
By which not fame, but love was won.

United now in fond embrace
Salute with joy each well-loved face
Yeoman: in women's hearts you hold the place.

summer: JAJ and JSJ and Stannie in Mullingar stay w/photographer Shaw, JAJ reads D'Annunzio's 'Child of Pleasure' [e77, pc167] (if Stannie was already losing his faith he'd be debating JAJ about it during this vacation, and JAJ would have read the gospels too)

19Jul: escaped female lunatic drowns in Mullingar canal [j&c229] cf SH Ch14

Aug: JAJ acquires Hauptmann's 'Hanelle' [cpc9]

30Aug (Thu): JAJ sends "A Brilliant Career" to Archer [e78, L2-7]

four acts, populated with recognisable acquaintances, stage directions in violet ink: young doctor (Paul) chooses career over girl (Angela), becomes mayor, deals with plague, re-discovers Angela and realises too late she was his soulmate [mbk115] (who was he picturing to play Angela opposite his Paul?) A surviving chorus:

We will leave the village behind,
Merrily, you and I,
Tramp it smart and sing to the wind,
With the Romany Rye.

Sep: JAJ acquires D'Annunzio's 'La Gloria' and 'Sogno d'un Tramonto d'Autumno' [cpc9]

15Sep (Sat): Archer critiques "A Brilliant Career" [e79, mbk116, L2-8]

'...possibly more than talent... wildly impossible... canvas too large... loses sight of central interest... gift of dialogue... deficient in projecting characters... I am interested... impressed... bewildered.'

(the profound cataclysm this represented can be gauged by Joyce's creative near-silence for the next year (until Rabblement): a few poems, translations, and lots of reading, mainly mystical)

30Sep (Sun): party with Sheehys [e92]

epiphany (likely written up later, from memory- note it's both autobiographical and written as a play): 'Dublin: at Sheehy's, Belvedere Place'

Joyce-- I knew you meant him. But you're wrong about his age.
Maggie Sheehy-- (leans forward to speak seriously) Why, how old is he?
Joyce-- Seventy-two.
Maggie Sheehy-- Is he?

(Ibsen turned 72 in March 1900. cf treatment of Maggie here with "he began loftily diagnosis of the younglings" PoA04)

no-date: acquires Ibsen's 'Little Eyolf' and 'Wild Duck' [pc160]

no-date: prose vignette series 'Silhouettes' [j&c219]

no-date: AE's first son Brian

maybe, maybe not: ?35yo woman flirts with 16yo Stannie at concert [mbk159] cf [PainfulCase]

no-date: JFB borrows the two copybooks of JAJ's poems but hands them over to 51yo Fr Darlington when the latter notices/asks about them [mbk171] (Darlington finds nothing dangerous)

no-date: JAJ attends inaugural meeting of Aquinas Society [e65, denied by cpc37?]

08Jan (Tue): JAJ reprises role in "Cupid's Confidante" at Antient Concert Rooms [e93, j&c232]
09Jan (Wed): Freeman's Journal praises JAJ: 'a revelation of amateur acting' [e93]

22Jan (Tue): Edward VII coronation

24Feb: Russian Orthodox Church excommunicates Leo Tolstoy

20Mar (Wed): JAJ sends Ibsen birthday greeting "I am a young, a very young man... I have sounded your name defiantly... [not] a hero-worshipper... your wilful resolution to wrest the secret from life... inward heroism" [e86, pc172, L1-51, SL6]

no-date, pre-spring 1901: "a temperament ever trembling towards its ecstasy... a soul... over which the image of beauty had fallen as a mantle" [PoA04] (this would later be associated with Lucy and relocated to 1898 in the fictions?)

no-date: maybe troubles at school lead 'earnest Jesuit' to prescribe clerkship in Guinness's [hg53. e97 says JSJ in 1902 but it makes no sense with BA from UC. SH (like PoA04) implies it was mid-UC, not intended seriously but as a scolding] [PoA04]

no-date: reads Franciscans [SH176] (St Francis info: Cath, eb, etext, prayers-- all probably long familiar)

"He had begun to be interested in Franciscan literature... He had found on one of the carts of books near the river an unpublished book containing two stories by W.B. Yeats... This discovery, coming so aptly upon his own researches, induced him to follow his Franciscan studies with vigour." [SH176, but moved after apostasy and Isabel's death there]

no-date: JAJ finds 'unpublished book' of Yeats stories on bookcart [SH176. Kenner says 1897 versions were in Savoy magazine? or edition of 110 copies? cite)

quote from 'Adoration of the Magi': (three wise Aran Islanders are mystically summoned to Paris to the bed of the dying mistress of a symbolist painter [Moreau's died in 1890] who will 'give them secret names'-- 'Harsh sweetness,' 'Dear bitterness,' 'O solitude,' 'O terror'-- 'and thereby... transform the world' permitting 'the coming again of the gods and the ancient things')

"'When the Immortals wish to overthrow the things that are today and to bring the things that were yesterday they have no-one to help them except one whom the things that are today have cast out. Bow down and very low, for they have chosen this woman in whose heart all follies have gathered, and in whose body all desires have awakened; this woman who has been driven out of Time and has lain upon the bosom of Eternity.'" [1st sentence as quoted at SH192]

fave quote from 'Tables of the Law': [mbk215] (Owen Aherne in Dublin shows the narrator the only surviving, priceless copy of a heretics' bible by Joachim Abbas, and announces he's setting out to find the secret law prophesied by Abbas, to promote a supreme art of peaceful living. Ten years later he returns haunted by his realisation that sin is necessary to know God, yet sin is impossible for him because he understands his own being too well. The narrator is terrfied by this closing hallucinated glimpse of that knowledge.)

"Suddenly I saw, or imagined that I saw, the room darken, and faint figures robed in purple, and lifting faint torches with arms that gleamed like silver, bending above Owen Aherne; saw, or imagined that I saw, drops, as of burning gum, fall from the torches, and a heavy purple smoke, as of incense, come pouring from the flames and sweeping about us. Owen Aherne, more happy than I who have been half-initiated into the Order of the Alchemical Rose, or protected perhaps by his great piety, had sunk again into dejection and listlessness, and saw none of these things; but my knees shook under me, for the purple-robed figures were less faint every moment, and now I could hear the hissing of the gum in the torches. They did not appear to see me, for their eyes were upon Owen Aherne; now and again I could hear them sigh as though with sorrow for his sorrow, and presently I heard words which I could not understand except that they were words of sorrow, and sweet as though immortal was talking to immortal. Then one of them waved her torch, and all the torches waved, and for a moment it was as though some great bird made of flames had fluttered its plumage, and a voice cried as from far up in the air, 'He has charged even his angels with folly, and they also bow and obey; but let your hearts mingle with our hearts, which are wrought of Divine Ecstasy, and your body with our bodies, which are wrought of Divine Intellect.' And at that cry I understood that the Order of the Alchemical Rose was not of this earth, and that it was still seeking over this earth for whatever souls it could gather within its glittering net; and when all the faces turned towards me, and I saw the mild eyes and the unshaken eyelids, I was full of terror, and thought they were about to fling their torches upon me, so that all I held dear, all that bound me to spiritual and social order, would be burnt up, and my soul left naked and shivering among the winds that blow from beyond this world and from beyond the stars; and then a voice cried, 'Why do you fly from our torches which were made out of the wood of the trees under which Christ wept in the gardens of Gethsemane? Why do you fly from our torches which were made of sweet wood after it had vanished from the world and come to us who made it of old times with our breath?'" [WBY later deleted last 13 words, apparently, and made other small changes I've restored from SH178]

no-date: JAJ acquires signed copy of Yeats' 1891 "John Sherman and Dhoya" [cite]

no-year: "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' ...through the gates of Assisi." [PoA04] SH138 places it during Isabel's illness but before the L&H speech (mostly Mangan 1902) and doesn't mention Francis (Byrne implies it was 1903!?? jfb85)

cf 1909 Trieste notebook "Having left the city of the church by the gate of sin he might enter it again by the wicket of repentance if repentance were possible." [wod96]

07Apr (Easter): Stannie claims he refused his Easter duty before James [mbk103, no year, but implausibly reports J comparing the Mass to his poetry at this time]

no-date (pre-Mar1902): 'bitter and painful altercation' with mother about apostasy [rjj10, mbk134] May calls James a 'mocker' [L2-132, no-date]

Tables-inspired poem? [e82, linebreaks collapsed here]

I intone the high anthem, Partaking in their festival. Swing out, swing in, the night is dark, Magical hair, alive with glee, Winnowing spark after spark, Star after star, rapturously. Toss and toss, amazing arms; Witches, weave upon the floor Your subtle-woven web of charms...

Some are comely and some are sour, Some are dark as wintry mould, Some are fair as a golden shower. To music liquid as a stream They move with dazzling symmetry; Their flashing limbs blend in a gleam Of luminous-swift harmony. They wear gold crescents on their heads, Hornèd and brilliant as the moon...

(I see JAJ here as Donovan c1966, with lute, lust and bellbottoms)

07May (Tue): JAJ buys Olcott's Theosophical Studies [e76, pc172] (later?) Buddhist Catechism (interest lasts until Aug 1902?)

no-context: "in 6 months I shall be a theosophist" [June 1923 note for FW]

read everything that came into his hands about Theosophy: Swedenborg, Blake, Blavatsky, Olcott, Leadbeater, Besant [rjj11] writes poem 'Nirvana'? [mbk131]

no-date: "...Extravagance followed. The simple history of the Poverello [St Francis] was soon out of mind and he established himself in the maddest of companies. Joachim Abbas, Bruno the Nolan, Michael Sendivogius, all the hierarchs of initiation cast their spells upon him. He descended among the hells of Swedenborg [etext] and abased himself in the gloom of Saint John of the Cross [etext]. His heaven was suddenly illuminated by a horde of stars, the signature of all nature, the soul remembering ancient days... he came forth at last with a simple purpose-- to reunite the children of the spirit, jealous and long-divided, to reunite them against fraud and principality. A thousand eternities were to be reaffirmed, divine knowledge was to be re-established." [PoA04]

no-date: JAJ to Stannie in 1907: "I may not be the Jesus Christ I once fondly imagined myself..." [e255, continues "but I think I must have a talent for journalism"]

mid-Jun: university exams, poor results [pc174]

no-date (1901): Gogarty banned from bicycle-racing in Dublin for swearing during race

no-date: Gogarty wins Vice Chancellor's Prize at Trinity for poem on 'In Memoriam: Robert Louis Stevenson' (set topic) [uoc19, sw23]

23Jun (Sun): Gogarty saves bookmaker Max Harris from drowning [G16.292]

no-date: (sent to Archer before 15Sep, only survivor from that batch)

Commonplace (CMii)

The twilight turns from amethyst
    To deep and deeper blue,
The lamp fills with a pale green glow
    The trees of the avenue.

The old piano plays an air
    Sedate and slow and gay;
She bends upon the yellow keys,
    Her head inclines this way.

Shy thoughts and grave wide eyes and hands
    That wander as they list--
The twilight turns to darker blue
    With lights of amethyst.

summer (maybe 1902 or 03): JAJ reads Yeats' 'Adoration of the Magi' to Capuchin monk on the beach by the Bull [rjj8] (but cf SH177 "he had over and over to restrain an impulse...")

Jul-Aug: JAJ and JSJ in Mullingar again [e87, pc173] stay with Awley Bannon? [j&c233] cf SH's Mr Fulham? (Stannie didn't recognise)

epiphany (written down later, from memory?): 'Mullingar: a Sunday in July: noon'

Tobin-- (walking noisily with thick boots and tapping the road with his stick) ...O there's nothing like marriage for making a fellow steady. Before I came here to the Examiner I used to knock about with fellows and boose... Now I've a good house and... I go home in the evening and if I want a drink... well, I can have it... My advice to every young fellow that can afford it is: marry young.

23Jul (Tue): JAJ completes translation of Hauptmann's "Before Sunrise" for Irish Literary Theatre ("Michael Kramer" in Aug) [e87]

"The rainladen trees of the avenue evoked in him, as always, memories of the girls and women in the plays of Gerhart Hauptmann; and the memory of their pale sorrows and the fragrance falling from the wet branches mingled in a mood of quiet joy." [PoA5]

27Jul (Sat): Gogarty saves Max Harris from suicide-by-drowning [uoc36]

15Jul??? Gogarty gets testimonial for courage re drowning [uoc36, probably typo]

no-date (maybe 1902): Gogarty has his mother invite Yeats to an 'evening' leading to frequent visits (start of friendship)

George Moore

no-date (by July 1901): 49yo George Moore moves back from London, invites 23yo Gogarty into circle: "Gogarty is the Arch Mocker, the youngest of my friends, the author of the jokes that enable us to live in Dublin, of the limericks of the Golden Age, full in the face with a smile in his eyes, and always a witticism on his lips overflowing with quotations." [uoc47] circle meets at Bailey Restaurant? [uoc48] 'They would sacrifice their mother for a witty phrase' (anon)

no-date: 34yo AE meets Gogarty at Moore's "I had long hoped to meet the author of the witty verses and scandalous sayings that circulated the city... He was then an undergraduate at Trinity, and when he came into the room, Moore had the rare experience of being brilliantly out-talked... How we exulted in that dazzling conversation, which spared neither the maker of the Universe or His creatures...' [uoc49-50]

no-date: at Moore's, William Archer asks Richard Best (re OG): 'Who is that astonishing young man?' [uoc50]

epiphany (written from memory?): 'In Mullingar: an evening in autumn'

The Lame Beggar-- (gripping his stick) ...It was you called out after me yesterday.
The Two Children-- (gazing at him) ...No, sir.
The Lame Beggar-- O, yes it was, though... (moving his stick up and down) ...But mind what I'm telling you... D'ye see that stick?
The Two Children-- Yes, sir.
The Lame Beggar-- Well, if ye call out after me any more I'll cut ye open with that stick. I'll cut the livers out o' ye... (explains himself) ...D'ye hear me? I'll cut ye open. I'll cut the livers and the lights out o' ye.

summer: JFB's Hellfire Club expedition with Skeffington, Merriman, O'Toole, Kettle, the Sheehys, and Alphy O'Farrelly (no JAJ) [jfb172]

no-date: Stannie claims JAJ suggests to ILT he play Eilert in 'Hedda Gabler' [rjj21-- planned stage name 'Gordon Brown' mbk121] (but if he had actually approached anyone at the ILT they would have remembered him in autumn 1902, so this was just a fantasy he was too timid to effect)

?15Sep (Sun): poems rejected by Archer: "I do not find that as yet you have very much to say" [pc174, mbk142, L2-9]

26Sep (Thu): Archer responds to JAJ's reply to poetry criticism [L2-10]

housing: 32 Glengariff parade (Oct01-Sep02): [pic] [map:J01] cramped redbrick house of two bedrooms [j&c235] small backyard overlooked by Mountjoy Prison [vi72]

Stannie dates the first epiphanies to Glengariff (also interest in dreams) [mbk124] [etext] this first one is from nearby Eccles street (and is the least autobiographical of all!) but SH210 places it in late spring:

The Young Lady-- (drawling discreetly) ...O, yes... I was... at the... cha... pel...
The Young Gentleman-- (inaudibly) ...I... (again inaudibly) ...I...
The Young Lady-- (softly) ...O... but you're... ve... ry... wick... ed...

also interest in dreams, probably shaped by Theosophy: [mbk126] (first non-dramatic epiphanies are dreams)

A white mist is falling in slow flakes. The path leads me down to an obscure pool. Something is moving in the pool; it is an arctic beast with a rough yellow coat. I thrust in my stick and as he rises out of the water, I see that his back slopes towards the croup and that he is very sluggish. I am not afraid but thrusting at him drive him before me. He moves his paws heavily and mutters words of some language which I do not understand.

Yes-- they are the two sisters. She who is churning with stout arms (their butter is famous) looks dark and unhappy; the other is happy because she had her way. Her name is R... Rina. I know the verb 'to be' in their language.
-- Are you Rina?--
I knew she was.
But here he is himself in a coat with tails and an old-fashioned high hat. He ignores them: he walks along with tiny steps, jutting out the tails of his coat... My goodness! how small he is! He must be very old and vain-- maybe he isn't what I... It's funny that two big women fell out over this little man... But then he's the greatest man on earth.

Stannie claims this one was also a dream about Stannie: [mbk126]

Dull clouds have covered the sky. Where three roads meet and before a swampy beach a big dog is recumbent. From time to time he lifts his muzzle in the air and utters a prolonged sorrowful howl. People stop to look at him and pass on; some remain, arrested, it may be, by that lamentation in which they seem to hear the utterance of their own sorrow that had once its voice but now is voiceless, a servant of laborious days. Rain begins to fall.

SH211 says the 'Vilanelle of the Temptress' was inspired by the Eccles epiphany: [PoA5]

Are you not weary of ardent ways,
Lure of the fallen seraphim?
Tell no more of enchanted days.

Your eyes have set man's heart ablaze
And you have had your will of him.
Are you not weary of ardent ways?

Above the flame the smoke of praise
Goes up from ocean rim to rim.
Tell no more of enchanted days.

Our broken cries and mournful lays
Rise in one eucharistic hymn.
Are you not weary of ardent ways?

While sacrificing hands upraise
The chalice flowing to the brim,
Tell no more of enchanted days.

And still you hold our longing gaze
With languorous look and lavish limb!
Are you not weary of ardent ways?
Tell no more of enchanted days.

no-date (also Glengariff): improvises 'liturgical chants' on piano to accompany poems incl Yeats's 'Cloths of Heaven' [etext], 'Fergus' [etext], 'Impetuous Heart' [etext] and five others by Yeats, Mangan's 'Dark Rosaleen' [etext], 'Morn and Eve', and 'Swabian Love Song'. [rjj13, mbk123, mbk153, jfb66, cpc41, hg78] (music for 'Rosaleen' apparently in J's hand survives in JJA2 p620!?)

15Oct (Tue): "Day of the Rabblement" written, submitted to St Stephen's editor Hugh Kennedy [e88, cw68] [etext]

no-date: Fr Brown (Browne?) censors article because of reference to D'Annunzio's Il Fuoco (on Papal Index of forbidden works) [e88, cpc20]

21Oct (Mon): "Day of the Rabblement" published-- 85 copies for 2/5/0 [e89, cf? pc175] George Moore finds it 'preposterously clever' [e100] sold in bookshops for 2p, Skeffington's title listed first [ofjj11]

21Oct (Mon): 'Diarmuid and Grania' and 'Twisting of the Rope' premiere at Gaiety (Trench would star in later production of latter: ofjj65)

24Oct (Thu): JAJ hears JF Taylor defend Irish language? [e91] [Eolus] (also published in 1904 pamphlet, and praised in 1916 Yeats memoir)

no-date: epiphany of the Rabblement

Hanna Sheehy-- O, there are sure to be great crowds.
Skeffington-- In fact, it'll be, as our friend Jocax would say, the day of the rabblement.
Maggie Sheehy-- (declaims)-- Even now the rabblement may be standing by the door." [cw69]

02Nov (Sat): Arthur Griffith reviews "Day of the Rabblement" in United Irishman [where did I find this? what did it say?]

no-date (1901): acquires Huysmans' 'La Bas', Ibsen's 'Bygmyster Solness' (in Dano-Norwegian) [pc160]

no-date: "In another phase it had been not uncommon to devise dinners in white and purple upon the actuality of stirabout..." [PoA04] [cpc29 associates this with Huysmans and Rimbaud, maybe 1902?]

no-date: JAJ occasionally plays handball "somewhat in the manner of an unathletic girl" [jfb176]

no-date: Byrne and JAJ sometimes use a small UC room w/pianoforte to work on JAJ's settings [jfb66]

no-date: Cosgrave to Byrne: "Joyce is the most remarkable man any of us have met." [e63. cf SH152]

1930 UC history: 'During his student days JJ was not taken seriously. It was understood that he had a weird sort of talent but no one in the college seems to have guessed that he was destined to achieve almost world-wide celebrity." [hg57]

no-date: reads Skeats' Etymological Dictionary [1899 in SH]

no-date: favorite Elizabethan poem, attributed to Dowland: [mbk161]

Weep you no more, sad fountains!
What need you flow so fast?
Look how the snowy mountains
Heaven's sun doth gently waste!
But my Sun's heavenly eyes
View not your weeping,
That now lies sleeping
Softly, now softly lies
Sleeping.

Sleep is a reconciling,
A rest that peace begets.
Doth not the sun rise smiling
When fair at ev'n he sets?
Rest you then, rest, sad eyes!
Melt not in weeping,
While she lies sleeping
Softly, now softly lies
Sleeping!

no-date: manuscripts of 'Moods' and 'Shine and Dark' (poems) lost, burnt, or given to Clancy [hg68] burnt [SH226, post-Emma, post-epiphany]

no-date: [SH37]

The dawn awakes with tremulous alarms,
    How grey, how cold, how bare!
O, hold me still white arms, encircling arms!
    And hide me, heavy hair!

Life is a dream, a dream. The hour is done
    And antiphon is said.
We go from the light and falsehood of the sun
    To bleak wastes of the dead.

undated samples of 'Shine and Dark' [e80]

Let us fling to the winds all moping and madness,
Play us a jig in the spirit of gladness
On the creaky old squeaky strings of the fiddle.

The why of the world is an answerless riddle
Puzzlesome, tiresome, hard to unriddle.
To the seventeen devils with sapient sadness:
        Tra la, tra la.

'Requiem eternam dona ei, Domine';
Silently, sorrowfully I bent down my head,
For I had hated him-- a poor creature of clay:
And all my envious, bitter cruel thoughts that came
Out of the past and stood by the bier whereon he lay
Pointed their long, lean fingers through the gloom...
        O Name,
Ineffable, proud Name to whom the cries ascend
From lost, angelical orders, seraph flame to flame
For this end have I hated him-- for this poor end?

Wind thine arms round me, woman of sorcery,
While the lascivious music murmurs afar:
I will close mine eyes, and dream as I dance with thee,
And pass away from the world where my sorrows are.
Faster and faster! strike the harps in the hall!
Woman, I fear that this dance is the dance of death!
Faster!-- ah, I am faint... and, ah, I fall.
The distant music mournfully murmureth...

poems: Chamber Music probable: I, V, XII, XXIV, XXV, XXVIII, XXXIV; certain: XXXV

no-date: Edward Martyn founds all-male Palestrina Choir [info]

no-date: references to Novalis, da Vinci, Whitman, Blake, Dante in Mangan speech (indicating that he's finally found his literary compass)

no-date: JAJ says to Curran that 'he offered the gift of certitude and loved the enigmatic' [cpc35. cf SH76]

03Jan: private performance of AE's play 'Deirdre' for Diarmuid Coffey's 12th birthday, starring AE as Naisi, Violet Mervyn as Deirdre, Richard Best as Ainle, Ella Young as Lavarcam, George Coffey as Fergas, and James Cousins as Buinne [lfae36 great photos! Best looks like Dickie Smothers]

Jan: Padraic Colum introduced to ILT group [Saddlemyer p38]

01Feb (Sat): JAJ reads "James Clarence Mangan" at L&H to Curran, Kettle, Bob Kinahan, Louis Walsh, Wm Dawson, Felix Hackett, Magennis, JSJ [e94, pc176, ofjj24, cpc13, cw73 says 15th] [etext]

"...they who think that such a terrible tale is the figment of a disordered brain do not know how keenly a sensitive boy suffers from contact with a gross nature..."

favored Mangan lyric: [ofjj24]

Veil not thy mirror, sweet Amine,
Till night shall also veil each star!
Thou seest a twofold marvel there:
The only face so fair as thine,
The only eyes that, near or far,
Can gaze on thine without despair.

02Feb? (Sun??): JFB reads paper for L&H on Thomas à Kempis's Imitation of Christ [etext] and the contribution of monastic discipline in barbarous medieval Europe [mbk172, pc176]

03Feb (Mon): Freeman's Journal reports Mangan paper as "the best paper ever read before the Society" [cpc17]

no-date: Arthur Clery parodies JAJ as the Mad Hatter in St Stephen's magazine: "The Hatter as usual was dreaming beautiful dreams..." [e90, post-Rabblement]

Feb: Arthur Clery notes 'Dreamy Jimmy' and JFB attending address by JF Taylor [e91]

Mar: JAJ guffaws during Fr Sutton's L&H speech about Bacon and Shakespeare authorship [pc176, cf? e59 via Sheehy says 'Fr O'Neill']

Mar: poem preserved by JFB: [jfb65] (cf Yeats? qv)

I

O, it is cold and still-- alas!--
The soft white bosom of my love,
Wherein no mood of guile or fear
But only gentleness did move.
She heard as standing on the shore,
A bell above the water's toll,
She heard the call of, "come away"
Which is the calling of the soul.

II

They covered her with linen white
And set white candles at her head
And loosened out her glorious hair
And laid her on a snow-white bed.
I saw her passing like a cloud,
Discreet and silent and apart.
O, little joy and great sorrow
Is all the music of the heart

III

The fiddle has a mournful sound
That's playing in the street below,
I would I lay with her I love--
And who is there to say me no?
We lie upon the bed of love
And lie together in the ground:
To live, to love and to forget
Is all the wisdom lovers have.

13Mar (Thu): 14yo George Joyce (brother) falls ill of typhoid fever [pc176]

22Mar (Sat): WBY to LadyG: "Moore writes to me, by the by, that the acting in Russell's play is the silliest he ever saw..." [gyL151]

26Mar (Wed): WBY arrives Dublin [gyL151]

29Mar (Sat): ad in United Irishman: [gyL138]

Inghinidhe na h-Eireann.
----------
WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY,
AND FRIDAY NEXT
(APRIL 2nd, 3rd and 4th),
AT EIGHT O'CLOCK
At the Hall of St. Teresa's Total
Abstinence Association,
CLARENDON STREET, DUBLIN
"DEIRDRE"
A Play in Three Acts, by "A. E."
...AND...
"KATHLEEN
NI HOULIHAN"
A Play in One Act, by W. B. YEATS,
Will be presented for the first time,
AND PRODUCED BY
MR. W. G. FAY'S IRISH NATIONAL
DRAMATIC CO.
The Cast includes:- Miss Maud Gonne, Miss
Mary T. Quinn, Maire Nic Shuibhlaigh, Mr. J.
Dudley Digges, Mr. P. J. Kelly, Mr. C. Caulfield,
Mr. Frederick Ryan, Mr. Henry Sproull, Mr. P.
Collumb, Mr Brian Callender, Mr. F. J. Fay,
Mr. W. G. Fay.
------
MUSIC BY STRING BAND OF THE WORKMEN'S
CLUB, YORK STREET.
------
Admission - 6d., 1s., 2s. and 3s.
Tickets can be had at Messrs. CRAMER, WOOD & Co's,
Westmoreland Street, and at the office of THE UNITED
IRISHMAN, 17 Fownes' Street, Dublin.

30Mar (Sun): Easter

[pic source]

02Apr (Wed): WBY's 'Kathleen Ni Houlihan' (w/36yo Maud Gonne) and AE's 'Deirdre' (with AE as druid) premiere at St Teresa's; JAJ scornful of Yeats 'claptrap' [mbk184]

(could this have been JAJ's first glimpse of Maud? bio; pix)

Cast: [anjask31]
Cathleen: Miss Maud Gonne
Delia Cahel: Miss Maire nic Sheubhlagh
Bridget Gillan: Miss M.T. Quinn [IMDb?]
Patrick Gillan: Mr C. Caulfield
Michael Gillan: Mr T. Dudley Digges [IMDb]
Peter Gillan: Mr W.G. Fay [IMDb]

early-Apr: Byrne introduces JAJ and Cosgrave (and John Bassett) to registrar of med school; they register? [jfb76]

Apr??? (post-Rabblement): Stannie claims JAJ writes CMxii [qv] on cigarette package (cf PoA5) and also CMxxv [qv] after walking in hills with Skeffington and Mary (??? should be Hanna) Sheehy [mbk150 cf? e149 '1904']

What counsel has the hooded moon
    Put in thy heart, my shyly sweet,
Of Love in ancient plenilune,
    Glory and stars beneath his feet--
A sage that is but kith and kin
    With the comedian Capuchin?

Believe me rather that am wise
    In disregard of the divine,
A glory kindles in those eyes
    Trembles to starlight. Mine, O Mine!
No more be tears in moon or mist
For thee, sweet sentimentalist.

Lightly come or lightly go,
    Though thy heart presage thee woe,
Vales and many a wasted sun
    Oread let thy laughter run
And the irreverent mountain air
Ripple all thy flying hair.

Lightly, lightly-- ever so
    Clouds that wrap the vales below
At the hour of evenstar
    Lowliest attendants are,
Love and laughter song-confessed
When the heart is heaviest.

May: Mangan essay published in "St Stephen's" [e96, pc177, cw73]

02May (Fri): epiphany:

Mrs Joyce-- (crimson, trembling, appears at the parlour door) ...Jim!
Joyce-- (at the piano) ...Yes?
Mrs Joyce-- Do you know anything about the body? ...What ought I do? ...There's some matter coming away from the hole in Georgie's stomach... Did you ever hear of that happening?
Joyce-- (surprised) ...I don't know...
Mrs Joyce-- Ought I send for the doctor, do you think?
Joyce-- I don't know... What hole?
Mrs Joyce-- (impatient) ...The hole we all have... here. (points)

03May (Sat): George Joyce dies of perforated intestine [pc177, cf? e94 '09Mar'] (cf SH163)

They are all asleep. I will go up now... He lies on my bed where I lay last night: they have covered him with a sheet and closed his eyes with pennies... Poor little fellow! We have often laughed together. He bore his body very lightly... I am very sorry he died. I cannot pray for him as the others do. Poor little fellow! Everything else is so uncertain!

05May (Mon): JSJ shocked after funeral by JAJ's request for stout [pc177]

no-date: Stannie says priests advised disconsolate May to put 'cowardly' JAJ and Stannie out of house before they corrupt siblings [mbk190]

25May (Sun): JAJ's Easter duty not made? [pc178]

epiphany 'Dublin: in the National Library': (cf SH169 'acme of unconvincingness')

Skeffington-- I was sorry to hear of the death of your brother... sorry we didn't know in time...to have been at the funeral...
Joyce-- O, he was very young... a boy...
Skeffington-- Still... it hurts...

Jun? brother Charlie leaves Belvedere and enters seminary for less than a year [mbk137]

Jun: MaudG writes sister May of plan to become Catholic and marry MacBride [gyL154]

no-date: Gogarty wins Vice Chancellor's Prize at Trinity for poem on 'The Death of Byron' (set topic) [uoc19]

no-date: Kettle met AE and Yeats before JAJ [cpc33]

summer: Synge in Wicklow writing "Riders' and 'Glen' [Saddlemyer p37] also poem 'Queens' [etext]

pre-AE? possible date for birdgirl epiphany (throwing off timidity) [speculation] cf [PoA4]

15Aug (Fri): JAJ visits 35yo AE [bio] in night (again on 18th?) [e98, pc178, cpc33] (MaudG was renting the house next door, but had returned to Paris the day before) [gyL154]

15Aug (Fri): AE writes Sarah Purser "I expect to see my young genius on Monday and will find out more about him. I wouldn't be his Messiah for a thousand million pounds. He would always be criticising the bad taste of his deity." [L2-12]

?16Aug (Sat): AE postpones 2nd mtg to Monday [L2-11, ambig]

?18Aug (Mon): AE to WBY "young fellow named Joyce... writes amazingly well in prose... engaged in writing a comedy which he expects will occupy him five years or thereabouts as he writes slowly... certainly more promising than Magee" [L2-12, Ellmann thinks 11th???]

(what comedy? an abandoned play? the first hint of Stephen Hero? the epiphanies, combined into one unity? By March (below) he'd be targetting the comedy for 1912! In fact, when Exiles was finished in 1915 he referred to it somewhere as a comedy, but none of its themes could have been dreamt of in 1902. e104 suggests JAJ promised to write this play at WBY's invition, but they hadn't even met yet.)

no-date: AE thinks of writing writing a play about JAJ, specifically his 'search for a Messiah' (as AE understood it). "The play might end by his discovery of himself." [rff270]

Oct: Byrne: "J gave me copies of all the poems he wrote prior to October, 1902" [jfb64] (none later because of breakup?)

Oct: Arthur Griffith proposes Sinn Fein policy [eb] (JAJ reading United Irishman regularly-- since Rabblement review?-- quick to appreciate boycott idea: mbk168)

02Oct (Thu): JAJ registers for med school at St Cecilia's [pc179, cf? e97 'Apr']

06Oct (Mon): UC finals, mediocre results, just short of lowest honours [pc180, e756]

               1899       1900        1901        1902                

Latin         725/1200   756/1200    353/1200
French        416/800                489/900     465/800
English       490/800    358/800     313/900     344/800
Mathematics   220/1000   715/1200
Natural Phil  183/500    373/800
Italian                  373/800     295/900     417/800
Logic                                240/900

no-date: UC oral exams: "The phrase 'poetic justice' is unmeaning jargon so far as I am concerned." [e59 via Sheehy ehm11] (someone explains these orals were notoriously easy to pass)

Stannie of JAJ: 'always in doubt, then and later, as to whether university studies were worth the trouble' [mbk114]

JAJ 1904 on JAJ 1902: "he set out from UC with a few gentlemen of his acquaintance to find his summum bonum." [cdd95]

no-date: AE to WBY: 'The first spectre of the new generation has appeared... I have suffered from him and I would like you to suffer.' [e100 via AE's memoir, likely afterwit]

early-Oct: AE invites JAJ to visit Yeats Tues at 5pm at Nassau hotel

[pic source]

Oct: JAJ meets Yeats-- legend holds JAJ insulted WBY but Stannie's theory makes sense, that JAJ revered WBY's talent, and was trying to say WBY should compromise less, and be more arrogant [mbk181]

WBY wrote up his version in 1903: [e102]

I went out into the street and there a young man came up to me... I asked him to come with me to the smoking room of a restaurant in O'Connell Street, and read me a beautiful though immature and eccentric harmony of little prose descriptions and meditations. [ie, epiphanies] He had thrown over metrical form, he said, that he might get a form so fluent that it would respond to the motions of the spirit...

(that phrase could practically be a technical term; cf theory of gesture SH184)

...he began to explain all his objections to everything I had ever done. Why had I concerned myself with politics, with folklore, with the historical setting of events, and so on? Above all why had I written about ideas, why had I condescended to make generalizations? ...He is from the Royal University, I thought, and he thinks that everything has been settled by Thomas Aquinas... But the next moment [JAJ criticised Wilde's deathbed conversion]. He did not like to think he had been untrue to himself in the end. No, I had not understood him yet... "Generalizations aren't made by poets; they are made by men of letters. They are no use."

no-date: letter fragment from WBY praises verse technique, 'fountain or cistern', "I will do anything for you I can" [e104, L2-13]

22Oct (Wed): JAJ reads Joachim Abbas in Marsh's Library (on a tip from WBY, then?) [G3.108, pc180]

24Oct (Fri): JSJ commutes part of pension via Drimmie's life insurance policy to buy £550 house in Cabra [e105, pc179, mbk140, j&c240] monthly pension now £8 [pc179]

housing: 7 St.Peter's Terrace, Cabra (bought 24 Oct 1902, sold 26 May 1905) [e105] [pic] five rooms incl 3 bedrooms, two-storey, little back garden (this coincidental move may have played a role in JAJ's urgent decision to leave town-- eg, different arrangement of sleeping quarters?)

no-date: JSJ immediately takes out £100 mortgage against property, maybe to pay last UC fees for JAJ? [pc158] parties so hard he ends up at old Fairview tramstop [j&c242, e105]

29-31Oct: plays by Yeats, Fred Ryan, and Seumas O'Cuisin premiere at Antient Concert Rooms [cal]

Cast for WBY's 'Pot of Broth' [anjask89]
a beggarman: WG Fay
Sibby: Maire T Quinn
John: PJ Kelly

Padraic Colum [pic source]

no-date: Colum claims he met JAJ (with Gogarty!??) post-AE at one of Lady Gregory's parties for the National Theatre crowd, with Yeats also in attendance [ofjj10. uoc42 calls this a 1901 play-reading at the Nassau hotel]

30Oct (Thu): JAJ receives BA from UC [posed pic] [pc180, cf? e105 '31'] (many students were obstreperous at the ceremony, and e105 sees Joyce as a ringleader)

no-date: acquires Sudermann's 'Femme en gris' [L2-25]

no-date: JAJ reads in Library starting at 8 or 9pm, book on heraldry [ofjj18] Colum walks JAJ home from library, JAJ talks in 'set speeches' [ofjj19] "I distrust all enthusiasms"

01Nov: United Irishman publishes WBY's play 'Where There Is Nothing' [Saddlemyer p54]

03Nov (Mon): L2-14 from WBY inviting JAJ to dine with Lady Gregory and JB Yeats Sr at Nassau hotel, 6:45pm (Yeats Sr may have been something of a booby-prize among dinner guests. Lady G 'regarded him as the most trying visitor possible in a house' according to BL Reid's bio of John Quinn, "The Man From New York".) JBY may have done two sketches of JAJ on this occasion? [cite]

04Nov (Tue): JAJ dines with Yeats and 50yo Lady Gregory at Nassau Hotel [e104]

Nov 1902? suggestive postcard to ME Cleary? [e53, ofjj12] [more]

Mary Colum, c1957: "The first I heard of James Joyce was under odd circumstances. I was living in a university residence house in Dublin, studying for the matriculation examination. [Nov 1902 is plausible I think-- she was born in 1884] It happened that one of the girl students in the house-- a graduate, I seem to remember [ME Cleary, the original of Emma, had graduated with Joyce in October]-- got a postcard from one of the men students that annoyed her very much by its contents. At the time, though Queen Victoria was dead, girls took offense in Ireland at any uncalled-for communication or approach from the male sex. The contents of the postcard became known to a number of us younger girls: the writer, I remember, suggested a meeting or rendezvous of some sort; the signature was 'James A. Joyce.' The recipient of the postcard seemed to know who the writer was, for, highly indignant, she penned a haughty answer that was meant to humiliate and insult this James A. Joyce. In due time she received an equally haughty reply, phrased with extreme politeness but conveying to her that it was foolish to imagine that he, James A. Joyce, would have perpetrated such a missive, as he never remembered to have seen her, and anyhow never communicated with girl students unless they were family friends.... there was no resemblance between the handwriting on the postcard and that in the second communication [cf? Greek E's]... He had already taken his B.A. degree..."

JFB also writes, mysteriously: "for two reasons, the less impelling of which was financial, J decided to defer his medical studies and take a trip to Paris" [jfb79] (but SH203 claims SD told only Lynch of his approach to Emma: "From Cranly he expected scant sympathy")

why the Paris trip? [speculation]

You were going to do wonders, what? Missionary to Europe after fiery Columbanus. Fiacre and Scotus on their creepystools in heaven spilt from their pintpots, loudlatinlaughing: Euge! Euge! [Proteus]

17Nov: AE's 2nd son Diarmuid born

18Nov (Tue): JAJ applies to Paris med school [e106]

20Nov (Thu): U of Paris sends application forms [L2-14]

late-Nov: AE writes advice about Paris (Gonne, Gregory, WBY, not Moore) [L2-15]

late-Nov: JAJ writes Lady Gregory for help: [SL8, L1-53]

"...I had made plans to study medicine here. But the college authorities are determined I shall not do so, wishing I dare say to prevent me from securing any position of ease from which I might speak out my heart... they refuse to get me any grinding or tuitions or examining-- alleging inability... [cpc80 dismisses this as persecution mania, e106 implies they would have given him grinding if they'd had any to give]

I want to get a degree in medicine, for then I can build up my work securely. I want to achieve myself... for I know that there is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being and accordingly I am going to Paris... my case can hardly be worse than it is here... I shall try myself against the powers of the world... though I seem to have been driven out of my country here as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine"

no-date: Gogarty credits this limerick to JAJ: [mbms50, e107] (who botched the last line???)

There was an old lady called 'Gregory'
Said 'Come to me, poets in beggary';
    But found her imprudence
    When thousands of students
Cried, 'All, we are in that category!'

Colum's version ends 'We're in that noble category.' [ofjj12]

?23Nov: Lady G to JAJ suggests Yeats, Longworth, Synge, Parisian churchman [L2-15]

sequence of poems not complete [L2-15] (cf SH174 re Vita Nuova "make his scattered love verses into a perfect wreath" and SH214 "a series of hymns in honour of extravagant beauty")

25Nov: Archer regrets can't meet JAJ in London, "I am sure you are making a mistake" [L2-16]

?25Nov (Tue): WBY invites JAJ to stop by Tues morn, suggests 'Speaker' for poems [L2-17]

?28Nov (Fri): JAJ visits Longworth at Daily Express and arranges to do book reviews [e108]

29Nov (Sat): testimonial letter from Mayor Harrington [L2-17]

"Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it. Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race." {PoA5]

(when PoA was published, his Dublin acquaintances found this last claim especially preposterous)

01Dec (Mon): JAJ writes Lady G of contacts with Longworth and Synge, MacLagan "I am dead tired at present from moving about" [L2-18] (LG sends £5? pc199)

01Dec (Mon): JAJ leaves Dublin for Paris [e109]

leaves poems and epiphanies with AE [L2-21, e109] instructs Stannie to send copies to all the great libraries of the world (Vatican not excepted) should he not survive [e109]

Reading two pages apiece of seven books every night, eh? I was young. You bowed to yourself in the mirror, stepping forward to applause earnestly, striking face. Hurray for the Goddamned idiot! Hray! No-one saw: tell no-one. Books you were going to write with letters for titles. Have you read his F? O yes, but I prefer Q. Yes, but W is wonderful. O yes, W. Remember your epiphanies on green oval leaves, deeply deep, copies to be sent if you died to all the great libraries of the world, including Alexandria? Someone was to read them there after a few thousand years, a mahamanvantara. Pico della Mirandola like. [Proteus]

'My Brother's Keeper' makes this date the start of Ch5 but confuses some Jan1905 events. [mbk195]

Yeats in London introduces JAJ to Symons (evening?), feeds and transports [e111, pc199, L2-19]

WBY letter of 04Dec: 'unexpectedly amiable... did not knock at the gate with his old Ibsenite fury' [e111]

Symons: 'a curious mixture of sinister genius and uncertain talent' [e112] JAJ laughs when S mentions Balzac, WBY "You are not courteous, Joyce." [ofjj36]

train to Newhaven, boat to Dieppe, train to Paris, walk (?) from Gare St Lazaire to Corneille [e112, pc200]

03Dec (Wed)

takes room in Hotel Corneille in Paris [e112, pc200]

7-course brunch with Riviere [L2-18, e112 says Thu?]

L2-18 to JSJ from Corneille: busy till Sunday, sending in reviews tomorrow

04Dec (Thu)

weather very cold and windy, coffee all day black w/sugar [L2-19]

admission card to lectures: 9am-10 or 11, practical work 1:30pm-4 [L2-19]

buys alarmclock (4 francs) [L2-19]

JAJ writes first reviews for Daily Express [L2-19]

05Dec (Fri)

no-date: L2-20 fragment from May warns to boil water [E thinks 12Dec?]

pre-18Dec (Iseult ill): letter from Maud Gonne apologises that her concierge turned him away 'last evening' and invites him to call any day at 2pm. [mbk198-- 7 Ave d'Eylau] (Stannie says JAJ never followed up because he was embarrassed by his shabby dress-- presumably he hoped she'd fall in love with him?)

06Dec (Sat)

7pm? warm bath

SL8, L2-19 to family, 7:30pm?

07Dec (Sun)

08Dec (Mon)

Stannie has stationery forwarded from Eason's? [L2-20]

09Dec (Tue)

10Dec (Wed)

11Dec (Thu)

money due from Lloyd's [L2-20] (probably overoptimistic, for Daily Express)

1st two reviews published in Daily Express [pc201, cw84, cw88] include 1st reference to dramatic/ lyrical/ epical/ romantic classification, based on 1902 Yeats essay [etext]

12Dec (Fri)

13Dec (Sat)

no-date: letter to JAJ from WBY [L2-21 passim]

14Dec (Sun)

no-date: JAJ sends poem to WBY [L2-21] surely CMxxxv (Stannie thinks CMvi or CMxviii, see below)

no-date (1902): acquires Verlaine's anthology Le Poètes Maudits (incl Rimbaud, Mallarme, Villiers) and Fogazzaro's Picollo [pc160]

no-date: translation of Verlaine's 'Les sanglots longs' [hg59]

15Dec (Mon)

got up at 11am [L2-21]

weather milder

SL10/L2-21 to May, 2pm: expects 20-25 francs/month from Douce, Berlitz offer for 150 francs/month would interfere with classes, curious weariness, say if I should go home for Xmas, have Stannie get Sharp's 'Book of British Song', expects 1/1/0 from Express, speaks of teeth for May

Gogarty sees the photo as an imitation of Rimbaud

L2-20 photo postcards to Byrne (w/CMxxxv: qv, pictured at e110) and Cosgrave (dog latin about prostitutes) and JSJ

poem is described as 'Second Part-- Opening which tells of the journeyings of the soul.' [ji24+, L2-20] (maybe 'Dark' of 'S&D')

All day I hear the noise of waters
    Making moan,
Sad as the sea-bird is, when going
    Forth alone
He hears the winds cry to the waters'
    Monotone.

The grey winds, the cold winds are blowing
    Where I go;
I hear the noise of many waters
    Far below,
All day, all night I hear them flowing
    To and fro.

Byrne: 'During J's absence in Paris something had occurred which hurt me deeply... I felt so badly about it I wanted to break with him.' [jfb84- he doesn't elaborate]

theories:
- Byrne was possessive and jealous that JAJ sent a more intimate message to Cosgrave [Stannie's view, mbk211]
- Byrne was priggish and found the dog-latin 'like something you'd find in a urinal' [mbk212, re-interpreted]
- the dog-latin may have referred slightingly to JFB (ie, start of the arrogant-SD phase?)

16Dec (Tue)

L2-22 from May: yes, come home, 'not robust enough for Dieppe route'

no-date: L2-22 fragment from May says come home for a week [E thinks 18Dec?]

17Dec (Wed)

18Dec (Thu)

L2-23 from WBY: CMxxxv (?) "poetry of a young man who is practicing his instrument", write essays (Stannie [mbk209] guesses the poem in question was CMvi or CMxviii)

I would in that sweet bosom be
    (O sweet it is and fair it is!)
Where no rude wind might visit me.
    Because of sad austerities
I would in that sweet bosom be.

I would be ever in that heart
    (O soft I knock and soft entreat her!)
Where only peace might be my part.
    Austerities were all the sweeter
So I were ever in that heart

O sweetheart hear you
    Your lover's tale,
A man shall have sorrow
    When friends do him fail.

For he shall know then
    Friends be untrue
And a little ashes
    Their words come to.

But one unto him
    Will softly move
And softly woo him
    In ways of love.

His hand is under
    Her smooth round breast.
So he who has sorrow
    Shall have rest.

JSJ takes £50 mortgage to finance JAJ's Xmas return [e106/114, pc203, j&c243]

19Dec (Fri)

Stannie claims, incredibly, that just after the postcards JAJ sent Byrne a pound via Stannie, repaying a loan [mbk210] (yeah, right!)

20Dec (Sat)

Griffith quotes JAJ in ad for Rooney [cw84]

JSJ telegram

9:00 engagement at Paris Thespians, could not get to Cook's

21Dec (Sun)

SL11 to Lady Gregory: no pay from Longworth, 10 francs per fortnight from Douce, "to create poetry out of French life is impossible" [L2-24 fragment only]

L2-24 to JSJ

22Dec (Mon)

less than three weeks

JAJ departs Paris via Calais-Dover and briefly Yeats in London again [pc204, e116]

AE to WBY: 'Of all the wild youths I have ever met he is the wildest.' [e109]

23Dec (Tue)

arrives Dublin 8:10pm, unshaven [L2-24, j&c244]

WBY to Lady Gregory: 'I have had J all morning... He has now given up the idea of medicine and will take up literature. He said some rather absurd things and I rather scolded him but we got on very well.' [e116]

24Dec (week?): JAJ meets Gogarty and Eglinton? chance conversation about Yeats at counter of Natl Library [mbk174] (JAJ and OG had probably crossed paths in the past without having a conversation: uoc64)

Gogarty remembers JAJ as weighing about 125 at this time, carrying 20 poems [ehm22]

[uoc64] and [mbk174] claim JAJ got the idea of fancy vellum leaves for his poems from OG

no-date: sings 'naughty' French songs at Sheehy's [mbk213] (maybe epiphany of engaged merchandise? below)

JAJ 'went about little' over holidays [mbk213]

no-date: toothaches

no-date: JAJ to Stannie: "I think I may have been mistaken in Byrne." [mbk212] (Stannie-- who was himself envious of Byrne (and shouldn't be trusted)-- recites 'Te Deum'?)

no-date: Stannie ill with bronchial cold [L2-25, mbk214]

no-date: Maud Gonne back in Dublin for some days

12Jan (Mon): WBY introduces Synge to John Masefield at WBY's regular London Monday 'at Home' night [Saddlemyer p45]

17Jan (Sat)

JAJ returns to Paris via five day stopover in London [pc204, e119]

no-date: it may have been here that JSJ gave £7 (from mortgage) [usually dated to Oct 1904]

18Jan (Sun)

19Jan (Mon)

20Jan (Tue)

21Jan (Wed)

no-date: appointed Paris correspondent for new 6p weekly, 'Men and Women' [L2-25]

no-date: leaves article with Hind of the 'Academy' [L2-25] insults him? [pc204, mbk195, e119]

letters to Courtney and Archer [L2-25]

L2-24 to JSJ: push Irish Times, query O'Hara

late: visits Mr Tuohy

epiphany of whorehouse: 'London: in a house at Kennington'

"Eva Leslie-- Yes, Maudie Leslie's my sister an' Fred Leslie's my brother-- yev 'eard of Fred Leslie? ...(musing)... O, 'e's a whoite-arsed bugger... 'E's awoy at present...(later)I told you someun went with me ten toimes one noight... That's Fred-- my own brother Fred... (musing)... 'E is 'andsome... O I do love Fred..."

attends race-meeting? [pc204]

The human crowd swarms in the enclosure, moving through the slush. A fat woman passes, her dress lifted boldly, her face nozzling in an orange. A pale young man with a Cockney accent does tricks in his shirtsleeves and drinks out of a bottle. A little old man has mice on an umbrella; a policeman in heavy boots charges down and seizes the umbrella: the little old man disappears. Bookies are bawling out names and prices; one of them screams with the voice of a child-- "Bonny Boy!" "Bonny Boy!" ...Human creatures are swarming in the enclosure, moving backwards and forwards through the thick ooze. Some ask if the race is going on; they are answered "Yes" and "No." A band begins to play... A beautiful brown horse, with a yellow rider upon him, flashes far away in the sunlight.

22Jan (Thu)

long unbusinesslike talk with Archer at Liberal Club [L2-25]

met with Lady Gregory

saw O'Connell briefly just before train [L2-25]

23Jan (Fri)

JAJ reaches Paris again

24Jan (Sat)

afternoon: JAJ gets Paris library card [pc205]

Jan: Stannie's mailed reports on Municipal Election contribute to 'Ivy Day'? [j&c245, timing dubious, no other confirmation at any level?]

25Jan (Sun)

sent review of Gwynn to Express [L2-25]

26Jan (Mon)

parcel received, no letter [L2-26]

27Jan (Tue)

L2-25 to May from Corneille dated 25Jan: written 'Mon morn' then delayed for parcel; errands for Stannie incl old pawnticket, urge on Charlie for exam in spring; write about the things that interest you

28Jan (Wed)

29Jan (Thu)

review in Daily Express [mbk216, cw90]

needs Wagner's operas and Grant Allen's 'Paris' (not sent) from Stannie [L2-25]

30Jan (Fri)

no-date: "I have revelled in ties, coats, boots, hats since I came here-- all imaginary!" [L2-28]

31Jan (Sat)

L2-2 from JSJ birthday greetings, be a gentleman

He is a new male: his growth is his father's decline, his youth his father's envy, his friend his father's enemy. In rue Monsieur-le-Prince I thought it. [Scylla]

01Feb (Sun)

pm: hand laundry [L2-26]

in Dublin: Irish Literary Theatre becomes the Irish National Theatre Society

no-date: Vincent O'Brien discovers tenor John McCormack [cite]

02Feb (Mon)

am: 'budget of cards' [L2-26]

borrowed a few francs for train to Saint-Cloud, 50c steamer back to Paris [L2-26, pc206]

theater [L2-26]

letter and cigarette case from Aunt Jo [L2-26]

in Dublin, Synge reads 'Riders' to WBY and MaudG [Saddlemyer p39]

03Feb (Tue)

04Feb (Wed)

05Feb (Thu)

no-date: seeks out friends at lunchtime to mooch lunch [L2-27]

no-date: hangs out at Odeon cafe speaking Latin with Italian Riciotto Canudo, German poet Teodor Daubler, French Villona, and Eugene Routh [hg100]

06Feb (Fri)

three reviews in Daily Express [mbk217, cw93-97]

'Speaker' solicits Ibsen review [L2-26]

07Feb (Sat)

no-date: "up to my eyes in Aristotle's Psychology" [L2-28]

Aristotle quotes: [hg95]

The soul is the first entelechy of a naturally organic body.
That which acts is superior to that which suffers.
Only when it is separate from all things is the intellect really itself and this intellect separate from all things is immortal and divine.
The principle which hates is not different from the principle which loves.
The intellectual soul is the form of forms.
Speculation is above practice.
Necessity is that in virtue of which it is impossible that a thing should be otherwise.
God is the eternal perfect animal.
Nature, it seems, is not a collection of unconnected episodes, like a bad dream (or drama?).

08Feb (Sun)

JAJ sees Sarah Bernhardt in a Paris premiere? [pc206, L2-27] writes review for Express (unpublished)

L2-26 to May: wire cash before Tues, expect to make over £200/yr; have Stannie send Feb 'St Stephen's' and Allen's 'Paris'

SL14/L2-27 JAJ to Stannie incl CMxxxvi [qv] and CMiv [qv]

"Words cannot measure my contempt for AE at present (I believe he didn't write to Lady Gregory) and his spiritual friends. I did well however to leave my MSS with him for I had a motive. However I shall take them back as my latest additions to 'Epiphany' might not be to his liking... So damn Russell, damn Yeats, damn Skeffington, damn Darlington, damn editors, damn free-thinkers, damn vegetable verse and double damn vegetable philosophy!"

I hear an army charging upon the land
    And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees,
Arrogant, in black armour, behind them stand,
    Disdaining the reins, with fluttering whips, the charioteers.

They cry amid the night their battle-name;
    I moan in sleep, hearing afar their whirling laughter.
They ride through the gloom of dreams, a blinding flame,
    With hoofs clanging upon the heart, as upon an anvil.

They come triumphantly shaking their long green hair:
    They come out of the sea and run shouting by the shore--
My heart, have you no wisdom thus to despair?
    Little white breast, O why have you left me alone?

Ellmann sees this one as Jonsonian (Ben). Maybe it was written for Maud Gonne:

When the shy star goes forth in heaven,
    All maidenly, disconsolate,
Hear you amid the drowsy even,
    One who is singing by your gate.
His song is softer than the dew
    And he is come to visit you.

O bend no more in revery
    When he at eventide is calling,
Nor muse who may this singer be
    Whose song about my heart is falling?
Know you by this, the lover's chant,
    'Tis I that am your visitant.

09Feb (Mon)

10Feb (Tue)

11Feb (Wed)

12Feb (Thu)

13Feb (Fri)

JAJ begins esthetic notebook [pc206, cw145] desire, loathing, comedy, tragedy, terror, pity [hg96]

14Feb (Sat)

first issue of 'Men and Women' [pc206]

Gogarty's poem in Trinity magazine, 'Threnody on the Death of Diogenes, the Doctor's Dog' [sw253] later reprinted in 'United Irishman'

15Feb (Sun)

no-date: outing to Tours with Chown to hear opera at cathedral [pc207] picks up Dujardin's Les lauriers sont coupées

16Feb (Mon)

no food all day (42 hours total) [L2-29]

no-date: comforts self when hungry by reciting poems, etc [mbk323]

17Feb (Tue)

May sells carpet to send £0/3/4 [L2-29]

18Feb (Wed)

19Feb (Thu)

20Feb (Fri)

no-date: up till 4am waiting for checks

budget [hg184] (J seems to use a conversion rate of 8p = 1fr, or two shillings = three francs)

1st Month
    from 23 January 1903 to 20 February 1903 (exclusive of Hotel Bill)
 
         Received  25-- 
                   15.50       £ 4 1 5 1/2
                   27         /               Total Debts
                   24.50     /                ----------- 
                   15.65    /                   £ 1 14 8
                   15.10   /                / ----------- 
                  ------  /                /
                  122.75                  /
                  ------           14 8 1/2
         Debts      5  0 (Casey)   /         + £ 1 0 0 (Gogarty)
                   10  0 (Chown) /
                    3.40 (Casey fils)
                ---------  /
                   18.40 /
                 ------- 
        Hotel Bill (appr)        £ 1 7 2 1/2
                   30 0         /
                    1.20      /
                    2.80    /
                --------  /
                   34.0 /
                 ------- Hotel Bill - 38fr 70c
           ---------------------------------------------- 
 
TOTAL EXPENSES
-------------- 
                  156.75        -£-5-8-8-     £ 6 4 9 1/2
                    4.70            -3-9-         3 9
                  ------            -----    ---------- 
                  161.45        -£-5-12-5-    £ 6 8 6 1/2
            ---------------------------------------------- 
                        Remainder - 0
 
 
                                           Jas A Joyce

11pm meal [L2-34]

21Feb (Sat)

Maud Gonne marries Major MacBride in Paris [L2-32]

L2-29 to May: 20 hrs w/o food; no news from 'Speaker' or 'Express'; plans to do own cooking; 'fear you aren't doing what I said about Stannie'; "I have not gone to Miss Gonne nor do I intend to go"; transcribes music for 'Upa Upa'

hotel bill due: 1/6/0 [L2-29]

fast all day [L2-34]

7pm: meal [L2-34]

22Feb (Sun)

sees marriage-news in paper, hopes smashed? [speculation]

?L2-34 to May, very short-tempered: letter unintelligible, Gaze's closed so couldn't cash MO; 40hr fast following 20hr; shall sit in room all day; 5 fr due from new pupil, Auvergniot [Ellmann thinks 08Mar]

With mother's money order, eight shillings, the banging door of the post office slammed in your face by the usher. Hunger toothache. Encore deux minutes. Look clock. Must get. Fermé. Hired dog! Shoot him to bloody bits with a bang shotgun, bits man spattered walls all brass buttons. Bits all khrrrrklak in place clack back. [Proteus]

23Feb (Mon)

24Feb (Mardi Gras)

proofs from 'Speaker' [L2-31]

money from home spent on kitchen supplies (stove, saucepan, plate, cup, saucer, knife, fork, spoons, bowl, salt, sugar, figs, macaroni, cocoa) to reduce expenses and avoid "constant periods of fasting" [SL15] also cigar, confetti, supper (vomited) [L2-31]

hotel bill presented: 1/10/0 incl 3/0 for 7 candles [L2-31]

25Feb (Wed)

felt very bad all day [L2-31]

dinner: 2 hardboiled eggs, bread and butter, macaroni, figs, cocoa [L2-31]

26Feb (Thu)

felt better except attacks of neuralgia (nerve pain) [L2-31]

brunch: cold ham, bread&butter, Swiss cream w/sugar [L2-31]

sends 'Express' account of Mardi Gras, never published [L2-31]

dinner: 2 poached eggs, Vienna bread, macaroni, milk, cocoa, figs [L2-31]

SL15/L2-30 to JSJ: 0/18/0 in debt, send 1/10/0 by 01Mar

"I am seriously thinking of entering the church if I find editors and managers and 'practical' people so very stubborn as they appear to be."

27Feb (Fri)

early am: the big wind in Ireland [jfb73]

brunch: last of ham, bread&butter, Swiss cream w/sugar, last of figs [L2-31]

28Feb (Sat)

Stannie: 'He had learned in Paris that the world was not waiting for him' [mbk231]

Mar: AE to Thomas Mosher: 'Joyce may do something. He is proud as Lucifer...' [e100]

01Mar (Sun)

planned dinner: mutton stew w/potatoes, mushrooms, lentils, cocoa, biscuits

02Mar (Mon)

L2-32: May sends £1/12/0; JSJ strange lately, Stannie works and wants to send JAJ money, Charlie refuses to work, says he'll sing in streets; Stannie tutoring Charlie; send suit home for cleaning

no-date: Stannie claims to have worked ten months without pay as an apprentice accountant [mbk205]

03Mar (Tue)

L2-34 to JSJ: paid landlady; have Stannie dun Express after 11pm???

04Mar (Wed)

05Mar (Thu)

06Mar (Fri)

comment in esthetic notebook [cw145] lyric, epical, dramatic [hg97]

Synge arrives in Paris for a week [pc206]

07Mar (Sat)

paid 25 francs, 8 went for debts [L2-35]

08Mar (Sun)

calls on Synge at 90 rue d'Assas, leaves card

L2-34 from Synge: meet tomorrow 10am under Odeon Cloisters; only here for week

09Mar (Mon)

10am: meets Synge [L2-35]

no-date: JAJ shows Synge collection of solecisms (and esthetic?) [cw127n, L2-35] solecisms-collection titled 'Memorabilia' [hg89]

JAJ reads 'Riders' [etext] [L2-35]

Harsh gargoyle face that warred against me over our mess of hash of lights in rue Saint-André-des-Arts. In words of words for words, palabras. Oisin with Patrick. Faunman he met in Clamart woods, brandishing a winebottle. C'est vendredi saint! Murthering Irish. His image, wandering, he met. I mine. I met a fool i' the forest. [Scylla]

SL17/L2-35 to Stannie: write Unicorn Press, get 'Everyman' and 'Elizabethan Songs'; running for post; will write Charlie end of week; planning entertainment; cold

"I have written fifteen epiphanies-- of which twelve are insertions, and three additions" [SL17] (so there was a sequence, and not just chrono-by-date-written. chrono-by-date-experienced? chrono-by-age-of-actors, as in Dubliners?)

She comes at night when the city is still, invisible, inaudible, all unsummoned. She comes from her ancient seat to visit the least of her children, mother most venerable, as though he had never been alien to her. She knows the inmost heart; therefore, she is gentle, nothing exacting, saying, I am susceptible of change, an imaginative influence in the hearts of my children. Who has pity for you when you are sad among the strangers? Years and years I loved you when you lay in my womb.

Stannie thinks this one expresses a dislike of prostitutes: [mbk254]

They pass in twos and threes amid the life of the boulevard, walking like people who have leisure in a place lit up for them. They are in the pastry-cook's, chattering, crushing little fabrics of pastry, or seated silently at tables by the café door, or descending from carriages with a busy stir of garments, soft as the voice of the adulterer. They pass in an air of perfumes: under the perfumes their bodies have a warm humid smell... No man has loved them, and they have not loved themselves: they have given nothing for all that has been given them.

10Mar (Tue)

11Mar (Wed)

12Mar (Thu)

13Mar (Fri)

no-date: JAJ tries to convince Synge to visit carnival with him in St Cloud [e124]

Synge departs, writes Lady G on 26Mar [e125n] 'He seems to be pretty badly off... unbrushed and rather indolent... Ben Jonson... French literature I understand is beneath him! ...being gradually won over by the charm of French life... coming back to Dublin in the summer to live there on journalism while he does his serious work at his leisure'

no-date: Gogarty letter to JAJ: Eglinton told OG 'There is something sublime in Joyce's standing alone.' [L2-38]

"Dear Joyce, It is myself that write to answer the letter you kindly sent me and I waiting for it in Ireland. For a long time I have been wanting to speak to you and tell you what I was thinking about you. Yourself it is that must have had the strange thoughts about me not writing to you, and you so long gone from the old place where you were born and reared. There are fine poets in your country who have been making songs in the tounge [sic] in which the sons of Usna were betrayed." [uoc74. 'Kiltartan dialect' refers to Lady G more than Synge, I think]

14Mar (Sat)

plays by Yeats and Gregory premiere at Molesworth Hall [cal]

no-date: Gogarty meets Elwood at 'the Play'? [uoc77]

15Mar (Sun)

walk thru woods of Clamart to Sèvres, back by steamer [SL19, L2-38]

mid-March: death of ?58yo Richard 'Ned' Thornton ('Tom Kernan') [L2-39, pc124]

16Mar (Mon)

reading every day in Bib Nationale and nights in Bib Sainte-Genevieve reading only Aristotle's Metaphysics (in French? mbk198) and Ben Jonson; vespers at Notre Dame or Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois

Aristotle's phrase formed itself within the gabbled verses and floated out into the studious silence of the library of Saint Genevieve where he had read, sheltered from the sin of Paris, night by night. By his elbow a delicate Siamese conned a handbook of strategy. Fed and feeding brains about me: under glowlamps, impaled, with faintly beating feelers: and in my mind's darkness a sloth of the underworld, reluctant, shy of brightness, shifting her dragon scaly folds. [Nestor]

JAJ reads all of Jonson systematically [mbk198] excerpts in notebook from Jonson's "Cynthia's Revels', 'The Poetaster', 'Volpone', 'Epicoene', 'The Devil is an Ass', 'The Staple of News', 'The New Inn' [hg95]

17Mar (Tue)

sends in Gregory review [L2-36]

5:45pm L2-35 to May from Grand Boulevard: out all day; no suit for Irish Ball tonight

18Mar (Wed)

no-date: wrote back to Ghezzi [L2-38]

19Mar (Thu)

L2-36 fragment from May: MO for 0/9/0; JSJ working at Mountjoy Sq; Stannie wants to send money but not being paid; Charlie more sensible, pleased with his letter; eyes very bad but health better

second month's account: expenses reduced from 161 to 106 francs; debts 19 francs, paid 7 and borrowed 7 [L2-37, hg107]

2nd. month:
   from 20 February to 20 March 1903 (exclusive of hotel-bill)
 
Received   6.40
          21.40
           9.50
          25.20
          17.00
         ------ 
          79.50 and
                  40.20
                  38.70 (Hotel-bill)
                 ------ 
           1.50    1.50                   £3/4/9 1/2
          -----                           £  4/8
          81.00 francs                    ==========
                                          £3/0/1 1/2
Debts paid  1.50                          £1/6/0
            5.50                          ==========
           -----                          £4/6/1 1/2
            7.00 francs
           =====
           74.00 francs
 
Hotel-bill  30.00 (probably)             Present Debts
             1.80                        Chown       10.00
              .80               fr.c.    Casey fils   2.00
           ------                        Casey        5.50
            32.60 francs                 Casey        2.00
           ======    Hotel-bill 33.00                ----- 
           106.60 francs                             19.50
                                                     ----- 
                               (And Gogarty £1/0/0 = 25.00)
                                                     ----- 
                                                     44.50

20Mar (Fri)

laughing and singing down Blvd Saint-Michel anticipating dinner [L2-37]

SL19/L2-38 to May: Douce paid advance to 27Mar, Auv to 16Mar; no clean linen, black suit presentable but other not; will write Lady G about severe review; don't intend to shave

"My book of songs will be published in the spring of 1907. My first comedy about five years later. My 'Esthetic' about five years later again."

21Mar (Sat)

finally sends two more reviews to Express after two delays (unpublished?) [L2-36/38/39]

review of Ibsen's 'Catalina' in The Speaker [mbk219, cw98]

no-date: paid Casey 2 fr [L2-39]

22Mar (Sun)

am: got 'Speaker' with review [L2-39]

23Mar (Mon)

plans to write Aunt Jo [L2-38]

1:45pm: L2-39 to May: send more

24Mar (Tue)

25Mar (Wed)

comment in esthetic notebook [cw145] rhythm [hg98]

plans to send notes to O'Hara at Irish Times [L2-39]

misses Fournier the race-driver [L2-39]

26Mar (Thu)

L2-39 to May: couldn't cash MO, got hotel bill, send more

JAJ's critical review of Lady Gregory in Daily Express [SL18, mbk220, cw102]

27Mar (Fri)

?L2-40 from May with 0/5/0 MO: pay Casey; send measurements for suit

comment in esthetic notebook [cw145] art imitates nature [hg98]

interviews Fournier? [L2-39]

28Mar (Sat)

comment in esthetic notebook [cw145] def of art [hg98]

29Mar (Sun)

LadyG to Synge: "Poor Joyce! The funny thing is that Longworth of the Express, whom I had asked for work for Joyce has sent him my Poets & Dreamers to review, as a kindness to us both! I wonder what the review will be like!" [Saddlemyer p43] (heh)

WBY had reviewed it in 1902: [etext]

30Mar (Mon)

planned visit to Comtesse Vercelli-Rawson with Casey fils [L2-39]

31Mar (Tue)

no-date: Maddox [n32] claims JAJ 'tormented by fantasies of homosexuality and sadomasochism'

But you were delighted when Esther Osvalt's shoe went on you: girl I knew in Paris. Tiens, quel petit pied! [Proteus]

Love that dare not speak its name. --As an Englishman, you mean, John sturdy Eglinton put in, he loved a lord. Old wall where sudden lizards flash. At Charenton I watched them. [Scylla]

Stannie claims these two poems were written in Paris: (CMxxiii and CMxxxiv)

Now, O now in this brown land
    Where Love did so sweet music make,
We two shall wander, hand in hand,
    Forbearing for old friendship' sake,
Nor grieve because our love was gay
And now is ended in this way.

A rogue in red and yellow dress
    Is knocking, knocking at the tree;
And all around our loneliness
    The wind is whistling merrily.
The leaves-- they do not sigh at all
When the year takes them in the fall.

Now, O now we hear no more
    The vilanelle and roundelay;
Yet will we kiss, sweetheart, before
    We take sad leave at close of day.
Grieve not, sweetheart, for anything--
The year, the year is gathering.

Sleep now, O sleep now,
    O you unquiet heart!
A voice crying 'Sleep now'
    Is heard in my heart.

The voice of the winter
    Is heard at the door.
O sleep, for the winter
    Is crying 'Sleep no more'

My kiss will give peace now
    And quiet to your heart--
Sleep on in peace now,
    O you unquiet heart!

01Apr (Wed)

02Apr (Thu)

03Apr (Fri)

JSJ, Mat Kane, Charlie Chance, and Mr Boyd attend 3-day 'Grace' retreat [dd55, mbk225, j&c251, cf pc179 'autumn'] (there's no supporting evidence for this so I'm inclined to move it to autumn 1902)

04Apr (Sat)

L2-40 to May: paid bill; make suit blue with matching felt hat from Plasto's; well-packed pudding; have Stannie send last two 'St Stephen's' and Holy Week book; send MOs from GPO before 6pm; Casey wants 3 fr more

Fournier interview to Irish Times [L2-40]

05Apr (Sun)

06Apr (Mon)

07Apr (Tue)

race-driver interview in 'Irish Times' [pc207, cw106]

08Apr (Wed)

receives 0/13/9 for interview [pc207]

09Apr (Thu)

10Apr (Good Friday)

services at Notre Dame all afternoon, until 9pm [pc207]

NOTHER DYING telegram from JSJ [pc208]

L2-41 to May: what's wrong

borrows 75 francs from Douce [pc208, hg108]

11Apr (Sat)

L2-41 telegram to JSJ: arrive morning

am: leaves from Gare St Lazaire [pc208]

epiphany:

I lie along the deck, against the engine-house, from which the smell of lukewarm grease exhales. Gigantic mists are marching under the French cliffs, enveloping the coast from headland to headland. The sea moves with the sound of many scales... Beyond the misty walls, in the dark cathedral church of Our Lady, I hear the bright, even voices of boys singing before the altar there.

"Pretending to speak broken English as you dragged your valise, porter threepence, across the slimy pier at Newhaven. Comment? Rich booty you brought back: Le Tutu, five tattered numbers of Pantalon Blanc et Culotte Rouge, a blue French telegram, curiosity to show: --Nother dying come home father." [Proteus]

12Apr (Easter)

JSJ meets boat, takes JAJ's hand [j&c253]

"Hurrying to her squalid deathlair from gay Paris on the quayside I touched his hand. The voice, new warmth, speaking. Dr Bob Kenny is attending her. The eyes that wish me well. But do not know me." [Scylla]

Apr-Aug: May nursed by Aunt Jo [mbk233]

17Apr (Fri): after walking and debating all week, Byrne tells JAJ their friendship can't continue (they also debate J's refusal to do Easter duty at mother's request?) [jfb84, and cf PoA5]

(if this is the discussion at SH138, as JFB implies, could there be Franciscans involved here too?)

18Apr (Sat): JAJ writes JFB to reconcile [L2-41]

19Apr (Sun): 1pm meeting with JFB, admits his fault but can't explain it, gradually healed by June 1904 [jfb84]

24Apr (Fri): JSJ takes 3rd mortgage for £50 [e106] repays Douce [j&c253]

spring: Gogarty's version of meeting JAJ involves a tram, in the spring, whan JAJ lived in Cabra, spending many days in OG's Glasnevin garden [mbms41]

no-date: Gogarty wins Vice Chancellor's Prize at Trinity for poem 'Cervantes: Tercentenary of Don Quixote' (set topic) [uoc19, sw23]

14May: John McCormack wins Feis Ceoil [cite]

Jun: 25yo Skeffington weds 26yo Hanna Sheehy [e205]

Hanna much later

no-date: epiphany of engaged merchandise:

She is engaged. She dances with them in the round-- a white dress lightly lifted as she dances, a white spray in her hair; eyes a little averted, a faint glow on her cheek. Her hand is in mine for a moment, softest of merchandise.
-- You very seldom come here now.--
-- Yes I am becoming something of a recluse.
-- I saw your brother the other day... He is very like you.--
-- Really?--
She dances with them in the round-- evenly, discreetly, giving herself to none. The white spray is ruffled as she dances, and when she is in shadow the glow is deeper on her cheek.

(I'm starting to think Mary Sheehy was Stannie's red herring, and it was Maggie (or maybe Hanna, as here?) that J favored. 'recluse' might work at Xmas as well, with this epiphany being written in Paris?)

08Jun (week): amateur Dublin production of 'Doll's House'

no-date: JAJ (w/Cosgrave?) to Colum "two frightful examples of the will to live" (picking up girls) [ofjj47] shortly after amateur 'Doll's House' [more likely Hedda Gabler April 1904?]

Jul: Joyce mocks election of new pope at Sheehy party (Leo XIII died Jul 1903) [e93 via Sheehy]

no-date: "A bowl of white china had stood beside her deathbed holding the green sluggish bile which she had torn up from her rotting liver by fits of loud groaning vomiting." [Telemachus]

early-Aug: JSJ almost strangles May for lingering [mbk233]

12Aug? (Wed): JAJ ignores uncle John Murray's order to kneel and pray [rjj10]

13Aug (Thu): death of 44yo May Murray Joyce [pc211] JAJ calms Baby with image of heaven [mbk237]

14Aug (Fri): wake with Mat Kane, Tom Devin, John Murray; Kane condemns Zola; anecdote of dirty-bookseller [cdd82]

Two mourners push on through the crowd. The girl, one hand catching the woman's skirt, runs in advance. The girl's face is the face of a fish, discoloured and oblique-eyed; the woman's face is small and square, the face of a bargainer. The girl, her mouth distorted, looks up at the woman to see if it is time to cry; the woman, settling a flat bonnet, hurries on towards the mortuary chapel.

Stannie gives JSJ tongue-lashing after funeral, JSJ replies "You don't understand, boy." [mbk236]

Colum sends letter of sympathy signed 'Columb' [ofjj36] later sees J looking despondent but he's quietly witty about the spelling

manner of dress: 'flowing bow tie à la bohème; the inevitable walking-stick; and the round, wide-brimmed soft hat' [rjj17] calls himself a socialist [rjj15]

Aug: starts serious drinking with medicals, first favoring 'sack'? later Guinness stout [rjj17, mbk245] supposedly inseparable from Gogarty until OG went to Oxford in Jan 1904 [speculation]

20Aug? (Thu): JAJ reads and burns JSJ's loveletters [mbk239]

"Her secrets: old featherfans, tasselled dancecards powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer." [Telemachus]

no-date: JAJ visits OG in Rutland square and hears 'beastly dead' comment [SL143]

--Do you remember the first day I went to your house after my mother's death?
Buck Mulligan frowned quickly and said:
--What? Where? I can't remember anything. I remember only ideas and sensations. Why? What happened in the name of God?
--You were making tea, Stephen said, and went across the landing to get more hot water. Your mother and some visitor came out of the drawingroom. She asked you who was in your room.
--Yes? Buck Mulligan said. What did I say? I forget.
-- You said, Stephen answered, O, it's only Dedalus whose mother is beastly dead. [Telemachus]

all year? Gogarty and Joyce compete affectionately as poets

c1903? Gogarty's long, long, long ballad of Sinbad [sw26]

Oh what a wondrous paradox!
A sailor who escaped the rocks
Was wrecked by going down to the docks
When safe ashore
And brought to light a hidden pox
And Hunter's sore.

c1903 Gogarty's: "Song of Medical Dick and Medical Davy"

The first was Medical Dick
The second was Medical Davy
The first had a Bloody Big Prick
The second had Buckets of Gravy
To show-- to show-- to show what medicals are.

Then out spoke Medical Dick
To his comrade Medical Davy
'I'd swap my Bloody Big Prick
For you with your buckets of Gravy'
To show etc.

'Steady Medical Dick'
Said Sturdy Medical Davy
'There's very little value in a prick
When you haven't got the passage of the gravy.'
To show etc.

'Every bullock were a bull
But for the little matter of a ballocks
If your prick can keep the women full
You'll find they never grumble at its small looks.'
To show etc.

Gogarty creates comic persona for JAJ: 'Cadet Rouselle', Bardolph [ofjj37] OG gets JAJ to shave by showing Dante's profile? [ofjj38]

no-date: Gogarty wins UC gold medal for poem with last line supplied by JAJ? "Shines on thee soldier of song Leonidas" [uoc66]

no-date (maybe 1904): JAJ, OG, and Colum spend afternoon at Sandymount beach with Kettle [ofjj43]

autumn: JAJ and OG discuss Shelley, walking Cabra road [cpc40] (also JAJ's interest in Dublin history and houses around this time)

no-date: likeliest date for birdgirl-epiphany, setting off Sept industriousness [speculation]

Sep: Joyce applies to Dowden for library job ("quite unsuitable")

no-date: JAJ to Colum: "Doors are being closed on me." [ofjj51]

Sep? JAJ becoming 'prig about women... dirty animals' [cdd10] cf SH210?

Sep? 'Empire Building' unpublished translation [cw113 improbably claims 'letter to editor']

03Sep (Thu): new series of reviews for Daily Express, consecrates earnings to Venus Pandemos [cw109-112, cf ofjj53]

17Sep: reviews in Express [cw116-120]

29Sep (Tue): Skeffington offers JAJ 4hrs teaching French at UC [L2-41, e140, pc216, mbk187] Stannie moves this (?) to 1902, before Paris, and has Darlington worrying JAJ will 'perish of inanition' when he refuses it

01Oct (Thu): reviews in Express [cw121-127]

"A simple narration has always singular charm when we divine that the lives it offers us are themselves too ample, too complex, to be expressed entirely... The last chapters show an admirable adjustment of style and narrative..." [cw122]

07Oct: WBY's 'King's Threshold' at Molesworth Hall

Cast: [anjask40]
Seanchan: Frank Fay
King Guaire: Mr P Kelly
Lord High Chamberlain: Mr Shamus O'Sullivan [Starkey]
soldier: Wm Conroy
monk: Mr S Sheridan-Neill
mayor: Wm Fay
a cripple: Patrick Columb [Padraic Colum]
a court lady: Miss Honor Saville
another court lady: Miss Dora Melville
a princess: Miss Sara Allgood
another princess: Miss Dora Gunning
Fedelm: Miss Maire MacShinbhlaigh
a servant: Mr P MacShinbhlaigh
another servant: Mr P Josephs
a pupil: Mr G Roberts [George Roberts]
another pupil: Mr Cartia McChormac

08Oct (Thu): Synge's 'Shadow of the Glen' and a Yeats play premiere at Molesworth Hall; MaudG walks out in protest of Synge [Saddlemyer p53]

15Oct (Thu): reviews in Express [cw128-131]

30Oct (Fri): review in Express [cw132]

31Oct (Sat): ex-INTS members perform 'Cathleen ni Houlihan' plus a centennial play about Robert Emmet (d1803) at Molesworth Hall [rff312]

03Nov (Tue): AE implies to Thomas Mosher that JAJ will be in 'New Songs': [lfae50]

"...I am also making a selection from lyrics written by young poets who are friends of mine here some of which I think are beautiful and all interesting from the historical literary point of view as showing the change of thought since the patriotic poets of Davis's time. The tendency here is to deal more with spiritual subjects and the spiritual side of nationality. One of the young writers Patrick Colum will I think be our next great literary figure in Ireland. He is only twenty-one and is teeming with ideas which crowd each other too much to allow of a perfect art at present. Another boy named Joyce writes with perfect art poems as delicate and dainty as Watteau pictures, and a curious young fellow named Starkey has a strain of genius but is too shy and self mistrustful to ever take himself seriously. There is a girl named Alice Milligan who has written better verses I think than any of our women writers but who is far too lazy to publish them anywhere except in local papers where she forgets all about them..."

04Nov (Wed): JSJ takes £150 mortgage [e106 says '65']

08Nov (Sun): JAJ acts 'collide-escape' in charades at Sheehys [e53]

11Nov (Wed): WBY arrives in USA for college lecture tour [rff305] (John Quinn negotiated fee of $75 per night for some 50 lectures)

12Nov (Thu): reviews in Express [cw135-138]

14Nov (Sat): JAJ writes Symons offering poems [L2-42] (does this mean AE has changed his mind about including them in 'New Songs'?)

19Nov (Thu): last review for 'Daily Express' [cw139]

no-date: Longworth of 'Express' threatens to kick JAJ downstairs if he ever turns up again [e139 via Niall Sheridan via JSJ??]

19Nov (Thu): JAJ proposes (to Skeffington) starting 'Goblin' newspaper, no politics, daily cartoon, business manager Gillies [hg114]

no-date: JAJ hears from Colum (?) that Thomas Kelly is subsidising Colum to write for three years [e141, ofjj56]

no-date: JAJ reads Colum's play: "I do not know from which of them you derive the most misunderstanding-- Ibsen or Maeterlinck... Rotten from the foundation up." [ofjj39]

03Dec? (Thu): JAJ attends Colum's 'Broken Soil' at Molesworth Hall wearing tennis shoes, tells Yeats' sister "he thought drink would soon end his father and then he would give his six little sisters to Archbishop Walsh to make nuns of" [j&c262]

05Dec (Sat): JAJ asks Thomas Kelly for £2000 to start 'Goblin', considers reaction favorable

05Dec (Sat)? JAJ tells Skeffington "I think I'm coming into my kingdom." [e141 from Sk's diary]

10Dec (Thu): JAJ snubbed by Kelly's gatekeeper after 14 mile walk to Celbridge [e141]

no-date: Kelly's father opens letter from JAJ [cdd117]

no-date: Joyce sub-editor of "Irish Bee-keeper" for a day (Maeterlinck connection: etext)

Dec: AE writes foreword to anthology New Songs (conspicuously omitting JAJ) [G9.290]

19Dec (Sat): Gogarty reviews Colum's play 'Broken Soil' in United Irishman [sw253]

...Irish peasants need to be taught 'hate for holiness-- hate for all that tends to enslave, emasculate' [sw27] dismisses 'folk-smoke' of Synge and 'peasant' aspect of INTS as celebration of lowest common denominator [sw5]

28Dec: WBY dines with President Teddy Roosevelt at White House [rff305n]

JAJ attempting 'to live in Dublin in the merry Elizabethan manner' expressed in Chamber Music [rjj24]

'his appearance grew raffish with a certain stylistic defiance... white peaked cap, tennis shoes, seedy flannels, and the famous ashplant. Recklessness was not native to him... the interval of loose living was quite short... months' [cpc4, 66]

JAJ sometimes makes his voice raucous; Gogarty calls him 'Cadet Rouselle'; OG and JAJ are usually together, rumored to be compiling an anthology of urinal-graffiti; 'lewd-spoken' [ofjj37-45]

Gogarty's 1939 Tumbling in the Hay depicts this time, with Elwood and Cosgrave (and Simon Broderick) in the foreground and JAJ as a contemptuous hanger-on with bad manners [uoc53, sw152]

OG's limerick: [uoc53]

There was a young fellow called Joyce
Who possesseth a sweet tenor voice
He goes to the Kips,
With a psalm on his lips
And biddeth the harlots rejoice.

Gogarty was deferred to by the whores, JAJ was indulged as quaint [uoc55] OG saw the (Catholic) UC medicals as beneath his 'swank' Protestant Trinity friends, and kept the two somewhat compartmentalised [sw157 based on Tumbling]

Stannie's diary: "I hate to see Jim limp and pale, with shadows under his watery eyes, loose wet lips, and dank hair... He likes the novelty of the role of dissipated genius... running after every chit with a petticoat on it and making foolish jokes to them in a high weak voice... He is trying to commit the sin against the Holy Ghost for the purpose of getting outside the utmost rim of Catholicism." [cdd101, unreliably dated Sept 1904, plus cdd55n]

no-date: Stannie quite 'apprentice' job after ten months without pay, starts at Apothecaries Hall as clerk (filling prescriptions?) [mbk240]

no-date: AE recommends 'The Heretic' for title of new magazine but Dana, A Magazine of Independent Thought is chosen instead [ehm34]

Poem: early version [qv] of CMxx

In the dark pinewood
    There, O there,
Beside you, dearest,
    I would I were!

For the night is still there,
    Still and grave,
Repose in the shadows
    Should we have.

In the dark pinewood
    There, O there,
Beside you, dearest,
    I would I were!

The kindly elves the pine-wood
    To revel go,
And peace, sweet peace there
    Should we know.

Poems: 'Cabra' [revised version]; CMxxi

He travels after a winter sun,
Urging the cattle along a cold red road,
Calling to them, a voice they know,
He drives his beasts above Cabra.

The voice tells them home is warm.
They moo and make brute music with their hoofs.
He drives them with a flowering branch before him,
Smoke pluming their foreheads.

Boor, bond of the herd,
Tonight stretch full by the fire!
I bleed by the black stream
For my torn bough!

no-date: Gogarty publishes poem 'To Maids Not to Walk in the Wind' [uoc19, date unconvincing]

When the wind blows walk not abroad
For, Maids you may not know
The quaint mad thoughts which incommode
Me when the winds do blow.

But when your clothes reveal your thighs
And surge about your knees,
Until from foam ye seem to rise,
As Venus from the seas...

Though ye are fair, it is not fair!
Unless ye will be kind
Till I am dead and changed to air,
O walk not in the wind.

Jan: antisemitic pogrom in Limerick [info]

04Jan: WBY heads west after Carnegie Hall lecture [rff305n]

05Jan: London (?) Standard writes of WBY's allegedly congenital blemish of self-consciousness [rff589]

no-date: Eglinton and Ryan supposedly 'commission' article (rather, they invite Joyce to submit something) [cdd19. e144 says 'at the beginning of 1904' but this is unattributed and implausible.]

no-date: Joyce composes article in head?

"He shrank from limning the features of his soul for he feared that no everlasting image of beauty could shine through an immature being." [wod95, no date]

07Jan (Thu): 'A Portrait of the Artist' essay written in style of D'Annunzio [rjj8] [etext] [analysis], rejected by Eglinton for incomprehensibility [ehm34] or by Ryan for sexuality [rjj22]

no-date: character-list for Stephen Hero

Mary Daedalus           John Butler
Simon Daedalus          William Judge
Stephen Daedalus        Joseph Magennis
Maurice Daedalus        John Andrews
Isabel Daedalus       Christopher McCann
   _    _             Hon Mrs Ambrose
  (  ><  )            James MacCormack
   ~    ~                  _    _
Mrs Riordan               (  ><  )
John Casey                 ~    ~
Aunt Essie                              Clare Howard
Uncle John              Eileen Dixon
Aunt Brigid             Emma Clery         Gertrude Mayne [exxed]
Uncle Jim               Martha Albin/Sarah Albin
Mike Flynn              Charlotte Harrington
Richard Sleater         Esther Osvalt
Vincent Hearne/Heron    Elinor Forde
Fr MacNally
Mr ?Demers/Mr Tate
   _    _
  (  ><  )
   ~    ~
Fr Webster
Fr Dillon
Miles Davin
James Brennan                       Chap VIII
Matthew Lister
Thomas Nash                   1) Business complications
Oliver Flanagan               2) Aspect of the city.
Patrick Hoey                  3) Christmas party
Owen Hoey                     4) Visits to friends
Annie Hoey                    5) Belvedere decided on

no-date: notes on Jesus for Stephen Hero? [wod72]

"Christ's unique relations with prostitutes [exxed]
?Enigmatical Christ - ??enigmatical men ?connected with him
Christ and his Father: he knows him
Father recognizes him only once [exxed]
Satan and Christ: objectivised.
A more imperfect type than Buddha or S. Francis
Muhammed a maniac Comparison with Hamlet Simple and complex.
His methods of generalship
Man of Grief: "Cause of our sorrow"
His pride and hatred of his race
Knowledge of men's hearts: writing in the sand.
Jesus wept || Christ and Leonardo: exoteric and esoteric.
"Whoso looketh upon a woman"
Not a eunuch priest. [exxed] Melchisedec.
A more intellectual type than Buddha or Francis
His two interpreters: Blake and Dante Creeping Jesus"

14Jan (Thu): plays by Yeats and McManus premiere at Molesworth Hall [cal] tiny audience responds poorly [rff318]

25Jan: OG to Oxford, many very affectionate undated letters to and from JAJ, inviting him to visit, copying Elizabethan songs in library, sending loans [uoc73-77] took along barrell of Guinness? [uoc71]

30Jan (Sat): Stannie quits Apothecaries' Hall job (maybe tempted by JAJ's sudden loss of whetstone?)

no-date: OG to JAJ: [uoc75]

Be Jaysus Joyce, You must come over here for a day or two next fortnight, I want your advice. The single from Dublin to Oxford is 27 shillings; I shall send you traveling expenses. (I couldn't trust you with more) Let me know if you will come thus. I want to get dhrunk, dhrunk.

February 1904

no-date: Curran in Italy for five weeks [cpc67]

no-date: Gogarty is working on verse translation of Oedipus Rex for Yeats [uoc43]

10Feb (Wed): first chapter of Stephen Hero completed [info]

25Feb (Thu): Synge's "Riders to the Sea" premieres at Molesworth Hall. Cast: Honor Lavelle (Maurya), WG Fay (Bartley), Sarah Allgood (Cathleen), Emma Vernon (Nora) [cite]

28Feb (Sun): last WBY lecture in USA (NYC) [rff305n]

March 1904

WBY returns from being in USA since Nov [cite]

AE's anthology New Songs published with poems by Colum, Milligan, Mitchell, O'Sullivan, Eva Gore-Booth, Thomas Koehler, George Roberts, Ella Young [G9.290]

during Lent: JAJ asks Colum to take him home for dinner [ofjj52]

Mar? JSJ sells piano; JAJ decides to train for Feis Ceoil

Mar? Joyce pawns books? for ten-shilling Feis entrance fee [e151, dd29] or OG sends? [uoc75, post-Newdigate] registers last of 22 entrants [hg121]

24Mar (Thu): Gogarty returns from Oxford for Easter break

24Mar (Thu): JAJ sings at festival (not Feis) [pc222]

no-date, more likely 27Aug: JAJ would claim in 1934 that he received two guineas for singing 'The Salley Gardens' at his first public concert [e678]

26Mar (Sat): Yeats in London for INTS season there [rff318]

no-date: L2-41 to Gogarty from Shelbourne: "If you have still any desire to aid me" meet tomorrow at Bewley's smokeroom

late Mar? JAJ finds room at McKernans, Gogarty helps rent grand piano [e151, ogi58] (JAJ probably waited for OG's return to move)

April 1904

early-Apr? JAJ reluctantly takes teaching job at Clifton school, trying to live on his own in Dublin for the first time cf [Nestor]

no-date: 'accepted very low-paid position in a little private school near Dublin' [rjj17-- no mention in Diary though]

03Apr (Sun): Easter (start of new term at Clifton school?)

Budgen seems to confirm there was a student named Sargent [mwy198] (weak as it is, this is the strongest evidence I know that JAJ ever really taught there)

Apr-Jun: Gogarty back at Oxford for 'Trinity Term' [info]

08Apr (Fri): finishes poem, maybe CMxxiv [qv]

11Apr (Mon): Anne Horniman shows WBY Abbey site [rff320]

early-Apr: WBY to Coole [rff319]

18Apr (week): amateur production of 'Hedda Gabler'

no-date: JAJ (w/Cosgrave?) to Colum "two frightful examples of the will to live" (picking up girls) [ofjj47] shortly after amateur 'Doll's House' [more likely than June 1903]

21Apr: Symons replies belatedly to 14Nov 1903 query about poems [L2-42]

late-Apr: JAJ sends Symons poems

Apr-May? JAJ gives up/ loses Clifton school job

May 1904

no-date: first issue of Dana includes Gogarty's 'Literary Notice' of Russell's anthology New Songs [G9.290]

'Many of the poems are definitely 'symbolist', and abound in graven images alien to the true god of song.' [sw52]

04May: Symons praises JAJ's poems "remarkably good... certainly ought to be published." [L2-42]

no-date: Curran letter to JAJ [cpc45] solicits something for St Stephen's

no-date OG to JAJ pre-Feis? [uoc75]

The only explanation of my tardiness in forwarding funds to you is my difficulty in obtaining them. The 10/-- I hope reached you. Fairview is not an office for changing postal orders into cash. However I guessed you would be directed to the General Post Office from Fairview P.O. Chamber Music immediately springs into my mind from the appearance of the above abbreviation. Go and see the holy women-- disguised if you like it as the gardiner-- then send me a detailed account of the position of my lady of love. I fear she has no money and is unwilling to ask for it. Poor Jennie is a good soul. This cunning Druid, O Wandering Aengus, obtained but a 2nd place in the Newdigate, further cause for impecuniosity. My Alexandrines I think are not traditional-- hence these tears-- damn tradition and the impenetrability of professors' souls, but perhaps to damn tradition is to reject Rome and England, and we must have the one as we have lingerie on ladies and we require the other as the ladies. However good luck-- O Aengus of the Birds: sing sweetly so that the stones may move and build a causeway to Oxford. Yesterday I was under the poplars green on the blue waters. I wish you would seriously think of coming over here for a week. I have two new suits, one for you and everything you need: the credence of shopkeepers to which without faith we cannot be healed. Good luck old man.

14May: poem ('Song'-- CMxxiv: qv) in Saturday Review

Silently she's combing,
    Combing her long hair,
Silently and graciously
    With many a pretty air.

The sun is in the willow leaves
    And on the dappled grass
And still she's combing her long hair
    Before the looking-glass.

I pray you, cease to comb out,
    Comb out your long hair
For I have heard of witchery
    Under a pretty air,

That makes as one thing to the lover
    Staying and going hence,
All fair, with many a pretty air
    And many a negligence.

14May (Sat): JAJ sings poorly at concert for Lady Fingall

16May (Mon): JAJ sings at Feis Ceoil, for Curran but no JSJ? [e152, pc223, cpc44]

no-date: Curran letter to JAJ praises Feis performance [cpc46]

no-date: Dublin's top voice-teacher offers free lessons in exchange for some percentage for 10 yrs [SL27, e152, hg123]

24May: John McCormack threatens to quit St Louis World's Fair over 'stage Irishman' performance [interview]

no-date: Gogarty at Oxford insults 'a Church student' and falls into disrepute [uoc79]

no-date: Cousins buys JAJ and Colum dinner at Vegetarian Restaurant (mock turkey, gooseberry tart, coffee), JAJ recites folk-parody curse he put on nighttown whore [ofjj42]

no-date: JAJ with Elwood describes lute-tour to Colum: "Personally conducted, like the Emperor Nero's tour in Greece" [ofjj71]

03Jun (Fri)

SL20/L1-54: to OG in Oxford from McKs: Dolmetsch-lute-tour plan; poem suite called 'Chamber Music' (did Symons trigger need for name?)

"I suppose Jenny is leaving in a day or so. I shall call to say farewell and adieu... I have a rendezvous with Annie Langton." [nighttown whore? OG claimed they visited Jenny on the northwest side, near Fontenoy: ehm29. OG describes her in 'Tumbling' as a widow and acrobat: sw161]

08Jun (Wed)

JAJ sings at Cousins' house (Holloway) [pc223]

10Jun (Fri)

Nora narrative

JAJ sings at garden fete in OG's suit, meets Nora (FRI), arranges rendezvous Tues by Wm Wilde's house [e156]

introduced by Cosgrave? [speculation]

JAJ visits INTS rehearsals of Synge (Holloway) [pc224, e160] (what were they rehearsing for?

11Jun (Sat)

funeral of L. Powerscourt

13Jun (Sun)

Gogarty completes Oxford term [uoc79]

no-date (maybe March?): OG's return from Oxford (with 0/10/6 for J's landlady) delayed by bank? [uoc76]

I thought, beloved, to have bought for you
A gift of quietness, and ten and six
Cooling your brow, and your landlady too
With ready spondulicks.

Homeward I go not yet because of thou
Who will not let me leave, lest they repine
For from the Bank the stream of quiet flows
Through hands that are not mine.

But O my Knight: I send to you the stars
That light my very creditable gains
And out of Oxenford though on my arse
My scorn of all its pains.

14Jun (Tue)

NB misses TUE rendezvous

15Jun (Wed)

SL21/L2-42 to NB from McKs (morning?)

"I may be blind. I looked for a long time at a head of reddish-brown hair and decided it was not yours. I went home quite dejected. I would like to make an appointment but it might not suit you. I hope you will be kind enough to make one with me-- if you have not forgotten me! James A Joyce"

McKernans kick JAJ out for nonpayment, per Stannie [e155]

JAJ sings four songs for the Espositos at Cousins after (vegetarian) dinner [e155]

16Jun (Thu)

writes for Dolmetsch address [e155] [info&pic]

NB makes THU rendezvous??? [more]

17Jun (Fri)

JAJ sings at 'Titania' open-air fete, 'paid' in smiles [SL22 ambig]

20Jun (Mon)

no-date: JAJ (with OG?) raid Hermetic Society, steal Malay/Pali book [pic?] [mbms53] (Gogarty's versions always claimed they took a case of underwear samples to Jenny)

"Yogibogeybox in Dawson chambers. Isis Unveiled. Their Pali book we tried to pawn." [Scylla]

Sheehy [ehm13] gives a version of the Malay book anecdote where Joyce falls into a pram (cf FW490.04)

drunken JAJ collapses in Camden street hallway, offends Vera Esposito [e160] meets Roberts for 1st time? [ofjj89, rehearsing Synge role]

"--O, the night in the Camden hall when the daughters of Erin had to lift their skirts to step over you as you lay in your mulberrycoloured, multicoloured, multitudinous vomit!
--The most innocent son of Erin, Stephen said, for whom they ever lifted them." [Scylla]

JAJ punched in Stephen's Green, possible encounter with Hunter [e161, pc226-- maybe 21st or 22nd]

1908 Trieste notebook: "Cosgrave: His hands are usually in his trousers' pockets. They were in his trousers' pockets when I was knocked down on S. Stephen's Green." [WoD93]

I'm guessing these three fiascos were really on the same night because of Joyce's 1920 Ulysses note: Circe2:147 "LB memory of only spree"

21Jun (Tue)

no-date: Gogarty's first letter to Bell from Dublin is worth examining in detail: [uoc80]

This was the most happy day I ever wish to spend. First of all I rose at 3:30 and saw the dawn;

this was the correct time for sunrise c16Jun-- Ulysses ends just before 3:30 on the 17th.

then a letter from you. Then a talk with a Platonic friend (John Eglinton), sphering and unsphering the spirit of Plato,

no hint where they met-- probably OG's family place near Glasnevin. OG had been friends with JE longer than with JAJ-- they were both in George Moore's literary circle (from which JAJ was excluded).

and, after lunch, a visit to the beautiful Hill of Howth, 'all but island', the northern arm of our beautiful bay that takes the morning to its breast-- The southern arm is the 'Golden Spears' of which I praised to you ere this. The air was Lesbian. I climbed the fields and gradually reached a woody land that looks towards Lambay island and the dim northern hills. Below the mountain's crest, I stayed in one of the beautiful brakes whose rhododendrons flush the air and the ground is soft with moss or bracken. It was like lying on a purple cloud above the dawn. ('in the fields divine, and pastures blue of heaven'). You know that the mountain slopes: a little well or 'secret spring' freshened the middle of the ground which was islanded. Hazels, oaks, ashes and banks of bloom on the one side, rhododendron-covered rocks on the other-- and rushes which had 'tufted heads'. I lay under a rhododendron and watched the midges dance like a fountain for joy of the sunlight. I mixed light purple rhododendron leaves in a girl's red brown hair-- hair that becomes golden in the sunlight--

Joyce's 15Jun letter to Nora describes "a head of reddish-brown hair" but this friend of OG's can't be Nora (either) because Gogarty had already written a poem about her in April or earlier:

...you heard me spout:

When the sun shines on Mary's hair
The splendour seems to own
That solid rays of sunlight there
Are blended with the brown;

this cliche would be lampooned by JAJ in late-July's 'Holy Office':

Or him whose conduct 'seems to own'
His preference for a man of 'tone'

but who was 'Mary'? could it be OG's younger sister of that name? [sw161 mentions a whore called Piano Mary]

And in the golden coils of it
A thousand little rainbows sit.

Then neither wonder that my sight
On her is wholly shed,
When she can take the heaven's light
To bind about her head;
Or that to her I captive fall
Who holds the rainbows in her thrall.

well this was she; then we went up a sandy cliff road and whilst talking the foolish words more wise than all philosophies and watching the sunset on the water and over the mainland I got an idea for a hymn or evensong, which later I must evolve-- insist and spur me...

(so OG's correspondent is displacing JAJ's old role?)

Joyce has written two pretty songs. I am disposing of 30 of his lyrics at £1 apiece or 5/- for one. (J's reckoning) to pay his digs bill.

two since when? April, probably, when OG last returned, between terms. CM xviii, vii, and vi were the next few published. The oldest surviving edition of Chamber Music (later in 1904 I think) has 27 poems on fancy paper (including xviii, vii, and vi) followed by 6 on less-fancy. (The fancy paper may heve been Gogarty's gift-- he originated the vellum affectation.)

the digs bill had caused JAJ to be kicked out of McKernans on 15Jun, tallied at U2.258 as "five weeks' board" (probably about £3, in this fictional version).

He was lately seen perambulating this tuneful town, with a large malay book made of palm leaves borrowed of Starkey (it looked like a Venetian blind) under his arm looking for a buyer. As he said to me, "It aroused so much interest I think I was justified in telling the rabblement (his profane friends) that I got £7 for it." "How much did you really get Joyce?" "Two and sixpence."

'perambulating' is probably a hidden pun, because Eugene Sheehy claims to have witnessed JAJ fall into a passing pram as he was showing Eugene this 'malay book', also immortalised at FW490:

"--Mighty sure! Way way for his wehicul! A parambolator ram into his bagsmall when he was reading alawd, with two ecolites and he's been failing of that kink in his arts over sense."

but Scylla claims the 'Pali book' was stolen from the Hermetic Society:

"Yogibogeybox in Dawson chambers. Isis Unveiled. Their Pali book we tried to pawn."

this was the famous raid that Gogarty liked to recount, normally as launched from the Tower on a Friday night, ending with free underwear for OG's ladyfriend Jenny. (The Tower was not even a glimmer in anyone's eye in late June, though.) (And was Starkey one of the Hermeticists???)

"Isn't Joyce delightful?" As Thoreau says, "Only with parity life is sweet, it's near the bone."

I wish I got the nuances here-- 'parity' implies equal opportunities? (Joyce felt imperfect financial parity with OG, I think.)

Joyce went to visit the "Mummers," his name for Yeats' players in the Irish National Theatre, at practice. He being drunk fell "the second time" as he said and two or three ladies passed over him lying.

this is authoritatively dated as 20Jun, from Vera Esposito's diary. She had been impressed by JAJ's singing a few nights earlier at Cousins' house. (It's not impossible he was trying to flirt with her at the theater.) But why 'the second time'?

I called one morning about it. He was just after this escapade and woke with a black eye-- the gift of an angry lover whose lady he had opportuned being ignorant of her lover's presence. His handkerchief was full of blood and drawing it from his pocket at the breakfast table he said, "This reminds me of Veronica."

if the Pali book was the first fall, and the Camden ladies the second, was Stephen's Green the third... in one night? cf 1920 Ulysses note: Circe2:147 "LB memory of only spree" (when, at 16yo, he raced the harriers and fell: U15.266ff)

The "Shy one" of his heart is perhaps not generally considered shy.

a Yeats quote: [etext]

He always quotes Yeats parodied, to heal or endorse his deeds. "And little shadows come about my eyes"-- this his black eye.

another: [etext]

Yeats won't give him the address of the lute maker so he cannot tour Margate and Falmouth as he intended, singing old English songs.

on 16Jun Joyce wrote to the London Academy of Music to get Dolmetsch's address (bypassing Yeats).

The Mummers have gone to Rosses, west Sligo: Yeats country. Joyce wishes to follow and horrify them on their holiday by bringing an holy woman or blessed damozel.

this date should be traceable in other memoirs.

His latest parody-- of O'Sullivan this time.

Seamus O'Sullivan = Starkey's pen name

The Sorrow of Love

If any told the blue ones that,
    mountain-footed move
They would bend down and with batons,
    belabour my love.

The original is O'Sullivan's

The Sorrow of Love

If I could tell the bright ones that
    quiet-hearted move
They would bend down like the branches
    with the sorrow of love.

'Exiles' depicts Richard (JAJ) and Robert (cf Cosgrave) as meeting Bertha (Nora) at the same time: [Exiles3]

ROBERT: I failed. She is yours, as she was nine years ago, when you met her first.
RICHARD: When we met her first, you mean.

[Exiles2]

ROBERT: ...You love this woman. I remember all you told me long ago. She is yours, your work. (Suddenly.) And that is why I, too, was drawn to her. You are so strong that you attract me even through her.

[Exiles2]

ROBERT: ...you slighted the common simple gift I had to offer you-- and took his gift instead.
BERTHA: (Looking at him.) But you never...
ROBERT: No. Because you had chosen him. I saw that. I saw it on the first night we met, we three together. Why did you choose him?
BERTHA: (Bends her head.) Is that not love?
ROBERT: (Continuing.) And every night when we two-- he and I-- came to that corner to meet you I saw it and felt it. You remember the corner, Bertha?
BERTHA: (As before.) Yes.
ROBERT: And when you and he went away for your walk and I went along the street alone I felt it... But why did you choose him? Did you not like me at all?
BERTHA: Yes. I liked you because you were his friend. We often spoke about you. Often and often.

22Jun (Wed)

amiable creditor at breakfast (Cousins?) asks for return of 4p loan [SL22]

23Jun (Thu)

L2-42: NB1 to JAJ "My Precious Darling" can't meet tonight but Sat 8:30 same place "N Barnacle"

SL21 to Curran: "The Accountant-General would not like me at present-- black eye, sprained wrist, sprained ankle, cut chin, cut hand."; sends Stephen Hero by sister, no hurry to read

no THU rendezvous

25Jun (Sat)

8:30pm SAT rendezvous with NB [L2-42]

26Jun (Sun)

WBY in London for INTS production of 'Where There Is Nothing', then to Coole (with Synge and AE? rff323) from mid-July until mid-autumn [rff321]

no-date: CMxviii should have been written by this date to appear in 'The Speaker' at the end of the month: (maybe Dec 1902 though?)

O Sweetheart, hear you
    Your lover's tale,
A man shall have sorrow
    When friends him fail.

For he shall know then
    Friends be untrue
And a little ashes
    Their words come to.

But one unto him
    Will softly move
And softly woo him
    In ways of love.

His hand is under
    Her smooth round breast.
So he who has sorrow
    Shall have rest.

03Jul (Sun)

SL22 to Curran: coming to office tomorrow for money

04Jul (Mon)

visits Curran at office? [SL22]

no-date (but didn't mention to CPC yet): L2-43 from AE offering £1 for inoffensive story of 1800 words. JAJ must then have met with AE and proposed series of ten, offered novel.

07Jul (Thu)

Stannie subs for Jim impersonating 'Gordon' at Vet exams for three days, SJ gives JAJ 0/14/6 out of 25/0 [cdd86]

08Jul (Fri)

L2-43 to NB: "Little Pouting Nora" can't meet tonight, 'some Italian' in Sandymount wants to see him (Esposito?), tomorrow 8:30 Merrion Sq "J.A.J."

no FRI rendezvous

09Jul (Sat)

8:30pm SAT rendezvous with NB [L2-43]

10Jul (Sun)

drowning of Matthew F Kane? [L2-32]

11Jul (Mon):

Curran to JAJ [cpc46] send money for piano rental

12Jul (Tue)

?SL22 to NB from McKs: "My dear little Goodie-Brown-Shoes" can't meet tomorrow (Wed) but will Thurs; glove lay beside me, leave off breastplate "?Aujey" [maybe 19th]

13Jul (Wed)

funeral of Mat Kane attended by JAJ, JSJ, Alfred Hunter, Tom Devin, JH Menton [pc228, j&c269]

Costello sensibly argues that if JAJ and Hunter first met at this funeral, then the purported rescue couldn't have taken place on 22June as Ellmann guesses [pc355]

SL23/L1-56 to Roberts: JAJ's piano threatened, meet at Ship 3:30 tomorrow

14Jul (Thu)

3:30 rendezvous w/George Roberts at The Ship for £1 [SL23]

15Jul (Fri)

?SL22 to Curran: "I have finished the awful chapter-- 102 pages-- and Russell (A.E.) has the book now. I shall send you the chapter in a week. I am writing a series of epicleti-- ten-- for a paper. I have written one. [etext] I call the series Dubliners to betray the soul of that hemiplegia or paralysis which many consider a city."

no-date (mid-July): OG to GNA Bell: "Joyce is to hold his estate at the Tower. The rent will be about £18 a year and as he won't have to pay it the scheme is feasible. He must have a year in which to finish his novel." [uoc82. cf SL28, e173]

no-date: OG teases JAJ about declared length of SH, '63 chapters'

17Jul (Sun)

Dolmetsch refuses lute [e155]

18Jul (Mon)

inspired by Tolstoy's 'Sebastopol', Stannie experiments with interior monologue [L2-103, cdd165]

20Jul (Wed)

no WED rendezvous

21Jul (Thu)

L2-44 to NB from McKs: sends gloves to replace stolen one, meet tomorrow 8:30, glove still well-behaved "Aujey"

22Jul (Fri)

OG to Bell that he and JAJ will move into Tower in a week. "I shall furnish the Tower with Chippendale sticks, no pictures. The Bard Joyce is to do the housekeeping. He is to Watts-Dunton me also." [uoc82. Watts-Dunton was Swinburne's benefactor: info]

"The Omphalos was to be the temple of a neo-paganism." 1909 Trieste notebook [wod97]

Dedalus, we must retire to the tower, you and I. Let us go then! Our lives are precious. I'll try to touch the aunt. We are the super-artists. Dedalus and Doherty have left Ireland for the Omphalos.

8:30 FRI rendezvous

23Jul (Sat)

no-date: L2-44 to NB from McKs: "My particularly pouting Nora" I said I'd write, now you write and tell me what was wrong last night, sorry for something that hadn't happened? trying to console hand, where will you be Sat-Sun-Mon? "J.A.J."

JAJ receives a sovereign for "The Sisters" [e164]

no-date: JAJ asks TG Koehler (later 'Keller') for £5 advance against next six stories (refused) [e164]

29Jul (Fri)

WBY photo in 'Tatler' (posing in his office)

Gogarty's tender for renting the Tower [cite???] moves in? [uoc83]

Gogarty claims [mbms] that JAJ accompanied him on an advance exploratory visit, and 'took possession' by leaving his roll of poems

30Jul (Sat)

poem ('O Sweetheart'-- CMxviii: qv) in The Speaker

poem ('Song'-- CMvii: qv) in 'Dana' (paid a guinea? or a half-sovereign) [e165; Eglinton says JAJ chortled as he pocketed the smaller coin: ehm34]

My love is in a light attire
    Among the apple trees,
Where the gay winds do most desire
    To run in companies

There, where the gay winds stay to woo
    The young leaves as they pass,
My love goes slowly, bending to
    Her shadow on the grass;

And where the sky's a pale blue cup
    Over the laughing land
My love goes lightly, holding up
    Her dress with dainty hand.

cf Gogarty's poem in the Nov (?) 1904 'Venture': [uoc65]

My Love is dark, but she is fair;
As dark as damask roses are,
As dark as woodland lake water,
That mirrors every star.

For like the Moon who shines by night
She wins the darker air
To blend its beauty with her light,
Till dark is doubly fair.

no-date: JAJ to Cosgrave and Stannie: "Isn't my mind very optimistic? Doesn't it recur very consistently to optimism in spite of the trouble and worry I have?" [cdd85, maybe much earlier]

no-date: Holy Office attacks: Yeats, Gregory, Synge, Gogarty (?), Colum, Eglinton, Roberts, Starkey, AE

...And though they spurn me from their door
My soul shall spurn them evermore.

02Aug (Tue)

L2-45 postcard to NB: lyric of 'Sally Gardens' [e159] [etext]

no-date: JAJ reads Stannie's diary entries for last few weeks, dismisses interior monologue experiment as 'the youthful Maupassant' [cdd59, L2-104. so at Cabra?]

no-date: JAJ discusses with Cosgrave whether JAJ is in love? [cdd60]

03Aug (Wed)

SL24/L2-45 to NB from McKs: hopes for rendezvous at 8:30pm, come without skirts; been in whirl of trouble "Vincenzo Vannutelli"

maybe WED rendezvous

07Aug (Sun)

LadyG writes Synge that Moore is trying to get OG to criticise the INTS in the Dana [Saddlemyer p51]

08Aug (Mon)

Curran rejects 'The Holy Office' [e165, cpc46] [etext]

13Aug (Sat)

Irish Homestead publishes "The Sisters"

14Aug (Sun)

L2-46 from printers: proof of Holy Office for correction [Sunday???]

15Aug (Mon)

SL25/L2-46 to NB from McKs, very late: "My dear Nora" sitting like a fool hearing only her voice, offended two men today by leaving them coolly; write me [no signature] (writes CMxvii? qv)

Because your voice was at my side
    I gave him pain,
Because within my hand I held
    Your hand again.

There is no word nor any sign
    Can make amend--
He is a stranger to me now
    That was my friend.

no-date: OG complained much later (?) that JAJ's manner became increasingly sullen, serious, silent [uoc85, mbms48]

16Aug (Tue)

L2-47: NB2 writes 'copybook letter' to JAJ signed "Norah"

no-date: Byrne tells JAJ the letter sounds copied [e167 from DD]

no-date: JAJ gives Byrne 'Holy Office' at 100 Phibsboro [jfb64]

17Aug (Wed)

OG leases Tower, moves in [SL28; uoc85 via OG Jr in Irish Times 16June 1962]

18Aug (Thu): Gogarty rents the Tower

19Aug (Fri)

L2-47 from JFB at Fogarty farm in Wicklow: dog latin refuses loan, complains of satire [in Holy Office?]

Horse Show Week ?21Aug to 27Aug, NB busy at work [e168]

21Aug (Sun):

WBY dictates (to LadyG at Coole) a long letter to Synge: saw rehearsals of 'Well of the Saints', criticizes Allgood and Esposito as actresses; Moore wanted OG to co-sign (?) article for Dana criticising ILT [Saddlemyer p57-62]

22Aug (Mon)

JAJ sings for Nora at afternoon concert [e168]

22Aug? "arranging to go away as a travelling actor" [SL26]

no-date: morning concert rehearsal with accompanist Reidy [e168]

23Aug (Tue)

exhibit of AE's paintings in Dublin gallery until 03Sep

26Aug (Fri)

L2-48 to NB from McKs: "My dear Nora" accept these [tickets to concert?] Cosgrave will accompany you 7:30pm tomorrow (Sat), I'll be nervous singing, long time since they've met, hard week for NB "JAJ"

27Aug (Sat)

OG letter: "I have broken with Joyce... His want of generosity became to me inexcusable. He lampooned Yeats, AE, Colum, and others to whom he was indebted. A desert was revealed which I did not think existed amid the seeming luxuriance of his soul." [uoc86. cf e167]

"Or him whose conduct 'seems to own'
His preference for a man of 'tone'" [etext]

'Tone' here probably means Wolfe Tone, so Arthur Griffith is the man-of-Tone, and JAJ feels slighted that OG seeks AG's company

7:30 SAT rendezvous: JAJ and John McCormack sing at chaotic concert to Nora and Cosgrave [cpc45 from Holloway-- J tried to accompany himself on Croppy Boy, he did sing Salley Gardens]

no-date: JAJ would claim in 1934 that he received two guineas for singing 'The Salley Gardens' at his first public concert [e678]

probable date of the famous handjob [more]

03Dec 1909: "It was you yourself, you naughty shameless girl who first led the way. It was not I who first touched you long ago down at Ringsend. It was you who slid your hand down down inside my trousers and pulled my shirt softly aside and touched my prick with your long tickling fingers and gradually took it all, fat and stiff as it was, into your hand and frigged me slowly until I came off through your fingers, all the time bending over me and gazing at me out of your quiet saintlike eyes... Did you never never, never feel a man's or a boy's prick in your fingers until you unbuttoned me?"

[source] (borrowed pants, not black)

no-date: meets Stannie again, after a few days [cdd75]

no-date: Cosgrave tells JAJ he'll never make anything of Nora [L2-96]

29Aug (Mon)

MON? rendezvous

SL25/L2-48/e169 to NB from McKs, after midnight: "My dear Nora" pained you tonight with honesty about disliking 'home'; travelling-actor plan a week ago; NB misunderstands recent letter; "Certain people... often insult me about you"; write me, anguish of doubt "JAJ"

"I have noticed a certain shyness in your manner as if the recollection of that night troubled you. I however consider it a kind of sacrament and the recollection of it fills me with amazed joy. You will perhaps not understand at once why it is that I honour you so much on account of it as you do not know much of my mind..."

cf? CMxix: (cf also Yeats, to MaudG: qv)

Be not sad because all men
    Prefer a lying clamour before you.
Sweetheart, be at peace again--
    Can they dishonour you?

They are sadder than all tears;
    Their lives ascend as a continual sigh.
Proudly answer to their tears:
    As they deny, deny.

30Aug (Tue)

L2-50 to Curran from McKs: double trouble, material and mental, meet tomorrow 4:30 at Bewley's?

no-date: L2-44 to NB: "My dear Nora" Henry VIII lyric expresses 'vague and tired loneliness I feel' "Jim" [last 'My dear Nora', 1st 'Jim']

31Aug (Wed)

no-date: JAJ latest lyric was CMxxvii [qv] [cdd75] praising NB's falsity?

Though I thy Mithradates were
    Framed to defy the poison-dart
Yet must thou fold me unaware
    To know the rapture of thy heart
And I but render and confess
The malice of thy tenderness.

For elegant and antique phrase,
    Dearest, my lips are all too wise
Nor have I known the love whose praise
    The piping poets solemnise--
But this I know: it scarce could be
Dearer than is thy falsity.

JAJ's stay with McKernans ends, Stannie helps move very late?, two nights with Cousins [e171, cdd72, cdd86]

Gogarty has poems in 'Dana' #5 and 'Ireland' magazine [sw253]

'To Stella'

Stars by the light they shed
    Only are known,
Songs by the verse they wed
    Time have outgrown.

no-date: CMvi should have been written by this date to appear in 'The Speaker' at the beginning of Oct: (but maybe Dec 1902?)

I would in that sweet bosom be
    (O sweet it is and fair it is!)
Where no rude wind might visit me.
    Because of sad austerities
I would in that sweet bosom be.

I would be ever in that heart
    (O soft I knock and soft entreat her!)
Where only peace might be my part.
    Austerities were all the sweeter
So I were ever in that heart.

02Sep (Fri)

JAJ leaves Cousins' due to vegetarian diet, intolerably sentimental Mrs C, 'their manner to him'; stops at Murrays' for a few nights [cdd86]

04Sep (Sun)

pm: JAJ tells sister about NB [SL27]

05Sep (Mon)

a few nights in Fairview, finally locked out by uncle [e171, cdd86]

06Sep (Tue)

Thomas Byrne hung for murdering wife [where did I find this, and why???]

08Sep (Thu)

one night with Maurice O'Callaghan [e171, pc229, cdd86]

09Sep (Fri)

JAJ to Martello Tower [info]

upsetting FRI rendezvous with NB, expected her to think he's different, caused her pain by acting in the way he thinks right, 'that night' and followup letter ignored and viewed as 'comrade in lust' [SL28] "famous interview about the letters"? [SL30]

10Sep (Sat)

Gogarty claims he gave JAJ a shave their first day [ehm25, mbms47]

Homestead publishes 'Eveline'

?SL24/L2-46 to NB no addr: "My dear Nora" sketch by SD enclosed; thinking only of you "JAJ" ['Eveline' makes much more sense here than 13Aug 'Sisters' as it would be challenging her, before he (not-)asks her to come with him]

SL28/L2-51 to NB from Tower: "My dear, dear Nora" discusses last night and asks for letter of forgiveness 'tonight' "Jim"

no-date: Gogarty pisses on Synge's door?

"--The tramper Synge is looking for you, he said, to murder you. He heard you pissed on his halldoor in Glasthule. He's out in pampooties to murder you.
--Me! Stephen exclaimed. That was your contribution to literature." [Scylla]

11Sep (Sun)

Tower visited by bicycler William Bulfin, mentioned in 1908 travelogue [OG seems to imply JAJ sunbathed nude: ehm24]

On a lovely Sunday morning in the early autumn two of us pulled out along the road to Bray for a day's cycling in Dublin and Wicklow. We intended riding to Glendalough and back, but we were obliged to modify this programme before we reached Dalkey, owing to a certain pleasant circumstance which may be termed a morning call. As we were leaving the suburbs behind us my comrade, who knows many different types of Irish people, said casually that there were two men living in a tower down somewhere to the left who were creating a sensation in the neighbourhood. They had, he said, assumed a hostile attitude towards the conventions of denationalisation, and were, thereby, outraging the feeling of the seoinini. He, therefore, suggested that we should pay them a flying visit. There was no necessity to repeat the suggestion, so we turned off to left at the next crossroads, and were soon climbing a steep ladder which led to the door of the tower. We entered, and found some men of Ireland in the possession, with whom we tarried until far on in the morning. One of them had lately returned from a canoeing tour of hundreds of miles through the lakes, rivers, and canals of Ireland, another was reading for a Trinity degree, and assiduously wooing the muses, and another was a singer of songs which spring from the deepest currents of life. The returned marine of the canoe was an Oxford student, whose button-hole was adorned with the badge of the Gaelic League-a most strenuous Nationalist he was, with a patriotism, stronger than circumstances, which moved him to pour forth fluent Irish upon every Gael he encountered, in accents blent from the characteristic speech of his alma mater and the rolling blas of Connacht. The poet was a wayward kind of genius, who talked with a captivating manner, with a keen, grim humour, which cut and pierced through a topic in bright, strong flashes worthy of the rapier of Swift. The other poet listened in silence, and when we went on the roof he disposed himself restlessly to drink in the glory of the morning. It was very pleasant up there in the glad sunshine and the sweet breath of the sea. We looked out across to Ben Edair of the heroic legends, now called Howth, and wondered how many of the dwellers in the "Sunnyville Lodges" and "Elmgrove Villas" and other respectable homes along the hillside knew aught of Finn and Oisín and Oscar. We looked northwards to where the lazy smoke lay on the Liffey's bank, and southwards, over the roofs and gardens and parks to the grey peak of Killiney, and then westwards and inland to the blue mountains. We stayed far longer than we had intended, and talked of many things, regardless of the hour, until it was too late to think of going to Glendalough. One of the chief difficulties of cycling in Ireland is the start. When the morning is bright, and the roads dry, and the light wind straying idly over the fields, you prepare for a long ride with the pleasantest anticipations, but when you're ready to set out some inducement to delay your departure will present itself, and time will steal away from you until nearly half the day is gone. The shadows were shortening for noonday, when at last, we got away from the tower, so decided to go no further than Luggala. It is some miles nearer to Dublin than Glendalough, and, like the stories of St. Kevin, is one of the treasures guarded by the Wicklow mountains....

12Sep (Mon)

L2-52 to NB from Tower: "Dear Nora" dreadful morning, may not be able to meet if pouring rain continues, have to meet Cosgrave in town, hope you are getting better every day, did you find place on map? if not tonight, tomorrow at 8 "Jim"

n42 from NB3: hope didn't get wet, 8:15 tomorrow, couldn't understand long letter

15Sep (Thu)

JAJ ejected from Tower?

"One morning, just as the National Library opened, Joyce was announced; he seemed to wish for somebody to talk to, and related quite ingenuously how in the early hours of the morning he had been thrown out of the tower, and had walked into town from Sandycove." [Eglinton] [more]

eve THU rendezvous with NB [SL30] tells her he's going away, asks 'Is there one who understands me?' [e176, via NB's sister]

[Exiles2]

ROBERT: ...He would not even ask you to go with him. (Bitterly.) He did not. And you went all the same.
BERTHA: I wanted to be with him. You know... (Raising her head and looking at him.) You know how we were then-- Dick and I.

no-date: answers Gilford's ad and writes Berlitz in London [e176]

no-date: asks Symons to suggest Chamber Music publisher? [e176]

no-date (pre-24Sep): long evening with Byrne at 100 Phibsboro road, asks whether JFB thinks NB would go with him if asked [jfb148]

16Sep (Fri)

SL29/L2-53 to Starkey from Cabra: "My trunk will be called for at the Tower tomorrow (Saturday) between 9 and 12."; OG is 'your host'; redirect letters (to Cabra) [misdated? 15Sep]

SL29/L2-53 to NB from Fairview: "Dearest Nora" letter-writing becoming impossible; "The fact that you can choose to stand beside me in this way in my hazardous life fills me with great pride and joy." unhappy can't see her today; asks for letter tomorrow morn; "only a week ago, you said, since we had our famous interview about the letters" "Jim"

L2-54 from NB4: tired tonight, thanks for unexpected letter this eve, rendezvous 7pm tomorrow

17Sep (Sat)

L2-54 from Gilford: continental Berlitz post reserved, send 2/2/0 for name of city

7pm SAT rendezvous [L2-54]

18Sep (Sun)

no-date: L2-54 to NB: "Dearest Nora" glow of pleasure since last night, want to hear you say it 100 times, just got expected letter (Gilford?), rendezvous 8:30pm "Jim"

19Sep (Mon)

SL30/L2-55 to NB from Fairview: "Carissima" soothes 'are your people wealthy?' anxieties, hedges 'love' anxieties, advises on 'your people' problems, meeting JSJ today to relocate Cabra "Jim"

in London, John McCormack makes his first recording (of Moore's "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms"), earning £75 over the next two months [info]

20Sep (Tue)

rendezvous with NB, eve [L2-55]

no-date: "Jim read these Notes of mine when he came back into the house. He threw them down without a word. He cursed me in jest for not having written anything about himself and Nora in them, and later amused himself by parodying them. His parody was something like 'Sometimes I do be thinkin', goin' along the road, etc.'" [cdd140, dated Dec1904]

23Sep (Fri)

L2-56 telegram from UK police confirming Gilford respectable

L2-55 letter from London Berlitz denying Gilford and requesting application form

25Sep (Sun)

short visit with NB, JAJ has to leave early [SL57]

26Sep (Mon)

L1-56 to Grant Richards from Cabra: learned from Symons that GR is looking at Chamber Music, 'probably leaving for Holland in fortnight'

?SL31/L2-56 to NB from Cabra: "My dearest Nora" feels desolate since last night, has cold but more-than-physical, 'we say nothing almost for hours', 'write if you can find time' "Jim"

L2-57 NB5 to JAJ mentions cold, 'you have got very silent lately'

27Sep (Tue)

rendezvous with NB 8:15 [L2-57]

no-date (Cabra): long talks with JSJ, who supposedly agrees he should go away [e176 via DD, e725 via hg?]

28Sep (Wed)

short visit with NB who asks for long letter [SL32]

reconstructed: Nora jokes of Cosgrave that 'he carries his head like he missed the scaffold' [SL31, n30, FW621]

sends two guineas to Gilford? [e176]

29Sep (Thu)

SL31/L2-57 to Nora from Cabra: "My dearest Nora" wrote to accept London offer; learned from Cosgrave that C believed what he said to NB (therefore J had 'unintentionally wronged him'); sad he can't see her today "Jim" [cf? Nora to JAJ, 1908: "Cosgrave told me you were mad." e268]

[e177] thinks offer of job in Amsterdam for JAJ and one in London for her

'Exiles' seems to re-think the last weeks with Cosgrave in light of his 1909 betrayal: [Exiles2]

ROBERT: ...And when he spoke to me about you and told me he was going away-- then most of all.
BERTHA: Why then most of all?
ROBERT: Because it was then that I was guilty of my first treason towards him.
BERTHA: Robert, what are you saying? Your first treason against Dick?
ROBERT: (Nods.) And not my last. He spoke of you and himself. Of how your life would be together-- free and all that. Free, yes! He would not even ask you to go with him. (Bitterly.) He did not. And you went all the same.
BERTHA: I wanted to be with him. You know... (Raising her head and looking at him.) You know how we were then-- Dick and I.
ROBERT: (Unheeding.) I advised him to go alone-- not to take you with him-- to live alone in order to see if what he felt for you was a passing thing which might ruin your happiness and his career.
BERTHA: Well, Robert. It was unkind of you towards me. But I forgive you because you were thinking of his happiness and mine.
ROBERT: (Bending closer to her.) No, Bertha. I was not. And that was my treason. I was thinking of myself-- that you might turn from him when he had gone and he from you. Then I would have offered you my gift. You know what it was now. The simple common gift that men offer to women. Not the best perhaps. Best or worst-- it would have been yours.
BERTHA: (Turning away from him.) He did not take your advice.
ROBERT: (As before.) No. And the night you ran away together-- O, how happy I was!
BERTHA: (Pressing his hands.) Keep calm, Robert. I know you liked me always. Why did you not forget me?
ROBERT: (Smiles bitterly.) How happy I felt as I came back along the quays and saw in the distance the boat lit up, going down the black river, taking you away from me! (In a calmer tone.) But why did you choose him? Did you not like me at all?
BERTHA: Yes. I liked you because you were his friend. We often spoke about you. Often and often.

30Sep (Fri)

Joyce dedicates a poem to Nora, CMxxi [qv] (Stannie dates this to late 1903 (?) during an unproductive, heavy-drinking phase, along with CMxxxvi: mbk252)

He who hath glory lost nor hath
    Found any soul to fellow his,
Among his friends in scorn and wrath
    Holding to ancient nobleness,
That high unconsortable one--
His love is his companion.

02Oct (Sun)

L2-58/e178 from WBY rejecting translated plays and refusing money

02Oct (Sun)

Stannie watches bike-race by north/central canal [cdd107]

?SL27/L2-50 to NB from Cabra, am: "Sweetheart" good humor, appt w/Palmieri 'who wants me to study music', may stop at Finn's and try to see her; no skull last night; tried to finish story [Eveline?]; NB had pain; JAJ has 13 letters from NB [only 2 known?]; Stannie cursing book [definitely Monday] "Jim"

series of ill-omened dreams? [e177 no-attrib, supposedly late Sept]

04Oct (Tue)

L2-58 telegram from Gilford requests Zurich trip 06Oct [SL32]

JAJ sends telegram to Gregory with request for money, maybe saying 'Now I will make my own legend and stick to it.' [e178 reconstructed]

gives 'After the Race' to Harry Felix Norman, editor of Irish Homestead, expects £1 Wed [SL32]

SL32 to AE from Cabra requesting money

no-date: Cousins refuses to give £5 [e178]

no-date: sees Colum at Library, says approached Lady Gregory for money, "I'm not like Jesus Christ-- I can't walk on the water." [ofjj72]

no-date: Curran hears of Nora for first time [cpc67]

05Oct (Wed)

L2-59 telegram from Gilford finalises Zurich trip for 08Oct [SL33]

SL33 to Roberts from Cabra asking for a £1 from GR and Ryan 'early on Friday', calculates 2 fares to Zurich at £7.5 total

no-date: Lady Gregory cables £5 'with all good wishes' [e178]

06Oct (Thu)

Skeffington refuses loan with "best wishes for your welfare and for that of your companion, which is probably much more doubtful than your own" [e179, JAJ deeply annoyed]

no-date: Aunt Jo and Poppie try to dissuade, another sister shops with Nora [e179]

08Oct (Sat)

poem ('A Wish'-- CMvi: qv) in The Speaker

I would in that sweet bosom be
    (O sweet it is and fair it is!)
Where no rude wind might visit me.
    Because of sad austerities
I would in that sweet bosom be.

I would be ever in that heart
    (O soft I knock and soft entreat her!)
Where only peace might be my part.
    Austerities were all the sweeter
So I were ever in that heart.

SL33 to Starkey (at father's drugstore?) requesting toiletries in 20mins or outside Davy Byrne's at 7:10pm

SL33 to George Roberts, franticly requesting 10 shillings 'to bearer' or 9pm at North Wall

seen off by Aunt Jo, Stannie, and JSJ [e179]

Continue: [timeline]

more recent? [master timeline]

e = Ellmann James Joyce 2nd edition [Amazon]
j&c = Jackson and Costello John Stanislaus Joyce [Amazon] [1st chapter]
cw = James Joyce The Critical Writings [Amazon]
n = Brenda Maddox's Nora [Amazon]
G = Gifford's Ulysses Annotated [Amazon]
rff = Foster's WB Yeats [Amazon] [1st chapter]
L1-2-3, SL: Letters of James Joyce (vol 1-2-3, Selected) [Bibliofind] [ABE]
pc = Peter Costello JJ: the years of growth [Bibliofind] [ABE]
wp = Willard Potts (ed) Portraits of the Artist in Exile [Bibliofind] [ABE]
ehm = EH Mikhail (ed) JJ: interviews and recollections [Bibliofind] [ABE]
hg = Herbert Gorman JJ [Bibliofind] [ABE]
lfae = Alan Denson's Letters from AE [Bibliofind] [ABE]
cpc = CP Curran JJ Remembered [Bibliofind] [ABE]
rjj = Stannie's 1941 Recollections of JJ [Bibliofind] [ABE]
mbk = Stannie's 1958 My Brother's Keeper [Bibliofind] [ABE]
cdd = Stannie's 1971 Complete Dublin Diaries [Bibliofind] [ABE]
uoc = Ulick O'Connor's The Times I've Seen (Gogarty bio) [Bibliofind] [ABE]
sw = Carens' Surpassing Wit (Gogarty litcrit) [Bibliofind] [ABE]
jfb = JF Byrne's Silent Years [Bibliofind] [ABE]
ofjj = P&M Colum Our Friend JJ [Bibliofind] [ABE]
ogi = Gogarty's 1950 Intimations [Bibliofind] [ABE]
aiwgdss = Gogarty's 1937 As I Was Going Down Sackville Street [Bibliofind] [ABE]
mbms = Gogarty's 1948 Mourning Became Mrs Spendlove [Bibliofind] [ABE]

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Ulysses:
chapters: summary : anchors : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12a 12b 13 14a 14b 15a 15b 15c 15d 16a 16b 17a 17b 18a 18b
notes: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
reference: Bloom : clocktime : prices : schemata : Tower : riddles : errors : Homeric parallels : [B-L Odyssey] : Eolus tropes : parable : Oxen : Circe : 1904 : Thom's : Gold Cup : Seaside Girls : M'appari : acatalectic : search
riddles: overview : Rudy : condom : Gerty : Hades : Strand : murder : Eccles
maps: Ulysses : WRocks : Strand : VR tour : aerial tour : Dublin : Leinster : Ireland : Europe
editing: etexts : lapses : Gabler : capitals : commas : compounds : deletes : punct : typists
drafts: prequel : Proteus : Cyclops : Circe
closereadings: notes : Oxen : Circe

Finnegans Wake:
txt: [I.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 II.1 2 3 4 III.1 2 3 4 IV] : [HTML]
shorter: main : I.1-4 : 5-8 : II.1-2 : 3-4 : III.1-2 : 3 : 4 : IV
reference: thunder : Quinet : waves : [MP3 ALP] : FrALP : ItalALP : ch4 digest : Finn's Hotel : JAJquotes : search
drafts: NewGame : ROC : Kev : B&P : T&I : HCE : Mmlj : Cad : Rev : Pacata
closereadings: notes : ROC : T&S : Kev : B&P : T&I : HCE : Mmlj : Cad
theory: AI : archetypes : WakeOS : notes : origin : Scribble

Portrait:
ref: main : ch1 : ch1 notes : ch2 : 3 : 4 : 5a : 5b : Pinamonti : [notes] : [Cave] : [Gabler]

SHero: outline : quotes : PoA04

Dubliners:
etexts: Sis : Sis04 : Sis05 : Enc : Araby : Evel : After : 2Gall : Board : LitCl : Cntr : Clay : Pain : Ivy : Moth : Grace : Dead
guides: main : [Cave] : [Peng]

Other:
Exiles: Ex1 : 2 : 3

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