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1869: summer: Amnesty Association formed under Isaac Butt to protect Fenian prisoners
Prince of Wales visits Gibraltar
H R H he was in Gibraltar the year I was born I bet he found lilies there too where he planted the tree he planted more than that in his time he might have planted me too if hed come a bit sooner then I wouldnt be here as I am []
1870: 19May: Butt proposes 'Home Rule' movement, wins over most priests and Fenians
1870: Xmas: Gladstone releases all Fenian prisoners; required to leave British Isles, O'Leary moves to Paris
Gladstone
I heard a priest say once that the three greatest men in Europe were Gladstone, Bismarck (the great German statesman) and our own Archbishop-- as all-round men. [SH ch18]...Mr Daniel, who was glowing with pride at the honour he was paying so honourable a guest, told a dignified story of Gladstone and Sir Ashmead Bartlett and deepened his voice to reproduce the oratory of the grand old man. [SH ch21]
Grave Gladstone sees him level, Bloom for Bloom. []
In 1885 he had publicly expressed his adherence to the collective and national economic programme advocated by James Fintan Lalor, John Fisher Murray, John Mitchel, J.F.X. O'Brien and others, the agrarian policy of Michael Davitt, the constitutional agitation of Charles Stewart Parnell (M.P. for Cork City), the programme of peace, retrenchment and reform of William Ewart Gladstone (M.P. for Midlothian, N.B.) []
...a sealed prophecy (never unsealed) written by Leopold Bloom in 1886 concerning the consequences of the passing into law of William Ewart Gladstone's Home Rule bill of 1886 (never passed into law)... []
...the Liberal strategy (which aims to wear down the separatist sentiment slowly and secretly, while creating a new, eager social class, dependent, and free from dangerous enthusiasms, by means of partial concessions)... [cw212-1910, not explicitly Gladstone]
...masterful cunning and art... the tradition handed down to posterity by that pluterperfect Liberal statesman, William Gladstone. [cw223]
[Parnell makes Gladstone look like] an imposing major domo who has gone to night school... how flimsy seem... the high-sounding periods, the Homeric studies, the speeches on Artemis and on marmalade... Gladstonian liberalism was an inconstant algebraic symbol whose coefficient was the movement's political pressure and whose index was his personal profit.... Gladstone was a self-seeking politician. [cw226]
Disraeli:
...contracts his face so as to resemble many historical personages, Lord Beaconsfield... [][Parnell makes Disraeli look like] a diplomatic opportunist who dines when he can at rich men's houses... how flimsy seem the studied gibes, the greasy locks, and the stupid novels... [cw226]
1874: Home Rule Party formed under Isaac Butt [info]
Where have you a man now at the bar like those fellows, like Whiteside, like Isaac Butt, like silvertongued O'Hagan. Eh? []--For my part I am content with my conquerors.
--Because you occupy a good position under them. You are not a labourer. You enjoy the fruits of Nationalist agitation. [SH ch14]
1874: Jack Joyce (James's father) moves to Dublin after some supposed Fenian mischief in Cork
Parnell's peculiar family
````There he is: the brother... Look at the woebegone walk of him. Eaten a bad egg. Poached eyes on ghost. I have a pain... All a bit touched. Mad Fanny and his other sister Mrs Dickinson driving about with scarlet harness. Bolt upright like surgeon M'Ardle... []
1875: Parnell elected MP
You must have a certain fascination: Parnell... used men as pawns. []a born leader of men, which undoubtedly he was, and a commanding figure, a sixfooter or at any rate five feet ten or eleven in his stockinged feet... []
A magnificent specimen of manhood he was truly, augmented obviously by gifts of a high order... highly likely to carve his way to fame, which he almost bid fair to do... []
...the extraordinary personality of a leader who, without forensic gifts or any original political talent, forced the greatest English politicians to carry out his orders; and, like another Moses, led a turbulent and unstable people from the house of shame to the verge of the Promised Land... He had a speech defect and a delicate physique; he was ignorant of the history of his native land; his short and fragmentary speeches lacked eloquence, poetry, and humour; his cold and formal bearing separated him from his own colleagues; he was a Protestant, a descendant of an aristocratic family, and, as a crowning disgrace, he spoke with a distinct English accent. [Nothing] disturbed the melancholy serenity of his character. [cw225]
Parnell replaces Isaac Butt
not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac []
1877: Plevna
Hard as nails at a bargain, old Tweedy. Yes, sir. At Plevna that was. I rose from the ranks, sir, and I'm proud of it. []Where's old Tweedy's regiment? Castoff soldier. There: bearskin cap and hackle plume. No, he's a grenadier. Pointed cuffs. There he is: royal Dublin fusiliers. Redcoats. []
1878: Standish O'Grady translates Cuchullain cycle
1879: death of Isaac Butt
1879: 24Jun: statue of Sir John Gray (d1875)
--It was at the unveiling of Sir John Gray's statue. Edmund Dwyer Gray was speaking, blathering away...
--None of the Grays was any good, said Mr Power. []
1879: Davitt's Land League
...Michael Davitt against Isaac Butt... []...and even was twitted with going a step further than Michael Davitt in the striking views he at one time inculcated as a backtothelander... []
...her green and maroon brushes for Charles Stewart Parnell and for Michael Davitt... []
In 1885 he had publicly expressed his adherence to the collective and national economic programme advocated by James Fintan Lalor, John Fisher Murray, John Mitchel, J.F.X. O'Brien and others, the agrarian policy of Michael Davitt, the constitutional agitation of Charles Stewart Parnell (M.P. for Cork City), the programme of peace, retrenchment and reform of William Ewart Gladstone (M.P. for Midlothian, N.B.) []
Parnell tours USA raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for Land League
1880: Jul: CSP falls for Kitty O'Shea
A woman too brought Parnell low. []--That bitch, that English whore, did for him, the shebeen proprietor commented. She put the first nail in his coffin.
--Fine lump of a woman, all the same, the soi-disant townclerk, Henry Campbell remarked, and plenty of her. She loosened many a man's thighs. I seen her picture in a barber's. Her husband was a captain or an officer.
--Ay, Skin-the-Goat amusingly added. He was, and a cottonball one. []... the usual affectionate letters that passed between them, full of sweet nothings. First, it was strictly platonic till nature intervened and an attachment sprang up between them, till bit by bit matters came to a climax... Whereas the simple fact of the case was it was simply a case of the husband not being up to the scratch with nothing in common between them beyond the name and then a real man arriving on the scene, strong to the verge of weakness, falling a victim to her siren charms and forgetting home ties. The usual sequel, to bask in the loved one's smiles. The eternal question of the life connubial, needless to say, cropped up. Can real love, supposing there happens to be another chap in the case, exist between married folk? Poser. Though it was no concern of theirs absolutely if he regarded her with affection carried away by a wave of folly. A magnificent specimen of manhood he was truly, augmented obviously by gifts of a high order as compared with the other military supernumerary, that is (who was just the usual everyday farewell, my gallant captain kind of an individual in the light dragoons, the 18th hussars to be accurate), and inflammable doubtless (the fallen leader, that is, not the other) in his own peculiar way which she of course, woman, quickly perceived as highly likely to carve his way to fame, which he almost bid fair to do... it was just the wellknown case of hot passion, pure and simple, upsetting the applecart with a vengeance and just bore out the very thing he was saying, as she also was Spanish or half so, types that wouldn't do things by halves, passionate abandon of the south, casting every shred of decency to the winds. []
she was a lovely woman magnificent head of hair on her down to her waist tossing it back like that like Kitty OShea in Grantham street []
1880: Oct: CSP and KOS become lovers
...Of course nobody being acquainted with his movements even before, there was absolutely no clue as to his whereabouts which were decidedly of the Alice, where art thou order even prior to his starting to go under several aliases such as Fox and Stewart... []
1880: Nov: Davitt et all charged with conspiracy
Land League funds moved to Paris
1881: Jan: conspirators acquitted, Davitt rearrested
1881: Duffy's memoir "Young Ireland" in reply to Froude's one-sided view
1881: Parnell
...convinced that [Gladstone's] liberalism would yield only to force, united behind him every element of Irish life and began to march, treading on the verge of insurrection. Just six years after his entrance into Westminster he held in his hands the fate of the government. [cw227]
1881: Jul: O'Shea challenges CSP to duel
1881: Aug: CSP founds United Ireland
His advice to every Irishman was: stay in the land of your birth and work for Ireland and live for Ireland. Ireland, Parnell said, could not spare a single one of her sons. []
1881: 17Oct (Tue): Land League calls for rent boycott, CSP et al jailed
Mr Casey had told him that he had got those three cramped fingers making a birthday present for Queen Victoria. []He thought of Mr Casey walking through the crowds of people and making speeches from a wagonette. That was what he had been in prison for and he remembered that one night Sergeant O'Neill had come to the house and had stood in the hall, talking in a low voice with his father and chewing nervously at the chinstrap of his cap. And that night Mr Casey had not gone to Dublin by train but a car had come to the door and he had heard his father say something about the Cabinteely road. []
Boycott movement
Ulster resistance [info]
1882: 02May: CSP released; Buckshot Forster resigns
1882: 05May (Fri): torchlight parade for Parnell
1882: 06May (Sat): Phoenix Park murders, 7pm [info]
--B is parkgate. Good... T is viceregal lodge. C is where murder took place. K is Knockmaroon gate... F to P is the route Skin-the-Goat drove the car for an alibi. Inchicore, Roundtown, Windy Arbour, Palmerston Park, Ranelagh. F.A.B.P. Got that? X is Davy's publichouse in upper Leeson street. []That was why they thought the park murders of the invincibles was done by foreigners on account of them using knives. []
1882: 17Aug (Thu): Maamtrasna murders [info]
1883: 10Feb: Invincible James Carey turns state's evidence, getaway routes revealed
That fellow that turned queen's evidence on the invincibles he used to receive the, Carey was his name, the communion every morning. This very church. Peter Carey, yes. No, Peter Claver I am thinking of. Denis Carey. And just imagine that. Wife and six children at home. And plotting that murder all the time. []That was the smartest piece of journalism ever known. That was in eightyone, sixth of May, time of the invincibles, murder in the Phoenix park... New York World, the editor said, excitedly pushing back his straw hat. Where it took place. Tim Kelly, or Kavanagh I mean, Joe Brady and the rest of them. Where Skin-the-Goat drove the car. Whole route, see? ...Cabled right away. []
1883: Jesuits take over University College of Royal University
1883: 14May (Mon): Invincible Joe Brady hung at Kilmainham
1884: 01Nov: Cusack, John Wyse Power and others found Gaelic Athletic Assoc [cite]
To this circle Madden who was the captain of a club of hurley-players reported the muscular condition of the young irreconcilables under his charge and the editor of the weekly journal of the irreconcilable party reported any signs of Philocelticism which he had observed in the Paris newspapers. [SH ch17]...by the force of its delight in rude bodily skill-- for Davin had sat at the feet of Michael Cusack, the Gael... []
As Davin did not answer Stephen began to quote: --Long pace, fianna! Right incline, fianna! Fianna, by numbers, salute, one, two! --That's a different question, said Davin. I'm an Irish nationalist, first and foremost. But that's you all out. You're a born sneerer, Stevie. --When you make the next rebellion with hurleysticks, said Stephen, and want the indispensable informer, tell me. I can find you a few in this college. []
1885: 19Jan: John O'Leary returns to Dublin (will inspire Yeats)
1885: death of Chinese Gordon
On this day twenty years ago we overcame the hereditary enemy at Ladysmith. Our howitzers and camel swivel guns played on his lines with telling effect. []and only captain Groves and father talking about Rorkes drift and Plevna and sir Garnet Wolseley and Gordon at Khartoum []
1886: Lord Randolph Churchill
For Ulster will fight And Ulster will be right. []
1886: Jul? Lord Salisbury becomes Prime Minister
NOBLE MARQUESS MENTIONED... I speak the tongue of a race the acme of whose mentality is the maxim: time is money. Material domination. Domine! Lord! Where is the spirituality? Lord Jesus? Lord Salisbury? A sofa in a westend club. []...the highly praised Marquis of Salisbury, a refined gentleman, spoke not only for his caste but for his race when he said: 'Let the Irish stew in their own juice.' [cw213]
1887: Salisbury appoints nephew Balfour as Chief Secretary for Ireland; 'Bloody' Balfour promises to be "as relentless as Cromwell"
1887: 18Apr (Tue): Times publishes Pigott's allegations against Parnell [info]
When he was shown the copy of The Times containing the famous autograph letter which would have proved his implication in the barbarous assassination in Phoenix Park, he put his finger on one letter in the handwriting and said simply, 'I have not made an 's' that way since '78.' [cw225]
1887: 21Jun (Tue): Victoria's Jubilee
1887: Parnell given 40k pounds
...When the Irish people presented him with a national gratuity of 40,000 pounds sterling in 1887, he put the cheque into his billfold, and in the speech which he delivered to the immense gathering made not the slightest reference to the gift which he had received. [cw225]
1888: 02Feb (Sat): LB watches torchlight parade for Home Rule
in support of his political convictions, had climbed up into a secure position amid the ramifications of a tree on Northumberland road to see the entrance (2 February 1888) into the capital of a demonstrative torchlight procession of 20,000 torchbearers, divided into 120 trade corporations, bearing 2000 torches in escort of the marquess of Ripon and (honest) John Morley. []
1888:17Sep (Mon): investigation of Parnell begun
1889:20Feb (Wed): Pigott exposed as forger, misspelling 'hesitancy'
1889: 01Mar (Fri): Pigott's suicide
...when the inquiries of the Royal Commission revealed the conspiracy which had been formed against him and the perjurer and forger Pigott blew out his brains in a Madrid hotel, the House of Commons, without regard to party, greeted Parnell's entrance with an ovation that remains without precedent in the annals of the British Parliament... Parnell made no response... [cw225]
1889: 24Dec (Tue): Capt O'Shea files for divorce
1890: William O'Brien's "When We Were Boys" (written in jail)
When We Were Boys by William O'Brien M.P. (green cloth, slightly faded, envelope bookmark at p.217). []Chap in the paybox there got away James Stephens, they say. O'Brien. []
1890: 01Nov (Sat): O'Shea divorce trial begins
the historic story which had aroused extraordinary interest at the time when the facts, to make matters worse, were made public... the matter became the talk of the town till the staggering blow came as a welcome intelligence to not a few evildisposed however, who were resolved upon encouraging his downfall though the thing was public property all along though not to anything like the sensational extent that it subsequently blossomed into. Since their names were coupled, though, since he was her declared favourite, where was the particular necessity to proclaim it to the rank and file from the housetops, the fact namely, that he had shared her bedroom, which came out in the witnessbox on oath when a thrill went through the packed court literally electrifying everybody in the shape of witnesses swearing to having witnessed him on such and such a particular date in the act of scrambling out of an upstairs apartment with the assistance of a ladder in night apparel, having gained admittance in the same fashion, a fact that the weeklies, addicted to the lubric a little, simply coined shoals of money out of. ...till the priests and ministers of the gospel as a whole, his erstwhile staunch adherents and his beloved evicted tenants for whom he had done yeoman service in the rural parts of the country by taking up the cudgels on their behalf in a way that exceeded their most sanguine expectations, very effectually cooked his matrimonial goose, thereby heaping coals of fire on his head, much in the same way as the fabled ass's kick. []
1890: 17Nov (Mon): O'Shea divorce granted
Catholic furies
He wondered which was right, to be for the green or for the maroon, because Dante had ripped the green velvet back off the brush that was for Parnell one day with her scissors and had told him that Parnell was a bad man. He wondered if they were arguing at home about that. That was called politics. There were two sides in it: Dante was on one side and his father and Mr Casey were on the other side but his mother and uncle Charles were on no side. Every day there was something in the paper about it. []--That was a good answer our friend made to the canon. What? said Mr Dedalus... I'll pay your dues, father, when you cease turning the house of God into a pollingbooth... --The bishops and priests of Ireland have spoken, said Dante, and they must be obeyed... -- What? cried Mr Dedalus. Were we to desert him at the bidding of the English people? --He was no longer worthy to lead, said Dante. He was a public sinner. []
--Let him remember too, cried Mr Casey to her from across the table, the language with which the priests and the priests' pawns broke Parnell's heart and hounded him into his grave. Let him remember that too when he grows up.
--Sons of bitches! cried Mr Dedalus. When he was down they turned on him to betray him and rend him like rats in a sewer. Lowlived dogs! And they look it! By Christ, they look it! []THE MOB Lynch him! Roast him! He's as bad as Parnell was. Mr Fox! []
Archbishop Walsh opposed CSP
I heard a priest say once that the three greatest men in Europe were Gladstone, Bismarck (the great German statesman) and our own Archbishop-- as all-round men. [SH ch18]They respected spiritual and temporal authorities, the spiritual authorities of Catholicism and patriotism, and the temporal authorities of the hierarchy and the government. The memory of Terence MacManus was not less revered by them than the memory of Cardinal Cullen. [SH ch22]
--Respect! he said. Is it for Billy with the lip or for the tub of guts up in Armagh? Respect!
-- Princes of the church, said Mr Casey with slow scorn.
-- Lord Leitrim's coachman, yes, said Mr Dedalus.
-- They are the Lord's anointed, Dante said. They are an honour to their country.
-- Tub of guts, said Mr Dedalus coarsely. He has a handsome face, mind you, in repose. You should see that fellow lapping up his bacon and cabbage of a cold winter's day. O Johnny!
He twisted his features into a grimace of heavy bestiality and made a lapping noise with his lips. []His father's gibes at the Bantry gang leaped out of his memory. []
Convert Dr William J. Walsh D.D. to the true religion. []
THE CROZIER AND THE PEN --His grace phoned down twice this morning, Red Murray said gravely. []
-- Wait. Where's the archbishop's letter? It's to be repeated in the Telegraph. []
Letter from His Grace William +. []
1890: 06Dec (Sat): Parnell defeated by Committee Room 15 debates, 45 to 27
Do you think now after what he did Parnell was a fit man to lead us? ...Our side of the house respects him because he was a gentleman. --Right you are, Crofton! said Mr Henchy fiercely. He was the only man that could keep that bag of cats in order. Down, ye dogs! Lie down, ye curs! That's the way he treated them. []And then seventytwo of his trusty henchmen rounding on him with mutual mudslinging. []
And apropos of coffin of stones, the analogy was not at all bad, as it was in fact a stoning to death on the part of seventytwo out of eighty odd constituencies that ratted at the time of the split and chiefly the belauded peasant class, probably the selfsame evicted tenants he had put in their holdings. []
1890: Justin McCarthy replaces CSP as head of IPP
Justin M'Carthy against Parnell []
1890: 11Dec (Thu): Parnell takes United Ireland offices with LB's hat-help
He saw him once on the auspicious occasion when they broke up the type in the Insuppressible or was it United Ireland, a privilege he keenly appreciated, and, in point of fact, handed him his silk hat when it was knocked off and he said Thank you, excited as he undoubtedly was under his frigid exterior... he turned round to the donor and thanked him with perfect aplomb, saying: Thank you, sir... []
1891: 25Jun (Thu): Parnell marries Katherine O'Shea
1891: 21Sept? (Mon): Freeman's Journal finally abandons Parnell (July?)
Timothy Michael Healy
--He is sitting with Tim Healy, J.J. O'Molloy said, rumour has it, on the Trinity college estates commission. []Over against the Rt. Hon. Mr Justice Fitzgibbon's door (that is to sit with Mr Healy the lawyer upon the college lands)... []
Mr Casey's anecdote
It was one day down in Arklow, a cold bitter day, not long before the chief died. May God have mercy on him! ...Before he was killed, you mean... We were down there at a meeting and after the meeting was over we had to make our way to the railway station through the crowd. Such booing and baaing, man, you never heard. They called us all the names in the world. Well there was one old lady, and a drunken old harridan she was surely, that paid all her attention to me. She kept dancing along beside me in the mud bawling and screaming into my face: Priesthunter! The Paris Funds! Mr Fox! Kitty O'Shea! ...I let her bawl away, said Mr Casey. It was a cold day and to keep up my heart I had (saving your presence, ma'am) a quid of Tullamore in my mouth and sure I couldn't say a word in any case because my mouth was full of tobacco juice... I let her bawl away to her heart's content, Kitty O'Shea and the rest of it till at last she called that lady a name that I won't sully this Christmas board nor your ears, ma'am, nor my own lips by repeating... She stuck her ugly old face up at me when she said it and I had my mouth full of tobacco juice. I bent down to her and Phth! says I to her like that. He turned aside and made the act of spitting. --Phth! says I to her like that, right into her eye. He clapped his hand to his eye and gave a hoarse scream of pain. --O Jesus, Mary and Joseph! says she. I'm blinded! I'm blinded and drownded! ...I'm blinded entirely. []
1891: 27Sep (Sun): Parnell catches chill
1891: 06Oct (Tue): death of 45yo Parnell
He saw the sea of waves, long dark waves rising and falling, dark under the moonless night. A tiny light twinkled at the pierhead where the ship was entering: and he saw a multitude of people gathered by the waters' edge to see the ship that was entering their harbour. A tall man stood on the deck, looking out towards the flat dark land: and by the light at the pierhead he saw his face, the sorrowful face of Brother Michael. He saw him lift his hand towards the people and heard him say in a loud voice of sorrow over the waters: --He is dead. We saw him lying upon the catafalque. A wail of sorrow went up from the people. --Parnell! Parnell! He is dead! They fell upon their knees, moaning in sorrow. And he saw Dante in a maroon velvet dress and with a green velvet mantle hanging from her shoulders walking proudly and silently past the people who knelt by the waters' edge. []Mr Casey, freeing his arms from his holders, suddenly bowed his head on his hands with a sob of pain. --Poor Parnell! he cried loudly. My dead king! []
1891: 11Oct (Sun): Parnell buried in Glasnevin [info]
--Let us go round by the chief's grave, Hynes said...
-- Some say he is not in that grave at all. That the coffin was filled with stones. That one day he will come again.
Hynes shook his head.
-- Parnell will never come again, he said. He's there, all that was mortal of him. Peace to his ashes. []Pride it was killed him. He ought to have done away with himself or lain low for a time after Committee Room No. 15 until he was his old self again with no-one to point a finger at him. Then they would all to a man have gone down on their marrowbones to him to come back when he had recovered his senses. Dead he wasn't. Simply absconded somewhere. The coffin they brought over was full of stones. He changed his name to De Wet, the Boer general. He made a mistake to fight the priests. []
Something evidently riled them in his death. Either he petered out too tamely of acute pneumonia just when his various different political arrangements were nearing completion or whether it transpired he owed his death to his having neglected to change his boots and clothes after a wetting when a cold resulted and failing to consult a specialist he being confined to his room till he eventually died of it amid widespread regret before a fortnight was at an end or quite possibly they were distressed to find the job was taken out of their hands. []
1891:18Dec (Fri): Irish Daily Independent begins publication
And look at this blasted rag, says he. Look at this, says he. The Irish Independent, if you please, founded by Parnell to be the workingman's friend. []
1892: Dublin synagogue moves to Adelaide road
...the original jews' temple was here too before they built their synagogue over in Adelaide road... []
1893: Douglas Hyde founds Gaelic League [info]
She said Stephen should learn Irish too and join the League. [SH ch16] He bought the O'Growney's primers published by the Gaelic League but refused either to pay a subscription to the League or to wear the badge in his buttonhole. [ch17]--Then be one of us, said Davin. Why don't you learn Irish? Why did you drop out of the league class after the first lesson? []
1895: John Howard Parnell elected MP
There he is: the brother. Image of him. Haunting face... Must be a corporation meeting today. They say he never put on the city marshal's uniform since he got the job. Charley Boulger used to come out on his high horse, cocked hat, puffed, powdered and shaved. Look at the woebegone walk of him. Eaten a bad egg. Poached eyes on ghost. I have a pain. Great man's brother: his brother's brother. He'd look nice on the city charger. Drop into the D.B.C. probably for his coffee, play chess there. His brother used men as pawns. Let them all go to pot. Afraid to pass a remark on him. Freeze them up with that eye of his. That's the fascination: the name... Still David Sheehy beat him for south Meath. Apply for the Chiltern Hundreds and retire into public life. The patriot's banquet. Eating orangepeels in the park. Simon Dedalus said when they put him in parliament that Parnell would come back from the grave and lead him out of the house of commons by the arm. []Where was the marshal, he wanted to know, to keep order in the council chamber. []
--Parnell's brother. There in the corner.
They chose a small table near the window, opposite a longfaced man whose beard and gaze hung intently down on a chessboard.
-- Is that he? Haines asked, twisting round in his seat.
-- Yes, Mulligan said. That's John Howard, his brother, our city marshal.
John Howard Parnell translated a white bishop quietly and his grey claw went up again to his forehead whereat it rested. An instant after, under its screen, his eyes looked quickly, ghostbright, at his foe and fell once more upon a working corner. []JOHN HOWARD PARNELL (Raises the royal standard.) Illustrious Bloom! Successor to my famous brother! []
1897: 22Jun (Tue): Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
the anticipated diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria (born 1820, acceded 1837) []
Kipling's 'Recessional'
1898: 19May (Thu): death of 89yo Gladstone
Prayers for the conversion of Gladstone they had too when he was almost unconscious. []I was once at a diorama in Rotunda. At the end were pictures of big nobs. Among them William Ewart Gladstone, just then dead. Orchestra played O Willie, we have missed you. A race of clodhoppers! []
1898: 15Aug: slab for statue of Wolfe Tone
Grafton Street, along which he walked, prolonged that moment of discouraged poverty. 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! []Five tallwhitehatted sandwichmen between Monypeny's corner and the slab where Wolfe Tone's statue was not, eeled themselves turning H.E.L.Y'S and plodded back as they had come. []
1898: Wm O'Brien's United Irish League
...the 'leader'of the Irish dissidents, who calls his band of 10 representatives the 'All for Ireland' party, has become what every good fanatic becomes when his fanaticism dies before he does. Now he fights in league with the Union magistrates who would probably have issued a warrant for his arrest twenty years ago; and nothing remains of his fiery youth except those violent outbursts which make him seem epileptic. [cw211-1910]
1898: 16Dec (Sat): demonstrations against Joe Chamberlain by Trinity students (18th?) cf [Lestryg]
Spanish-American War
But in the economic, not touching religion, domain, the priest spells poverty. Spain again, you saw in the war, compared with goahead America. []
Maud Gonne
Maud Gonne's letter about taking them off O'Connell street at night: disgrace to our Irish capital. []
1899: 08Oct (Sun): base for Parnell monument laid (erected 1911)
Foundation stone for Parnell. Breakdown. Heart. []
1899: 11Oct: Boer War
The Boers were the beginning of the end. Brummagem England was toppling already... []
University
About this time there was some agitation in the political world concerning the working of the Royal University. It was proposed to institute a commission to examine into the matter. The Jesuits were accused of working the machine for their own ends without a just sense of impartiality. To parry the charge of obscurantism a monthly review was started under the editorship of McCann. [SH ch23]
1900: Apr: Victoria visits Ireland to honor Boer War veterans
We fought for you in South Africa, Irish missile troops. Isn't that history? Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Honoured by our monarch. []
1901: 18Jan: death of Victoria
Edward
Mr Deasy stared sternly for some moments over the mantelpiece at the shapely bulk of a man in tartan filibegs: Albert Edward, prince of Wales. []Elfin riders sat them, watchful of a sign. He saw their speeds, backing king's colours, and shouted with the shouts of vanished crowds. []
The King's own. Never see him dressed up as a fireman or a bobby. A mason, yes. []
Maximilian Karl O'Donnell, graf von Tirconnell in Ireland. Sent his heir over to make the king an Austrian fieldmarshal now. []
--Well! says J.J. We have Edward the peacemaker now.
--Tell that to a fool, says the citizen. There's a bloody sight more pox than pax about that boyo. Edward Guelph-Wettin!
--And what do you think, says Joe, of the holy boys, the priests and bishops of Ireland doing up his room in Maynooth in His Satanic Majesty's racing colours and sticking up pictures of all the horses his jockeys rode. The earl of Dublin, no less.
--They ought to have stuck up all the women he rode himself, says little Alf.
And says J.J.: --Considerations of space influenced their lordships' decision. [](Edward the Seventh appears in an archway. He wears a white jersey on which an image of the Sacred Heart is stitched with the insignia of Garter and Thistle, Golden Fleece, Elephant of Denmark, Skinner's and Probyn's horse, Lincoln's Inn bencher and ancient and honourable artillery company of Massachusetts. He sucks a red jujube. He is robed as a grand elect perfect and sublime mason with trowel and apron, marked made in Germany. In his left hand he holds a plasterer's bucket on which is printed: Défense d'uriner. A roar of welcome greets him.)
EDWARD THE SEVENTH (Slowly, solemnly but indistinctly.) Peace, perfect peace. For identification, bucket in my hand. Cheerio, boys. (He turns to his subjects.) We have come here to witness a clean straight fight and we heartily wish both men the best of good luck. Mahak makar a bak. (He shakes hands with Private Carr, Private Compton, Stephen, Bloom and Lynch.) (General applause. Edward the Seventh lifts his bucket graciously in acknowledgement.) []and that Mrs Langtry the Jersey Lily the prince of Wales was in love with I suppose hes like the first man going the roads only for the name of a king theyre all made the one way only a black mans Id like to try a beauty up to what was she 45 there was some funny story about the jealous old husband what was it at all and an oyster knife he went no he made her wear a kind of a tin thing round her and the prince of Wales yes he had the oyster knife []
Now, here's the way I look at it. Here's this chap come to the throne after his old mother keeping him out of it till the man was grey. He's a man of the world and he means well by us. He's a jolly fine decent fellow, if you ask me, and no damn nonsense about him. He just says to himself: The old one never went to see these wild Irish. By Christ, I'll go myself and see what they're like. And are we going to insult the man when he comes over here on a friendly visit? Eh? ...He's just an ordinary knockabout like you and me. He's fond of his glass of grog and he's a bit of a rake, perhaps, and he's a good sportsman. []
1902: Jul: Balfour becomes Prime Minister
...the three party heads, Asquith, Balfour, and Redmond, who always know how to maintain a certain dignified bearing not unbecoming to fatuous leaders... a religious renegade... a worthy disciple of the Scottish school... a sceptic rather than a politician... urged more by the instinct for nepotism innate in the Cecil family than by individual choice, assumed the leadership of the Conservative party after the death of his uncle... distracted and quibbling attitude. His tricks make his own followers laugh... his vacillating flag... [cw209]Mr Allfours (Tamoshant. Con.): Honourable members... []
And the beds of the Barrow and Shannon they won't deepen with millions of acres of marsh and bog to make us all die of consumption? []
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