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2yo -> 6yo -> 20yo -> 20yo -> 20yo -> 22yo
"the past assuredly implies a fluid succession of presents,
the development of an entity of which our actual present
is a phase only" [PoA04]
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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]
mwy = Budgen's Myselves When Young [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]
more: [bibliog]
1775: 06Aug (Sun): Daniel O'Connell born (2nd cousin of great-great-grandfather) [pc329, e12] [pic]1816: Ellen O'Connell (grandmother) born in Cork [map] to prosperous store-owner [pc36, e13, mbk22]
1824: John Murray (grandfather) born in Tulcon [map] [pc27] [pic]
1827: James Augustine Joyce (grandfather) born in Fermoy [pc34] [map] [ancestry]
1832: Margaret Flynn (grandmother) born in Dublin [pc26, e19]
1836: Oct: 20yo Ellen O'Connell enters convent for four months [pc38, cf e13]
1843: 13Aug (Sun): O'Connell's 'monster meeting' on Hill of Tara
1843: 14Oct (Sat): O'Connell imprisoned for seditious conspiracy
1846-47: worst years of potato famine [info]
1847: 29Jan (Fri): 20yo James A Joyce marries 31yo Ellen O'Connell in Cork (grandparents) [pc38]both had wealthy families who contributed equal portions [j&c22]
1847: 05Aug (Thu): 72yo Daniel O'Connell buried in Glasnevin [info]
1847: 20Sep (Mon): Michael Cusack ('the citizen') born near Burren [map] [bio&pic] more
1848? John Kelly ('Mr Casey') born in Tralee [pc136] [map]
1848: 28Feb (Mon): post-nuptial agreement between James and Ellen [pc38, cf e13]
1849: 04Jul (Wed): John Stanislaus Joyce (father, JSJ or Jack) born in Cork [map] [e13, pc38] [pic]
1853: Newman founds Catholic University (later University College of Royal University) [e57]
1856? 32yo John Murray marries 23yo Margaret Flynn (maternal grandparents) [pc28, e19]
1856-1865? Murrays run Eagle House pub (cf FW) in Roundtown [pc28] [map]
1856: John 'Red' Murray born (uncle) [pc28]
1857: William Murray born (uncle 'Richie Goulding') [pc28]
1859: 17Mar (Thu): 9yo John 'Jack' Joyce enters St Colman's College, Fermoy [pc40, e14]
1859: 15May (Sun): Mary Jane 'May' Murray (mother) born in Roundtown [pc28, e18] [pic]
no-date: JSJ's grandfather, 'a prosperous builder' dies leaving fortune to JSJ's father [j&c26]
"I can remember even your greatgrandfather, old John Stephen Dedalus, and a fierce old fireeater he was." [PoA2]
1860: 19Feb (Sun): 10yo JSJ (temporarily?) leaves St Colman's College [pc40, e14, j&c38]
1861: Joseph James Murray (uncle) born [pc326, left no trace?]
1862: Elizabeth Hearn ('Dante') leaves Pennsylvania convent on inheriting brothers' fortunes [pc62]
1863: birth of Josephine Mary 'Jo' Giltrap (aunt 'Sara' or 'Sally') [pc326]
1865: 28Feb (Tue): Arthur Symons born in Wales [timeline]
1865: 13Jun (Tue): WB Yeats born in Dublin [bio]
1866: 02Apr? (Mon): 'Leopold Bloom' born in Dublin [bio]
1866: 30Aug (Thu): Alfred Hunter ('Leopold Bloom') born at Ballymacarret [pc228] [map:Belfast]
1866: 28Oct (Sun): death of 39yo James A Joyce (grandfather) [pc41, e14, j&c48]
1867: George 'AE' Russell born in Lurgan [map] [bio]
1867: 13Dec (Fri): Joseph Casey ('Kevin Egan') almost freed when Fenians bomb Clerkenwell prison [pc201, e125, j&c50, j&c250] [Ulysses]
1868: William Magee (John Eglinton) born in Dublin [bio]
1869: 12Mar (Fri): Cork paper praises JSJ's acting [pc42, cf? e15 '11th']
1869: 16Apr (Fri): 19yo JSJ appears in "The Mummy" in Cork [pc42, e15]
1869: 27May (Thu): Cork paper praises JSJ's acting [j&c58]
"It was full of quiet humour, genuine and racy of the soil and admirably sustained." [mbk25]1869: Jun: JSJ fails med school exam [j&c58]
"His college friends were: Tom O'Grady, Harry Peard, Mick Lacey, Maurice Moriarty, Jack Mountain, Joey Corbet, Bob Dyas and Keevers of the Tantiles." [wod104] cf [PoA2]
1870s [cal] 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79
1870: 04Jul (Mon): 21yo JSJ inherits (?) £1000 (and/or £315/yr?) [e15, j&c58]
1870: 08Sep (Thu) or 1871 (Fri): 'Marion Tweedy' ('Molly Bloom') born in Gibraltar (Ulysses) (U17.2275 and 18.475)
1871: Irish setter Garryowen born, owned by great-uncle Giltrap [pc30]
1871: 31Mar (Fri): Arthur Griffith born [bio]
1871: 16Apr (Sun): JM Synge born [EB]
1872: Richard Irvine Best born in Londonderry [lfae243]
1873: 08Jan: George Roberts born [lfae269]
1873: 22Jul (Tue): James Cousins ('Little Chandler') born [lfae247]
1873: Xmas (Thu): 14yo May Murray sees Royce in 'Sinbad' [pc117]
1874: Fred Ryan born [SL33]
late-1874? Ellen Joyce and JSJ move to Dublin [pc44]
no-date: Barton McGuckin hears JSJ at Antient Concert Rooms and privately judges him the best tenor in Ireland [j&c74]1875: Elizabeth 'Dante' Hearn marries 'tall, solemn, bald, elegant bank-officer' Patrick Conway (who disappears in S America two years later with her fortune) [j&c127, pc62, e25, mbk8]
1876? Citizen Cusack teaches briefly at Clongowes
1876: 20Jul (Thu): Michael Saurin born (Clongowes student 1887-93)
1876: 31Jul (Mon): Dublin and Chapelizod Distillery buys out Alleyne's interest; JSJ loses £500 investment [pc45, j&c77, cf? e16]
1876: 01Sep (Fri): Harriet Shaw Weaver born
1877: 27May (Sun): Hanna Sheehy born [info] [bio] bio
1877: 31Aug (Fri): George Reddington 'Nasty' Roche born (Clongowes 1883?-89)
1877: 22Nov (Thu): Vincent Cosgrave ('Lynch') born [info]
1878: Francis Skeffington ('MacCann') born [e61] [info]
1878: 24Jun (Mon): Cecil Thunder born (Clongowes 1889-94)
1878: 17Aug (Sat): Oliver Gogarty ('Buck Mulligan', also maybe 'Doherty', 'Goggins') born in Dublin [bio]
1878: 20Nov (Wed): Rody Kickham born (Clongowes 1888-93)
1879: James Sullivan Starkey born in Dublin [lfae270]
1879: 26Oct (Sun): Tom Furlong born (Clongowes 1889-94) [info]
1879? 30yo JSJ meets 20yo May Murray in church choir [e18] or invited by her father at work [pc31, j&c85]
13 Ontario terrace, Rathmines [pc50]
no-date: Alf Bergan born [pc151]
09Feb (Wed): Thomas Kettle born [info]
11Feb (Fri): JF Byrne ('Cranly') born in Dublin [bio]
05Apr (Mon): Brooks and Lyons elected with JSJ's help, £210 reward? [pc47, e16, j&c88]
05May (Wed): 30yo JSJ marries 20yo May Murray (parents) [pc49, e18]
May: honeymoon in London [pc50, e20]
JSJ's mother Ellen disapproves of the Murrays: "They are troublesome people, John" and returns to Cork after the wedding [mbk32]
09Jun (Wed): Leo Wilkins ('Leo Dillon') born
23Nov (Tue): John Augustine Joyce born (older brother, premature) [pc50, e21, j&c99]
01Dec (Wed): John A Joyce dies, age 8 days [pc50]
14Dec (Tue): Jack Lawton born (Clongowes 1890-96, 1898)
30 Emorville avenue, Dublin (until summer) [pc50]
47 Northumberland ave, Kingstown (until December) [pc52, cf? e20]
26Jan (Wed): May Joyce sings Palestrina with choir at St Andrew's [j&c100]
Feb: death of 49yo Margaret Murray (grandmother, musical, liked by son-in-law JSJ) [pc51, mbk31]
28Feb (Mon): 35yo Tom Barnacle (illiterate) weds 24yo Honoraria 'Annie' Healy (in-laws) [pc236, e157, n9]
Apr: JSJ fails civil service exam [pc52]
12May? (Thu): James A Joyce conceived at Emorville ave [pc50] [map:J81]
27Jun (Mon): death of 65yo Ellen Joyce (grandmother) in Cork, leaving all to JSJ (incl portraits) [pc51, pc308, j&c104]'tenanted houses in 6 locations in Cork' worth almost £500/yr gross [j&c104, probably £315 net]
18Jul (Mon): JSJ appointed to Civil Service, potential of £400/yr as tax collector [j&c102, pc52]
06Oct (Fri): Richard (Samuel?) Chenevix Trench ('Haines') born [john smurthwaite]
17Oct (Tue): Land League calls for rent boycott
14Nov (Mon): JSJ sings Gounod's "Fairer than the Morning" at the Antient Concert Rooms [j&c119]
08Dec (Thu): Padraic Colum born [info]
no-date: 57yo grandfather John Murray of Chapelizod remarries his 35yo niece Christina [pc326, cf e19]
41 Brighton square west, Rathgar (?Dec1881-?Apr1884): [e24, pc53] [pic], ditto [map:J82]
no-date: 25yo uncle William Murray weds 19yo Josephine Giltrap [pc326]
01Jan (Sun): Richard Sheehy born (five siblings: Hanna (Mrs Skeffington), Margaret (Mrs Frank Culhane), Kathleen (Mrs Cruise O'Brien), Eugene, and Mary (Mrs Kettle) [memoir]
24Jan (Tue): Mary Barnacle born (Nora's sister) [pc237]
25Jan (Wed): Virginia Woolf born
30Jan (Mon): Franklin D Roosevelt born
02Feb (Thu): James Augusta Joyce born, 6am [pc53, e21]
05Feb (Sun): James A Joyce baptised [pc53]
05Feb (Sun): Mary Elizabeth Cleary ('EC', 'Emma') born near Enniskillen [pc188] [map]
08Feb (Wed): James Stephens born [cite]
01Mar (Wed): Frank Budgen born
09Apr (Easter): Parnell released from Kilmainham Gaol [pc57]
26Apr (Wed): Shotover wins 2000 Guineas at Newmarket
05May (Fri): torchlight parade for Parnell [pc57]
06May (Sat): Phoenix Park murders, 7pm [pc58] [info]
24May (Wed): Shotover wins the Derby at Epsom
17Aug (Thu): Maamtrasna murders [pc58] [info]
14Oct (Sat): Eamon de Valera born
18Nov (Sat): Wyndham Lewis and Jacques Maritain born
1883-4 [calendar-1883] 84 [pic]
23 Castlewood ave, Rathmines (?Mar1884-?Apr1887): [e24, pc61] [pic] [map:J84]
1883: University College taken over by Jesuits [e58]
1883? CP Curran ('Donovan') born [cpc4] [info]
1883: Eugene Sheehy born [ehm14]
1883: 14May (Mon): Invincible Joe Brady hung at Kilmainham
1884? John Elwood ('Temple') born [SL21] [info]
1884: Elizabeth 'Dante' Hearn moves in with Joyces ('unlovely and very stout, most bigoted': mbk7-9) [pc62, e25]
1884: 18Jan (Sun): Margaret Alice 'Poppie' Joyce born (sister) [pc60, e21] [bio]
1884: 21Mar (Fri): Nora Joseph Barnacle born [pc237, e156] [bio]
1884: 13Jun (Fri): Mary Maguire (later Colum) born
1884: 14Jun (Sat): John McCormack (tenor) born (né soprano)
1884: 27Aug (Wed): George S Dempsey starts teaching at Belvedere
1884: 01Nov: Cusack, John Wyse Power and others found Gaelic Athletic Assoc [cite]
1884: 17Dec (Wed): John Stanislaus 'Stannie' Joyce born (brother) [pc61, e21] [info]
23 Castlewood ave, Rathmines (to ?Apr1887)
1 Martello terrace, Bray (?Apr1887-?Aug1891) [e24, pc67]
1885: Mar: Yeats's first poems in Dublin University Review
1885: 16Jun (Tue): first meeting of Yeats' Hermetic Society
1885: 15Sep (Tue): Marthe Fleischmann born
1885: 30Oct (Fri): Ezra Pound born
1885? 3yo JAJ entertains guests in parents' absence by singing and 'playing' piano [mbk6]
1886: 15Jan (Fri): Bridget Delia Barnacle born [pc237]
1886: 27Jun (Sun): suicide of 'Rudolph Bloom' (Ulysses)
1886: 24Jul (Sat): Charles Patrick Joyce born (brother) [pc65, e21]
1887: 18Apr (Tue): Times publishes Pigott's allegations against Parnell [pc66] [info]
1887: May: 5yo 'SD' refuses to shake LB's hand at Mat Dillon's [Ithaca]
1887: 21Jun (Tue): Victoria's Jubilee
1887: 04Jul (Mon): George Alfred Joyce born (brother, named for Washington-4July) [pc67, pc89, e21, mbk133]
attends Miss Raynor's dame-school with ?7yo Eileen Vance (1887-88?) [pc69, pc90, e26, mbk5]
no-date ('in boyhood and youth'): nicknamed 'Sunny Jim' [mbk23]
1 Martello terrace, Bray (?Apr1887-?Aug1891): pix: modern, old ditto [map]
no-date: glasses prescribed for nearsightedness [e26]
01Feb (Fri): May Joyce sings at Mount Argus [pc67, pc89]
02Feb (Sat): LB watches torchlight parade for Home Rule
26Jun (Tue): 6yo James sings "Houlihan's Cake" (?) at Bray Boat Club [j&c149, pc71, e27]
31Aug (Fri): pre-Clongowes photo session [pic] [pic]; traintrip with parents [pc72]
01Sep (Sat): James A Joyce starts Clongowes, 2yrs younger than next youngest [e27]'he always liked new adventures, new scenes, new people' [mbk40]
10Sep (Mon): LB and Molly have first sex
14Sep (Fri): full classes start at Clongowes [pc77] [pic]
17Sep (Mon): investigation of Parnell begun
08Oct (Mon): LB weds Marion Tweedy
22Nov (Thu): Nasty Roche pandied for calling someone a 'stink' [e30]
20Dec (Thu): Joyce returns home from Clongowes for Xmas [pc78]
no-date, Bray: JAJ badly bitten by Irish terrier at whom he and Stannie had been throwing stones [mbk4]
10Jan (Thu): Joyce returns to Clongowes from Xmas [pc78]
22Jan (Tue): Eileen Isabel Mary Xavier Brigid Joyce born (sister) [pc78, e21]
30Jan (Wed): Yeats meets Maud Gonne
07Feb (Thu): JAJ pandied twice for 'forgetting to bring book to class', appeals to Conmee? [e30, pc78. not in Stephen Hero] [PoA1] [pandy pic]"You better mind yourself, Father Dolan, or young Dedalus will send you up for twice nine." [PoA2]
14Feb (Thu): Eileen Vance's rhyme to JAJ [pc91, cf? e31]
20Feb (Wed): Pigott exposed as forger, misspelling 'hesitancy'
01Mar (Fri): Pigott's suicide [pc78, e32]
12Mar (Tue): Annie and Margaret Barnacle born (5yo Nora's twin sisters) [pc238]
14Mar (Thu): Joyce pandied 4 strokes for vulgar language [pc79, e30]
21Apr (Easter): Joyce's first communion? [pc79]
10May (Sat): Mrs Maybrick poisons husband
15Jun (Sat): 'Milly Bloom' born (Ulysses)
24Dec (Tue): Capt O'Shea files for divorce
no-date: 40yo JSJ's crew wins rowing race [mbk35]
JSJ already (?) drinking himself into frighteningly bad tempers, with teeth-grinding [mbk35]
Dante presides nightly at Rosary and Litany of the Blessed Virgin for the children [mbk47]
18Jan (Sat): Mary Cathleen 'May' Joyce born (baptised 2Feb) [pc80, pc95, e21]
01Mar (Sat): 62 of the older boys at Clongowes run off to the woods after dinner [pc80] cf [PoA1]
03Mar (Mon): 24 Clongowes boys flogged (for smugging?)
07Mar (Fri): Rev Brown writes May of JAJ's dirty face & codliver oil [e28, pc80. perhaps implies he'd been sickly?]
07Mar (Fri): Yeats joins Golden Dawn
22May (Thu): JAJ and Tom Furlong work a pass to the exhibitioners' feast
autumn: JAJ begins piano lessons with Mr Haughton [pc80, hg122]
20Oct (Mon): JSJ pays Clongowes £23/17/0
01Nov (Sat): O'Shea divorce trial begins
17Nov (Mon): O'Shea divorce granted [pc96, e32]
20Nov (Thu): JSJ denounces Tim Healy at Leinster Hall [pc97, j&c159]
06Dec (Sat): Parnell defeated by Committee Room 15 debates [pc98]
11Dec (Thu): Parnell takes United Ireland offices with LB's hat-help [pc98]
12Dec (Fri): Stanislaus Little buried at Clongowes
no-date: JAJ good at cricket, trophies in hurdles and walking [mbk41]
Leoville house, 23 Carysfort ave, Blackrock (?Aug1891-Nov1892): [e34, pc101-104] [pic] [map]
no-date: 35yo John Murray (uncle) weds pregnant 16yo Lillie Harris [pc29]
05Feb (Thu): JSJ's last Clongowes payment £25/17/9 [j&c164, pc99, cf? pc81]
29Mar (Easter): JAJ plays 'imp' in school play 'Aladdin' [e31, pc82]
Apr: George Russell joins Theosophical commune, 'The Household' [info]
spring: JAJ in Clongowes infirmary [pc82]
25Jun (Thu): Parnell marries Katherine O'Shea [pc99]
summer? JAJ and Stannie play Indian wargames [mbk17] cf [Encounter]
20Aug (Thu): death of 45yo Christina Murray (step-grandmother) [pc99]
23Aug (Sun): Thomas M Barnacle born (NB's brother) [pc238]
autumn: JAJ starts last term at Clongowes
21Sept? (Mon): Freeman's Journal finally abandons Parnell (July?)
27Sep (Sun): Parnell catches chill
05Oct (Mon): 'SD' ill in infirmary at Clongowes [PoA1]
06Oct (Tue): death of 45yo Parnell
11Oct (Sun): Parnell buried in Glasnevin [e102] [info]
no-date: JAJ writes poem 'Parnell' (aka 'Et Tu, Healy') (lost) [e33, pc103, j&c170]
"...His quaint-perched aerie on the crags of Time
Where the rude din of this... century
Can trouble him no more." [mbk46, e33]26Oct (Mon): Eva Mary Joyce born (sister) [e21]
01Dec (Tue): Yeats initiates Maud Gonne (grieving for dead infant) into Golden Dawn [pix]
18Dec (Fri): Irish Daily Independent begins publication
29Dec (Tue): Dante Riordan leaves Dedalus household. cf [PoA1]
Leoville house, 23 Carysfort ave, Blackrock (to Nov1892) [PoA2]
no school all year; JAJ begins novel (lost) with 9yo Aubrey Raynold (protestant) [e35, pc105] cf [PoA2]
12Feb: Georges Borach born [cite]
31Aug (Wed): death of ?75yo Bill O'Connell [pc110]
no-date: Wm and Jo Murray move to 25 Lower Hatch street [pc114]
03Nov (Thu): JSJ suspended from Civil Service [j&c173, pc108]
08Nov (Tue): Florence Elizabeth Joyce born (sister) [pc111, e21]
10Nov (Thu): JSJ fired from Civil Service [pc111]
Nov: move into Dublin. cf [PoA2]
24Dec (Sat): JSJ mortgages property with Reuben Dodd [pc116]
14 Fitzgibbon (Nov1892-?Oct1894): [pc114, e35] [pic] [map:J93]
no-date: Douglas Hyde founds Gaelic League [info]
01Jan (Sun): JSJ pensioned off with £132/2/10 annually [pc111, pc117? maybe 12Jan]
13Jan (Fri): JSJ's pension suspended [pc117]
Jan-Mar: JAJ and SJ attend Christian Brothers school? [e35, pc119]
Feb: cold month, canal freezes [pc119] cf U18.555
06Apr (Thu): JAJ and SJ start at Belvedere [e35] [pic] cf [PoA2]
30May (Tue): JSJ's pension restored [pc118, e34]
ongoing? pension paid on 27th of each month [mbk239]
summer: JSJ and JAJ go to Cork? [pc123] cf [PoA2] [old pix]
Aug: heavy sunspots all month [data] [detail] cf U8.568
Sep: TW Lyster's preface to Select Poetry for Young Students [pc128]
Oct: JSJ and JAJ attend funeral of Joe Gallaher [j&c183]
27Nov (Mon): Mabel Josephine Anne 'Baby' Joyce born (sister) [pc124, e21]
27Nov (Mon): LB and MB last intercourse
14Dec (Thu): Cork properties auctioned
Eugene Sheehy: "He was a tall, slight stripling, with flashing teeth-- white as a hound's-- pale blue eyes that sometimes had an icy look, and a mobile sensitive mouth. He was fond of throwing back his head as he walked, and his mood alternated between cold, slightly haughty, aloofness and sudden boisterous merriment." [ehm12, covers 1892-1904 probably]
no-date: JAJ mostly gains control over his excessive fear of thunder [mbk18]
no-date: "SD wrote themes for Leo Wilkins, Willy Fallon" [Apr 1923 note for FW]
no-date: Stannie says all the siblings were expected to perform some song [mbk14]
2 Holywell Villas, Millbourne ave, Drumcondra (?Oct1894-?Apr1896): [e39] [pic], ditto [map:J95]
'almost in the country... fields and woods... farmhands and navvies' [mbk54]
no-date: advised by 'foolish doctor' (school medical officer?) to put aside glasses [pc129]
?08Feb (week): JAJ and JSJ go to Cork (maybe 1893) [e37] [PoA2]
16Feb (Fri): last of Cork properies sold to pay off RJ Dodd [e37]
03Mar (Sat): death of 70yo John Murray (grandfather) [pc125]
09May (Wed): JAJ sits math exam
13May (Sun): death of Eileen Vance's 35yo mother [pc90]
19May (Sat): last night of Araby bazaar [pc129, e40] cf [Araby]
08Jun (Fri before exams): miching leads to Encounter [etext] with captain of 50 [pc130, e47, mbk62]
12Jun (Tue): Preparatory exams begin (JAJ finishes 103rd, wins £22) [pc130, e40, e47]
summer: JSJ and JAJ go to Glasgow? and Edinburgh??? [e40, mbk60]
Sep: harsh new rector, Father Henry, turns Belvedere into an unhappy school [pc131, e49]
no-date: mother May and brother Georgie catch scarlatina [mbk53]
Byrne: "Joyce was a little boy, bright, well-looking, and apparently delicate. But he really wasn't delicate; he was virile enough physically. He was a bright boy, always the good scholar, and he was favoured by all the teachers, especially Dempsey... who resembled Justice Holmes [pic] ...When Joyce read, Dempsey would literally wriggle and chuckle with delight... Joyce had a fine sense of humour..." [ehm2]
Dempsey of JAJ: 'a plethora of ideas in his head' [mbk58]
18Feb (Mon): Queensberry's card "To Oscar Wilde posing Somdomite" [info]
05Apr (Fri): Wilde arrested for 'committing indecent acts'
29Apr (Mon): Wilde's first trial ends in hung jury
25May (Sat): Wilde sentenced to two years hard labour
17Jun (Mon): JAJ Junior exams begin (164th, won £23 for 3 yrs) [pc131, e47]
18Jul (Thu): Frederick Joyce born (brother) [pc131, e41]
31Jul (Wed): Frederick Joyce dies, JSJ tries to strangle May [mbk56]
07Sep (Sat): Rody Kickham and Cecil Thunder enter novitiate
Sep: JF Byrne leaves Belvedere early to start at UC
no-date: Fr Henry interrogates Stannie about JAJ's morals
07Dec (Sat): JAJ elected Sodality [pc132, e47]
no-date: Joyce discovers masturbation in 14th year [e418] [more]
Stannie: hoydenish servant-girl of ?23yo, their last [mbk69]
13 (E misstates 17, JAJ claims 12) N Richmond (?Apr1896-?Sept1896): [pc134, e42] [pic] [map:J96]
Stannie helps JAJ practice cricket [mbk41]
JSJ selling ads for Freeman's Journal? [mbk62]
17Mar (Tue): JSJ sings his 'tiresome' composition "Erin's Heroes" at the Dolphin (Holloway diaries)
21Mar (Sat): Bloom's wedding-clock stops, 4:46am
05Apr (Sun): Easter
13Apr (Tue): death of ?45yo John Kelly (funeral 16th) [pc136] "He liked to sit near him at the fire, looking up at his dark fierce face." [PoA1]
no-date (N Richmond): parties every other Sunday eve at Sheehys [mbk72]guests included: Curran, Willie Fallon, Skeffington, Kitty McCormack [cpc22]
02Jun: AE to WBY: "The gods have returned to Erin and have centred themselves in the sacred mountains... I believe profoundly that a new Avatar is about to appear..." [lfae17]
25Sep (Fri): JAJ elected prefect of Sodality [e47, pc139]
12Oct (Mon): Kathleen Barnacle born (NB's sister) [pc238]
Nov: Yeats publishes 'Tables of the Law' in Savoy magazine
16Nov (Tue): death of ??60yo Dante Conway, husband turns up after 15 yrs to claim last £40!?? [pc104, pc141]
30Nov (Mon): Belvedere retreat w/Cullen begins? [e48] cf [PoA3]
29 Windsor ave, Fairview (?Sept1896-?Jul1899) [pc140, e68] [pic] [map:J97]
all year? JAJ and mother May worship together [rjj10]
no-date: Russell leaves drapery store to organise ag co-ops
01Jan (Fri): death of ?71yo Catherine Mortimer Healy (NB's grandma-- NB goes to convent) [pc242]
Feb? 16yo Michael Feeney catches pneumonia saying goodbye to Nora? [pc242]
"One day in a wood near Malahide a labourer had marvelled to see a boy of fifteen praying in an ecstasy of Oriental posture." [PoA04] cf [PoA4]
18Apr (Sun): Easter
18May (Tue): Wilde released from Reading Gaol
spring: Joyce finishes 13th in exams, prize of £33 [e51] cf [PoA2]
22Jun (Tue): Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
summer: Eileen Vance visits, shocked by poverty
06Oct (Wed): Fr Tierney requires JAJ to take off ivy sprig? [e55, maybe 1896]
26Oct (Tue): JAJ buys Imitation of Christ [pc142] [etext] (last sign of religious fervor)
Nov: Jack and May see 'A Royal Divorce' at the Gaiety? [j&c207] cf [HCE]
Nov: death of Fairview neighbor Alderman Hooper [j&c207]
no-date: 'A certain air of youthful gaiety hovered about his tall and slender figure... like one who feels in himself a cheerful boldness and is resolute, full of confidence in life and in his own strength.' [rjj14]
no-date (Cyrano 1897): French penpal in Vire, Calvados [mbk73] [map]
Belvedere faculty: Fr MacErlaine (French) [mbk89]
Stannie: Jesuit masters dwelt heavily on 'human respect'-- stinting on religious duties out of fear of what others will think (JAJ learned this all too well!) [mbk48]
no-date: JSJ regular reader of Titbits [mbk92]
no-date (1897-1904?): JAJ an enthusiastic swimmer [mbk42]
no-date: Yeats publishes 'Adoration of the Magi' and 'Tables of the Law' (just 110 copies? cite)
University: (300-400 total students, 64 in his entering class) [pic], old, ditto, ditto
12Jan (Wed): death of 51yo Philip McCann (godfather) finances university fees of 10 guineas/yr? [pc143, pc149, pc172, e23]
14Jan (Fri): death of 66yo Lewis Carroll
01Feb (Tue): Alfred Hunter weds Margaret Cummins [pc228]
10Apr (Sun): Easter
29Apr (week): Eugene Sandow at Empire Theatre, Dublin [fansite]
19May (Thu): death of 89yo Gladstone [pc144] cf [PoA5]
28May (Sat): JAJ parodies Rector of Belvedere in "Vice Versa" [pc144, ehm9, cf? e56] cf [PoA2]
14Jun (Tue): JAJ and Albi Connolly ('Vincent Heron') skip religion exam [pc145, e56]
21Jul (week): encounter with birdgirl 'Lucy' on strand? [pc150, more likely 1902-3] cf [PoA4] and [PoA04]
08Aug (week): first prostitute after 'Sweet Briar' ("dark sexsmelling theatre unbridles vice": Circe) [pc151, e48] cf [PoA2]
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]
15Aug (Mon): JAJ and JSJ see slab for Wolfe Tone [pc151]
03Sep (Sat): results of exams: £35 [pc152]
09Sep (Fri): JAJ buys Ruskin's "Mornings in Florence" [pc152]
Sept-Dec: Yeats, Eglinton and Russell debate esthetics in 'Daily Express' [info]
27Sep (Tue): freshman essay on 'Force' [pc157, e67]
Oct? Clancy/Davin's encounter with peasant woman? cf [PoA5]
late-Oct: JAJ dubs Byrne 'Cranly' [ehm5]
01Dec (Thu): SJ's Belvedere retreat [pc159]
university faculty: Thomas Arnold, Fr O'Neill and Fr Darlington (English); Fr Charles Ghezzi (Italian-- not 1st yr); Edouard Cadic (French) [e58-60]
Convent ave (aka 225 Richmond road), Fairview (?Jul1899-?Sept1899) [pc162, e68]
13 Richmond ave (?Sept1899-May1900) [pc163, e68] [map:J00]
14Jan (Sat): JAJ debates literature at L&H (Literary and Historical Society) [e70]
11Feb (Sat): 'Ibsen night' at L&H (JAJ arouses interest of group "eager to back winners") [mbk128]
18Feb (Sat): JAJ elected executive committee of L&H [pc160, e70]
04Mar: Arthur Griffith founds 'United Irishman' [mbk168 claims JAJ read it weekly]
06Mar (week): 'Magda' at Theatre Royal [pc160, e54]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."
Stannie of JAJ: 'declared his intention of making his allotted span an experiment in living' [mbk108]
21Mar (Tue): JAJ loses treasurership of L&H to Walsh [pc160, e70]
02Apr (Easter): Bloom saves pink ribbon off Easter egg [theory]
08May (Mon): JAJ hears 'Who Goes with Fergus?' [poem] at "Countess Cathleen" opening [pc161, e66]
10May (Wed): students protest 'Cathleen' in Freeman's Journal [PoA5]
27May (Sat): SJ elected to Sodality at Belvedere [pc161]
Jul: Byrne reads Diseases of the Ox in library [pc162]
01Sep (Fri): death of Aunt Jo's father JJ Giltrap, owner of Garryowen [j&c220]
02Sep (Sat): Thomas Childs murdered
Sep: CP Curran meets Joyce [pc157]
?Sep: essay on 'Ecce Homo' [pc162, e65]
08Oct (Sun): base for Parnell monument laid (erected 1911)
09Oct (Mon): JAJ offers to read paper for L&H [e69]
late-Oct: Joyce attends Childs murder case [pc163, e91]
Nov-Dec: Byrne recalls Joyce spending two months writing Ibsen paper [ehm7]
08Dec (Fri): death of ??50yo Maria O'Donohoe [pc163] cf [Clay]
16Dec (Sat): demonstrations against Joe Chamberlain by Trinity students (18th?) [pc164] cf [Lestryg]
no-date: JAJ reads (or talks w/Byrne) at Natl Library every night until 10pm closing [mbk98]
no-date: habitually a very late riser [mbk105]
8 Royal terrace, Fairview (May1900) [pc166]
10Jan (Wed): JAJ finishes "Drama and Life" [e70]
19Jan (Fri): Courtney solicits Ibsen review
20Jan (Sat): death of 81yo Ruskin (JAJ writes tribute?)
20Jan (Sat): JAJ reads "Drama and Life" to L&H [centennial]"You were magnificent, Joyce, but quite mad." [cpc12 quoting Sheehy quoting Clandillon]
03Feb (Sat): Courtney accepts Ibsen review (£12: 1904-prices)
Byrne: 'Whether it was a good thing for Joyce that his essay was accepted by the Fortnightly, and that it was accepted so promptly, is a point I won't discuss here...' [ehm7. Imagine how JAJ must have projected his future earnings, at this point!]
Feb: JAJ acquires Hauptmann's 'Coming of Peace' [cpc9]
11Feb (Sun): death of ?19yo Sonny Bodkin (NB's admirer) [pc244]
19Feb (Mon): attends Irish Literary Theatre's "Bending of the Bough" (Moore) [e88] [cal]
21Mar (Wed): JAJ plays villainous Geoffrey Fortescue in Margaret Sheehy's "Cupid's Confidante" at the XL Cafe in Grafton st [e93-- 'made his arse-cheeks blush': mbk124]
01Apr (Sun): JAJ's Ibsen article in Fortnightly Review [e74]
15Apr (Easter): JAJ and JSJ visit London [pc165, cf? e77]'The music hall, not poetry, is a criticism of life.' [mbk96]
16Apr (Mon): Ibsen writes Archer with thanks to JAJ [e74] [Ibsen pic]
25Apr (Wed): JAJ receives thanks from Ibsen via Archer
27Apr (Fri): JAJ writes Archer thanks for Ibsen message
May: JAJ acquires D'Annunzio's 'La Gioconda' [cpc9]
17May (Thu): JAJ attends Pearse's Gaelic League meeting (for EC?) [pc166, pc190]
late-May: JAJ returns to London alone, visits Archer [pc166, e77]
Jun: Gogarty slips acrostic into 'Irish Society' magazine [etext]
summer: JAJ and JSJ in Mullingar stay w/photographer Shaw, JAJ reads D'Annunzio's 'Child of Pleasure' [e77, pc167, cf SH237ff eg "his new fervour of youth"]
Aug: JAJ acquires Hauptmann's 'Hanelle' [cpc9]
30Aug (Thu): JAJ sends "A Brilliant Career" to Archer [e78]
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]
Sep: JAJ acquires D'Annunzio's 'La Gloria' and 'Sogno d'un Tramonto d'Autumno' [cpc9]
11Sep (Tue): Henry Flower arrested for murder of Brigid Gannon [pc168] [more]
15Sep (Sat): Archer critiques "A Brilliant Career" [e79, mbk116]
"for the commercial stage it is wildly impossible... a huge fable of politics and pestilence... entirely loses sight of the central interest"30Sep (Sun): party with Sheehys [e92]
30Nov (Fri): death of 46yo Oscar Wilde
no-date: Cosgrave to Byrne: "Joyce is the most remarkable man any of us have met." [e63]
32 Glengariff parade (Oct01-Sep02): [pic] [map:J01]
no-date: Czar's Peace Pledge Campaign promoted by WT Stead [pc121] cf PoA/SH
no-date: ?35yo woman flirts with 16yo Stannie at concert, inspiring 'Painful Case' [mbk159] [etext]
08Jan (Tue): JAJ reprises role in "Cupid's Confidante" [e93]
09Jan (Wed): Freeman's Journal praises JAJ: 'a revelation of amateur acting' [e93]
24Jan (Thu): Edward VII coronation?
20Mar (Wed): JAJ sends Ibsen birthday greeting [e86, pc172]
07Apr (Sun): Easter
07May (Tue): JAJ buys Olcott's Theosophical Studies, Buddhist Catechism [e76] (interest lasts until Aug 1902?)
no-context: "in 6 months I shall be a theosophist" [June 1923 note for FW]
no-date, quoting Ibsen: "Life itself is a symbol." [mbk132]
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 and abased himself in the gloom of Saint John of the Cross. 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]
mid-Jun: university exams, poor results [pc174]
Jul-Aug: JAJ and JSJ in Mullingar again [e87, pc173]
23Jul (Tue): JAJ completes translation of Hauptmann's "Before Sunrise" for Irish Literary Theatre ("Michael Kramer" in Aug) [e87]
no-date: JAJ suggests to ILT he play Eilert in 'Hedda Gabler' [rjj21-- planned stage name 'Gordon Brown' mbk121]
no-date (pre-Rabble): JAJ finds Yeats stories on book cart
summer (maybe 1902 or 03): JAJ reads Yeats' 'Adoration of the Magi' to Capuchin monk on the beach by the Bull [rjj8]
Sep: poems rejected by Archer: "I do not find that as yet you have very much to say" [pc174, mbk142]
titles from this approx time: "Dream Stuff" (poems or verse-play, under spell of EM Cleary?, Stannie called it 'prostitute poetry'); 'Nirvana' (poem) ; "Shine and Dark" (poems, titles incl: 'Wanhope', 'The Final Peace', 'Commonplace', 'The Passionate Poet', 'Tenebrae'. Sample quote: "And orient banners they outfling/ Before the ripple-bearded king." The title 'Shine and Dark' was from Whitman: qv); songs-- halfdozen settings of poems, incl Yeats and Mangan; "Moods" (50-60 lyrics) [Byrne remembers the poetry starting after the Ibsen review, ehm8 but maybe Joyce just hadn't started showing it yet?]
'They called him 'the Bard' not so much because of his own poems as because he recited the poems of others so well.' [rjj14] 'without the [conventional] lilt... the poem became stylized speech' [ofjj23]
14Oct (Mon): "Day of the Rabblement" written [e88]
21Oct (Mon): "Day of the Rabblement" published [e89, pc175]
21Oct (Mon): 'Diarmuid and Grania' and 'Twisting of the Rope' premiere at Gaiety (Trench stars in latter) [cal]
24Oct (Thu): John F Taylor's address on Irish language published (delivered?) (cf Eolus) [e91, pc175]
02Nov (Sat): Arthur Griffith reviews "Day of the Rabblement" in United Irishman
Thomas Kettle (1907): 'Wilful, fastidious, a lover of elfin paradoxes... the very embodiment of the literary spirit.' [e261. JAJ found Clongowes-grad Kettle 'too demonstrative': ofjj43]
Byrne: 'his attitude towards older people, generally, was distant, unresponsive, unwelcoming, guarded and cold to the point of frigidity' [jfb87]
Colum claims he met JAJ and Gogarty around this time at one of Lady Gregory's parties for the National Theatre crowd, with Yeats also in attendance [ofjj10]
Stannie dates the first epiphanies to Glengariff (also interest in dreams) [mbk124] [etext]
Poems: Chamber Music probable: I, V, XII, XXIV, XXV, XXVIII, XXXIV; certain: XXXV
01Feb (Sat): JAJ reads "James Clarence Mangan" at L&H [e94, pc176, ofjj24]'He spoke in a withdrawn, impersonal way; his clear enunciation, staccato, even metallic at times; his voice impassive and very deliberate as if coming from some cold and distant oracle' [cpc 13. cpc106 sees strong influence of D'Annunzio]
13Mar (Thu): 14yo George Joyce (brother) falls ill [pc176]
Stannie claims it was Georgie who asked JAJ to sing 'Fergus' with the doors open [mbk134]
20Mar-27Apr? close of Portrait (maybe 1903?) [PoA5]
30Mar (Sun): Easter
"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.'" [PoA04] (Byrne doesn't verify this, and may even imply it was 1903? jfb85)
02Apr (Wed): AE's 'Deirdre' (with AE as Mananaan) and WBY's 'Kathleen Ni Houlihan' premiere at St Teresa's [cal]
early-Apr: Byrne introduces JAJ and Cosgrave (and John Bassett) to registrar of med school; they register? [jfb76]
Apr??? writes Chamber Music XII [qv] and XXV [qv] after walking in hills with Mary Sheehy and Skeffington [mbk150 cf? e149 '1904']
May: Mangan essay published in "St Stephen's" [e96, pc177]
03May (Sat): George Joyce dies (cf Isabel in Stephen Hero) [e94, pc177]
05May (Mon): JSJ shocked after funeral by JAJ's request for stout [pc177]
25May (Sun): JAJ's Easter duty not made [pc178]
no-date: 'one bitter and painful altercation' with mother about apostasy [rjj10; mother otherwise 'submissive' eg to confessors. maybe pre-Georgie? mbk133]
no-date (post-Georgie): "Ireland is an old sow that devours her farrow." [mbk136]
no-date: brother Charlie leaves Belvedere and enters seminary [mbk137]
no-date (Glengariff): improvises 'liturgical chants' on piano to accompany poems incl Yeats's 'Cloths of Heaven', 'Fergus', 'Salley Gardens' and 'Impetuous Heart', Mangan's 'Dark Rosaleen' [rjj13, mbk123, mbk153, jfb66, cpc41] also: Elizabethan 'Turpin Hero', 'Pastime with Good Company', 'I Love and Shall Until I Die', 'Ah, the Sighs that Come from the Heart'; also: 'When First I Saw Your Face', 'Spanish Ladies', 'Croppy Boy', 'I Arise from Dreams of Thee', 'Man that Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo', 'Blarney Castle', 'When McCarthy Took the Flure at Enniscorthy', 'Molly I Can't Say You're Honest' [cpc41]
Stannie of JAJ: 'always in doubt, then and later, as to whether university studies were worth the trouble' [mbk114]
"the past assuredly implies a fluid succession of presents,
the development of an entity of which our actual present
is a phase only" [PoA04]
15Aug (Fri): JAJ visits AE [bio] in night (again on 18th?) [e98, pc178, cpc33]
no-date: Colum walks JAJ home from library, JAJ talks in 'set speeches' [ofjj19]
"I distrust all enthusiasms."02Oct (Thu): JAJ registers for med school at St Cecilia's [pc179, cf? e97 'Apr']
06Oct (Mon): UC finals, mediocre results [pc180]
no-date: earnest Jesuit prescribes a clerkship in Guinness's? [PoA04]
Oct: JAJ meets (and insults?) Yeats [e100]
22Oct (Wed): inspired by Yeats stories, JAJ reads Joachim Abbas in Marsh's Library [pc180]
24Oct (Fri): JSJ commutes part of pension to buy house in Cabra [e105, pc179, mbk140]
29-31Oct: plays by Yeats, Fred Ryan, and Seamus O'Cuisin premiere at Antient Concert Rooms [cal]
30Oct (Thu): JAJ receives BA from UC [pc180, cf? e105 '31'] [pic]
04Nov (Tue): JAJ dines with Yeats and Lady Gregory at Nassau Hotel [e104]
late-1902? suggestive postcard to ME Cleary? [e53] [more]
18Nov (Tue): JAJ applies to Paris med school [e106]
late-Nov: JAJ writes Lady Gregory for help: [SL8]
"...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... I want to get a degree in medicine, for then I can build up my work securely... and accordingly I am going to Paris... I shall try myself against the powers of the world..." [Curran dismisses this as persecution mania: cpc80]
01Dec (Mon): JAJ leaves Dublin for Paris [e109]
02Dec (Tue): Yeats in London introduces JAJ to Symons [e111, pc199]
03Dec (Wed): JAJ takes room in Hotel Corneille in Paris [e112, pc200]
04Dec (Thu): JAJ writes first reviews for Daily Express
11Dec (Thu): 1st review published in Daily Express [pc201]
15Dec (Mon): postcards to Byrne (w/Chamber Music XXXV: qv) and Cosgrave [pic]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]
Gogarty sees the photo as an imitation of Rimbaud
18Dec (Thu): JSJ takes £50 mortgage to finance JAJ's Xmas return [e114, pc203]
21Dec (Sun): to Lady Gregory: "to create poetry out of French life is impossible" [SL11]
22Dec (Mon): JAJ departs Paris via Yeats in London again [pc204, e116]
24Dec (week?): JAJ meets Gogarty [pic]
Gogarty remembers JAJ as weighing about 125 at this time, carrying 20 poems [ehm22]
no-date: family dog called 'Nigger' [j&c256]
7 St.Peter's Terrace, Cabra (bought 24 Oct 1902, sold 26 May 1905) [e105] [pic] [map:J02]
Poem: early version [qv] of Chamber Music XX
13Jan (Wed): 21yo Picasso leaves Paris after a hungry year on the blvd Voltaire [info&pix]
17Jan (Sat): JAJ returns to Paris via five day stopover in London [pc204, e119]
23Jan (Fri): JAJ reaches Paris again
24Jan (Sat): JAJ gets Paris library card [pc205] [3D VR]
29Jan (Thu): review in Daily Express [mbk216]
06Feb (Fri): three reviews in Daily Express [mbk217]
08Feb (Sun): JAJ sees Sarah Bernhardt in a Paris premiere [pc206]
08Feb (Sun): JAJ to Stannie incl Chamber Music XXXVI [qv] and IV [qv] [SL14]"...So damn Russell, damn Yeats, damn Skeffington, damn Darlington, damn editors, damn free-thinkers, damn vegetable verse and double damn vegetable philosophy!"
13Feb (Fri): JAJ begins aesthetic notebook [pc206]
17Feb? (Tue): May sends £0/3/4 [L2-29]
24Feb (Tue): money from home spent on kitchen supplies, to reduce expenses and avoid "constant periods of fasting" [SL15]
26Feb (Thu): the big wind in Ireland; letter to father: [SL15]"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."
Stannie: 'He had learned in Paris that the world was not waiting for him' [mbk231]
no-date: Eglinton tells Gogarty 'There is something sublime in Joyce's standing alone.' [L2-38]
02Mar (Mon): May sends JAJ £1/12/0 [L2-32]
06Mar (Fri): Synge arrives in Paris for a week, JAJ reads 'Riders' [pc206]
09Mar (Mon): "I have written fifteen epiphanies-- of which twelve are insertions, and three additions" [SL17] cf [etext]
14Mar (Sat): plays by Yeats and Gregory premiere at Molesworth Hall [cal]
15Mar (Sun): walk thru woods of Clamart to Sèvres [SL19]
mid-March: death of ?58yo Richard 'Ned' Thornton ('Tom Kernan') [L2-39, pc124]
20Mar (Fri): JAJ predicts literary future in letter to May: [SL19, L2-38]"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): review of Ibsen's 'Catalina' in The Speaker [mbk219]
26Mar (Thu): JAJ's critical review of Lady Gregory in Daily Express [SL18, mbk220]
03Apr? (Thu): JSJ, Mat Kane, Charlie Chance, and Mr Boyd attend 3-day 'Grace' retreat [dd55, mbk225, j&c251, cf pc179 'autumn']
07Apr (Tue): race-driver interview in 'Irish Times' [pc207]
10Apr (Good Friday): NOTHER DYING telegram from JSJ [pc208]
12Apr (Sun): Easter
17Apr (Fri): after 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]
18Apr (Sat): JAJ writes JFB to reconcile, admits his fault but can't explain it, gradually healed by June 1904Jun: Skeffington weds Hanna Sheehy [e205]
26Jun (Fri): funeral of 'May Goulding Dedalus'
12Aug? (Wed): JAJ ignores uncle John Murray's order to kneel and pray [rjj10]
13Aug (Thu): death of 44yo May Murray Joyce [pc211]
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]
Stannie's diary: 'His great passion is a fierce scorn for what he calls the 'rabblement'-- a tiger-like, insatiable hatred... He has a distressing habit of saying quietly to those with whom he is familiar the most shocking things about himself and others... As he sits on the hearth-rug, his arms embracing his knees, his head thrown a little back, his hair brushed up straight off his forehead, his long face red as an Indian's in the reflection of the fire, there is a look of cruelty in his face.' [mbk-xiv, Aug 1903?]
Aug: starts serious drinking with medicals, favoring 'sack'? [rjj17, mbk245]
20Aug? JAJ reads and burns JSJ's loveletters [mbk239]
Sep: Joyce applies to Dowden for library job ("quite unsuitable")
no-date: JAJ to Colum: "Doors are being closed on me." [ofjj51]
03Sep (Thu): new series of reviews for Daily Express, consecrates earnings to Venus Pandemos
15Sep (Tue): Milly Bloom's 1st menstruation
29Sep (Tue): Skeffington offers JAJ job at UC [e140, pc216]
08Oct (Thu): Synge's 'Shadow of the Glen' and a Yeats play premiere at Molesworth Hall [cal]
14Oct (Wed): Mrs Sinico's suicide [PainfulCase]
08Nov (Sun): JAJ acts 'collide-escape' in charades at Sheehys [e53]
19Nov (Thu): last review for 'Daily Express'
19Nov (Thu): JAJ proposes (to Skeffington) starting 'Goblin' newspaper
22Nov (Sun): Pope Pius X bans women singers from choirs [etext]
05Dec (Sat): JAJ asks Thomas Kelly for £2000 to start 'Goblin'
10Dec (Thu): JAJ snubbed by Kelly's gatekeeper after 14 mile walk to Celbridge [e141] [map]
17Dec (Thu): 1st powered flight (Wright brothers)
no-date: Joyce sub-editor of "Irish Bee-keeper" for a day
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." [DD55, unreliably dated Sept 1904]
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]
Poems: 'Cabra' [revised version]; Chamber Music XXI
Nora leaves Galway: [pic], ditto; works at Finn's hotel: [pic]
07Jan (Thu): 'A Portrait of the Artist' essay written in style of D'Annunzio [rjj8] [etext], rejected by Eglinton for incomprehensibility [ehm34] or by Ryan for sexuality [rjj22]
14Jan (Thu): plays by Yeats and McManus premiere at Molesworth Hall [cal]
25Jan (Mon): Gogarty to Oxford until mid-June (plus Easter break) [uoc71-- says many OG-to-JAJ letters survive]
30Jan (Sat): Stannie quits Apothecaries' Hall job
10Feb (Wed): first chapter of Stephen Hero completed
25Feb (Thu): Synge's "Riders to the Sea" [etext] premieres at Molesworth Hall [cal]
Mar? JSJ sells piano; JAJ decides to train for Feis Ceoil
Mar? Joyce pawns books for ten-shilling Feis entrance fee [e151, dd29] or gift from OG [uoc75]
24Mar (Thu): Gogarty returns from Oxford for Easter break
24Mar (Thu): JAJ sings at festival (not Feis) [pc222]
no-date: JAJ would claim in 1934 that he received two guineas for singing 'The Salley Gardens' at his first public concert [e678]
late Mar? JAJ finds room at McKernans, Gogarty helps rent grand piano [e151, ogi58]
early-Apr? JAJ reluctantly takes teaching job at Clifton school, trying to live on his own in Dublin for the first time cf [Nestor]
03Apr (Sun): Easter (start of new term at Clifton school?)
Apr-Jun: Gogarty at Oxford for 'Trinity Term' [info]
08Apr (Fri): finishes poem, maybe Chamber Music XXIV [qv]
no-date (pre-10Apr): "Jim says he should be supported at the expense of the State because he is capable of enjoying life." [cdd26]
Apr-May? JAJ gives up/ loses Clifton school job
29Apr (Fri): Keogh vs Garry boxing match (actual)
14May: poem ('Song'-- Chamber Music XXIV: qv) in Saturday Review
14May (Sat): JAJ sings poorly at concert for Lady Fingall
16May (Mon): JAJ sings at Feis Ceoil [e152, pc223] 'an angelic chorister in a butterfly tie and the whitest of linen' [cpc44] [recent note]'J cannot read music well. He never could learn to play the piano from sheet music...' [hg122]
no-date: Dublin's top voice-teacher offers free lessons in exchange for some percentage for 10 yrs [SL27, e152, hg123]
22May (Sun): Keogh beats Bennett [Ulysses]
23May (Whitmonday): Molly menstruates, LB beesting
29May (Sun): full moon
31May (Tue): Mirus bazaar opens (actual)
01Jun (Wed): St Amant wins Derby
03Jun (Fri): letter to OG in Oxford with Dolmetsch-lute-tour plan: [SL20]"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 whores? OG claimed they visited Jenny on the northwest side, near Fontenoy: ehm29]
07Jun (Tue): drowning in Dublin bay? (not Mat Kane)
08Jun (Wed): JAJ sings at Cousins' house (Holloway) [pc223]
10Jun (Fri): JAJ sings at garden fete in OG's suit, meets Nora
10Jun (Fri): JAJ visits INTS rehearsals of Synge (Holloway) [pc224]
11Jun (Sat): funeral of L. Powerscourt
13Jun (Mon): new moon, death of Paddy Dignam
13Jun (Mon): Gogarty finishes term at Oxford [uoc79]
14Jun (Tue): NB misses rendezvous; JAJ writes next morning? [SL21]
"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"15Jun (Wed): McKernans kick JAJ out for nonpayment, per Stannie [e155]
15Jun (Wed): 10amEDT = 5pmGMT? General Slocum disaster in New York [info]
15Jun (Wed): JAJ sings four songs for the Espositos at Cousins after (vegetarian) dinner [e155]
15Jun (Wed): 8pm? Mrs Palmer plays Hamlet at Gaiety
16Jun (Thu): NB makes rendezvous??? [more]
WJ Lawrence: "an odd creature with his strange eyes and long hair, walking along the street with huge strides, seven-league-boot style, with his arms waving constantly"
Holloway: "a strangely aloof, silent youth, with weird, penetrating, large eyes, which he frequently shaded with his hand and with a half-bashful, far-away expression on his face"
papers: Irish Times
17Jun (Fri): Gordon Bennett auto race at Hamburg, Germany
17Jun (Fri): JAJ sings at 'Titania' open-air fete, 'paid' in smiles [SL22 ambig]
20Jun (Mon): drunken JAJ collapses in Camden street hallway, offends Vera Esposito [e160]
21Jun (Tue): beginning of summer
22Jun (Wed): JAJ punched in Stephen's Green, possible encounter with Hunter [e162, pc226]
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]
to Curran 23Jun: "The Accountant-General would not like me at present-- black eye, sprained wrist, sprained ankle, cut chin, cut hand." [SL21]23Jun (Thu): Nora writes JAJ "My Precious Darling" [L2-42]
23Jun (Thu): JAJ sends Stephen Hero to CP Curran"its reading revealed to me for the first time the spiritual strain which Joyce was enduring and the sordid circumstances into which his life had passed" [cpc49]
24Jun (Fri): end of SD's traditional mourning period (1 yr, 1 day)
10Jul? (Sun): drowning of Matthew F Kane [L2-32]
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]
13Jul (Wed): painful case of Sarah Bishop, JAJ's piano threatened [L1]
15Jul (week): JAJ finishes "The Sisters", 102 page "awful chapter" of SH [L1]
21Jul (Thu): JAJ gives NB gloves to replace stolen one
23Jul (Sat): JAJ receives a sovereign for "The Sisters" [e164]
29Jul (Fri): Gogarty's tender for renting the Tower
30Jul: poem ('O Sweetheart'-- Chamber Music XVIII: qv) in The Speaker
Aug: poem ('Song'-- Chamber Music VII: qv) in 'Dana'
08Aug: Curran rejects 'The Holy Office' [etext]
13Aug (Sat): Irish Homestead publishes "The Sisters" [etext]
16Aug (Tue): NB writes 'copybook letter' to JAJ
18Aug (Thu): Gogarty rents the Tower
22Aug (Mon): JAJ sings for Nora at afternoon concert
22Aug? "arranging to go away as a travelling actor" [SL26]
late-Aug: probable date of the famous handjob [more]
27Aug (Sat): JAJ and John McCormack sing at chaotic concert (cf A Mother) to Nora and Cosgrave [cpc45 from Holloway-- J accompanied himself on Croppy Boy]
29Aug (Mon): confessional letter to NB: [SL25]"My mind rejects the whole present social order and Christianity-- home, the recognised virtues, classes of life, and religious doctrines... My brothers and sisters are nothing to me. One brother alone is capable of understanding me."
summer? [pic] of JAJ (borrowed pants, not black) [Curran also gives a conflicting date of 1902?]
31Aug (Wed): JAJ's stay with McKernans ends
09Sep (Fri): JAJ to Martello Tower [pix], total eclipse in USA
10Sep? (Sat): Gogarty claims he gave JAJ a shave their first day [ehm25, mbms47]
10Sep (Sat): Homestead publishes 'Eveline' [etext]
11Sep? (Sun): Tower visited by bicycler William Bulfin, mentioned in 1908 travelogue [Bibliofind] [ABE]
Bulfin on JAJ: "a singer of songs which spring from the deepest currents of life... listened [to OG] in silence... on the roof he disposed himself restfully to drink in the glory of the morning." [e173. OG seems to imply JAJ sunbathed nude: ehm24]
15Sep (Thu): JAJ ejected from Tower [theory]
17Sep? (Sat): Costello's approx guess for encounter with Hunter [pc231]
26Sep (Mon): JAJ learns from Symons that Grant Richards is looking at Chamber Music [etext]
30Sep (Fri): Joyce dedicates a poem to Nora, Chamber Music XXI [qv]
08Oct (Sat): poem ('A Wish'-- Chamber Music VI: qv) in The Speaker
Joyce's travels [Zoom and key]
08Oct (Sat): JAJ and NB depart for Zurich
11Oct (week): Gasthaus Hoffnung, Zurich
11Oct (Tue): JAJ and NB consummate
20Oct (Thu): JAJ and NB arrive Trieste [pix], JAJ arrested [e184]
21Oct (Fri): JAJ and NB reach Pola"a back-of-God-speed place... a naval Siberia... boring... peopled by ignorant Slavs who wear little red caps and colossal breeches" [e186]
no-date: Berlitz (26yo Francini Bruni) pays £2/wk for 16 hrs [e186]
no-date: JAJ favors Nora's English puddings [e188] cf [recipes]
30Oct: Via Giulia 2, Pola, until end of year [e186]
31Oct: Pola journal announces Joyce's arrival [e185]
Nov: poems ('Two Songs'-- Chamber Music XII [qv] and XXVI: qv) in The Venture
Nov: Stephen Hero bogs down [e189]
07Nov: starts 'Esthetic Philosophy' [cw146]
16Nov: abandons 'Esthetic Philosophy' [cw147]
02Dec? (Fri): Nora tells Bodkin-story after unhappy dinner? [theory]
04Dec (Sun): death of ?64yo Ellen Callanan (mother's cousin)
Dec: JAJ and Francini begin translating Moore's Celibates [e187]
17Dec (Sat): "After the Race" published in Homestead [etext]
Xmas? Gogarty gives lyrics of 'Joking Jesus' to Cosgrave for JAJ [e205, maybe 1905] [lyrics]
27Dec (Tue): Abbey Theatre opens [pic] [cal]
31Dec (Sat): JAJ letter to Aunt Jo praising Nora [L1]
no-date: SH essentially complete thru ch15 [e190]
Via Medolino 7, Pola, Austria (01 Jan to ?11 March) [e189 says 13Jan]
Piazza Ponterosso 3, Trieste (12 Mar to 01 May) [e201] [info]
Via S Nicolò 30, Trieste (01 May 1905 to 24 Feb 1906) [info]
19Jan (Thu): 'Clay' completed, rejected by Irish Homestead [e190] [etext]
30Jan (week): doctor prescribes pince-nez for reading [e192]
07Feb: JAJ writing SH ch16 [e192]
12Mar (Sun): JAJ transferred back to Trieste Berlitz [e194]
15Mar (Wed): SH ch18 finished [e207]
no-date: JAJ drinks w/workers evenings at cafes [e197]
04Apr (Tue): SH ch20 finished [e207]
23Apr (Sun): Easter
May: has completed 42 of 48 parts of a £250 magazine-puzzle [e199]
02May? (Tue): letter to Stannie [e197]"I cannot tell you how strange I feel sometimes in my attempt to live a more civilised life than my contemporaries... I cannot believe that any State requires my energy for the work I am at present engaged in."
no-date: "Vienna, Rome or London, for me all governments are the same-- pirates." [e216, via Bruni so dubious]
06May (Sat): Tom Rochford risks death trying to save man in sewer. cf [Ulysses]
08May (Mon): 'Painful Case' rewritten [e207] [etext]
26May (Fri): JSJ sells house at Cabra
Jun: 50 copies of 'Holy Office' to Byrne, Roberts, Ryan, Russell, Gogarty, Magee, Best, Cousins, Starkey, Keller, G Moore, O'Leary Curtis, McGinty, Elwood and Cosgrave (not Yeats or Gregory or Curran) [e200 says Curran, cpc47 says no] [etext]
07Jun (Sat): SH ch24 finished [e207]
07Jul (Sat): long letter to Stannie: [e202]
"I often think to myself that, in spite of the seeming acuteness of my writing, I may fail in life through being too ingenuous... The very degrading and unsatisfactory nature of my exile angers me and I do not see why I should continue to drag it out with a view to returning 'some day' with money in my pocket and convincing the men of letters that, after all, I was a person of talent."
13Jul (Fri): 'Boarding House' written [e207] [etext]
16Jul (Mon): 'Counterparts' written [e207] [etext]
27Jul (Fri): Giorgio Joyce born
"You were a few minutes old. While the doctor was drying his hands I walked up and down with you, humming to you. You were quite happy, happier than I. ...Before he was born I had no fear of fortune." [wod98]late-Jul: Cosgrave in Dublin to Stannie: [e207]
'I wouldn't like to be Gogarty when your brother comes to the Tower episode. Thanks be to God I never kicked his arse or anything.'
no-date: Cosgrave sends JAJ lyrics of Gogarty's 'Joking Jesus' [e206, maybe 1906] [lyrics]
25Aug (Fri): death of 75yo Julia Lyons (The Dead) [house pic]
01Sep (Fri): 'Ivy Day' written [e207] [etext]
18Sep (Mon): 'Encounter' written [e207] [etext]
23Sep (Sat): JAJ refuses to help pay Richards to publish Chamber Music
24Sep? sends 'prayer' to Stannie: [e201]
"O Vague Something behind Everything... Give me for Christ' sake a pen and an ink-bottle and some peace of mind and then, by the crucified Jaysus, if I don't sharpen that little pen and dip it into the fermented ink and write tiny little sentences about the people who betrayed me send me to hell..." [jfb60 sees this as playacting the macho-older-bro role]
late-Sep: 'A Mother' written [e207] [etext]
Oct: 'Araby' [etext] and 'Grace' [etext] written [e207]
20Oct (Fri): Stannie leaves Dublin for Trieste [pic] ditto?"he was working from morning to night" and drinking with dockhands he called 'sir' (and who called him 'sir') [rjj24]
03Dec (Sun): JAJ submits Dubliners to Grant Richards
JAJ to Stannie, no-date: "Do you see that man who has just skipped out of the way of the tram? Consider, if he had been run over, how significant every act of his would at once become. I don't mean for the police inspector. I mean for anybody who knew him. And his thoughts, for anybody that could know them. It is my idea of the significance of trivial things that I want to give the two or three unfortunate wretches who may eventually read me." [e163, Ellmann locates ca 1904 but JAJ was not hanging out much with Stannie then, nor had he written much fiction]
Via S Nicolò 30, Trieste (to 24 Feb)
Via Giovanni Boccaccio 1, Trieste (24 Feb to 30 July) [e215] [info]
Via Frattina 52, Rome (31 July to 3 Dec)
Via Monte Brianzo 51, Rome (08 Dec 1906 to 07 March 1907)
no-date: Richard Best marries Edith Oldham [lfae243]
17Feb (Sat): Grant Richards accepts Dubliners for publication
20Feb (Tue): JAJ agrees to Richards' publishing Dubliners
24Feb (Sat): Joyces (upstairs) and Francinis (down) begin sharing house [e215, rjj25 'communal life']
15Apr (Sun): Easter
26Apr (Thu): JAJ refuses Richards' request to change Two Gallants, Counterparts, and Grace [etexts]
05May (Sat): to Grant Richards: "I cannot write without offending people." [e210]
20May (Sun): JAJ proposes Dubliners compromises to Richards [L1]
23May (Wed): death of 78yo Henrik Ibsen
23Jun (Sat): JAJ translating (Celibates?) [L1]
31Jul (Tue): JAJ and family to Rome
01Aug (Wed): Gogarty marries Martha Dwane [L2-147. or maybe 10th?]
01Aug (Wed): JAJ starts as clerk at Nast-Kolb & Schumacher bank
eleven-hour days (minus 2-hr lunch), up to 200 letters copied per day? £150/yr [L2-140]
15Aug (Wed): JAJ visits Shelley's tomb
25Sep (Tue): JAJ to Stannie [e245, L2-164]"Sometimes thinking of Ireland it seems to me that I have been unnecessarily harsh. I have reproduced (in Dubliners at least) none of the attraction of the city for I have never felt at my ease in any city since I left it except in Paris. I have not reproduced its ingenuous insularity and its hospitality."
30Sep (Sun): JAJ describes story-idea for 'Ulysses'
24Oct (Wed): final arrangement of Chamber Music
10Nov (week): bombings in Rome
27Nov (Tue): death of 59yo Michael 'The Citizen' Cusack (obit noted by Joyce) [bio&pic]
03Dec (week): living in Roman hotels
Dec: JAJ sends JSJ a pound provided by Stannie [e259, j&c291]
"In Rome, when I had finished about half of the Portrait, I realised that the Odyssey had to be the sequel, and I began to write Ulysses." [wp70, if Rome is right, Portrait is wrong]
Via Monte Brianzo 51, Rome (to 07 March)
Via S Nicolò 32, Trieste (07 Mar to Nov)
Via S Caterina 1, Trieste (Dec 1907 to Apr 1909, with Stannie) [e267] [info]
Jan: Stannie starts still-unpublished Trieste diary (two years worth survive at Tulsa) [info]
11Feb (Mon): Joyce has outlines of "The Dead" [e244]
05Mar (Tue): JAJ leaves job as bank clerk in Rome [e241]
06Mar (Wed): JAJ loses month's pay (200 crowns) to thieves in Rome
07Mar (Thu): JAJ and family to Trieste [e254]
Mar: Almidano Artifoni offers JAJ 15 crowns/wk for 6 hrs teaching [e255]
Mar: Prezioso commissions articles on Ireland and the evils of empire [e255]
17Mar (Mon): death of 77yo John O'Leary [e256]
22Mar (Fri): article "Fenianism, the last Fenian" for Piccolo [cw187, e255]JAJ to Stannie: "I may not be the Jesus Christ I once fondly imagined myself, but I think I must have a talent for journalism." [e255, from Stannie's diary so not totally reliable]
31Mar (Sun): Easter
01Apr (week): almost withdraws Chamber Music "All that kind of thing is false" [e260]
27Apr (Sat): 20 crowns for lecture "Island of Saints and Sages" in Trieste [cw153]
no-date: tells Stannie his mind is 'superior to and more civilized than any he had met up to the present' [e259]
05May (Sun): tells Stannie that Synge's art is 'more original than my own' [e267]
06May (Mon): Chamber Music published by Elkin Mathews [L1]
19May (Sun): article "Home Rule Comes of Age" for Piccolo [cw193, e255]
01Jun: Tom Kettle praises CM in Freeman's Journal [cpc76]
early-Jul: applies for teaching job in S Africa [e262]
mid-Jul: rheumatic fever initiates eye problems [e262]
17Jul (Wed): confides idea for 'Exiles' to Stannie? [e265]
Ellmann [mbk-xvi] says the Triestine pupils regularly fled the heat each summer (no lessons, no cash)
mid-Jul-Aug: month in Municipal Hospital, Trieste [e262]
26Jul (Fri): Lucia Anna Joyce born [e262] [bio&pix]
Aug? Artifoni leaves Berlitz, JAJ quits too to give private lessons [e262]
no-date: 44yo Ettore Schmitz [pic] begins lessons/support; JAJ reads and praises his novels [e270, e272] [anecdotes] [fansite w/etexts]
08Sep (Sun): JAJ announces he will rewrite Stephen Hero completely
16Sep (Mon): article "Ireland at the Bar" for Piccolo [cw197, e255]
20Sep (Fri): dictates end of "The Dead" to Stannie during 1st eye-ailment? [e264, rjj18- Aug?]
24Sep (Tue): James nearly 5ft 11, Stannie just over 5'9 [e212]
Nov: Elkin Mathews rejects Dubliners [e267]
10Nov (Sun): JAJ plans to expand story 'Ulysses' into short book, 'a Dublin Peer Gynt' [e265]Stannie [rjj21] claims this book was to include a recycling of the image of the paralytic priest from 'Sisters'
29Nov (Fri): first chapter of revised Portrait [e264]
01Dec (Sun): Gogarty in Vienna invites JAJ for a week in Athens and Venice [e263]
JAJ critiques PoA1 to Stannie: 'it began at a railway station like most college stories; there were three companions in it, and a sister who dies by way of pathos.' [e264]
no-date, of Nora: "She said to me: Woman-Killer! That's what you are!" [wod103]
Via S Caterina 1, Trieste
Giorgio: [pic]
no-date: thrilled by Italian actors, JAJ calls out in theater: 'Nobody back home has any idea there are artists like these!' [e266]
various rejections for Dubliners [e267]
24Jan: postcard to Elkin Matthews [etext] [pic]
06Feb (Sat): JAJ sees 'Hamlet' in Trieste [e266]
06Feb (Sat): Nora to JAJ: [e268]
"Yes, go now and get drunk. That's all you're good for. Cosgrave told me you were mad. Faith I tell you I'll have the children baptised tomorrow."12Feb (Fri): JAJ renounces drinking (heh) [e268]
21Feb (Sun): wrt psychologists: "What can a man know but what passes inside his own head?" [e265]
28Feb (Sun): JAJ sees Duse in Ibsen's 'Romersholm' [e266]
Mar? translates Synge's 'Riders' into Italian [e267]
12Mar: [I never asked for this life...] "And if it were offered me again, I shouldn't accept it." [e264]
05Apr (Sun): to Stannie: "I don't care a rap if Ireland continues in Catholicism for the next two thousand years" [e256]
07Apr (Tue): third chapter of Portrait completed [e264]
19Apr (Sun): Easter
late-May: leeches for iritis attack [e268]
08Jun (Mon): model farm at Kinnereth founded (actual)
28Jun (Sun): JAJ plans to sell Irish tweeds [e269]
05Jul (Sun): JAJ discusses resuming voice lessons [e269]
Jul-Aug: considers civil service, lit scholarship, or move to Florence [e269]
04Aug (Tue): Nora miscarries a 12-week son [e268]
08Dec: JAJ proposes to sister Poppie that Giorgio and Stannie spend next summer in Dublin [e269]
no-date: FW note from Dec 1922: "incest made crime 1908"
no-date: Stannie thrashes JAJ for drinking: "Do you want to go blind?" [e267]
Via S Caterina 1, Trieste (to Apr)
Via Vincenzo Scussa 8, Trieste (25 April 1909 to Dec 1910) [e270 says Mar] [info]
Trieste-era: guitar, waistcoat, cane
winter? 24yo Stannie moves out after fight about repaying loan [e270]Stannie: before 17yo had 'determined to give continence a fair trial, and persisted till I was 24 or 25' [mbk156, wrt c1901 'Painful Case' episode]
08Feb (Mon): Schmitz criticises PoA1 as weak [e273]
16Feb (Tue): M.E. Cleary ('EC') marries James Meenan [pc189]
05Mar (Fri): JAJ rents piano [L2-283]
24Mar (Wed): article on Wilde for Piccolo [e274]
24Mar (Wed): death of Synge
Apr: JAJ submits Dubliners to Maunsel [e274]
11Apr (Sun): Easterspring: Artifoni asks Stannie to act as director at Berlitz [e270]
01Jun (Tue): suicide of 27yo Dermot Richard Chenevix Trench ('Haines') [smurthwaite. mbms57 claims crossed in love]
19Jun (Sat): Ross grants Joyce right to translate Wilde's "Soul of Man under Socialism" [e274] [etext]
Jul: G Molyneux Palmer asks permission to set Chamber Music [e262]
08Jul (week): Joyce sings quintet from Die Meistersinger at concert [L1-67, e269]
Jul: pupil pays in advance for a year's lessons [e275]
25Jul (Sun): departs Trieste for Dublin w/Giorgio
29Jul (Thu): JAJ and Giorgio arrive 44 Fontenoy, Dublin [house pic]
04Aug (Wed): JAJ to Stannie: [SL156]
"Here are some opinions of my appearance: Aunt J: lost all boyishness Cosgrave: in splendid health Eglinton: looking very ecclesiastical Gogarty: Jaysus, man, you're in phthisis. [tubercular] O'Leary Curtis: much more mature Sheehan: very thin Eileen: very foreign-looking Koehler: You look 35 [really 27] Mrs Skeff: Not a bit changed Skeff: Somewhat blasé Everybody: Melancholy Russell: Like a man of business."
06Aug (Fri): Cosgrave claims Nora betrayed JAJ
07Aug (Sat): JAJ goes to Byrne for support re Nora and Cosgrave
10Aug (Tue): JAJ applies for Italian professorship at UCD
18Aug (Wed): contract with Maunsel to publish Dubliners
25Aug (Wed): JAJ attends premiere of Shaw's 'Blanco Posnet'
26Aug (Thu): two days in Galway (4 Bowling Green)
no-date: dealings with Dublin Woollen Mills [info]
05Sep (Sun): article on Shaw's 'Blanco Posnet' in Piccolo
08Sep (Wed): Thomas Kettle marries Mary Sheehy (JAJ in Dublin but doesn't go)
08Sep (Wed): JAJ and Byrne locked out of 7 Eccles [info]
09Sep (Thu): departs Dublin
11Sep (Sat): JAJ retrieves Nora's ring from Parisian urinal drain
14Sep (Tue): JAJ returns to Trieste with Giorgio and Eva Joyce
18Oct (Mon): departs Trieste again
21Oct (Thu): JAJ returns to Dublin
27Nov (Sat): JAJ visits Belfast with cinema investors
10Dec (Fri): JAJ pilgrimage to Finn's Hotel
12Dec (Sun): JAJ visits Cork to explore cinema possibilities
20Dec (Mon): Volta Cinema opens
Volta shows: Bewitched Castle; First Paris Orphanage; Beatrice Cenci [IMDb]; Devilled Crab; Waterfalls of Tanfornan; Fascination of Snowy Mountain Peaks; Little Jules Verne; Interrupted Appointment; The Athlete; An Interesting Journey to Marseilles; Nero: a sensational dramatic story of Ancient Rome [IMDb?]; His Dainty Lordship [pc291] [other 1909 titles]
Via Vincenzo Scussa 8, Trieste
Lucia w/Eva: [pic]
no-date: JAJ to Eva "The most important thing that can happen to a man is the birth of a child." [e204]
no-date: compiles 'Trieste notebook' for PoA after return from 2nd visit [wod92]
no-date: Bloom of Wexford murders a photo girl [e375, longshot origin of Poldy's lastname] [more]
02Jan (Sun): departs Dublin with sister Eileen ("black bandages over both my eyes" for iritis) [L2-285, Ellmann thinks exaggerated]
06Jan (Thu): arrives Trieste
no-date: drinking in Pirano [map] [info&pix] later blamed for eye problems [e535]
27Mar (Sun): Easter
30May (Mon): death of 54yo John Murray [L2-284]
14Jun (Tue): Volta sold with loss of £600 [e311, L2-285]
summer: JSJ visits Fermoy [pc294]
17Sep (Sat): Irish Homestead publishes Chamber Music I [qv]
Eileen, on Trieste: "It was a new life opening out... those were the happiest years in my life... I did most of the housekeeping... they were an awfully happy couple.... Jim was so devoted to her... they had their rows of course... she was always at him to teach more and spend less time at the silly writing..." [ehm63]
no-date: JAJ complains to Stannie that for years he's had no time to think [rjj24]
Via della Barriera Vecchia 32, Trieste (Dec 1910 to 01 Sep 1912) [info]
no-date: Joyce translates Yeats' "Countess Cathleen" into Italian [e267]
16Apr (Sun): Easter
09Jul (Sun): Eva Joyce leaves Trieste [pc294]
12Jul (Sat): 17yo sister Mabel dies of typhoid [pc294, j&c319]
Jul: Maunsel postpones Dubliners again [pc294]
17Aug (Thu): JAJ writes "A Curious History" re Dubliners-wars [pc294] [info]
26Aug (Sat): Reuben J Dodd Jr jumps into Liffey [e38] cf [Ulysses]
02Sep (Sat): Sinn Fein publishes "A Curious History" (also Northern Whig) [pc294] [info]
Via della Barriera Vecchia 32, Trieste (to 01 Sept)
Via Donato Bramante 4, Trieste (15 Sep 1912 to 28 Jun 1915) [pc306] [info]
Poem: 'Watching the Needleboats at San Sabba' [pc309] [etext]
no-date: Padraic Colum marries Mary Maguire in Dublin [lfae247]
21Jan (Sun): Rilke 'hears' first words of Elegies in nearby Duino (20km NW: map) [passim]
Mar: JAJ lectures on Defoe [etext] and Blake [pc294]
07Apr (Sun): Easter
24Apr (Wed): three days in Padua
25Apr (Thu): exam paper on Dickens [NYT]
30Apr (Tue): one more day in Padua
08Jul (Mon): Nora returns to Dublin, stays at Finn's hotel [pc295]
"My darling Jim since I left Trieste I am continually thinking about you how are you getting on without me or do you miss me at all. I am dreadfully lonely for you I am quite tired of Ireland already well I arrived in Dublin on Monday night your father Charley Eva and Florrie were at the Station all looking very well we all went to Finn's Hotel I stayed two nights in the hotel but I got very sick of Dublin its a horrible place its quite true what you said I would soon get tired of it..." --NB to JAJ 11Jul [pc296]12Jul (Fri): JAJ departs Trieste for Dublin
14Jul (Sun): JAJ visits WBY on way to Dublin
15Jul (Mon): two days in Dublin
17Jul (Wed): a month in Galway
04Aug (Sun): JAJ bicycles to Oughterard cemetery [pc298]
17Aug (Sat): Dublin until 11Sept, N Richmond addresses
17Aug (Sat): JAJ gets hoof-and-mouth letter into Evening Telegraph for Price. cf [Ulysses]
21Aug? (Wed): JAJ meets George Lidwell in Ormond bar [e330] cf [Sirens]
22Aug (Thu): JAJ and NB together in Dublin [pc300]
23Aug (Fri): Maunsel rejects Dubliners
no-date: Aunt Jo has Giorgio secretly baptised [e204]
10Sep (Tue): Freeman's publishes JAJ on hoof-and-mouth
11Sep (Wed): Dubliners edition burned (?) by MaunselStannie blames: Jesuits, Masons, vigilance committee, viceroy's wife [rjj9]
11Sep (Wed): JAJ departs Dublin for last time, with NB
14Sep (Sat): JAJ composes "Gas from a Burner" [pc305] [etext]
15Sep (Sun): JAJ and NB return to Trieste
04Nov (Mon): JAJ's first Trieste lecture on 'Hamlet' [info]
Dec: death of 55yo Wm Murray (uncle) [pc306]
no-date: after Dubliners rejection, Eileen saves Stephen Hero from the fire [ehm65, SL247]
Via Donato Bramante 4, Trieste
Poems: 'A Flower Given to My Daughter' [etext]; 'She Weeps over Rahoon' [etext]
Giorgio and Lucia [pic]
no-date: family portraits received from Dublin [pc308]
10Feb (Mon): last Trieste lecture on 'Hamlet' [pc309]
23Mar (Sun): Easter
23Mar (Sun): JAJ writes Elkin Mathews he's victim of "a deliberate conspiracy of certain forces in Ireland to silence me" [L1-73. cpc80 calls this persecution mania]
07Apr: death of 39yo Fred Ryan [lfae259]
no-date: Molyneux Palmer sets Chamber Music poems [pc308]
17Sep (Sat): Sat. Review (London) publishes "Watching the Needle-Boats at San Sabba" [etext]
12Nov (Wed): preliminary notes for 'Exiles' [pc308] [etext]
Dec: Joyce faircopies Portrait ch1-3 for typists
15Dec (Mon): referred by Yeats, Pound's first letter to JAJ solicits poems [pc310]
no-date: Hodges, Figgis' Dublin Book of Irish Verse 1728-1909 (John Cooke, ed) includes CMi, CMxi, CMxii [cover]
Via Donato Bramante 4, Trieste
Poems: 'Tutto è sciolto' [etext]; 'On the Beach at Fontana' [etext]; 'Simples' [etext] [e382]
Nora portrait [pic]
15Jan (Thu): Egoist (Pound): publishes "A Curious History" [pc310] [info]
19Jan (Mon): Pound praises Portrait highly
02Feb (Mon): serial publication of Portrait in the Egoist begins [pc311] [details]
01Mar (Sun): Ulysses begun? [pc313]
04Mar (Wed): JAJ allows Richards to use inverted commas [L1-75]
no-date: Joyce has photo taken for Dubliners publicity [pc311]
12Apr (Sun): Easter
Jul-Aug? 'Giacomo Joyce' written? [pc308, pc313] [ms] [debate]
15Jun (Mon): 1250 copies of Dubliners published by Grant Richards [pc312] [cover]28Jun (Sun): assassination of Archduke Ferdinand sets off WWI [timeline] ditto
13Jul (Mon): poem 'Tutto è sciolto' written [etext]
15Jul (Wed): Egoist completes ch2 of Portrait
01Aug (Sat): Egoist begins Portrait ch3
01Aug (Sat): war severs postal link between England and Austria
18Aug (week): 'Exiles' begun [L1-105]
01Sep (Tue): Egoist finishes Portrait ch3
01Sep (Tue): Portrait ch4-5 finished [etext]
02Nov (Mon): Martyn's "Dream Physician" parodies Joyce as 'Otho' [pc312]
11Nov (Wed): Joyce sends Portrait ch4-5 to England via Switzerland [pc314]
only 379 copies of Dubliners have sold after six months
Via Donato Bramante 4, Trieste (to 28 Jun)
Zurich (30 Jun 1915 to 15 Oct 1919)
Poems: 'Flood' [etext]; 'Nightpiece' [etext]
09Jan (Sat): Stannie arrested in Austria [e380]
22Jan (Fri): 'Nightpiece' written [etext]
23Mar (Tue): JAJ thanks HL Mencken for promoting Dubliners in the US [L1-77]
01Apr (Thu): 'Exiles' completed? [pc315] [etext]
04Apr (Sun): Easter
12Apr (Mon): Eileen Joyce marries Frank Schaurek [pic] (JAJ best man) [e385]
19Apr (Mon): JAJ praises Pound's 'Cathay' [e661]
29Apr (week): Mencken's "Smart Set" publishes Boarding House and Little Cloud [e384, pc314]
18May (Tue): Grant Richards rejects Portrait [pc315]
01Jun (Tue): Egoist begins Portrait ch5
15Jun (Tue): Stannie interned? [pc314, cf 09Jan above]
16Jun (Wed): postcard to Stannie details Ulysses structure
Jun: Telemachia drafted to 3.119 [pc316, e441 via Gorman]28Jun (Mon): JAJ and family leave Trieste [e386, pc316]
29Jun (Tue): Michael Healy sends £15 [e390]
30Jun (Wed): JAJ and family arrive in Zurich, Gasthaus Haffnung [e389, e659, pc317]
7Jul (Wed): relocate to Reinhardstrasse 7, Zurich
no-date: Royal Literary Fund grant of £75 [e392]
02Sep (week): 'Exiles' completed [L1-105] [etext]
15Oct (Fri): Kreuzstrasse 19, Zurich
01Nov (Mon): JAJ receives £9 from Michael Healy [L1-84]
30Nov (Tue): Harriet Weaver offers to publish Portrait
Kreuzstrasse 19, Zurich (to 31 Mar)
Seefeldtrasse 54r, Zurich (31 Mar 1916 to 30 Jan 1917)
Poem: 'Alone' [etext]
21Jan (Sun): HSW first payment for serialization of Portrait (£25) [L1-89]
04Mar (week): JAJ rheumatism attack [L1-90]
31Mar (Fri): HSW offers Portrait to E Byrne Hackett
23Apr (Sun): Easter Uprising [pix]
26Apr (Wed): Francis Skeffington shot [e399] [info&pic]
01Jun (week): Joyce proofreads Egoist Portrait tearsheets
16Jun (Fri): BW Huebsch offers to publish Portrait in US [details]
10Aug (week): UK Treasury grant of £100
mid-Sep: Joyce proofing Portrait for Huebsch
25Sep (Mon): JAJ writes condolences to Thomas Kettle's widow (Mary Sheehy) [L1-96]
10Oct: part of middle and end of Ulysses already drafted [L2]
14Oct: JAJ praises Pound's 'Lustra' [e661]
14Oct (week): nervous collapse [L1-97]
29Dec (Fri): Huebsch publishes Portrait [pc315] [pic]
sister May: "When the Portrait was published, it really embarrassed us a lot to see the family details given to the public." [ehm183]
no-date: dubbed 'Herr Satan' by landlady for pointed beard and sinewy walk [e26]
no-date: Zurich doctor recommends drinking to combat anemia [rjj27]
Seefeldtrasse 54r, Zurich (30 Jan)
Seefeldtrasse 73, Zurich (30 Jan to 12 Oct)
Poem: 'A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight' [etext]
13Feb (Mon): HSW publishes Portrait in England
22Feb (Thu): HSW begins anonymous donations
24Feb (Sat): HG Wells praises Portrait in The Nation [pc315]
26Feb (Mon): Curran critiques PoA in letter [cpc62]
19Mar (Mon): John Quinn buys corrected proofs of Portrait
Apr: Lenin leaves Zurich [timeline]
01Apr (week): Joyce compiles 365 corrections to Huebsch edition
08Apr (Sun): Easter
09Apr (Mon): draft of Scylla partly done (letter to Pound)
15Apr (week): prolonged eye attack [L1-102]05Jun (Tue): preparing to write Eolus episode
01Jul (week): fever and tonsilitis
13Jul (Fri): death of 71yo Tom Cannon, Garrett Deasy's favorite jockey (JAJ sees obit)
18Jul (Wed): Lucia ("absentminded beggar") loses JAJ's letter to HSW in the street [L1-106]
16Aug: printers in Brighton refuse to reset Portrait uncensored
18Aug (Sat): attack of glaucoma, insensible with pain for 20min, iridectomy by Sidler on right eye for glaucoma, exudation permanenty reduced vision [e417, L1-107]
31Aug (Fri): Grant Richards signs contract to publish 'Exiles'
12Oct (Fri): Joyces to Locarno, Pension Villa Rosa
17Oct (Wed): WB Yeats marries Georgie Hyde-Lees
08Nov: WBY apologetically rejects 'Exiles' for Abbey: [tb15]
'We are a folk-theatre, and... folk-drama now keeps the theatre running. We can very seldom venture anything outside its range... If we could give you a really fine performance we might venture it. But it is not possible to face at the same moment the limitations of players and of audience.'Nov: (to Georges Borach):
"There are indeed hardly more than a dozen original themes in world literature. Then there is an enormous number of combinations of these themes. Tristan und Isolde is an example of an original theme."
10Nov: to Pension Daheim, Locarno (meets Gertrude Kaempffer)
20Nov (Tue): Telemachus to Sykes [handwriting]
Dec: Nestor (and Proteus?) to Sykes [e442]
18Dec (Tue): Pound praises Telemachia [Proteus draft]
Tom Stoppard's Travesties takes place in Zurich in 1917 [info] quotes Tzara
Universitatsstrasse 38, Zurich (Jan to 26 Oct)
Universitatsstrasse 29, Zurich (26 Oct 1918 to 15 Oct 1919)
Poem: 'Bahnhofstrasse' [etext]
Nora w/kids: [pic]
no-date: Huebsch publishes US edition of Chamber Music [jacket]
Jan: Buffalo notebook VIII.A.5 begun
26Jan (Sat): back in Zurich
Mar: 1st installment of Ulysses in 'Little Review' [info]
Mar: Calypso to Ezra Pound [e442]
15Mar (Fri): Richard Ellmann born
20Mar (Wed): JAJ accepts HSW's offer to publish Ulysses
31Mar (Sun): Easter
Apr? Lotus-eaters to Pound [e442]
29Apr (Mon): English Players present "Importance of Being Earnest"
01May (Wed): fight with Carr over costume, etc
May: Hades to Pound [e442]
25May (Sat): 'Exiles' published [cover] ditto
09Jun (Sun): eye attack [L1-114]
17Jun (Mon): Nora debuts in 'Riders to the Sea' [pic]
early-summer: meets Budgen [ehm69]
Budgen: "a tall slender man... swinging a thin cane... he carried his head with the chin uptilted... his walk suggested a wading heron... The form of his head is the long oval of heads of the Norman race. His hair is dark enough to look black... His beard is much lighter, orangey-brown and cut to a point-- Elizabethan." [ehm71. see pix below for different beards]
summer: British Foreign Office opens hostile file on Joyce [article]
Jul: iritis returns in both eyes, almost incapacitated for a week or more "dangerously ill and in danger of blindness" [e442]
21Jul (week): returns to writing Hades after nine weeks illness [L1-115]
18Aug (week): Eolus to Pound
30Sep (Mon): English Players present "Mrs Warren's Profession"
15Oct (Tue): Joyce wins part one of suit-suit against Carr
21Oct (week): JAJ receives first copies of 'Exiles' [L1-120]
25Oct (Fri): Lestrygonians to Pound [L1-120]
Nov: eye troubles recur
03Dec (Tue): English Players present "Hindle Wakes"
09Dec (Mon): JAJ peeps at Marthe Fleischmann (lame) [mwy194]
11Dec (Wed): JAJ sings at English Players opening
31Dec (Tue): Scylla episode finished [e442]
Universitatsstrasse 29, Zurich (to 15 Oct)
Via della Sanità 2, Trieste (17 Oct 1919 to 03 July 1920) [info]
Poem: 'Ruminants' [revised]
Feb: "my eyes are so capricious... This time the attack was in my 'good?' eye so that the decisive symptoms of iritis never really set in. It has been light but intermittent so that for five weeks I could do little or nothing except lie constantly near a stove" [e454]
02Feb (Tue): 'black mass' with Marthe Fleischmann w/menorah [mwy192]
Feb: Wandering Rocks to Pound [e442]
11Feb (Tue): JAJ loses second suit to Carr
Apr: 'Scylla' in Little Review [cover]
20Apr (Sun): Easter
08May (week): JAJ with Budgen in Locarno
Budgen: 'Nora became tearful and told me that Jim wanted her to go with other men so that he would have something to write about' [mwy188]Jun: Sirens to Pound [e442]
10Jun (Tue): Scofield Thayer gives JAJ $700
19Jun (Thu): ugly scene with Marthe Fleischmann's guardian [mwy196]
19Jun (Thu): letter to Budgen reproduced at [e453] shows triangular margins
20Jul (Sun): JAJ to HSW defending Sirens [L1-128]
Jul? death of George Lidwell [e462]
07Aug (Thu): 'Exiles' premieres in Munich ("A fiasco! A flop!")
03Sep (Wed): Cyclops finished
28Sep (Sun): headline: "Black Beast Burned in Omaha, Ga"
Nov: Nausikaa begun (notesheets with triangular margins)
US censorship flap: [documents]
Via della Sanità 2, Trieste (to 3 July)
9 rue de l'Université, Paris 7e (8-15 July, 1-30 Nov)
5 rue de l'Assomption, Passy (15 July to 1 Nov)
5 Boulevard Raspail, Paris 7e (1 Dec 1920 to 3 June 1921)
Lucia: [pic]
05Jan (Wed): letter to Aunt Jo asking about Nausikaa details [L1-135]
06Jan (Thu): JAJ writes HSW re burning of SH
28Jan (week): Nausikaa to Pound
Feb: JAJ complains to HSW that 'Little Review' is doing a poor job [letter]
20Mar? (Sat): JAJ letter to Budgen explaining Oxen [SL251, cf? L1-138 '13Mar']
04Apr (Sun): Easter
18May (Tue): finishes Oxen
Jun? starts Circe [draft]
09Jun (Wed): JAJ visits Pound in Italy
06Jul (Tue): HSW admits to anonymous benefactions
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08Jul (Thu): Joyces relocate to Paris
Jul: visits Shakespeare & Co [pic], ditto; doorway, inside
15Aug (Sun): Pound introduces TS Eliot to JAJ
Sep: NY Society for the Prevention of Vice makes official complaint about Nausikaa in 'Little Review' [e502] [info]
21Sep (Tue): JAJ sends Ulysses schema to Linati [L1-146] [etext]
23Sep (Thu): JAJ conceives matutine/entr'acte/nocturne for Ulysses
Oct: Oxen to Pound [e442]
17Oct (Sun): Joyces to Trieste, begins six weeks of not writing-reading-speaking [L1-134]
04Nov (week): trunk of Circe materials arrives in Paris, 17 weeks after mailed from Trieste
25Nov (Thu): Little Review publishes Oxen
09Dec (Thu): three weeks of eye problems relieved
20Dec (Mon): finishes Circe
5 Boulevard Raspail, Paris 7e (to 03 June)
71 rue de Cardinal Lemoine, Paris 5e (03 Jun to 01 Oct-- Larbaud's flat)
9 rue de l'Université, Paris 7e (01 Oct 1921 to 19 Oct 1922)
Feb: Eumeus finished? [e442]
14Feb (Mon): Little Review obscenity trial begins
20Feb (Sun???): NY court finds Ulysses obscene
22Feb (Tue): Larbaud discovers Ulysses
06Mar (Sun): George Clancy ('Davin') executed by Black and Tans [info]
27Mar (Sun): Easter
08Apr (Fri): Mr Harrison, typist's husband, throws Circe into fire
Apr: Circe to Pound [e442]
19Apr: Circe draft-plus-final and Eumeus final to Quinn [info&pic]May? Shakespeare&Co prospectus for Ulysses sent to several hundred prospects [e506] [info]
10Jun (Fri): first page proofs (or placards) from Darantiere (ch1-5)
24Jun (Fri): JAJ defends drinking to HSW
27Jun (Mon): 2nd proofs from Darantiere for ch1-5
Jul: five weeks recuperating from iritis attack w/cocaine, lying in darkened room, came to a head in three hours [e517, L1-168]
Aug: 1st proofs for ch6-10, 3rd and 4th for ch1-5
Aug: "I write and revise and correct with one or two eyes about twelve hours a day I should say, stopping for intervals of five minutes or so when I can't see any more." [e517]
26Aug (Fri): JAJ collapses at Alhambra musichall with Giorgio [L1-170-171]
autumn: lunch with CP Curran [cpc84]05Sep (week): 5th proofs of ch1-5, 3rd for ch6-7 only
21Sep (week): 6th proofs for ch4-5, 4th for 6-7, 3rd for 8-10, 1st for 11-12
28Sep (week): 7th proofs for ch5, 5th for 6-7, 4th for 8-10, 2nd for 11-12
01Oct (week): 8th proofs for ch5, 6th for 6-7, 5th for 8-10, 3rd for 11-12 (also 4th for 12)
03Oct (Tue): Joyces move to 9 rue de l'Université
07Oct (week): 6th for 8-10, 7th for 8-9, 4th for 11
17Oct (week): 7th for 10, 4th for 12, 5th for 11-12, 6th for 12, 1st for ch18 and 15
20Oct (week): 1st for ch13-14
25Oct (week): 6th proofs for 11, 7th for 12, 2nd for ch13-15, 3rd for 15
29Oct (Sat): Ulysses 'finished' [L1-175]30Oct (Sun): Ulysses 'finished' again
02Nov (Wed): JAJ asks Aunt Jo about LB's drop at Eccles
02Nov (week): 2nd proofs for ch18, 3rd for 13-14, 8th for 12
15Nov (week): 9th for 12, 3rd for 18 and 15, 4th for 13-15
23Nov (week): 5th for 13-14, 4th for 15 (cont) and 18
01Dec (week): 5th for 14 (cont) and 15
08Dec (week): 6th for 15, 1st for 16-17
13Dec (week): 2nd for 16-17, 7th for 15
29Dec (week): 7th for 15 (cont)
9 rue de l'Université, Paris 7e (to 19 Oct)
26 Avenue Charles Floquet, Paris (13 Nov 1922 to 3 Apr 1923 (Rose) or 14 Jun 1923 (Ellmann))
03Jan (week): 8th and 9th proofs for ch15, 3rd for 16
10Jan (Tue): Arthur Griffith elected President of Ireland
13Jan (week): 10th and 11th for 15, 3rd for 17, 4th and 5th for 16, 5th for 18
20Jan (Fri): celebration dinner for Ulysses at Ferrari's
01Feb (Wed): dreadful omen in Bois de Boulogne [more]
02Feb (Thu): Ulysses officially published (2 copies) [info-2pg]
03Feb (Fri): 82yo JB Yeats dies in NYC (WB's father)
05Feb (Sun): two more copies of Ulysses
13Feb (Mon): JAJ signs copy #3 to Margaret Anderson [cite]
22Feb: Francini Bruni's lecture on Joyce, "Joyce intimo spogliato in Piazza" [wp7] [quotes]
28Feb (Tue): journalist asks Joyce what he's writing now [L1-181]
07Mar (Sat): Daily Herald article with sketch of JAJ [L1-183]
Apr: Djuna Barnes interview w/sketch by Mina Loy [scan]
02Apr (Sun): Nora and the children arrive London on way to Dublin/Galway16Apr (Sun): Easter
May: iritis recurs, spread to left eye [e535] "a furious eye attack lasting until [October]" [e538]
06May (week): nerves, toothache etc [L1-184]
18May (Thu) meets Proust?
Jun: Pound's 'Paris Letter' in Dial fetes Ulysses
Jul: Berman advises complete extraction of teeth [e536]
17Aug (Thu): Joyces arrive Euston Hotel, London
18Aug (week): JAJ to HSW "I think I shall write a history of the world."
Oct: leeches and dionine from Dr Collin [e538]
11-13Oct: Joyces in Dijon and Marseille
12Oct (Thu): second edition of Ulysses (2000 copies), sells out in four days
13Oct-12Nov: Joyces in Nice (return via Marseille and Lyon)
02Feb1939: 'Joyce was more open than usual; he told how the idea of the book [FW] had come to him in 1922 when he was at Nice.' [e715]
27Oct (week): begins Finnegans Wake notetaking with VI.B.10 and VI.A (Nice) [notes]
18Nov (Sat): death of 51yo Proust
21Dec: JAJ writes Aunt Jo for memories of Dublin characters
late 1922: eyes make everything (or just the eyes themselves?) look red [e537]
British censorship of Ulysses: [article]
26 Avenue Charles Floquet, Paris (until 3 April)
Victoria Palace Hotel, Paris (17 Aug 1923 to 15 Sep 1924 intermittent)
Tuohy paints JSJ: [pic]
12Jan (Fri): Gogarty kidnapped by Irish rebels
06Feb (Tue): sorting out Ulysses notes according to new system [L1-200]
07Mar (Sat): Finnegans Wake begun [draft]
Apr: FW notebook VI.B.3 started
01Apr (Sun): Easter
03-?12Apr: Neuilly clinic, teeth extracted
05Apr (Thu): Lord Canarvon's death (blamed on mummy's curse)
06Apr (Fri): "I heard the banshee 10-30 6/ 4/923" (VI.B.3 p5)
25Apr-?04May: Borsch's clinic for eye operations (sphincterectomy) unable to read until June??? [e543]
10Jun (Sun): false teeth
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21-?29Jun: London<
29Jun-03Aug: Bognor [pic]
?Jul: FW notebook VI.B.25 started
03-?17Aug: London
late-Aug: FW notebook VI.B.2 started
27Aug-?03Sep: Tours
15Sep (week): Giorgio tries and quits bank job, begins music/singing lessons [L1-205]
late-Sep: FW notebook VI.B11 started
Oct: meets with Pound, Ford, Quinn: [pic] distant
07Oct (Sun): JAJ has heavy cold [L1-204]
08Oct (Mon): Mamalujo faircopy to typist [L1-203) [etext]
24Oct (Wed): JAJ attends Antheil performance
05Dec: death of Edward Martyn [lfae259]
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