This collection of original, cohesive and concise essays charts the vital contextual backgrounds
to Joyce's life and writing. The volume begins with a chronology of Joyce's publishing …

This article shows that James Joyce drew inspiration from the Philadelphia Inquirer for the
period 1903-1904, particularly when writing the Aeolus episode of Ulysses. The 11 Jan 1903 …

… For example, Gorman refers to the marriage of John Stanislaus Joyce and Mary Jane
Murray as “a marriage that resulted in sixteen or seventeen children” (Gorman, 1941: 11); even …

… Concert programs featuring Miss DuB?dat and John Stanislaus Joyce document the sort
of occasions that are memorial ized by "A Mother" and help us better imagine the concert tour …

In “Party Pieces in Joyce’s Dubliners,” I analyzed Joyce’s complex depiction of the Irish trope
of “party pieces,” and of performance generally, in his first fictional text. 1 After writing the …

… Even as between John Stanislaus Joyce and May Joyce, who was a believing Catholic
and temperamentally averse to acrimony, the Christmas dinner can hardly have been festive. …

Abstract: In James Joyce's short story'Araby', a copy of Walter Scott's novel The Abbot is left
discarded in a pile of'old useless papers'. Despite this rather negative association, Joyce …

… Turning from Shakespeare to Joyce for a moment, we can see how the latter used his books
to turn the tables on John Stanislaus Joyce by recreating him as Simon Dedalus, "A medical …