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Journey Westward Joyce, Dubliners and the Literary Revival Shovlin_Joyce_Printer.indd 1 06/02/2012 16:34 Shovlin_Joyce_Printer.indd 2 06/02/2012 16:34 Journey Westward Joyce, Dubliners and the Literary Revival FRANK SHOVLIN liverpool university press Shovlin_Joyce_Printer.indd 3 06/02/2012 16:34 FFiirrsstt ppuubblliisshheedd 22001122 bbyy LFLiiirvvseetrr pppouoooblll i UUshnneiidvve e2rr0ssii1tt2yy b PPyrreessss 4L4 iCCveaarmmpobborriildd Uggeen iSSvtterrreeseeittty Press L4L iiCvveearrmppooboorilld LLg66e99 S 77trZZeUUet Liverpool L69 7ZU CCooppyyrriigghhtt ©© 22001122 FFrraannkk SShhoovvlliinn Copyright © 2012 Frank Shovlin TThhee rriigghhtt ooff FFrraannkk SShhoovvlliinn ttoo bbee iiddeennttiififieedd aass tthhee aauutthhoorr ooff tthhiiss bbooookk hhaass bbeeeenn aTasshsseee rrrttieegddh tbb yoy fhh Fiimmra niinnk aaScchccooovrrlddinaan ntcocee b wwe iiittdhhe ntthhteiefi CCedoo ppayysr rtiihggheh tta,, u DDtheessoiirgg nnosfs taahnnidds bPPoaatoteeknn httssa sAA bcctet e119n988 88.. asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. 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BBrriittiisshh LLiibbrraarryy CCaattaalloogguuiinngg--iinn--PPuubblliiccaattiioonn ddaattaa ABAr BBitrrisiithtii ssLhhib LLriaibbrrryaa Crryya tCCaIIlPoPg rrueeiccnoogrr-ddin ii-ssP aauvvbaaliiilclaaabbtlileoen data A British Library CIP record is available IWISSBeBbNN P D9977F88 e--1I1-S-88B44N6633 911--788822-331---888 4cca6as3see1dd-770-5 ISBN 978-1-84631-823-8 cased TTyyppeesseett iinn CCaalllluunnaa bbyy KKooiinnoonniiaa,, MMaanncchheesstteerr PTPrryiipnnettseeeddt aainnn ddC bbaoolluuunnndda bbbyyy KCCoPPiIIn GGornrooiauu,pp M ((UUanKKc))h LLettsddt,,e CCrrrooyyddoonn CCRR00 44YYYY Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY SShhoovvlliinn__JJooyyccee__PPrriinntteerr..iinndddd 44 0066//0022//22001122 1166::3344 Shovlin_Joyce_Printer.indd 4 06/02/2012 16:34 For Maura, from Connacht Shovlin_Joyce_Printer.indd 5 06/02/2012 16:34 Shovlin_Joyce_Printer.indd 6 06/02/2012 16:34 Contents Acknowledgements viii Abbreviations x Introduction: ‘The journey westward’ 1 1 ‘Endless stories about the distillery’: Joyce and Whiskey 12 2 ‘Their friends, the French’: Joyce, Jacobitism and the Revival 62 3 ‘He would put in allusions’: The Uses and Abuses of Revivalism 122 Conclusion: Protestant Power and Plates of Peas 159 Select Bibliography 162 Index 172 vii Shovlin_Joyce_Printer.indd 7 06/02/2012 16:34 Acknowledgements I wish to acknowledge the impact of Paul Muldoon’s 1998 Clarendon Lectures at the University of Oxford, my attendance at which prompted me to rethink completely the ways in which I read James Joyce and led directly to the writing of this book. For the generous support, without which completion of this book would have proved immeasurably more difficult, I thank the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), the British Academy and the University of Liverpool. St John’s College, Oxford provided me with a welcome scholarly haven in the summer of 2005. I wish to warmly acknowledge the support of the President and Fellows of the college, with John and Christine Kelly in particular proving most gracious hosts. The Cora Maud Oneal Research Fellowship awarded to me by the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, allowed me to peruse Joyce’s Trieste library on a research trip there in the spring of 2010. This book was conceived and went through a long gestation in the great city of Liverpool, and so I am very pleased that it is now being published by Liverpool University Press; I want, in particular, to acknowledge the help of my editor, Anthony Cond. Some versions of what I argue in this book first appeared in the Joyce Studies Annual and the James Joyce Quarterly. My students at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, have been the key inspiration for this study. They put up patiently with my doubtless sometimes incoherent reveries on Dubliners, and I hope this book goes some way towards crystallizing many impromptu thoughts on Joyce’s achievement. I was fortunate to be working closely with a cohort of talented graduate students during the composition of this study and would especially like to mention Niall Carson, Brian Chamberlain, Cathy Davies, Tony Halpen, Ciarán O’Neill, Anna Pilz, Ray Southern, Whitney Standlee and Kieron Winterson. My colleagues at the Institute have always been supportive, and their expert knowledge of differing aspects of Irishness has been a great help to me in thinking about Joyce. Helen Carey, formerly of the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, provided me with an important viii Shovlin_Joyce_Printer.indd 8 06/02/2012 16:34 acknowledgements ix opportunity to present my thoughts on Joyce and Jacobitism on Bloomsday 2006. Similar invitations to speak from the W. B. Yeats and the Merriman summer schools, and from the University of Strathclyde, the University of Manchester, the University of Texas at Austin and the National Univer- sity of Ireland, Galway prompted me to revise earlier thoughts on Joyce’s complex relationship with the Revival and with Irish history. Tom Paulin read the entire manuscript and his comments were, as always, most judicious. Marianne Elliott, Mike Griffin and John Kenny kindly read sections for me – each strengthened the book. Keith Duggan and George Watson were this project’s earliest and most enthusiastic supporters. George’s death before its completion remains a source of profound sadness to me. Mark Kennedy walked the battlefield of Aughrim in my company; Enda Leaney argued passionately, and disingenuously, that Joyce was overrated; Patrick O’Sullivan and Seumas Gildea taught me to take whiskey seriously. Others who in various important ways helped to bring my work to fruition and who I wish to thank here are the Curoes of San Antonio, Maria-Daniella Dick, Martin Dyar, David Goldie, John Grant, Gregg McClymont MP, Paddy McDonagh, Robbie McLaughlin, Bob Nelson, Andrew Noble, the late Vera Ryhajlo and Brendan Shalvey. My son, Francis Xavier, who was born on Ivy Day 2009, helped keep everything in perspective. My greatest debt is recorded in the book’s dedication. Shovlin_Joyce_Printer.indd 9 06/02/2012 16:34
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