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JJ to Mary Joyce, Dec. 15, 1902,
LII
, p. 21.
fees up front
and
quit:
Herbert Gorman,
James Joyce: His First Forty Years
(New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1939), p. 90.
two students
:
JJ to Mary Joyce, March 8, 1903,
LII
, p. 34.
by the hours
:
Ibid., Feb. 21, 1903, p. 29.
he vomited
:
Ibid., Feb. 26, 1903, p. 31.
a cruel toothache
:
Gorman,
James Joyce
, p. 91;
MBK
, p. 214.
wooden clogs
:
Gorman,
James Joyce
, p. 92.
conceal the stains
:
Ell, p. 123.
“How are yr”
:
Mary Joyce to JJ, March 19, 1903,
LII
, p. 36.
candles burned down
:
JJ to Mary Joyce, Feb. 26, 1903,
LII
, p. 31.
sweeping definitions
:
Gorman,
James Joyce
, p. 88; Michael Groden, “The National Library of Ireland’s New Joyce Manuscripts: A Statement and Document Descriptions,”
JJQ
39, no.1 (Fall 2001), pp. 34–37.
“chattering, crushing”
:
JJ, “Epiphany 33,” in
Poems and Shorter Writings: Including Epiphanies, Giacomo Joyce, and “A Portrait of the Artist,”
ed. Richard Ellman, A. Walton Litz, and John Whittier-Ferguson (London: Faber and Faber, 1991), p. 193.
“the soul of”
:
James Joyce,
Stephen Hero
(New York: New Directions, 1963), p. 213.
“to pierce”
:
Ibid., p. 33.
Notre Dame
:
Ell, p. 128.
“MOTHER DYING”
:
MBK
, p. 229; Gorman,
James Joyce
. p. 108.
diagnosed her with cirrhosis
:
Ell, p. 129.
confession
and
darkened room:
SJ and George Harris Healey,
The Complete Dublin Diary of Stanislaus Joyce
(Dublin: Anna Livia Press, 1994), pp. 8–9.
mind deteriorated
:
MBK
, p. 233.
already died
:
Ell, pp. 21, 92.
under the sofa
:
May Joyce to JJ, Sept. 1, 1916,
LII
, p. 383.
family portraits
:
Mary Maguire Colum and Padraic Colum.
Our Friend James Joyce
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1958). p. 52.
false receipt
:
SJ and Healey,
Complete Dublin Diary
, p. 123.
eleven addresses
:
LII
, p. lv.
uncle John
and
remained standing:
MBK
, p. 234.
draped with a sheet
:
Ulysses
, p. 156 (9: 221); Don Gifford,
Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce’s Ulysses
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), p. 206.
departing ghost
:
Ell, p. 136.
cried alone
:
Ulysses
, p. 156 (9: 224).
closed on him
:
Colum and Colum,
Our Friend Joyce
, p. 51.
First it was sack
:
Ell, pp. 131
–
2.
Three generations
and
two Dublin homes:
Ulick O’Connor,
Oliver St. John Gogarty
(London: Jonathan Cape, 1964), pp. 11–13.
gold buttons
:
Gogarty,
Mourning Became Mrs. Spendlove,
p. 52.
one-sided fight
and
Alfred H. Hunter:
Ell, p. 161.
eighteenth-century houses
and
Painted facades:
Ibid., p. 367.
more here than in Paris
and
police had given up:
O’Brien,
Dear, Dirty Dublin
, p. 191.
“arse over tip”
:
Gogarty to JJ, [n.d.] 1904, Cornell, Series IV Box 8.
economical houses
and
lead pipe:
Ell, pp. 367–8.
paid with the money
:
Colum and Colum,
Our Friend Joyce
, p. 53.
“He has the fuckin’est”
:
SJ and Healey,
Complete Dublin Diary
, p. 27.
father’s gravelly voice
:
Ibid., p. 170.
“Ye dirty pissabed”
:
Ibid., p. 28.
launch it blindly
and
guarding their sisters:
Ibid., p. 24.
“I’ll break your heart”
:
Ibid., p. 176.
den of syphilis
and
the continent’s manias:
Ibid., pp. 51
–
52.
was a “syphilisation”
:
Ulysses
, p. 266 (12: 1197).
rejected it as incomprehensible
:
Ell, p. 147.
eleven chapters
:
SJ and Healey,
Complete Dublin Diary
, p. 19.
“Thy love”
:
JJ, “A Portrait of the Artist,” in
Poems and Shorter Writings
, p. 216.
2. NORA BARNACLE
He declined
and
The Goblin:
Ell, pp. 140
–
1; Colum and Colum,
Our Friend Joyce
, p. 56.
anthology of poetry
:
Padraic Colum in Ulick O’Connor, ed.,
The Joyce We Knew
(Cork: Mercer Press, 1967), p. 70.
joint-stock company
:
Ell, p. 164; Gogarty,
Mourning Became Mrs. Spendlove
, p. 46.
Nassau Street
:
David Pierce,
Joyce’s Ireland
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992), p. 52.
brass handles
:
Liam Kelly, National Transport Museum of Ireland, May 18, 2011, email and photographs.
dirty canvas shoes
:
Brenda Maddox,
Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce
(London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988), p. 5.
like a little boy
:
Ibid., p. 25.
low, resonant voice
:
JJ to NB, ca. Sept. 1, 1904,
LII
, p. 51.
“
Bear
nacle”
:
Ibid., p. 9. My italics.
fifteen thousand
:
Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland, http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/21962/eppi_pages/616790.
originated in Galway
:
Ell, p. 11.
waited tables
and
helped tend:
Ibid., p. 26.
“I may be blind”
:
JJ to NB, June 15, 1904,
LII
, p. 42.
her grandmother
and
convent, Uncle Tommy:
Maddox,
Nora: A Biography
, p. 12.
blackthorn stick
and
stole vegetables:
Ell, p. 158.
foul language
:
Maddox,
Nora: A Biography,
p. 19.
Michael Feeney
:
Ibid., p. 15.
Sonny Bodkin
:
Ell, p. 158.
“man killer”
:
Maddox,
Nora: A Biography,
p. 18.
young priest once invited
:
JJ to SJ, Dec. 3, 1904,
LII
, p. 72.
trousers, neckties
and
“My love”
and
“Good night”:
Mary O’Holleran qtd. in Ell, p. 158.
balsam and rose
:
Maddox,
Nora: A Biography,
p. 20.
shirttails
and
fingers:
JJ to NB, Dec. 3, 1909,
SL
, p. 182.
“What is it, dear?”
:
Ibid., Aug. 7, 1909, p. 159.
“How am I”
:
Ibid., Aug. 15, 1904, p. 47.
small birds
:
Ibid., Sept. 1, 1904, p. 50.
frustrated and suspicious
:
Ibid., Late July(?), 1904, p. 44.
unbuttoned
and
well behaved:
Ibid., July 12(?), 1904, p. 43.
“common”
:
SJ and Healey,
Complete
Dublin Diary
, p. 57.
“Oh, she’ll never”
:
Ell, p. 156.
he had met her first
:
Maddox,
Nora: A Biography
, p. 25.
“Their least word”
:
JJ to NB, Aug. 29, 1904,
LII
, p. 49.
“How could I”
:
Ibid., p. 48.
study his letter
:
NB to JJ, Sept. 12, 1904,
LII
, p. 52.
He had
thirteen
letters
:
JJ to NB, Sept. 1, 1904,
LII
, p. 51.
Joyce was evicted
:
SJ and Healey,
Complete Dublin Diary
, p. 86.
Martello towers
:
Colum and Colum,
Our Friend Joyce
, p. 61; Oliver Gogarty,
It Isn’t This Time of Year at All!
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1954), p. 86; Ell, pp. 171
–

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