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JAMES JOYCE.
I’m an absolute Joyce fanatic. I love his writing, I love the mad, eccentric ‘Finnegan’s Wake’ and of course ‘Ulysses’ and I even have a first edition of ‘Pomes Penyeach’.
I grew up with the Joyce legend as he lived near my family in Drumcondra, Dublin, up near the library on Millmount Avenue. Ireland is a very small country full of great writers even today and I love the place for that despite this present -and the previous government’s -visceral dislike of all the arts. The only Irish politician whoever paid more than lip service to the arts in Ireland was one Charles J. Haughey. Don’t get me going.
I should also mention that Jimmie Joyce, as my granny called him, wrote nixers for captions for my grandfather’s satirical magazine ‘The Lepraucaun’, some posted from Trieste where he was living at the time.