In 2001, a notebook, not functionally unlike the spiral notebooks that children need when shopping for the first days of school, was sold at auction for £861,250 sterling, over a million USD. It was a “lost” notebook once used by James Joyce to draft the “Eumaeus” episode of Ulysses. This notebook, and many others just…Continue Reading Joyce in 100 Objects: Notebooks for Drafting
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Joyce in 100 Objects: Bloom’s Potato
Joyce in 100 Objects: Bloom’s Potato “Talisman no.1” “Talisman no.2” “Talisman no. 3” “Talisman no. 4” 57x48cm watercolor paintings by Eoin Mac Lochlainn Exhibited at “Olives, Oysters, and Oranges,” Olivier Cornet Gallery, June 13-30, 2019 In Ireland, the potato is connected irrevocably with the Great Famine of 1845-49, and yet, in Ulysses,…Continue Reading Joyce in 100 Objects: Bloom’s Potato
Joyce in 100 Objects: Lemon Soap
A bar of soap from Sweny’s Pharmacy. Photo originally taken by Peter Chrisp. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a bar of soap has a variety of new associations— of desperate searching in local stores, of singing “Happy Birthday” twice while scrubbing, of staying home, of remembering the small ways we each contribute to public health…Continue Reading Joyce in 100 Objects: Lemon Soap
Joyce in 100 Objects: How to Enjoy Ulysses
In 1920, Ulysses was effectively banned from publication in the United States when a New York court held that the serialized version then appearing in The Little Review was obscene. For the next thirteen years, the book remained in limbo, until another New York court finally ruled it a piece of literature that was unlikely to…Continue Reading Joyce in 100 Objects: How to Enjoy Ulysses
Joyce in 100 Objects: Pomes Penyeach
We know Joyce primarily as a prose writer and novelist, but he did publish two slight volumes of poetry: Chamber Music in 1907 and Pomes Penyeach in 1927. The latter contains thirteen short pieces of verse written roughly between 1904 and 1924. Ezra Pound found them generally unremarkable and though they contain a few linguistic…Continue Reading Joyce in 100 Objects: Pomes Penyeach
Joyce in 100 Objects: Gas from a Burner
Our James Joyce in 100 Objects series continues this week with a copy of the scorching broadside, Gas from a Burner, written by Joyce as he left Ireland for the final time. In the late summer of 1912, he had traveled to his home city in an attempt to negotiate the publication of his beleaguered…Continue Reading Joyce in 100 Objects: Gas from a Burner
New Features: “Joyce in 100 Objects” and Instagram Account
As part of our new digital initiative, the JJQ is delighted to announce the premiere of a photographic series titled “James Joyce in 100 Objects.” Initially, we’ll use this feature to share images and short descriptions of objects held by the McFarlin Library’s Special Collections at University of…Continue Reading New Features: “Joyce in 100 Objects” and Instagram Account