James Joyce seated on bench at Fechamp
Handwriting on verso "cadre plat en 11% argent"; Shakespeare and Company stamp; inserted photograph of this picture framed and displayed with 5.9, 5.10, 5.11
Unknown
<p>Original photograph at The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.</p>
<p><a href="http://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/LIB-PC004/id/96/rec/56" target="_blank">http://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/LIB-PC004/id/96/rec/56</a></p>
July 1925
5.7
James Joyce seated, playing guitar, Zurich
On verso "Zurich 1915 | Taken by | Ottocaro Weiss
Unknown
<p>Original photograph at The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.</p>
<p><a href="http://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/LIB-PC004/id/44/rec/59" target="_blank">http://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/LIB-PC004/id/44/rec/59</a></p>
1915
2.15
The Gay Lothario.
<p>A postcard held at the British Museum from 1813 celebrating the character of Lothario from <em>The Fair Penitent</em> around the time of a revival of the 18th century play. The full title reads: "The gay Lothario. The great and celebrated amatuer of fashion."</p>
<p>It satirically portrays an actor of the time. The <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1480452&partId=1&people=30929&peoA=30929-1-7&page=1" target="_blank">British Museum</a> describes it as such: </p>
<p>Coates in a pose suggesting Harlequin in a fencing-match (and like that of the clown in No. 9003), sits on the stage, his trunk almost at right angles to his legs which slant stiffly towards the stage-box (left). He grins at the occupants, pointing his sword towards them and raising his left arm. He wears his jewelled hat with the enormous feathers, cloak, tunic, and sash, as in No. 11769. He declaims Lothario's speech when he falls dying, after the duel with Altamont, beginning: "Oh Altamont! thy genius is the stronger, thou hast prevail'd . . ." [Rowe, 'Fair Penitent', iv. 1]. He lies on bright green ground, a garden scene with trees and skaters forming a background. Four persons in the box, much burlesqued, applaud, grinning broadly: "Encore—Encore"; "Bravo—bravo—Encore"; "Bravo—Encore." Plate numbered 190. 6 March 1813 Hand-coloured etching.</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:1em;">Inscription Content</span></strong></p>
<p><span>Lettered with title, text in image, and "E-s scult / Price one shilling coloured / Pubd Marh 6th 1813 by Thos Tegg No.111 Cheapside London"</span></p>
William Elmes biography
Thomas Tegg
1813
Posted by Joseph Lennon
(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949)
Also an impression with the date removed.
BM Satires 12128; 1872,1012.5033
Base! Betrayer! note from 1907 text
Sophie Chantal Hart, editor
<em>The Fair Penitent and Jane Shore by Nicholas Rowe</em>
D.C. Heath (Boston and London)
1907
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Base! Betrayer! Zoomed-in
Nicholas Rowe
<em>The Fair Penitent </em>(1703)
London: Jacob Tonfon
1703
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Page 62 from "Two Gallants"
Lenehan and Corley in "Two Gallants" from James Joyce's <em>Dubliners</em>
The passage reads:
“She’s all right,” said Corley. “I know the way to get around her, man. She’s a bit gone on me.”
“You’re what I call a gay Lothario,” said Lenehan. “And the proper kind of a Lothario, too!”
A shade of mockery relieved the servility of his manner. To save himself he had the habit of leaving his flattery open to the interpretation of raillery. But Corley had not a subtle mind.
“There’s nothing to touch a good slavey,” he affirmed. “Take my tip for it.”
“By one who has tried them all,” said Lenehan.
“First I used to go with girls, you know,” said Corley, unbosoming; “girls off the South Circular. I used to take them out, man, on the tram somewhere and pay the tram or take them to a band or a play at the theatre or buy them chocolate and sweets or something that way. I used to spend money on them right enough,” he added, in a convincing tone, as if he was conscious of being disbelieved.
But Lenehan could well believe it; he nodded gravely.
“I know that game,” he said, “and it’s a mug’s game.”
“And damn the thing I ever got out of it,” said Corley.
“Ditto here,” said Lenehan.
“Only off of one of them,” said Corley.
He moistened his upper lip by running his tongue along it. The recollection brightened his eyes. He too gazed at the pale disc of the moon, now nearly veiled, and seemed to meditate.
James Joyce
Dubliners (London: Grant Richards, 1904)
Grant Richards
1914
archive.net
Book, PDF image
Clerkenwell Prison (Interior)
<p>A picture of the Clerkenwell Prison, AKA the Clerkenwell House of Detention and the Middlesex House of Detention, located in Clerkenwell, London. Prisoners were housed here as they awaited trial.</p>
<p>This image depicts the prison during visiting hours. The caption reads,</p>
<p><em>Interior of the house of detention, Clerkenwell, (as it appears at the time of the visits of the prisoners’ friends). </em></p>
<p>This is the prison that Joseph Casey, a Fenian revolutionary who Joyce met in Paris in 1903 and who inspired the character Kevin Egan in Ulysses, was kept in in 1867. When Joseph’s brother Patrick (celebrated among fellow revolutionaries as “the Dynamiter”) and other Fenians heard of Joseph’s incarceration, they attempted to free him by blowing down the walls of the prison with a bomb. The plan failed, as 17 people were killed, another 120 injured, and over £20,000 in damages were done to the property while Casey failed to break free.</p>
Henry Mayhew
Mayhew, Henry and Benny John. <em>The Criminal Prisons of London, and Scenes of Prison Life</em>, pg. 434
Griffin, Bohn, and Company
1862
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Excerpt from Shane Leslie's 1922 Review of <em>Ulysses</em>
<p>This is an excerpt from a 1922 review of <em>Ulysses </em>by Shane Leslie in the Irish literary periodical <em>The Quarterly Review</em>.</p>
<p>In one of his concluding statements, Leslie refers to <em>Ulysses </em>as “an attempted Clerkenwell explosion in the well-guarded, well-built, classical prison of English literature.” (234)</p>
Shane Leslie
Leslie, Shane. "The Quarterly Review." <em>Ulysses</em> 473 (1922)
Google Books
1922
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James Stephens' Grave
<p>his is a photograph of the graves of James Stephens and John O’Leary, two Fenian leaders who were buried side by side at the Glasnevin cemetery in Dublin.</p>
<p>A plaque on the gravestone reads:</p>
<p> <em>A day, an hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.</em></p>
Wikipedia user Domer48
Taken from Wikipedia user Domer48’s contributions to the “John O’Leary” article.
en.wikipedia.org
2007
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"Great Fenian Scare" Political Cartoon
A cartoon published in <em>Canadian Illustrated News </em>Volume 1 in 1869 depicting a disheveled scarecrow with the caption: “Great Fenian Scare”.
Anonymous.
October 30th, 1869 edition of Canadian<em> Illustrated News</em>, pg. 16
Library and Archives Canada
October 30th, 1869
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