Ep. 122- A Hungarian it was one day...
Did Leopold Bloom really give Arthur Griffith the idea for Sinn Fein?
Arthur Griffith
Topics in this episode include Stephen delivering Mr. Deasy’s letter, Stephen’s vampire poem, Crawford dunks on Mr. Deasy, a cure for foot and mouth disease, the assassination attempt against Emperor Franz Josef, Maximilian Karl O’Donnell, graf von Tirconnell’s heroic defense of the Emperor, the Flight of the Earls and the Wild Geese, the Habsburgs, Ireland’s historic affinity for Hungary, Arthur Griffith’s Hungary Policy, hypostasis, Leopold Bloom’s connection to the Habsburgs, whether or not Bloom first had the idea for Sinn Fein, the barflies in Barney Kiernan’s thoughts on Hungary, Joyce’s own thoughts on Griffith’s Hungary Policy, and the inherent problems of nationalism.
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Further Reading:
Adams, R. M. (1962). Surface and Symbol: The Consistency of James Joyce’s Ulysses. New York: Oxford University Press.
Day, R. A. (1975). Joyce, Stoom, King Mark: “Glorious Name of Irish Goose.” James Joyce Quarterly, 12(3), 211–250. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25487183
Ellmann, R. (1959). James Joyce. Oxford University Press.
Maye, B. (2017, Feb 13). Hungary for change – An Irishman’s Diary on Arthur Griffith and ‘The Sinn Féin Policy’. The Irish Times. https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/hungary-for-change-an-irishman-s-diary-on-arthur-griffith-and-the-sinn-f%C3%A9in-policy-1.2971352
Robinson, M. (1995, Apr 24). State Visit by President Göncz of Hungary Address by President Robinson State Dinner. https://president.ie/en/media-library/speeches/state-visit-by-president-goencz-of-hungary-address-by-president-robinson-st
Robinson, R. (2001). A Stranger in the House of Habsburg: Joyce’s Ramshackle Empire. James Joyce Quarterly, 38(3/4), 321–339. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25477811
Ungar, A. P. (1989). Among the Hapsburgs: Arthur Griffith, Stephen Dedalus, and the Myth of Bloom. Twentieth Century Literature, 35(4), 480–501. https://doi.org/10.2307/441898