Ep. 128- FROM THE FATHERS

Featuring a surprise historical cameo!

Charles Stewart Parnell

Topics in this episode include our final example of Aristotelian rhetoric, the only passage of Ulysses recorded by James Joyce, the battle of wits between Mr. Justice Fitzgibbon and John F. Taylor, misperceptions about Taylor’s oratory, the Gaelic Revival, Dreamy Jimmy, ferial tone, a Moses for Ireland, MacHugh can’t catch a break, the analogy of the Irish and the biblical Israelites, The Shade of Parnell, Irish Orientalism, antisemitism in the Irish Nationalist movement of the early 20th century, The Language of the Outlaw and Roger Casement, Joyce’s punch-up of Taylor’s speech, and reading Ulysses backwards.

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Further Reading:

  1. Beck, H. Undertones of the sacred offices. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-words/undertones 

  2. Bender, A. (2007). The Language of the Outlaw: A Clarification. James Joyce Quarterly, 44(4), 807–812. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25571086 

  3. Bender, A. (2015). Israelites in Erin: Exodus, Revolution, and the Irish Revival. Syracuse University Press.

  4. Casement, R. (2004). The Language of the Outlaw. New England Review (1990-), 25(1/2), 155–158. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40244373 

  5. Crowley, R. John O’Mahony and the Language of the Outlaw. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/jioyce-s-people/john-omahony-2 

  6. Cheyette, B. (1992). "Jewgreek is greekjew": The Disturbing Ambivalence of Joyce's Semitic Discourse in "Ulysses". Joyce Studies Annual, 3, 32-56. Retrieved May 4, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/26283605

  7. Davison, N. R. (1998). James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Construction of Jewish Identity: Culture, Biography and ‘the Jew’ in Modernist Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/rp9ctrt 

  8. Ellmann, R. (1972). Ulysses on the Liffey. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.65767/2015.65767.Ulysses-On-The-Liffey_djvu.txt 

  9. Gilbert, S. (1955). James Joyce’s Ulysses: a study. New York: Vintage Books. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124373/page/n3/mode/2up 

  10. Hodgart, M.J.C. (1974). Aeolus. In C. Hart & D. Hayman (eds.), James Joyce’s Ulysses: Critical essays (115-130). Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/yy2gpfhs 

  11. Joyce, J. (1912). The Shade of Parnell. In E. Mason & R. Ellmann  (eds.), The Critical Writings of James Joyce, (223-228). Cornell University Press.

  12. Joyce, J. (1924). Ulysses [Speech audio recording]. Shakespeare and Co. Retrieved from https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/online/ulysses/joyces-recording-ulysses 

  13. Onose, S. (2016). “a great future behind him”: John F. Taylor’s Speech in “Aeolus” Revisited. European Joyce Studies, 24, 46–62. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44871385 

  14. Slote, S., Mamigonian, M., and Turner, J. (2022). Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses. Oxford University Press.

  15. Smith, E. D. (2004). How a Great Daily Organ Is Turned out: “Aeolus,” “Techne,” and the Recording of “Ulysses.” James Joyce Quarterly, 41(3), 455–468. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25478071 

  16. Sultan, S. (1961). Joyce’s Irish Politics: The Seventh Chapter of “Ulysses.” The Massachusetts Review, 2(3), 549–556. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25086710 

  17. Taylor, John Francis | Dictionary of Irish Biography. (n.d.). Retrieved October 18, 2022, from https://www.dib.ie/biography/taylor-john-francis-a9618 

  18. Williams, E. (1986). Agendath Netaim: Promised land or waste land. Modern Fiction Studies, 32(2), 228-235. Retrieved February 22, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/26281745 





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