The Joyce Country

by William York Tindall

The Joyce Country Paperback – January 22, 1973

Genres: Irish Literature

183 pages, Hardcover

First published January 22, 1973

About the author

William York Tindall was an American Joycean scholar with a long and distinguished teaching career at Columbia University. Several of Tindall's classic works of criticism, including A Reader's Guide to James Joyce and A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake are still in print. He wrote a total of thirteen books on UK and Irish writers including Joyce, Dylan Thomas, W. B. Yeats, and Samuel Beckett. Indeed, Tindall nominated Beckett for the Nobel Prize in Literature; Beckett was the 1969 laureate.

Reviews

[Paul Bryant · Rating 5 out of 5]

These are beautiful black & white photos of all the places mentioned in Joyce's books, which are many and varied. They were taken in the late 50s mostly. I went to Dublin some years ago and took this book with me. I then insisted on going to every location, standing as near as I could to the place the original snapper stood, and taking my own photo, just to see how much had changed in the 35-ish years since. In some cases nothing had, in other cases it had all gone. It was one of the most fun things I ever did on holiday - call me a loony if you dare. My female companion and her Dublin-based friend were at first bemused but pretty much got into it. If you're a Joyce fan and you visit Dublin, you could take this book and do the same!

[Harry Collier IV · Rating 5 out of 5]

I do not know how this book could get anything less than a 5-star rating. It's premise is of a picture book of places around Dublin that were mentioned in the work of James Joyce. That is exactly what Tindall did.
I will say that some more places from Finnegans Wake would have been nice but the ones he included are superb.
The pictures in this book were taken in the late 1950's (original publication being 1960) and I have always had the dream of going to Dublin and tracking down the places where the photos were taken to see how Dublin has changed.
Perhaps, some day I will...

[Bob R Bogle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extraordinary.

[m. soria]

so effing cool!