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http://thedianerehmshow.org/audio/#/s...
James Joyce's classic short story collection "Dubliners" turns 100 this month. His portrait of "dear dirty Dublin" shocked the conventional literary world of 1914. Guest host Tom Gjelten and his guests explore the legacy of the Irish novelist and poet many call one of the 20th century's greatest writers.
Source: NPR - The Diane Rehm Show
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James Joyce is widely acknowledged as a literary giant. Many consider his novels—especially “Ulysses“—to be among the most influential of the 20th century. Joyce fans worldwide still celebrate “Bloomsday,” the date that “Ulysses” protagonist Leopold Bloom made his famous journey around Dublin in the vein of Homer’s “Odyssey.” Joyce’s collection of short stories, “Dubliners,” which includes his celebrated “The Dead,” turns 100 years old this month. But despite his great talent, the author struggled to get his early work published. He faced disgrace in his native Ireland and chose to live and write abroad in self exile. Guest host Tom Gjelten and his guests discuss the legacy of James Joyce and “Dubliners.”
Transcript available: http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/201...
Guests
Dan Moshenberg Joyce scholar and director of women's studies at The George Washington University
Maureen Corrigan critic in residence and lecturer in the English department at Georgetown University. Her latest book is titled, "So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures."
Coilin Owens Joyce scholar and professor emeritus of English, George Mason University. His latest book is titled "Before Daybreak: 'After the Race' and the Origins of Joyce's Art."
Colum McCann author of the novels "Transatlantic" and "Let The Great World Spin."
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Maureen Corrigan
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Study.com has some interesting material on The Dubliners and a very interesting overview video.
The video appears to be free to watch but it does set the stage for the reading of each story and tells you briefly what it is about - in two or three sentences so you understand the basic premise. If you are having trouble by all means view an aid or two. This is a spoiler recommendation but sometimes folks need assistance.
Here is the link to the video - be forwarded - a spoiler
http://study.com/academy/lesson/james...
Source: Study.com
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Some very talented readers and Jim Norton reads The Sisters - the first story in the book.
http://www.openculture.com/2014/06/di...
Source: Open Culture
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James Joyce's Dubliners has meant many things to readers over the course of its century in print. We asked three New Yorkers who are among the book's biggest fans for their take on the Joyce classic and how his stories continue to inspire them: author Victor LaValle, Larry Kirwan of the band Black 47, and author and broadcaster Frank Delaney
Link: https://youtu.be/nOVFwljgw6Q
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Folks if you want to watch an adapted version of the first story after reading it of course - feel free to watch the link below in spoiler html.
This would be a major spoiler so do not watch it until after you have read the first story and realize that the film maker took some license in the details.
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Source: Youtube
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100 years after Dubliners, James Joyce’s Dublin—and mine.
by Mark O'Connell in The Slate Book Review
James Joyce as a young man in 1904
Link: Very interesting - gives photos and links to the locations in Dublin mentioned in the Dubliners - great article and lots of photos
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/bo...
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INCLUDES VIDEO
Note: Excellent video by the way
Source: USA Today
USA TODAY's Bob Minzesheimer talks with novelist and James Joyce expert Frank Delaney about the 100th year anniversary of "Dubliners". VPC
James Joyce was all of 23 years old when he wrote most of the 15 stories in Dubliners, an extraordinary collection about ordinary people, now reprinted in a centennial edition.
But before the book was published on June 15, 1914, Joyce lived through nine years of rejections, delays and disappointments.
Publishers feared that he was too realistic about sex and the messy politics of Ireland and that real people, mentioned in Joyce's fiction, would sue for libel.
The book, Joyce's first, was "ripped up, burned, bowdlerized, rejected, resurrected, lost, dismissed, forgotten, thrown away, flogged, flayed and eventually celebrated," Irish-American novelist Colum McCann (TransAtlantic) writes in a foreword to the Penguin Classics anniversary edition.
"Much of it shocked the conventional literary world," McCann adds. Joyce had coupled "unprecedented documentary realism" with a "grand cinematic sweep."
In an interview, another Irish-American novelist, Frank Delaney (The Last Storyteller), marvels at Joyce's "incredible trick." He wrote "real stories about real people, about adolescence, about maturity, about public life, in such a way that they could be read at any level along an intellectual scale — from the most popular and accessible to the most intellectual interpretation."
Remainder of article:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/bo...
Source: USA Today
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Here is a final scene - worth looking for the movie:
John Huston's The Dead - Finale
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6FGI...
Another longer excerpt of the finale:
https://youtu.be/PXHHHdrc-Q8
Source: Youtube
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The Dead
John Huston's last film is a labor of love at several levels: an adaptation of perhaps one of the greatest pieces of English-language literature by one of Huston's favorite authors, James Joyce; a love letter to the land of his ancestors and the country where his children grew up; and the chance to work with his screenwriter son Tony and his actress daughter Anjelica.
The film is delicate and unhurried, detailing a Christmas dinner at the house of two spinster musician sisters and their niece in turn-of-the-century Ireland, attended by friends and family.
Among the visiting attendees are the sisters' nephew Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta. The evening's reminiscences bring up melancholy memories for Gretta concerning her first, long-lost love when she was a girl in rural Galway.
Her recounting of this tragic love to Gabriel brings him to an epiphany: he learns the difference between mere existence and living. The all-Irish cast and careful period detail give the piece richness and gravity, and Donal McCann and Anjelica Huston are unforgettable as the Conroys
The Dead Part 1
https://youtu.be/mBCP7EGLVMc
The Dead Part 2
https://youtu.be/7UVwDllTuoA
The Dead Part 3
https://youtu.be/PU8rqoj880Y
The Dead Part 4
https://youtu.be/qRcvstkKGPA
The Dead Part 5
https://youtu.be/Z_0EvPPreo0
The Dead Part 6
https://youtu.be/wzcTy15kbD0
The Dead Part 7
https://youtu.be/aE4p78yQit0
Since these were compiled from youtube - I cannot vouch that all segments are complete - but there is a fair amount from beginning to end which is supposed to be the entire thing.
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The James Joyce Centre Dublin
On June 15th, 2014, Will Self and John Banville joined Carlo Gébler in the stunning surrounds of the James Joyce Centre's Kenmare Room to talk 'Dubliners'. What followed was a funny, animated and intensely interesting discussion about Joyce's most accessible book. Viewers are advised that this video does contain some strong language.
Link: https://youtu.be/egE8kDHGUYo
Source: Youtube
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Tony Awards - James Joyce's The Dead - small upbeat musical
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James Joyce's The Dead - 2000 Tony Awards, starring Blair Brown, Emily Skinner, Alice Ripley. Belasco Theatre, (1/11/2000 - 4/16/2000.
https://youtu.be/JB_UdaX1a-E
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At the Joyce Center
Professor Declan Kiberd (University of Notre Dame) delivers his talk 'Dubliners: The First Hundred Years' at the James Joyce Centre, Dublin as part of the Centre's celebration of the centenary of Dubliners. This talk took place on 6th January, the Feast of the Epiphany.
https://youtu.be/A5qhK7LH6co
Source: Youtube
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James Joyce - Part One
https://youtu.be/f0j34fmTzbk
James Joyce - Part Two
https://youtu.be/7oZn8_fAdp8
James Joyce - Part Three
https://youtu.be/iPPjoR32eN0
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https://youtu.be/4F1trktep3Y
Dublin, 1904, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid from Galway. Over time Nora pulls him through phobias, tolerates his drinking, takes in his brother Stan and bests Joyce at the writing game to bring him back to Italy from Dublin. But his sexual jealousy threatens the relationship.
Dublin, 1904, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid from Galway. Over time Nora pulls him through phobias, tolerates his drinking, takes in his brother Stan and bests Joyce at the writing game to bring him back to Italy from Dublin. But his sexual jealousy threatens the relationship.
Director: Pat Murphy
2000
Stars: Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting), Susan Lynch (From Hell), Andrew Scott (Spectre).
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The Magic of Dubliners
One hundred years since its publication, here’s how James Joyce still kicks readers in the heart
http://time.com/2884757/the-magic-of-...
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Story collection focuses on hardships in Ireland
Note: Informative
Source: TapMilwaukee
Link: http://archive.jsonline.com/entertain...
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The remarkable, yet troubled, life of the author of The Dubliners, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. James Joyce's parents squandered their fortune, sending the family into poverty in his youth; his relations with fellow Irishmen became strained, forcing his move to Switzerland; Ulysses was banned in the U.S. and England due to its graphic nature; and after relocating to France in 1920, Joyce reportedly moved from apartment to apartment to escape the accompanying attention of his literary fame.
https://youtu.be/bVY5lbMzakg
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Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled using a stream-of-consciousness style of writing. Apart from Dubliners, his other well-known works include the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). He also wrote three books of poetry, a play, some journalistic pieces, and his letters.
Joyce was born in Dublin into a middle-class family that struggled financially. In spite of his troubled family life, Joyce was an excellent student. However, the family was affected by his father's alcoholism as well as financial troubles. Joyce attended University College Dublin. In 1904, he left Ireland and emigrated to continental Europe with his partner Nora Barnacle. With Barnacle, he lived in Trieste, Italy; Paris, France; and Zurich, Switzerland.
Although most of his adult life was spent outside of Ireland, his fictional world still centered on Dublin. His characters are seen as closely resembling family members and others known to Joyce there. After the publication of Ulysses, he stated, "For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal."
Dubliners had a rocky beginning. Between 1905, when Joyce first sent a manuscript to the London publisher Grant Richards, and 1914, when the book was finally published, Joyce submitted the book 18 times to 15 publishers. Grant Richards agreed to publish it initially; however, the printer refused to print the story "Two Gallants". Richards then pressured Joyce into deleting other passages. Joyce protested, but finally agreed to some of these changes. In spite of this, Richards backed out of the agreement. Joyce resubmitted the manuscript to other publishers, and about three years later (1909) he found another publisher--Maunsel & Roberts of Dublin. A similar conflict occurred, and Maunsel also refused to publish the volume. He even threatened to sue Joyce for printing costs. Joyce offered to pay the printing costs himself if the sheets that had been printed already were given to him so he could take the printing of the manuscript elsewhere. When Joyce arrived at the printers' shop, they refused to surrender the pages, and burned them the next day. However, Joyce managed to save one copy. He kept submitting the manuscript to other publishers, and finally, in 1914, Grant Richards agreed again to publish the book, using the page proofs Joyce saved from the printers' fire.
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Dubliners is often presented as merely fifteen short stories, but in fact, the stories are generally intended to be read in four sections, as follows:
Section I, Childhood, contains "The Sisters," "An Encounter," and "Araby"
Section II, Adolescence, is made up of "Eveline," "After the Race," "Two Gallants," and "The Boarding House"
Section III, Maturity, is made up of "A Little Cloud," "Counterparts," "Clay," and "A Painful Case"
Section IV, Public Life, includes "Ivy Day in the Committee Room," "A Mother," "Grace," and "The Dead"
Source: Edx
Irish Wake Funeral Service Rituals
Irish Wake and Funeral Customs of Old
Until modern times, Irish wake customs ran the gamut from profound grieving to what appeared to be rollicking good fun. This was especially true if the deceased was elderly. This curious mixture borne of a cultural blend of paganism and Christianity survives today in a severely toned-down fashion.
Wakes of times gone by began with neighbor women washing the body of the deceased and preparing it to be laid out on a bed or a table, often in the largest room of the house. The body was covered in white linen adorned with black or white ribbons, flowers for the body of a child. Lighted candles were placed around the body. Clay pipes, tobacco and snuff were also placed in the room. Every male caller was expected to take at least a puff. The smoke kept evil spirits from finding the deceased. Usually, a pipe and tobacco were place on a table next to the body. Occasionally, a pipe was laid on the chest of the deceased male. Clocks were stopped at the time of death. Mirrors were turned around or covered.
Watching Over the Deceased and Keening
Once the body was prepared, it was never left alone until after burial. Someone, usually a woman, sat in the same room until it was taken away. According to custom, crying couldn’t begin until after the body was prepared lest it attract evil spirits that would take the soul of the departed. However, once the body was properly prepared, the keening began. The Caointhe, the lead keener, was first to lament the deceased. Keeners, especially the Caointhe, recited poetry lamenting the loss of the loved one in addition to crying and wailing. All the women in the house joined in, especially as each new caller arrived to pay his or her respects.
Mourning and Merrymaking
Wakes lasted through two or three nights. Food, tobacco, snuff, and liquor were plentiful. Out in the countryside, the liquor served consisted of whiskey or poteen, which is a very potent and illegal Irish homemade brew. Laughter and singing as well as crying filled the air as mourners shared humorous stories involving the deceased. In addition to this seeming merriment, games were played. While this may appear to have been disrespectful of the dead, it was not the intention. It is thought that the merrymaking aspects of these wake customs were influenced by the Irish pagan heritage as well as the need to stay awake for such a long period of time. The church frowned upon these activities and tried hard to discourage the people from indulging in them, mostly to no avail.
No emotion was left out of the mourning process. Between the extremes of tears and laughter, heartfelt poetical lamentations and boisterous songs, there were debates. As the mourners gathered round the kitchen table, poteen or whiskey laden tea in hand, it was inevitable that discussions would begin. Often these debates turned heated as one might expect given that the most common topics concerned religion, politics or economics.
Mourners Pay Final Respects
One last opportunity for friends and neighbors to pay respects to the deceased came on the morning of the funeral. The body was placed in a coffin and brought outside the house. There, the open coffin was laid across some chairs, where it remained until time to carry it to the graveyard. Mourners kiss the deceased prior to the lid being placed on the coffin.
The journey to the church and then onto the graveyard was a long and arduous trip. Four of the closest relatives carried the coffin at a quick pace. They would be relieved by four more along the way and so it went until they reached the church. After the service, the procession would continue, again on foot, until reaching the graveside. The coffin was lowered into the grave and the clay, the common soil in Ireland, was shoveled over it. The spade and shovel were laid on top of the new grave in the form of a cross. Prayers were said, bringing the wake and funeral to a close. (Source: Funeralwise.com)
Further reading: Irish Burial Traditions
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On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of James Joyce’s Dubliners, The Greene Space, in association with the Irish Arts Center, presents DUBLINERS: A QUARTET, a newly commissioned audio play written by award-winning playwright Arthur Yorinks and inspired by Joyce’s stories.
https://youtu.be/f5_75_7KfpY
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It is the short film on Joyce's story Araby
Here is the link:
http://www.arabyfilm.com
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http://blog.frankdelaney.com/2012/06/...
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http://study.com/academy/lesson/intro...
Source: Study.com
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Link: https://youtu.be/CE0TJ97tTW4
An edited version of Joyce's short story with photos of places mentioned in the story taken in 2010.
The photos are, in the following order, of the following places in Dublin:
1. An old, sombre house in Chaplizod [but not James Duffy's actual house];
2. Baggot Street looking towards the city centre from the bridge;
3. The Rotunda;
4. Earlsfort Terrace (The National Concert Hall);
5. Quiet quarters near the Zoo in the Phoenix Park [not mentioned in the story];
5. The Parkgate, the Phoenix Park;
6. The Four Courts [not mentioned in the story];
7. The lonely road which leads from the Parkgate to Chapelizod;
8. Sydney Parade Station;
9 View over the playing fields, Phoenix Park [not mentioned in the story];
10. Public House, Chapelizod [there's another public house beside the bridge but the pictured one is associated with JJ];
11. The first gate into Phoenix Park from Chapelizod;
12. The crest of the Magazine Hill in the Phoenix Park.
Source: Youtube
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A clip
Link: https://youtu.be/7lvAsWSqBD4
Source: Youtube
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Link: https://youtu.be/ximDd4Bw2E
Source: Youtube
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Link: https://youtu.be/UE0jNfZFA2M
Source: Youtube
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https://prezi.com/ti5gdwiw83pf/a-pain...
Source: Prezi
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Joyce
A Play
Link: https://vimeo.com/54920246
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A Play
Link: https://vimeo.com/54483903
Source: Vimeo
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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nzy1...
Source: Youtube
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“Robert Emmet’s Rising of 1803 and the Bold Mrs. Kearney: James Joyce's ‘A Mother’ as Historical Analogue”
by Martin F. Kearney
Link: https://jsse.revues.org/585
Source: Journal of the Short Story in English
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Honoring James Joyce’s ‘Dubliners,’ Published 100 Years Ago
By DAN BARRYJUNE 26, 2014
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/bo...
Source: New York Times
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Music in Dubliners by Robert Haas
Link: http://digitalcommons.colby.edu/cgi/v...
Source: Colby Quarterly
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https://youtu.be/iOwiFRqkjwA
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Books mentioned in this topic
TransAtlantic (other topics)Let the Great World Spin (other topics)
So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures (other topics)
Before Daybreak: "After the Race" and the Origins of Joyce's Art (other topics)
Authors mentioned in this topic
Colum McCann (other topics)Maureen Corrigan (other topics)
Cóilín Owens (other topics)
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