by Colm Toibin
Devin, Tom, 203
Diarmuid and Grania (Yeats), 127
Dickson, David, 11–12, 23
Dinneen, Father, 129
Dodd, Reuben J., 222
Douglas, Lord Alfred, 38–41, 42–43, 44, 49, 87, 102–4
Dowden, Edward, 117, 119–20, 123, 134
Dublin, 1–18, 22–31
Dubliners (Joyce), 16, 203–6, 225
Dublin University Magazine, 50
Dublin University Review, 123
Duffy, Charles Gavan, 50–52, 57, 91–92
Dun Emer Press, 19, 128, 130–31
Early Memories (John B. Yeats), 115
“Ecce Puer” (Joyce), 236–37
Elgee, Jane. See Wilde, Jane
Eliot, T. S., 200, 202
Ellmann, Richard, 102, 183, 208, 209
Exiles (Joyce), 199
Fay, Frank, 128–29
Ferguson, Samuel, 72
Fianna Fáil, 112–13
Figgis, Darrell, 34–35
Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 3, 15, 52, 204, 209–10, 235
Finn’s Hotel, Dublin, 3–4
fleur-de-lis, 102
“Folly of Being Comforted, The” (Yeats), 108
Foster, Roy, 10–11, 13, 27, 29, 63, 112, 178
“Four Years” (Yeats), 177–78
Frazier, Adrian, 112
Frogatt, P., 65–66, 67
Furniss, Harry, 60, 61
Gavan Duffy, Charles, 50–52, 57, 91–92
gaze concept, 107–8, 111–13
General Post Office, Dublin, 1–2
Gide, André, 49
Gillet, Louis, 203
Gonne, Maud, 164
Gosse, Edmund, 21, 22, 183, 200
“Grace” (Joyce), 16, 203–5, 220
Graves, Robert, 47
Gregory, Lady, 5, 110
Henry James and, 148
John B. Yeats and, 110, 115, 125–26, 129–30
W. B. Yeats and, 19, 28, 110, 126, 179
Griffith, Arthur, 35, 130
Guinness, Sir Arthur, 187
Hamilton, Sir William Rowan, 62
“Happiness” (Cronin), 7
Harding, Reginald, 98–99, 100
Haverty, Anne, 7
Haverty, Martin, 72–73
“Her Praise” (Yeats), 175
Hilson, John, 68
“Holy Office, The” (Joyce), 19
Hone, Joseph, 141
Hone, Nathaniel, 127
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 30, 128
Hour-glass, The (Yeats), 148
Ibsen, Henrik, 211–12
Illaunroe Lodge, Connemara, Ireland, 69, 98–99, 101
Importance of Being Earnest, The (Wilde), 16–17, 88
Ireland: 1916 Rebellion in, 1, 34, 173
Isaacson, Colonel, 86
Jackson, John Wyse, 15, 19, 197, 221
James, Alice, 147
James, Henry, 144, 145, 147, 148, 149–50
James, Henry Senior, 144–46, 147, 149–50
James, William, 144, 147, 149–50
“Jonquil and Fleur-de-Lys” (Douglas), 102–3
Joyce, Charlie (brother), 197, 198
Joyce, Georgie (brother), 197
Joyce, James, 22
birth of, 188
Brâncusi’s image of, 234
“The Dead,” 205–11, 217, 220
Dublin and, 6, 13, 15–16, 18, 206
Dubliners, 16, 203–6, 225
“Ecce Puer,” 236–37
education of, 30, 190–91, 193, 195, 208
Exiles, 199
family portraits and, 192, 233–34
father and, 23, 183, 184–85, 196–97, 199–201, 202–3, 209–10, 236
father’s portrait and, 233–34
Finnegans Wake, 3, 15, 52, 204, 209–10, 235
“Grace,” 16, 203–5, 220
“The Holy Office,” 19
John B. Yeats and, 128
“A Mother,” 6
mother’s death and, 197–98
National Library and, 17, 28
Newman House and, 30
Nora and, 3–4
plaque on, 30
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and, 2, 13–14, 30, 173, 189, 210, 220–21
statue of, 30
Stephen Hero, 211–14, 216, 220
Tales Told of Shem and Shaun, 235
in Trieste, 192, 198, 199
“Two Gallants,” 27
Ulysses See Ulysses
W. B. Yeats and, 18, 19, 21–22
Wilde and, 19–20
Wilde family and, 18
Yeats sisters and, 18–19, 131–32
Joyce, John Stanislaus (father), 22
birth and childhood of, 185
Brâncusi’s image of James and, 234
career and finances of, 185–87, 188–89, 190, 191–93, 222, 225
daughters and, 198–99
death of, 199
drinking by, 191, 195–96, 197, 200–201
Dublin and, 7, 13, 15, 19
Dubliners and, 203–6
education of, 186
marriage of, 187–88, 188–89, 207–8, 232
McAlmon on, 234–35
portrait of, 233–34
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and, 215–19
as public speaker, 208
singing of, 186, 228–29, 231–32
Joyce, John Stanislaus (father) (cont.)
son James and, 23, 183, 184–85, 196–97, 199–201, 202–3, 209–10, 236
son Stanislaus’s writings on, 193–97, 204
Stephen Hero and, 213, 216, 220
Ulysses and, 185, 203, 220–32, 235
wife May’s death and, 197–98
wife’s family and, 187, 188–89
Joyce, May (mother), 15, 22, 185
death of, 197–98, 222
husband’s drinking and, 191, 195
marriage of, 187–88, 188–89, 207–8, 232
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and, 214
Stephen Hero and, 211–13
Ulysses and, 215, 222–23
Joyce, Stanislaus (brother), 13–14, 15, 193, 206, 209
diary of, 193, 195–97, 201–2, 204, 216
Dublin and, 15
father’s drinking and, 191, 195–97, 200–201
father’s portrait and, 234
My Brother’s Keeper, 13, 184–85, 191, 193–96, 197–98, 200–201, 207–8, 221
Joyce, Stephen (grandson), 185, 236
Kildare Street, Dublin, 27
Kinsella, Thomas, 8–10, 12–13, 14
Kræmer, Lotten von, 69–70
Le Fanu, Sheridan, 50
Lenihan, Brian, 2–3
Lever, Charles, 50, 61
Lidwell, George, 225, 228
“Liking Corners” (Cronin), 7
Lough Corrib, Its Shores and Islands (William Wilde), 93–98, 102, 104
Mancini, Antonio, 133–34
McAlmon, Robert, 234–35
McGahern, John, 109, 110–11, 141
McNamara, Gerry, 6
McNeill, Hugh, 227
Merrion Square, Dublin, 15, 18, 24–25, 69
Miles, Frank, 98–99
Mitchel, John, 92
Moore, George, 110, 127, 157, 183
Moore, Henry, 30
“Mother, A” (Joyce), 6
Moytura House, Connemara, Ireland, 69, 93, 98, 99, 100
Murphy (Beckett), 2
Murphy, William, 91
Murphy, William M., 109, 110, 111, 114–15, 123, 143–44, 180
Murray, Josephine, 188, 198
Murray, May. See Joyce, May
Murray, William, 188–89
My Brother’s Keeper (Stanislaus Joyce), 13, 184–85, 191, 193–94, 197–98, 200–201, 207–8, 221
Nation, The (journal), 50–51
National Library, Dublin, 2, 27–29
Nelson, Major J. O., 86–87, 93
Newman, John Henry, 30
Newman House, Dublin, 30
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p; New York City, 110–11, 114, 134–35, 142, 148–49, 154–55, 157
O’Brien, Conor Cruise, 206–7
O’Casey, Sean, 5
O’Connell, Daniel, 52–53
O’Donovan, John, 96–97
O’Kelly, Sean T., 35
O’Leary, John, 123–24
O’Leary Curtis, William, 227
O’Sullivan, Emer, 68, 70, 74, 89
Parnell, Charles Stewart, 53, 187, 191, 192, 219
Petrie, George, 53–54, 72
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde), 18, 88
Playboy of the Western World, The (Synge), 23, 183
Pollexfen, Charles, 116–17
Pollexfen, Fred, 131
Pollexfen, George, 116–17
Pollexfen, Susan. See Yeats, Susan
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (Joyce), 2, 13–14, 30, 173, 189, 210, 220–21. See also Stephen Hero
Pound, Ezra, 141
Powell, York, 127, 151, 180
“Prayer for Old Age, A” (Yeats), 167
Purdon Street, Dublin, 205
Purgatory (Yeats), 183
Purser, Sarah, 126, 127
Queensberry, Marquess of, 41–43, 87–88
Quinn, John, 125, 129, 134, 136, 150, 160, 169
John B. Yeats in New York and, 127–28, 136, 148–49, 156, 176
John B. Yeats’s self-portrait and, 174, 175
Reading Gaol, Reading, England, 33–38, 86–87
Robinson, Lennox, 141
Ross, Robert, 39, 49, 93
Royal Irish Academy, 53–54, 70–71, 91
Russell, George, 126
Russell, Matthew, 101
St. Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin, 12, 17
St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, 29–30, 128
Sayce, A. H., 101–2
“Second Coming, The” (Yeats), 108
Shadowy Waters, The (Yeats), 125
Shaw, George Bernard, 5, 6, 60, 61
Sheehy, Kathleen, 206
Sligo, Ireland, 117, 119, 162
Smith O’Brien, William, 92
South Leinster Street, Dublin, 3, 27
Speranza. See Wilde, Jane
“Spur, The” (Yeats), 166
“Statues, The” (Yeats), 1
Stephen Hero (Joyce), 211–14, 216, 220. See also Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A
Stoker, Bram, 5, 63
Swanzy, Mary, 143
Swanzy family, 172
Sweny’s chemist, Westland Row, Dublin, 6, 17
Synge, John Millington, 5, 23, 128, 183
Tales Told of Shem and Shaun (Joyce), 235
Thornton, Dick, 204
Todhunter, John, 117, 123
“Tower, The” (Yeats), 164–65
Travers, Mary, 75–86, 87–91
Travers, Robert, 75, 81
Trembling of the Veil, The (Yeats), 61
Tuohy, Patrick J., 233, 234
“Two Gallants” (Joyce), 27
“Two Trees, The” (Yeats), 107–8
Ulysses (Joyce), 4, 30, 187, 193, 203, 215, 233, 235
Butt and, 52
manuscript of, 136
National Library and, 2, 28
Purdon Street in, 205
Stephen Dedalus in, 183, 184, 185, 221–30
Westland Row, Dublin, and, 2, 12, 15–18
Wilde and, 18, 19
Yeats family and, 18–19, 131–32
United Irishman (newspaper), 130
von Kræmer, Lotten, 69–70
Ward, William, 99
Weaver, Harriet, 202
“Westland Row” (Kinsella), 9
Westland Row, Dublin, 2, 6–7, 8–13, 14, 15–18, 69
Wharton, Edith, 148
“When You Are Old” (Yeats), 164
White, Terence de Vere, 47–48, 62, 64, 78–79, 82, 83, 96–97
Wilde, Constance (wife), 46
Wilde, Isola (sister), 69, 100
Wilde, Jane “Speranza” (mother), 4, 10, 18, 44, 57–58
Butt and, 52
contemporary accounts of, 60–61, 62, 70
death of, 44, 46
De Profundis and, 43–44
finances of, 100
folklore and legend interest of, 63
Furniss on, 60, 61
Hamilton on, 62
husband’s knighthood and, 58, 73–74
on husband’s sociability and hard work, 68–69
Ireland and, 58–59
London salon of, 62
marriage of, 15, 22, 50
Mary Travers and, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80–81, 83, 86, 87–89, 90, 91, 92
Merrion Square home of, 15, 18, 22, 51, 69
The Nation editorials of, 50–51, 57
poetry of, 25, 50, 58, 59–60
Royal Irish Academy catalogue and, 71
Shaw on 60, 61
Yeats family and, 18, 20–21, 116
Yeats on, 52, 61
Wilde, Oscar, 4, 5, 6, 22, 49, 52
Algiers and, 49
“The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” 33–34
birth and childhood of, 15, 69, 79, 92, 98
De Profundis, 23, 38–47, 87, 93, 103–4
Douglas and, 38–41, 42–43, 44, 87, 102–4
Dublin University Magazine and, 50
family background of, 43–44, 57, 61, 92–93, 101–2
father and, 23, 46–47, 97, 98, 101–2, 184
Henry Wilson and, 100–101
Illaunroe home and, 101
The Importance of Being Earnest, 16–17, 88
Joyce and, 18, 19–20
nature and, 98–99
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 18, 88
Queensberry and, 41–43, 87–88
statue of, 26
trial and imprisonment of, 20–21, 33–37, 38, 61–62, 93, 103–5
Ulysses and, 18
Yeats and, 19–21, 60–61, 116
Young Irelanders and, 92
Wilde, Sir William (father), 4, 10, 18, 23, 57–58, 190
Aran Islands and, 54–55, 71–73, 96
Boyne Valley book of, 54–56, 95
Butt and, 50, 52
as Census Commissioner, 64–67
contemporary accounts of, 50–51, 62, 67–68, 69
Corrib book of, 93–98, 102, 104
death of, 99–100, 184
De Profundis and, 43–44
Dublin and, 13, 15, 19, 22, 44, 59
Dublin University Magazine and, 50
family background of, 47
Furniss on, 60, 61
honors for, 43, 58, 73–74, 91
Illaunroe home of, 69–70
illegitimate children of, 53, 59, 100
Ireland and, 58–59
Irish archaeology and folklore and, 49–50, 53–57, 58, 63, 64, 94–95, 97
knighthood of, 43, 73–74
marriage of, 15, 22, 50
Mary Travers and, 75–86, 87–91, 92
medical career of, 47, 49, 50, 53, 58, 59, 62–63, 67
Mediterranean cruise and book of, 47–49
Merrion Square home of, 15, 18, 22, 26, 69, 92
Moytura House of, 69, 93
plaque to, 26
Royal Irish Academy catalogue and, 70–71
Shaw on, 50, 61
sociability and hard work of, 68–69
son Oscar and, 23, 46–47, 97, 98, 101–2, 184
Yeats family and, 19, 100, 116, 117
Yeats on, 61
Wilde, Willie (brother), 69, 79, 101
“Wild Old Wicked Man, The” (Yeats), 165
Wilson, Henry, 53, 100–101
Wilson, T. G., 62
Wyse Jackson, John, 15, 19, 197, 221
Yeats, Gráinne (daughter-in-law), 113
Yeats, Isaac Butt (uncle), 116, 134
Yeats, Jack (brother), 121, 127, 130, 133, 134
birth and childhood of, 119
marriage of, 123, 128
paintings of, 22, 127, 133, 147
Yeats, John B. (father), 22, 110
as artist, 22, 113–15, 118, 119–20, 121, 122, 124, 127–30, 133–34, 136, 142, 169
on artists and power of art, 138–41
birth and childhood of, 116
Chesterton on, 121–22
daughters and, 128, 131, 133, 147, 162–63, 174
death of, 180–81
Dublin and, 12, 13, 22, 29–30, 128, 143
Yeats, John B. (father) (cont.)
Early Memories, 115
Henry James and, 148
Henry James Senior and, 144–45
Isaac Butt and, 52, 82, 116, 117–18
James Joyce on, 128
on Jane Wilde, 52
Lady Gregory and, 110, 115, 125–26, 129–30
law career of, 117–19
letters of, 108–9, 110, 114–15, 121, 124–25, 135–42, 143, 146, 148, 150–64, 167–77, 178–79
in London, 118–19, 120, 122–23
marriage of, 22, 117, 121, 122, 142, 145, 151, 152–53, 170, 174, 175
in New York, 134–35, 108–9, 143, 145–46, 148–49, 154–55, 157, 176, 235
on personality, 137
Playboy of the Western World riots and, 23
on poetry, 137–38, 139
Pollexfens and, 116–17, 118, 119, 130–31, 153, 162, 175
Rosa Butt and, 142–43, 150–64, 167–77
self-portraits by, 113–16, 175–76, 177
son Jack and, 119, 133, 147
son W. B. and, 23, 123–27, 130, 134, 135–41, 145, 146, 147, 159, 178–79, 183, 184, 235
studio of, 29, 128–29, 133
on Wilde’s illegitimate children, 53, 100
Wilde’s parents and, 19, 100, 116, 117
Yeats, Lily (sister), 20, 121, 122, 130, 131, 134, 147, 154, 161, 180
birth of, 118
father’s letters to, 125, 126, 127, 130–31, 135
father’s trip to New York with, 134–35
sister Lollie and, 132–33
Ulysses and, 18–19, 131–32
work of, 123, 128, 131, 178
Yeats, Lollie (sister), 20, 121, 124, 130, 134, 147, 161, 174, 179
birth of, 119
mother and, 162–63
sister Lily and, 132–33
Ulysses and, 18–19, 131–32
work of, 123, 128, 130, 131, 177, 178, 180
Yeats, Michael (son), 112–13
Yeats, Susan (mother), 20, 120–21
illness and death of, 122, 151
marriage of, 22, 117, 118, 121, 152–53, 170, 174, 175
Rosa Butt and, 142
Yeats, W. B., 5, 14, 20, 110, 122–23
“An Acre of Grass,” 166–67
“Aedh Tells of the Perfect Beauty,” 108
aging theme and, 164–67
“The Apparitions,” 165–66
“Are You Content,” 166
Autobiographies, 20, 120
“Baile and Aillinn,” 19
“Beautiful Lofty Things,” 23
birth and childhood of, 118, 119, 120, 121
Cathleen ni Houlihan, 19
“The Death of Cuchulain,” 183
Diarmuid and Grania, 127
Dublin and, 22, 120, 128
father and, 23, 123–27, 134, 145, 146, 147, 184