Bridget Hourican
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141 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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The the the the reason why Frank's book is a revelation, uh, is because for a long time um
Um as you probably know, Patrick, there was a sense among a lot of literary critics, among modernist critics, that he was not political, that he had this high modernist disdain from politics.
That comes because Joyce went into uh political silence.
Uh he did not comment on, for instance, Easter 1916, the War of Independence.
uh the Great War, uh the Civil War, the rise of fascism, he kept this absolute silence uh
A strategy of science.
Exactly.
And that's from uh I think in in Stephen Daedlas goes into silence, exile, and cunning at the end of Portrait of the Artist, which is uh 1914, and it that's kind of what Joyce does, but until nineteen fourteen there is no silence.
He gives a series of highly political lectures and articles in Italian in Trieste.
He also
Wrote uh book reviews which are highly political before he left Dublin.
Uh he he was absolutely politically engaged.
There's a brilliant chapter in Frank's book.
He's very homesick.
He's in Rome, which he disliked, and he's asking his his everyone, his aunt, his brother.
He wants papers from home.
He is glued to all of them.
He's getting the Freeman's Journal.
He's going into cafes.
He's reading uh the British papers about the Playboy riots.
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