Bridget Hourican
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
Bridget Hourican’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But Frank does have um he does have proof.
That uh that it did not take place uh to do with there's a certain there's dating.
Dante in the book, it says Ellman is quite sure that she that was sorry, uh his his nanny, who in in the Christmas dinner scene has this huge row with his father and Mr.
Casey.
Uh Richard Ellman, the great biographer of Joyce, says she left the house in high dudgeon within days.
Frank shows that she didn't.
He also shows that in an earlier draft of Stephen Hero, which is the pre-book, The Christmas dinner scene isn't there.
In the correspondence with Stanela's, it's kind of clear that it didn't take place in the Joyce household.
Probably his father, I I would say everyone in the scene, that's the other thing.
Everyone in the scene is based on a real person.
Those are
probably the positions they held, but you're right.
Joyce read the papers, he he constructed it, uh according to Frank.
Yeah, uh it's a long text.
It's it's I think nine hundred and nine pages.
Now I used to say to Frank kinda menacingly, I said, I am going to cut that book when I get it.
I mean I I always intended I guess to to just kind of be a whatever assistant editor and then I found absolutely genuinely and and and Margaret and Luca and Peter would agree, there was very, very
Very little, if anything, to cut.
Frank wrote very consecutively and it just it just unspools at this very beautiful pace.
And I suppose books, you cut books when they feel baggy, when they feel dense.
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