Bridget Hourican
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first heard Aug 2026
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That's not, it's long, but it kind of needs to be because Frank is, and and this is one of the things that uni is unique about the book.
Frank is really.
He is uh giving us the atmosphere of this remarkable period that Joyce grew up in.
So Joyce is born in 1882, he leaves Ireland in 1904, and obviously, uh Patrick, you know that this is such this is a period, you know, this is Parnell, this is the Parnell split, this is kind of the poor traumatized Irish party, very beginning of the rise of Sinn Fein.
Of which Joyce was such an early he spotted Griffith's potential.
Uh and that alone tells you how what how politically acute he was.
Yeah, and that's that's just amazing.
And that certainly comes from from the parnel split.
That comes from and uh th the parnel split does i loom over this book as it looms over over Joyce's work.
Uh I think that's because the parnel split, I don't know if you'd agree from me, Patrick, it's something like the Dreyfus affair or like Brexit in the Saipan.
Exactly.
It divides a nation, but it also you can tell everything about someone about how they went in the split.
You can tell are they clerical or anti clerical, uh you c or are they conservative or or or radical.
You can just tell a lot.
And what he saw in the split, uh what absolutely incensed him was not just um the it was that the the the Catholic
Catholic bishops joined with the British non-conformists.
So in the beginning, actually, the Parnell's adultery didn't cause huge waves in Ireland.
It's when Gladstone, and that's the very kind of non-conformist kind of almost Calvinist Puritanism, when they turn against Parnell, suddenly the Catholic Church does.
And that shows that the Church is slightly a lackey to.
The British Empire, which Joyce just loathed.
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