Bridget Hourican
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141 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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And he has his famous, you know, I have two masters.
That's I think the opening chapter of Ulysses, the British Empire and the Holy Roman Catholic Church.
And he could see that if the Empire left, the Church would move into the space for Catholics.
I think because he felt Ireland had not worked through what had happened.
in the split had not gone through the fact that they had got rid of this great leader simply on on on the word of of the bishops and the Gladstonians.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
He's he's just he's very subtle.
I guess he's contrary.
He he is not going to do the accepted thing.
And there's uh scene Frank Hutz has uh wonderful chapters on Joyce in U C D and at one point they all almost all the students signed this letter against Yates' play The Countess Kathleen, which because it interferes with their sense of Irishness and even
Two years after the signing, there's a bitter comment in the College magazine that Joyce alone stood aloof.
And that's that's kind of that's the Joyce that Frank presents.
Uh he's standing aloof.
He also is, and he of course we now can see how right he is.
You can't sign up to everything.
He he writes to he writes to his brother, he said, I suppose I would support Sinn Fein if it
Wasn't for the Irish language.
It's not that he disliked the language, he loved the Irish language, but he disliked ethno-nationalism.
He disliked what the GAA and the Gaelic League were doing, Irish exceptionalism.
He puts Michael Cusack obviously into the character of the citizen.
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