Jonty Claypole
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30 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 8 Sep
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He also does during this time in Trieste, he does public lectures, which are really interesting insights to how his thinking is developing over the course of Portrait of the Artist.
So there's one essay, well, it's lectures and essays, and there's an essay he writes in 1907 called Ireland, Ireland of Saints and Sages.
in which he really gives voice to his hatred of the English in a very commendable way.
He works himself into a sort of fever pitch and he says Ireland is poor because English laws ruined the country's industries, especially the wool industry.
because the neglect of the English government in the years of the potato famine allowed the best of the population to die from hunger.
And because under the present administration, while Ireland is losing its population and crimes are almost non-existent, the judges receive the salary of a king and governing officials and those in public service receive huge sums for doing little or nothing.
And he turns from that to looking at the art and writers of Ireland and what their responsibilities are and how they are starting to make themselves known.
And he says, even today, despite her heavy obstacles, Ireland is making her contribution to English art and thought.
That the Irish are really the unbalanced, helpless idiots about whom we read in the lead articles of The Standard and The Morning Post is denied by the names of the three greatest translators in English literature.
Fitzgerald, who came up in our Tennyson episode, of course, translator of the Rubaiyat of the Persian poet Omar Khayyam, Burton, translator of the Arabian masterpieces, and Carey, the classic translator of the Divine Comedy.
It is also denied by the names of other Irishmen.
Arthur Sullivan, the Dean of Modern English Music, Edward O'Connor, founder of Chartism, the novelist George Moore,
an intellectual oasis in the Sahara of the full spiritualistic, messianic and detective writings whose name is Legion in England.
By the names of two Dubliners, the paradoxical and iconoclastic writer of comedy, George Bernard Shaw, and the too well-known Oscar Wilde, son of a revolutionary poetess.
So he's really leaning into the journey that Stephen Dedalus goes on
He's been able in part four of the book to detach himself from spiritual guilt and the church and the guilt that was giving him.
And the final part of the book, which just seems a bit incoherent when you first read it, you realize what he's doing is he's acquiring intellectual freedom by rejecting not only...
a lot of the Irish culture he's grown up in, but he's rejecting the weight of the English canon and the English administration and government and priest class who are so present in Dublin.
So you can see him rehearsing all these things in these essays.
So let's stay on James Joyce and women, because we should talk about Nora, the long-suffering Nora.
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