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...deaf." As Corno di Bassetto he succeeded partly by being flip, partly by avoiding, to the scandalized amusement of his colleagues, the technical aspect of music. Nevertheless, Shaw had a sound background. With the aid of his mother and a singing teacher who had moved into their Dublin house, he had developed a skilled but "uninteresting" baritone voice, had learned the piano and mastered in great detail a tremendous lot of musical scores, mostly the operas of Meyerbeer and Verdi...
When, in Ulysses, James Joyce succeeded in crowding pre-War Dublin piecemeal through the eye of a verbal needle, he was hailed as the largest literary giant Ireland had ever produced. Seeing a giant, however, is not necessarily believing in him: and Ulysses' gigantic size seemed, to some critics and many lay readers, to conceal a wizened point of view. Readers who are cajoled into the belief that all is big in Brobdignag will find Giant Joyce's Collected Poems an eye opener. For not only are his poems measly in number (50), they seem small potatoes...
...pieces of Chamber Music, first published in 1907. In this sequence of lyrics 25-year-old Joyce gave his version of love's old sweet song. Among apple trees and amid green woods, far removed from the bleeding tarts and coal-quay whores of Ulysses' Dublin, the young lover sings the praises of his "dove," his "beautiful one"-half angel, half virgin; he finally persuades her to undo the snood ''that is the sign of maidenhood"; and ends up in the classic predicament of all lyric lovers: starkly sitting on his bottom, all alone. A genius...
Steve Donoghue's first mount, Turkish Delight, at Dublin's Phoenix Park in 1907, was a winner, but Jockey Donoghue did not become a familiar figure to British enthusiasts until he won the Cambridgeshire at Newmarket three years later. In 1915 he was entrusted with a Derby favorite. S. Joel's Pommern, and won-a performance he repeated two years later with Gay Crusader. In 1921 Jockey Donoghue became a British hero when he brought in his third Derby winner, the 6-to-1 shot Humorist, who dropped dead from heart failure six weeks after the race...
Vacationing Pennsylvania Governor George Howard Earle & wife flew from London to Dublin on different airplanes. Explained Governor Earle, "It would be bad enough if our four boys lost one of their parents, but we didn't think it would be fair to run the risk of them losing both...