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...Chapelizod, outside Dublin, complications of jaundice, dropsy and heart disease brought Death last week to a bearded, brilliant gentleman with a testy tongue, Timothy Michael Healy, first Governor General of the Irish Free State, in his 76th year. Three years ago failing health made him resign the Governor-Generalship. Fortnight ago his condition became critical, relatives were summoned. Tim Healy (nobody ever called him anything else) died in the night...
...sacred thirst pledge" of this Methodist campaign is, oddly, not Methodist but Roman Catholic, the invention of Father Theobald Mathew (1790-1856), an Irish Capuchin friar whose statue adorns the main thoroughfare of Dublin in the immediate vicinity of one of that city's most popular bars.* Father Mathew, after working for 24 years in Cork, founding schools, opening a cemetery and engaging in rescue work during the cholera epidemic of 1832, signed the pledge when he was 48 and crusaded all over Ireland on behalf of teetotalism. His pledge, as adopted by the Methodists, reads...
...institution, as its members subsequently admitted. The question has been raised as to what would happen to Westminster Abbey and the great cathedrals, in the event of disestablishment. In Ireland this point was settled by the simple process of leaving the cathedrals in the possession of the Episcopalians. In Dublin there are no less than two Protestant Cathedrals, Christ Church and Saint Patrick's, both Episcopalian. There is one Catholic cathedral in that city, the Pro-Cathedral on Marlborough...
...common man as well as for the poet and painter open a new field of vision, a combination of many memories that in waking consciousness could never be produced. To illustrate his point he told of a dream wherein he found himself flying above the rooftops of his native Dublin. As this happened long before the days of airplanes, it gave him an entirely new conception of the houses, and he later painted a picture from this dream perspective...
Most Ulysses readers know that the book covers the events of one day among a group of Dublin bourgeois. Gilbert even knows what day it was: June 16, 1904. Each of Ulysses' 18 episodes, besides parelleling similar scenes in the Odyssey, represents a different Art (e. g. architects philology) and Bodily Organ (esophagus, heart) and is told with a different and appropriate technique (narrative, catechizing). With his running comment, frequent quotations, scholarly footnotes, Translator Gilbert gives you almost a substitute for the book itself...