eleventh printing, signed presentation inscription from the author to Michael Lennon dated 'Paris 15. ?1. [1]931' to endpaper, light browning to margins, short closed tears to endpapers, original wrappers bound in, binder's receipt tipped in at rear, bookplate of F.Wyndham Goldie, contemporary crushed green morocco, gilt with arms or Wyndham Goldie accompanied by Irish clover motifs by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, spine and fore-edges faded, crack to head of upper joint, a little rubbed, 4to, 1930. *** An important presentation copy to a man who played a fascinating part in the eccentric life of Joyce. Michael Lennon (1891-1966), fought in the 1916 Easter Rising alongside Eamon de Valera, later became a prominent judge and member of the consevative Catholic group An Ríoghacht. His long and turbulent relationship with Joyce likely began when he was enlisted by Joyce to help support the campaign on behalf of the singer John Sullivan They met in January 1931 in Paris and (according to Brenda Maddox's biography Nora) sat up talking amiably until the small hours, at the end of which Lennon left clutching an inscribed copy of Ulysses. Two months later however an article by Lennon entitled 'James Joyce' appeared in Catholic World in which Lennon attacked Joyce personally both for his treatment of Nora and accused Joyce of earning easy money as a propogandist for the British government while "the British government was carrying on a war... against the nationalist forces in Ireland which culminiated in the Easter Week rebellion." When first alerted to this article a few years later Joyce became hugely upset; he would later blame his continued problems with the publication of Ulysses in America on the influence of Lennons article. The depth of the animosity Joyce felt towards Lennon can be illustrated by one of Joyce's own letters: in 1937 Constantine Curran entreated Joyce to visit Ireland, Joyce replied: "I am trying to finish my wip [Work in Progress] (I work about 16 hours a day, it seems to me) and I am not taking any chances with my fellow countrymen if I can possibly help it until that is done, at least. And on the map of their island there is marked very legibly for the moment Hic sunt Lennones [Here be Lennons]." F.Wyndham Goldie (1897-1957) British stage and film actor.
eleventh printing, signed presentation inscription from the author to Michael Lennon dated 'Paris 15. ?1. [1]931' to endpaper, light browning to margins, short closed tears to endpapers, original wrappers bound in, binder's receipt tipped in at rear, bookplate of F.Wyndham Goldie, contemporary crushed green morocco, gilt with arms or Wyndham Goldie accompanied by Irish clover motifs by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, spine and fore-edges faded, crack to head of upper joint, a little rubbed, 4to, 1930. *** An important presentation copy to a man who played a fascinating part in the eccentric life of Joyce. Michael Lennon (1891-1966), fought in the 1916 Easter Rising alongside Eamon de Valera, later became a prominent judge and member of the consevative Catholic group An Ríoghacht. His long and turbulent relationship with Joyce likely began when he was enlisted by Joyce to help support the campaign on behalf of the singer John Sullivan They met in January 1931 in Paris and (according to Brenda Maddox's biography Nora) sat up talking amiably until the small hours, at the end of which Lennon left clutching an inscribed copy of Ulysses. Two months later however an article by Lennon entitled 'James Joyce' appeared in Catholic World in which Lennon attacked Joyce personally both for his treatment of Nora and accused Joyce of earning easy money as a propogandist for the British government while "the British government was carrying on a war... against the nationalist forces in Ireland which culminiated in the Easter Week rebellion." When first alerted to this article a few years later Joyce became hugely upset; he would later blame his continued problems with the publication of Ulysses in America on the influence of Lennons article. The depth of the animosity Joyce felt towards Lennon can be illustrated by one of Joyce's own letters: in 1937 Constantine Curran entreated Joyce to visit Ireland, Joyce replied: "I am trying to finish my wip [Work in Progress] (I work about 16 hours a day, it seems to me) and I am not taking any chances with my fellow countrymen if I can possibly help it until that is done, at least. And on the map of their island there is marked very legibly for the moment Hic sunt Lennones [Here be Lennons]." F.Wyndham Goldie (1897-1957) British stage and film actor.
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