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James Joyce interest St. Stephen’s, A Record of University Life, Dublin
Vol Number I, nos 1-3 [of 7]. Original printed wrappers, the 3 issues
contained in a later cloth box, gilt morocco lettering-piece.
When the Irish Literary Theatre regressed, as Joyce perceived it, towards
a more ‘Irish’ drama with productions of Douglas Hyde’s Irish-language
Casadh-an-tSugáin and Yeats and George Moore’s Diarmuid and Grania,
the young writer’s violent reaction was ‘The Day of the Rabblement’,
fulminating that: ‘The Irish Literary Theatre gave out that it was the
champion of progress, and proclaimed war against commercialism and
vulgarity [... but the devil of the popular will] has prevailed once more,
and the Irish Literary Theatre must now be considered the property of
the rabblement of the most belated race in Europe’ . Joyce submitted his
essay to Hugh Kennedy, an established adversary and the editor of St.
Stephen’s, who in turn consulted Father Henry Browne (the magazine’s
advisor); Browne rejected the essay because of a reference to
D’Annunzio’s Il Fuoce, which was listed in the Index librorum
prohibitorum (list of publications prohibited by the Catholic Church).
Concurrent with Joyce’s troubles, his friend Sheehy-Skeffington was
encountering similar obstacles in his efforts to publish his essay ‘A
Forgotten Aspect of the University Question’. Skeffington’s essay
proposed equal status for women at the university. Since both essays
were rejected by St. Stephen’s for different reasons, Joyce and Sheehy-
Skeffington determined to publish them privately and the two pieces
were yoked together and printed in an edition of 85 copies, prefaced by
the statement ‘These two essays were commissioned by the Editor of St.
Stephen’s for that paper, but were subsequently refused by the Censor’.
10.75 x 8in. (27.31 x 20.32cm)
€700-€900 (£583-£750 approx)
459
1895-1898: The Clongownian. Volume 1, No. 1 to 6
Original wrappers bound into half leather, marbled boards.
The first six issues of the school magazine of Clongowes Wood College,
which Joyce attended between 1889 and 1891. His father, wanting to
provide young Joyce with the best education he could afford, enrolled
him at Clongowes, which was then regarded as the top preparatory
school in Ireland. Joyce’s experiences in the Jesuit educational system
coloured his attitudes for the rest of his life. This volume of The
Clongownian includes the story of Oliver St. John Gogarty’s daring
rescue of a drowning man in the river Liffey. Joyce would later
incorporate that event into Ulysses, with Buck Mulligan performing the
heroic act. 10 x 8in. (25.40 x 20.32cm)
€500-€700 (£417-£583 approx)
460
Lucia Joyce handwritten postal label
Includes her own name and address and well as that of the addressee
Cyril Corrigan, a classmate of James Joyce at UCD and an enduring
acquaintance thereafter. 3.25 x 5in. (8.26 x 12.70cm)
€200-€300 (£167-£250 approx)
461
James Joyce interest vinyl albums including Finnegans Wake read by
Patrick Bedford
A nice selection of James Joyce interest vinyl recordings with some
scarce examples. Including Finnegans Wake read by Patrick Bedford,
Soliloquies of Molly and Leopold Bloom read by Siobhan McKenna and E
G Marshall with cover art by John Miro etc. (7 items) 13 x 13in. (33.02 x
33.02cm)
€150-€250 (£125-£208 approx)
462
1931-35: [Brian O’Nolan - Flann Ó Bríain/Myles na gCopaleen]
Comhthrom Féinne
The Magazine of the Students of University College Dublin. Flann O’Brien
interest. Vol. I, No. 1 May 1931, to Vol XII, No 3 December 1935. Bound
in two volumes. (1931-1933) & (1934-1935). Brian O´Nolan wrote
prodigiously during his years as a student at Dublin, contributing to the
student magazine Comhthrom Féinne. under various guises, in particular
the pseudonym Brother Barnabas. Significantly, he composed a story
during this same period entitled “Scenes in a Novel (probably
posthumous) by Brother Barnabas”, which anticipates many of the ideas
and themes later to be found in his novel, “At Swim-Two-Birds”.
(£0-£0 approx)
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1957: Portrait of Brian O’Nolan (Flann Ó Briain) by his brother
Artist’s proof, (no. 1 from an edition of 10). Portrait of the famous Irish
novelist, playwright and satirist Brian O’Nolan (Flann O Briain, Myles na
gCopalleen) by his brother Micheál O Nuallain. Framed 19 x 14in. (48.26
x 35.56cm)
€200-€300 (£167-£250 approx)
464
1957: Brendan Behan The Quare Fellow signed by the author
Printed dust jacket, Methuen London, 1957. 86pp. A good and scarce
signed copy of this first edition. Inscribed bilingually in Irish and English
on New Year’s Day 1957 “To John & best wishes for 1957, Brendan
Behan, 1-1-57” 7.50 x 5.25in. (19.05 x 13.34cm)
€300-€500 (£250-£417 approx)
465
Brendan Behan’s Island, signed by author
Original cloth boards with dust jacket, 192pp. First edition of Brendan
Behan’s Island - An Irish Sketch-book by Brendan Behan with drawings
by Paul Hogarth. Signed on title page by Behan. 10 x 7in. (25.40 x
17.78cm)
€400-€600 (£333-£500 approx)
466
Arland Ussher, The XXII Keys of the Tarot with handwritten dedication
from Brendan Behan
Original boards, pp61. The Dolmen Press, Dublin, 1957. With dedication
from and in the hand of Brendan Behan “Do Jacquie o Breandan &
Beatrice July 1958” 6 x 4.50in. (15.24 x 11.43cm)
€200-€300 (£167-£250 approx)
467
1987: Joe Pilkington painting of Brendan Behan
Oil on canvas laid on board. Portrait on Behan in a Borstal scene. See lot
374 for note on Pilkington.
€500-€700 (£417-£580 approx)
468
1960-85: Collection of literary interest publications including
Nonplus complete collection
Nonplus, numbers 1 to 4. Printed by the Dolmen Press Autumn 1959 to
Winter 1960. Edited by Patricia Murphy, wife of poet Richard Murphy.
With contributions from Brian O’Nolan, Patrick Kavanagh et al. Also with
Dublin Magazine, 6 issues, 1965-1972, Kilkenny Magazine, Vol. 11-14,
1964-66, The Crane Bag, 3 issues, 1983 to 1985, ARENA, issues 1 to 3
and Old Fashioned Pilgrimage by Austin Clarke Dolmen Press, 1967.
€150-€250 (£125-£208 approx)
460