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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know

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by Colm Toibin


  Devin, Tom, 203

  Diarmuid and Grania (Yeats), 127

  Dickson, David, 11–12, 23

  Dinneen, Father, 129

  Dodd, Reuben J., 222

  Douglas, Lord Alfred, 38–41, 42–43, 44, 49, 87, 102–4

  Dowden, Edward, 117, 119–20, 123, 134

  Dublin, 1–18, 22–31

  Dubliners (Joyce), 16, 203–6, 225

  Dublin University Magazine, 50

  Dublin University Review, 123

  Duffy, Charles Gavan, 50–52, 57, 91–92

  Dun Emer Press, 19, 128, 130–31

  Early Memories (John B. Yeats), 115

  “Ecce Puer” (Joyce), 236–37

  Elgee, Jane. See Wilde, Jane

  Eliot, T. S., 200, 202

  Ellmann, Richard, 102, 183, 208, 209

  Exiles (Joyce), 199

  Fay, Frank, 128–29

  Ferguson, Samuel, 72

  Fianna Fáil, 112–13

  Figgis, Darrell, 34–35

  Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 3, 15, 52, 204, 209–10, 235

  Finn’s Hotel, Dublin, 3–4

  fleur-de-lis, 102

  “Folly of Being Comforted, The” (Yeats), 108

  Foster, Roy, 10–11, 13, 27, 29, 63, 112, 178

  “Four Years” (Yeats), 177–78

  Frazier, Adrian, 112

  Frogatt, P., 65–66, 67

  Furniss, Harry, 60, 61

  Gavan Duffy, Charles, 50–52, 57, 91–92

  gaze concept, 107–8, 111–13

  General Post Office, Dublin, 1–2

  Gide, André, 49

  Gillet, Louis, 203

  Gonne, Maud, 164

  Gosse, Edmund, 21, 22, 183, 200

  “Grace” (Joyce), 16, 203–5, 220

  Graves, Robert, 47

  Gregory, Lady, 5, 110

  Henry James and, 148

  John B. Yeats and, 110, 115, 125–26, 129–30

  W. B. Yeats and, 19, 28, 110, 126, 179

  Griffith, Arthur, 35, 130

  Guinness, Sir Arthur, 187

  Hamilton, Sir William Rowan, 62

  “Happiness” (Cronin), 7

  Harding, Reginald, 98–99, 100

  Haverty, Anne, 7

  Haverty, Martin, 72–73

  “Her Praise” (Yeats), 175

  Hilson, John, 68

  “Holy Office, The” (Joyce), 19

  Hone, Joseph, 141

  Hone, Nathaniel, 127

  Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 30, 128

  Hour-glass, The (Yeats), 148

  Ibsen, Henrik, 211–12

  Illaunroe Lodge, Connemara, Ireland, 69, 98–99, 101

  Importance of Being Earnest, The (Wilde), 16–17, 88

  Ireland: 1916 Rebellion in, 1, 34, 173

  Isaacson, Colonel, 86

  Jackson, John Wyse, 15, 19, 197, 221

  James, Alice, 147

  James, Henry, 144, 145, 147, 148, 149–50

  James, Henry Senior, 144–46, 147, 149–50

  James, William, 144, 147, 149–50

  “Jonquil and Fleur-de-Lys” (Douglas), 102–3

  Joyce, Charlie (brother), 197, 198

  Joyce, Georgie (brother), 197

  Joyce, James, 22

  birth of, 188

  Brâncusi’s image of, 234

  “The Dead,” 205–11, 217, 220

  Dublin and, 6, 13, 15–16, 18, 206

  Dubliners, 16, 203–6, 225

  “Ecce Puer,” 236–37

  education of, 30, 190–91, 193, 195, 208

  Exiles, 199

  family portraits and, 192, 233–34

  father and, 23, 183, 184–85, 196–97, 199–201, 202–3, 209–10, 236

  father’s portrait and, 233–34

  Finnegans Wake, 3, 15, 52, 204, 209–10, 235

  “Grace,” 16, 203–5, 220

  “The Holy Office,” 19

  John B. Yeats and, 128

  “A Mother,” 6

  mother’s death and, 197–98

  National Library and, 17, 28

  Newman House and, 30

  Nora and, 3–4

  plaque on, 30

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and, 2, 13–14, 30, 173, 189, 210, 220–21

  statue of, 30

  Stephen Hero, 211–14, 216, 220

  Tales Told of Shem and Shaun, 235

  in Trieste, 192, 198, 199

  “Two Gallants,” 27

  Ulysses See Ulysses

  W. B. Yeats and, 18, 19, 21–22

  Wilde and, 19–20

  Wilde family and, 18

  Yeats sisters and, 18–19, 131–32

  Joyce, John Stanislaus (father), 22

  birth and childhood of, 185

  Brâncusi’s image of James and, 234

  career and finances of, 185–87, 188–89, 190, 191–93, 222, 225

  daughters and, 198–99

  death of, 199

  drinking by, 191, 195–96, 197, 200–201

  Dublin and, 7, 13, 15, 19

  Dubliners and, 203–6

  education of, 186

  marriage of, 187–88, 188–89, 207–8, 232

  McAlmon on, 234–35

  portrait of, 233–34

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and, 215–19

  as public speaker, 208

  singing of, 186, 228–29, 231–32

  Joyce, John Stanislaus (father) (cont.)

  son James and, 23, 183, 184–85, 196–97, 199–201, 202–3, 209–10, 236

  son Stanislaus’s writings on, 193–97, 204

  Stephen Hero and, 213, 216, 220

  Ulysses and, 185, 203, 220–32, 235

  wife May’s death and, 197–98

  wife’s family and, 187, 188–89

  Joyce, May (mother), 15, 22, 185

  death of, 197–98, 222

  husband’s drinking and, 191, 195

  marriage of, 187–88, 188–89, 207–8, 232

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and, 214

  Stephen Hero and, 211–13

  Ulysses and, 215, 222–23

  Joyce, Stanislaus (brother), 13–14, 15, 193, 206, 209

  diary of, 193, 195–97, 201–2, 204, 216

  Dublin and, 15

  father’s drinking and, 191, 195–97, 200–201

  father’s portrait and, 234

  My Brother’s Keeper, 13, 184–85, 191, 193–96, 197–98, 200–201, 207–8, 221

  Joyce, Stephen (grandson), 185, 236

  Kildare Street, Dublin, 27

  Kinsella, Thomas, 8–10, 12–13, 14

  Kræmer, Lotten von, 69–70

  Le Fanu, Sheridan, 50

  Lenihan, Brian, 2–3

  Lever, Charles, 50, 61

  Lidwell, George, 225, 228

  “Liking Corners” (Cronin), 7

  Lough Corrib, Its Shores and Islands (William Wilde), 93–98, 102, 104

  Mancini, Antonio, 133–34

  McAlmon, Robert, 234–35

  McGahern, John, 109, 110–11, 141

  McNamara, Gerry, 6

  McNeill, Hugh, 227

  Merrion Square, Dublin, 15, 18, 24–25, 69

  Miles, Frank, 98–99

  Mitchel, John, 92

  Moore, George, 110, 127, 157, 183

  Moore, Henry, 30

  “Mother, A” (Joyce), 6

  Moytura House, Connemara, Ireland, 69, 93, 98, 99, 100

  Murphy (Beckett), 2

  Murphy, William, 91

  Murphy, William M., 109, 110, 111, 114–15, 123, 143–44, 180

  Murray, Josephine, 188, 198

  Murray, May. See Joyce, May

  Murray, William, 188–89

  My Brother’s Keeper (Stanislaus Joyce), 13, 184–85, 191, 193–94, 197–98, 200–201, 207–8, 221

  Nation, The (journal), 50–51

  National Library, Dublin, 2, 27–29

  Nelson, Major J. O., 86–87, 93

  Newman, John Henry, 30

  Newman House, Dublin, 30

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p; New York City, 110–11, 114, 134–35, 142, 148–49, 154–55, 157

  O’Brien, Conor Cruise, 206–7

  O’Casey, Sean, 5

  O’Connell, Daniel, 52–53

  O’Donovan, John, 96–97

  O’Kelly, Sean T., 35

  O’Leary, John, 123–24

  O’Leary Curtis, William, 227

  O’Sullivan, Emer, 68, 70, 74, 89

  Parnell, Charles Stewart, 53, 187, 191, 192, 219

  Petrie, George, 53–54, 72

  Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde), 18, 88

  Playboy of the Western World, The (Synge), 23, 183

  Pollexfen, Charles, 116–17

  Pollexfen, Fred, 131

  Pollexfen, George, 116–17

  Pollexfen, Susan. See Yeats, Susan

  Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (Joyce), 2, 13–14, 30, 173, 189, 210, 220–21. See also Stephen Hero

  Pound, Ezra, 141

  Powell, York, 127, 151, 180

  “Prayer for Old Age, A” (Yeats), 167

  Purdon Street, Dublin, 205

  Purgatory (Yeats), 183

  Purser, Sarah, 126, 127

  Queensberry, Marquess of, 41–43, 87–88

  Quinn, John, 125, 129, 134, 136, 150, 160, 169

  John B. Yeats in New York and, 127–28, 136, 148–49, 156, 176

  John B. Yeats’s self-portrait and, 174, 175

  Reading Gaol, Reading, England, 33–38, 86–87

  Robinson, Lennox, 141

  Ross, Robert, 39, 49, 93

  Royal Irish Academy, 53–54, 70–71, 91

  Russell, George, 126

  Russell, Matthew, 101

  St. Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin, 12, 17

  St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, 29–30, 128

  Sayce, A. H., 101–2

  “Second Coming, The” (Yeats), 108

  Shadowy Waters, The (Yeats), 125

  Shaw, George Bernard, 5, 6, 60, 61

  Sheehy, Kathleen, 206

  Sligo, Ireland, 117, 119, 162

  Smith O’Brien, William, 92

  South Leinster Street, Dublin, 3, 27

  Speranza. See Wilde, Jane

  “Spur, The” (Yeats), 166

  “Statues, The” (Yeats), 1

  Stephen Hero (Joyce), 211–14, 216, 220. See also Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A

  Stoker, Bram, 5, 63

  Swanzy, Mary, 143

  Swanzy family, 172

  Sweny’s chemist, Westland Row, Dublin, 6, 17

  Synge, John Millington, 5, 23, 128, 183

  Tales Told of Shem and Shaun (Joyce), 235

  Thornton, Dick, 204

  Todhunter, John, 117, 123

  “Tower, The” (Yeats), 164–65

  Travers, Mary, 75–86, 87–91

  Travers, Robert, 75, 81

  Trembling of the Veil, The (Yeats), 61

  Tuohy, Patrick J., 233, 234

  “Two Gallants” (Joyce), 27

  “Two Trees, The” (Yeats), 107–8

  Ulysses (Joyce), 4, 30, 187, 193, 203, 215, 233, 235

  Butt and, 52

  manuscript of, 136

  National Library and, 2, 28

  Purdon Street in, 205

  Stephen Dedalus in, 183, 184, 185, 221–30

  Westland Row, Dublin, and, 2, 12, 15–18

  Wilde and, 18, 19

  Yeats family and, 18–19, 131–32

  United Irishman (newspaper), 130

  von Kræmer, Lotten, 69–70

  Ward, William, 99

  Weaver, Harriet, 202

  “Westland Row” (Kinsella), 9

  Westland Row, Dublin, 2, 6–7, 8–13, 14, 15–18, 69

  Wharton, Edith, 148

  “When You Are Old” (Yeats), 164

  White, Terence de Vere, 47–48, 62, 64, 78–79, 82, 83, 96–97

  Wilde, Constance (wife), 46

  Wilde, Isola (sister), 69, 100

  Wilde, Jane “Speranza” (mother), 4, 10, 18, 44, 57–58

  Butt and, 52

  contemporary accounts of, 60–61, 62, 70

  death of, 44, 46

  De Profundis and, 43–44

  finances of, 100

  folklore and legend interest of, 63

  Furniss on, 60, 61

  Hamilton on, 62

  husband’s knighthood and, 58, 73–74

  on husband’s sociability and hard work, 68–69

  Ireland and, 58–59

  London salon of, 62

  marriage of, 15, 22, 50

  Mary Travers and, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80–81, 83, 86, 87–89, 90, 91, 92

  Merrion Square home of, 15, 18, 22, 51, 69

  The Nation editorials of, 50–51, 57

  poetry of, 25, 50, 58, 59–60

  Royal Irish Academy catalogue and, 71

  Shaw on 60, 61

  Yeats family and, 18, 20–21, 116

  Yeats on, 52, 61

  Wilde, Oscar, 4, 5, 6, 22, 49, 52

  Algiers and, 49

  “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” 33–34

  birth and childhood of, 15, 69, 79, 92, 98

  De Profundis, 23, 38–47, 87, 93, 103–4

  Douglas and, 38–41, 42–43, 44, 87, 102–4

  Dublin University Magazine and, 50

  family background of, 43–44, 57, 61, 92–93, 101–2

  father and, 23, 46–47, 97, 98, 101–2, 184

  Henry Wilson and, 100–101

  Illaunroe home and, 101

  The Importance of Being Earnest, 16–17, 88

  Joyce and, 18, 19–20

  nature and, 98–99

  The Picture of Dorian Gray, 18, 88

  Queensberry and, 41–43, 87–88

  statue of, 26

  trial and imprisonment of, 20–21, 33–37, 38, 61–62, 93, 103–5

  Ulysses and, 18

  Yeats and, 19–21, 60–61, 116

  Young Irelanders and, 92

  Wilde, Sir William (father), 4, 10, 18, 23, 57–58, 190

  Aran Islands and, 54–55, 71–73, 96

  Boyne Valley book of, 54–56, 95

  Butt and, 50, 52

  as Census Commissioner, 64–67

  contemporary accounts of, 50–51, 62, 67–68, 69

  Corrib book of, 93–98, 102, 104

  death of, 99–100, 184

  De Profundis and, 43–44

  Dublin and, 13, 15, 19, 22, 44, 59

  Dublin University Magazine and, 50

  family background of, 47

  Furniss on, 60, 61

  honors for, 43, 58, 73–74, 91

  Illaunroe home of, 69–70

  illegitimate children of, 53, 59, 100

  Ireland and, 58–59

  Irish archaeology and folklore and, 49–50, 53–57, 58, 63, 64, 94–95, 97

  knighthood of, 43, 73–74

  marriage of, 15, 22, 50

  Mary Travers and, 75–86, 87–91, 92

  medical career of, 47, 49, 50, 53, 58, 59, 62–63, 67

  Mediterranean cruise and book of, 47–49

  Merrion Square home of, 15, 18, 22, 26, 69, 92

  Moytura House of, 69, 93

  plaque to, 26

  Royal Irish Academy catalogue and, 70–71

  Shaw on, 50, 61

  sociability and hard work of, 68–69

  son Oscar and, 23, 46–47, 97, 98, 101–2, 184

  Yeats family and, 19, 100, 116, 117

  Yeats on, 61

  Wilde, Willie (brother), 69, 79, 101

  “Wild Old Wicked Man, The” (Yeats), 165

  Wilson, Henry, 53, 100–101

  Wilson, T. G., 62

  Wyse Jackson, John, 15, 19, 197, 221

  Yeats, Gráinne (daughter-in-law), 113

  Yeats, Isaac Butt (uncle), 116, 134

  Yeats, Jack (brother), 121, 127, 130, 133, 134

  birth and childhood of, 119

  marriage of, 123, 128

  paintings of, 22, 127, 133, 147

  Yeats, John B. (father), 22, 110

 
as artist, 22, 113–15, 118, 119–20, 121, 122, 124, 127–30, 133–34, 136, 142, 169

  on artists and power of art, 138–41

  birth and childhood of, 116

  Chesterton on, 121–22

  daughters and, 128, 131, 133, 147, 162–63, 174

  death of, 180–81

  Dublin and, 12, 13, 22, 29–30, 128, 143

  Yeats, John B. (father) (cont.)

  Early Memories, 115

  Henry James and, 148

  Henry James Senior and, 144–45

  Isaac Butt and, 52, 82, 116, 117–18

  James Joyce on, 128

  on Jane Wilde, 52

  Lady Gregory and, 110, 115, 125–26, 129–30

  law career of, 117–19

  letters of, 108–9, 110, 114–15, 121, 124–25, 135–42, 143, 146, 148, 150–64, 167–77, 178–79

  in London, 118–19, 120, 122–23

  marriage of, 22, 117, 121, 122, 142, 145, 151, 152–53, 170, 174, 175

  in New York, 134–35, 108–9, 143, 145–46, 148–49, 154–55, 157, 176, 235

  on personality, 137

  Playboy of the Western World riots and, 23

  on poetry, 137–38, 139

  Pollexfens and, 116–17, 118, 119, 130–31, 153, 162, 175

  Rosa Butt and, 142–43, 150–64, 167–77

  self-portraits by, 113–16, 175–76, 177

  son Jack and, 119, 133, 147

  son W. B. and, 23, 123–27, 130, 134, 135–41, 145, 146, 147, 159, 178–79, 183, 184, 235

  studio of, 29, 128–29, 133

  on Wilde’s illegitimate children, 53, 100

  Wilde’s parents and, 19, 100, 116, 117

  Yeats, Lily (sister), 20, 121, 122, 130, 131, 134, 147, 154, 161, 180

  birth of, 118

  father’s letters to, 125, 126, 127, 130–31, 135

  father’s trip to New York with, 134–35

  sister Lollie and, 132–33

  Ulysses and, 18–19, 131–32

  work of, 123, 128, 131, 178

  Yeats, Lollie (sister), 20, 121, 124, 130, 134, 147, 161, 174, 179

  birth of, 119

  mother and, 162–63

  sister Lily and, 132–33

  Ulysses and, 18–19, 131–32

  work of, 123, 128, 130, 131, 177, 178, 180

  Yeats, Michael (son), 112–13

  Yeats, Susan (mother), 20, 120–21

  illness and death of, 122, 151

  marriage of, 22, 117, 118, 121, 152–53, 170, 174, 175

  Rosa Butt and, 142

  Yeats, W. B., 5, 14, 20, 110, 122–23

  “An Acre of Grass,” 166–67

  “Aedh Tells of the Perfect Beauty,” 108

  aging theme and, 164–67

  “The Apparitions,” 165–66

  “Are You Content,” 166

  Autobiographies, 20, 120

  “Baile and Aillinn,” 19

  “Beautiful Lofty Things,” 23

  birth and childhood of, 118, 119, 120, 121

  Cathleen ni Houlihan, 19

  “The Death of Cuchulain,” 183

  Diarmuid and Grania, 127

  Dublin and, 22, 120, 128

  father and, 23, 123–27, 134, 145, 146, 147, 184

 

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