@fallon_donal Fascinating. I looked up Joyce’s father, living as a boarder at 25 Claude Rd - where he sat for his portrait by Touhy, and was visited by Robert McAlmon. Funny that he’s described as a ‘Clerk Retired’ - maybe that was what the landlord thought of him…
I was struck by this great photo in The Dublin Pub of 75 Dame Street, now Brogans. In the window on the left there’s an advert for ‘Hair cut & brushed by machinery 3d’, which I’d never heard of, but found this https://t.co/NCdp5dxz38 @fallon_donal
Delighted with my Christmas present from Lisa. I recognized the lady on the cover. I took a photo of her in the Brazen Head in 1981, when I first visited Dublin @fallon_donal
"You're traveling through another dimension - a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's a signpost up ahead: your next stop: the Twilight Zone!"
Seasons greetings from the other dimensions
James, Jem, Andrew & myself were elated to find this utterly joyous slice of history in the Pogues vault. There’s a magic and an electricity here that still sparks and crackles nearly 40 years down the line. Also includes the regular Fairytale. Link in bio. Enjoy. Cheers Spider
Does anyone remember Aaargh! the great comics exhibition at the ICA in 1970-71. We had a family trip there when I was 12, and I wandered on my own into a dark room where they had a slide show of Robert Crumb’s Despair comic. A life changing experience! Have loved Crumb ever since
RIP the great Dublin actor Frank Grimes. He did a wonderful one man James Joyce show, The He and She of It, which we saw him do part of at David Collard’s London book launch for Multiple Joyce. We had a drink in the French House after and who should come in but Frank.
On Bloomsday, I made a pilgrimage to the Victoria Palace Hotel in Paris, which James Joyce described as a 'caravanserai peopled by American loudspeakers' yet he wrote the best parts of Finnegans Wake here https://t.co/OyE30e0VNG
In Paris, leading my first ever James Joyce guided tour. We started at the Hotel Corneille, where he almost starved in 1902-3, and ended at his last luxurious residence, the Lutetia https://t.co/Ej1swCUGCK
My friend Roy Bayfield has found the original Sylvia Silence stories. Unlike the languid consulting detective imagined by Joyce, she was an action heroine!
https://t.co/pib03Jw59A
@pjmccluskey Lost in Music is a cracker, but I find that Spain song strangely moving. I think I Can Hear the Grass Grow (Peel session) is better than the original