Peter Chrisp

Why read other books when you can read James Joyce?

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@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…

[Peter Chrisp @PeterChrisp]

I’ve made a cave painting for the Curious Stories cabinet exhibition, on through May in the Open Market Brighton

[Peter Chrisp @PeterChrisp]

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

[Peter Chrisp @PeterChrisp]

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

[Peter Chrisp @PeterChrisp]

@McCookerybook ‘Slightly uninspiring’! What a silly phrase

[Peter Chrisp @PeterChrisp]

"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

[The Pogues @poguesofficial]

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

[Peter Chrisp @PeterChrisp]

@McCookerybook ‘Mighty’ is a great word for you

[Peter Chrisp @PeterChrisp]

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

[Peter Chrisp @PeterChrisp]

Here he is on the Wake https://t.co/shW74nBgxl

[Peter Chrisp @PeterChrisp]

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.

[Peter Chrisp @PeterChrisp]

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

[Peter Chrisp @PeterChrisp]

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

[Peter Chrisp @PeterChrisp]

@McCookerybook Marvellous. He must have had such fun writing these songs

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@fallon_donal Hope you do a podcast about this Donal

[Peter Chrisp @PeterChrisp]

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

[Peter Chrisp @PeterChrisp]

@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

[Peter Chrisp @PeterChrisp]

@fallon_donal There’s another great dog on Sandymount Strand in the Proteus episode. The other quotation is from Frank Budgen.

[Peter Chrisp @PeterChrisp]

@fallon_donal There’s a great section where he imagines what it must be like to be a dog