Two Essays by F.J.C. Skeffington & James A. Joyce, 1901

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Two Essays by F.J.C. Skeffington & James A. Joyce, 1901

This pamphlet, published in October 1901 by James Joyce and his friend Francis Sheehy Skeffington (‘MacCann’ in A Portrait), contains their two essays which were refused publication in the University magazine St Stephen’s. Joyce’s contribution, ‘The Day of the Rabblement’, was an attack on the parochialism of the Irish Literary Theatre; Skeffington’s essay advocated equal status for women in the University. This copy, one of only 85 printed, remained in the possession of the Sheehy-Skeffington family until 1989 when it was acquired by Bord Fáilte and presented to the Tower.

Subject

Museum artefacts, James Joyce

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This collection is being made available under the CC BY-NC-ND licence, which allows users to access the material as long as the original copyright holder is credited; the material cannot be changed in any way or used commercially. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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