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"The demand I make of my reader," the late James Joyce once remarked, "is that he should devote the whole of his life to reading my works." Many readers of Author Joyce's obscure 768-page Ulysses and his even more obscure 628-page Finnegans Wake would agree that...
When Edmund Gilligan is at his best, as in White Sails Crowding, he is one of few men living who can galvanize the dying art of literate romancing. But in The Gaunt Woman his Hibernian lilt and lustiness often overshoot the mark. Like most Irish storytellers, he must beware of...
Compounded of puns, disjointed syllables, half-words, it is closest to English, but Erse, Latin, Greek, Dutch, French, Sanskrit, even Esperanto appear, usually distorted to suggest both an alien and an English notion. The ablest punster in seven languages, Joyce sometimes combines puns and snatches of songs. Example: "ginabawdy meadabawdy...
Other Provisions. Erse (Gaelic) will be the official language, with English as an alternate. No divorces will be permitted. Though the Roman Catholic Church will be recognized as "the guardian of the faith professed by the great majority of the citizens," religious freedom will be guaranteed to other denominations.
Across the bay from Ballycastle lies Aran Island. Too barren and sunless to tempt invaders, it went untouched, and almost unknowing, while the rest of Ireland gave up its lands and its memories. But the fishermen on Aran still remembered Cuchulain and the Red Branch, and the language of the...