Word: liffey
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...Leopold Bloom-citizen, husband, father, wanderer, reincarnation of Ulysses." The Irish capital has changed in other small ways. A bronze bust of James Joyce stands in St. Stephen's Green, a small park near the city's center. The Chapelizod Bridge across the greenish River Liffey has been rechristened the Anna Livia Bridge, named after Anna Livia Plurabelle, the female force that flows through Finnegans Wake. Little by little, the city that Joyce so painstakingly preserved in his fiction is reshaping itself into his images...
...gusto: in New York, a woman's eyes turn "a green that was so fierce, Isaac had to grab the wall." In Ireland, the sky is so dark, "the elves must have put a roof on Cashel Hill." Shouts of murderers and comedians sound across the Hudson and Liffey rivers. Episodes in Nighttown and the underworld consciously echo the rhythms of James Joyce and Saul Bellow, but Charyn manages to sustain his own peculiar tone, a unique amalgam of psychological insight and scatological farce. It is one of the most unlikely and compeling literary combinations since T.S. Eliot...
...through the first semester of freshman year I journeyed back to New York and naturally had to visit the city's quintessential Irish bar, a little hole-in-the-wall in the wilds of forgotten Queens called The Liffey. The usual crowd was there--a veritable sea of middle-aged pug noses and freckles, resounding with the dull roar of angry brogues protesting the blindness of an insufficiently partisan basketball referee. James Joyce smiled benignly from several wall posters, four signs urged me to join the IRA, and behind the bar rolled Tommy, the spherical bartender who had taken enough...
...replays the symphony of sound composed by James Joyce in his two autobiographical novels. While not sufficiently theatrical-the images called up by Joyce's words are more vivid than the vignettes seen on the stage-the production provides a pleasant, literate evening on the banks of the Liffey...
...wake" to life. H. C. Earwicker's initials, as he himself explains, also stand for Here Comes Everybody and Haveth Childers Everywhere; his dreamscape is like a palimpsest in which myth overlays legend overlaying lore. Anna Livia Plurabelle (Jane Reilly) is also Dublin's river Liffey (life). His sons Shem and Shaun are, among others, Lucifer and the Archangel Michael. The film's multipersonaed hero himself combines such disparate characters as Adam, Tristram and Jonathan Swift. Joyce believed that the pun is mightier than the word. His double-entendres are so arcane and gusty that the movie...