JOYCEAN PICS 2000
Sligo and Yeats
Contents of This Page

  
  Quay Street
  M. Quirke's, wood carver, Wine Street
  L.K. Street
  W. B. Yeats Statue, Stephen Street
  Hargadon Bros., O'Connell Street
  Market Street
  Keohanes' Bookshop, Castle Street
  Hawkswell Theatre
  Slighach River
  Ben Bulben
  Loch Gill: "The Lake Isle of Inisfree"
  Parke's Castle in County Leitrim
CONTENTS 2000
   1  London IJJF Symposium
   2  London and Joyce
   3  London: miscellanea
   4  4th Annual Trieste Joyce School
   5  Trieste and Joyce
   6  Trieste: miscellanea
   7  The James Joyce Annual Summer School
   8  Dublin and Joyce
   9  Dublin: miscellanea
  10  Clongowes Wood College
  11  Galway
  12  Inis Mor, the Aran Islands
  13  Sligo and Yeats

Sligo and Yeats

  Sligo is the name of the town and of the county in western Ireland in Connaught.  The name was derived from the Irish word for sea shells, "sligeach," which abound in the Sligo River that flows out to the sea.  The history of Sligo, town and county, goes back beyond recorded history to the legends of ancient races and fairly folk that have come down in song and story.
  William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), young Joyce's powerful supporter, spent much of his childhood in Sligo town and its county environs, for both of his parents had roots there.  On his father's side, there was John Yeats, the poet's clergyman at Drumcliff.  "It is accurate to say that almost all of the poet's references to Irish places can be located in Sligo or in county Galway, but it is Sligo with Ben Bulben, Knocknarea, Innisfree, Glen Car, Lissadell, Rosses, and Sleuth Wood to mention but a few, that dominates Yeats' Irish imagery from the beginning of his career to the end" (Lester I. Conner).
  
  


 
References to Sligo in Joyce's works

12.1446.  said in passing), a Kerry calf and a golden eagle from Carrantuohill.  The
12.1447.  scenes depicted on the emunctory field, showing our ancient duns and raths
12.1448.  and cromlechs and grianauns and seats of learning and maledictive stones,
12.1449.  are as wonderfully beautiful and the pigments as delicate as when the Sligo
12.1450.  illuminators gave free rein to their artistic fantasy long long ago in the time
12.1451.  of the Barmecides. Glendalough, the lovely lakes of Killarney, the ruins of (Ulysses)

14.0613.  By the Lord Harry, Green is the grass that grows on the ground.  And, says
14.0614.  Mr Dixon, if ever he got scent of a cattleraider in Roscommon or the wilds
14.0615.  of Connemara or a husbandman in Sligo that was sowing as much as a
14.0616.  handful of mustard or a bag of rapeseed out he'd run amok over half the
14.0617.  countryside rooting up with his horns whatever was planted and all by lord
14.0618.  Harry's orders.  There was bad blood between them at first, says Mr (Ulysses)

15.1413.  tabard, the Athlone poursuivant and Ulster King of Arms.  They are
15.1414.  followed by the Right Honourable Joseph Hutchinson, lord mayor
15.1415.   of Dublin, his lordship the lord mayor of Cork, their worships the
15.1416.  mayors of Limerick, Galway, Sligo and Waterford, twentyeight
15.1417.  Irish representative peers, sirdars, grandees and maharajahs bearing
15.1418.  the cloth of estate, the Dublin Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the (Ulysses)

16.1640.  bite from a sheep.  The most vulnerable point too of tender Achilles.  Your
16.1641.  god was a jew.  Because mostly they appeared to imagine he came from
16.1642.  Carrick-on-Shannon or somewhereabouts in the county Sligo. (Ulysses)


140.36.  while I'll be drowsing in the gaarden. d) Dalway.  I hooked my
141.01.  thoroughgoing trotty the first down Spanish Place, Mayo I make,
141.02.  Tuam I take, Sligo's sleek but Galway's grace. Holy eel and (Finnegans Wake)

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Quay Street
  
   
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 (Sunday 30 July) Town Hall, Quay Street
  
  
   
Wine Street
  
   Wine Street
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 (Sunday 30 July) M. Quirke's, wood carver, Wine Street
  
  
   
L.K. Street
  
   L.K. Street
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 (Sunday 30 July) Post of General Post Office, L.K. Street.  This post was the one where I sent three postcards of farewell to my girlfriend in August 1999.
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 (Sunday 30 July) Yeats Memorial Building, L.K. Street (near Hyde Bridge)
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 (Sunday 30 July) Silver Swan Hotel, L.K. Street (near Hyde Bridge): the opposite side of Yeats Memorial Building
  
  
   
W. B. Yeats Statue
  
   W. B. Yeats Statue, Stephen Street
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 (Sunday 30 July) W. B. Yeats Statue, Stephen Street
  
  
   
Hargadon Bros.
  
   Hargadon Bros., O'Connell Street.  One of the best Irish pubs!  Highly recommended!
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 (Sunday 30 July) Hargadon Bros., O'Connell Street
  
  
   
Market Street
  
   Market Street
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 (Sunday 30 July) Entrance to Market Street
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 (Sunday 30 July) Market Street
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 (Sunday 30 July) Savoy Guest House, Market Street, where I stayed in summers 1995 and 1999.
  
  
   
Keohanes' Bookshop
  
   Keohanes' Bookshop, Castle Street
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 (Sunday 30 July) Keohanes' Bookshop, Castle Street
  
  
   
Michael Kennedy
  
   Michael Kennedy, pottery, Church Street
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 (Sunday 30 July) Michael Kennedy, pottery, Church Street
  
  
   
Hawkswell Theatre
  
   Hawkswell Theatre (next to Tourist Office), Temple Street
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 (Sunday 30 July) Hawkswell Theatre (next to Tourist Office), Temple Street
  
  
   
Slighach River
  
   Slighach River
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 (Sunday 30 July) L. New Street along Slighach River
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 (Sunday 30 July) Old Quay Ct. along Slighach River
  
  
   
Ben Bulben
  
   Ben Bulben
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 (Sunday 30 July) Ben Bulben: a view from Custom House Quay.  "Under Ben Bulben" etc.
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 (Sunday 30 July) Ben Bulben: a view from Custom House Quay
  
  
   
Loch Gill
  
   Loch Gill
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 (Sunday 30 July) A boy learning to fly or to swim.  At the west end of Loch Gill
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 (Sunday 30 July) Garavogue River into Loch Gill
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 (Sunday 30 July) Loch Gill
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 (Sunday 30 July) Ben Bulben: a scene from the water bus. Loch Gill.
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 (Sunday 30 July) A scene from the water bus, Loch Gill.
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 (Sunday 30 July) Ben Bulben: a scene from Loch Gill
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 (Sunday 30 July) A scene from the water bus. Loch Gill
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 (Sunday 30 July) "The Lake Isle of Inisfree": "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree...."
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 (Sunday 30 July) "The Lake Isle of Inisfree"
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 (Sunday 30 July) A scene from the water bus, Loch Gill
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 (Sunday 30 July) Near the castle, Loch Gill
  
  
   
Parke's Castle
  
   Parke's Castle in County Leitrim, a castle by Loch Gill (which is mainly situated in County Sligo, but partly in County Leitrim)
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 (Sunday 30 July) Near Parke's Castle in County Leitrim
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 (Sunday 30 July) Inside of Parke's Castle in County Leitrim
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 (Sunday 30 July) A nice man from Montreal.  In front of Parke's Castle in County Leitrim.



        


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