Conversations with James Joyce'In the Dublin of my day there was the kind of desperate freedom which comes from a lack of responsibility, for the English were in governance then, so everyone said what he liked. Now I hear since the Free State came in there is less freedom. The Church has made inroads everywhere, so that we are in fact becoming a bourgeois nation, with the Church supplying our aristocracy, and I do not see much hope for us intellectually. Once the Church is in

follows upon Windfalls (Dolmen 1977)

was central to his world view

poor Ireland

Embedded in Hogan’s uniquely glancing poetic style

inadequate 1967

part criticism

P Donleavey's final novel

They bore witness to his own inner and outer journey

Third baronet of Glaslough

and with a relationship in flux

unflinching and disarmingly honest

re-creating this fertile period in Joyce’s life with an extraoridinary richness of detail and depth of understanding