Princeton University Press has signed world rights to James Joyce: A Political Life by the late senior counsel and historian Frank Callanan, who died suddenly at his home in Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2, before Christmas.
Callanan (65) combined a busy legal career with prolific historical and literary writing, and posthumous publication of his Joyce book will be in 2023.
It examines the influence of Irish nationalism on Joyce’s formation as a writer in the first decade of the 20th century.
Callanan spent years studying the politics of James Joyce, researching in the National Library, going through the Freeman’s Journal, and other archives, and was described at his funeral eulogy at Westland Row church in Dublin 2 as a “clever, oblique, subtle and devious researcher”.
In April 2021, Callanan’s , at the King’s Inns, examined barrister John Francis Taylor’s famous 1901 speech, also at the King’s Inns, and how it relates to Ulysses.
The 1901 King’s Inns debate was a contest between unionist and nationalist conceptions of Ireland.
Callanan said that Joyce was susceptible to Taylor’s argument, which married Ireland’s artistic and historical heritage with high nationalism.
Joyce read copious newspaper coverage of the speech, though he may not have been actually present, Callanan believed.
Stanislaus, Joyce’s brother, had written that James read Arthur Griffith’s weekly publication the United Irishman and described it as “the only paper in Dublin worth reading,...
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