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One of Ireland's best actresses, Eilin O'Dea as Molly Bloom is coming to New York from 19th January 2008, for a very limited season, as part of the INL 2008 International Theatre Show (INL 2008 ITS). The show looks like being a sell out once the box office opens official ticket sales in December 2008
If you are interested in being placed on the waiting list for reservations prior to the box office making tickets available to the general public please send an email to: INL 2008 ITS-Molly Bloom
The INL 2008 ITS also will be proundly presenting:
English/Aussie stand up commedian, Kerry Leigh in her self penned very witty one woman show "All Change.....".
The Famous "Bite Size Crew" from the UK, with the world's best Aussie and English short 10 minute comedy plays who have had successful seasons in London, Edinburgh and Finland......
The "innocently provocative" Jessica Delfino from New York....
The outrageous "Dirty Beat Up Yanks Crew" from LA.... You can book all shows separately or book them all together and receive the a special price deal to include all shows..... Email the INL 2008 ITS at Admin@inlnews.us to show your interest in any of and/or all of these outstanding shows that all received the special USA Weekly News 100 Star Award....
What is coming up in the INL 2008 International Theatre Show to be to held in New York January 19th to 23rd February 2008?
Molly Boom-
main head line play:
staring Eilin O'Dea, a great talented actress from Ireland,
Eilin's love is the theatre, however Eilin also wants to also develop her film career. The play is a section of work from the famous Dublin writer James Joyce, which was banned for many years when it was first written, and is an absolute stunning performance that really can not be missed.
is recognised as one of the most famous female narratives in modern literature, which was performed by Eilin O'Dea and directed by Liam Carney
All Change: written and performed by Kerry Leigh, a talented stand up commedian from Manchester who was educated is Perth Western Australia at the Curtain University and thus has a great influence of a mixture of English and Australian humour
"Juggling isn't easy - some days you hand your baby a beer and ask your man if he's done a poo-poo. Has this funny mummy gone gaga? Ride the highs and lows of a comedian's experience of first-time motherhood as she shares her tory with painful honesty and curious humour...." Kerry Leigh
Jessica Delphino
Jessica Delfino
who went to Philadelphia Art School which Jessica says " is the home of brotherly love.. ......where the brothers love each other..." after been seen by the INL News Team in London and the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, INL has chosen Jessica to co-host the 2008 International News Limited ( INL) International Theatre Show in New York..
Jessica who has had some her songs banned by you tube and denounced, ....yes........ denounced by the Catholic League.......
destroyed the audiencies in London and Edinburgh. when she brought her one wonan show to the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.. words are hard to describe Jessica, however the USA Weekly News described her performance as
The lovely and clever Jessica Delfino wows them in the Galway Comedy Fest in Ireland....jessica delfino touching you comedy zeppelin joni mitchell sabbath genesis haunted pussy
Dirty Beat Up Yanks
Beat Up Dirty Yanks
America's most idiotic, obnoxious, and energetic outcasts throw
themselves onto the stage for a character comedy A comedic character smackdown slammed with stand-up,
sketch and improvisation. Some contenders include:
Ronald Prouty-Ty Twiss-Tim Schwartz who also appeared with Jessica on the Battersea Barge along with
a surprise guest in the audience trying to be lost in the crowd...Keith Richards... When Ronald Prouty
of Dirty Beat Up Yanks as the mexican plumber in Beat Up Dirty Yanks was doing his famous
Fixi-The-Toilet Gag... and he asked Keith Richards if he had any toilets to fixie....
Keith said.... in a rather posh uppercrust voice with a lot of authority and confidence...
"..... Oh I have toilets all over the world....."
the mexican plumber quickly piped back and said to the lady sitting with Keith Richards... "ÿou are likley to get into a lot of trouble hanging around with Keith Richards..." .........all in fun and gest of course......
Das Contras: Great up and comming Scottish Jass-Rock-Funk- Fussion Bands that ripped audiences appart at the 2007 Wickerman Music and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals
THE INL News Group is working on getting Ellen DeGeneres to jointly host the Gala Premier Preview Show to be held on the 19th January 2008. Ellen is best mates with Hillary Clinton and we are hoping the get Hillary and Bill Clinton along and encourage Bill to play sax for a couple of numbers with the Das Contras band. This will be great publicity for the artists and the show, as well for Hillary's presidential campaign....
Ellen is really great value and very user friendly and would add a lot to the premier of the Show on the 19th January 2008 which should be fun for all and a really great night not to be missed on the your social calander.
Back at work ... Ellen DeGeneres / AP
COMEDIAN Ellen DeGeneres returned to her TV show today after taking a long weekend to escape a national uproar over an adopted puppy, saying she hoped the drama would not discourage people from adopting pets.
DeGeneres, one of the country's best known entertainers, sobbed on TV last week as she recounted how an animal rescue group took back a puppy she had adopted but then given to her hairstylist's family without the animal agency's permission.
The FAMOUS Bite Size team bring you the best short10 minute plays in the world, great comedy is provided to all by the Bite Size Team, British Actors and Comedians playing the best of Aussie and British Humour....
Attempt 3.4 The Film- filmed from the last live perfromance at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and produced by International News Limitd association with Bitter Blue Productions, one of the very first times an Edinburgh Fringe Play has been turned into a feature Film
Eilin O'Dea's performance of Molly Bloom made famous in the James Joyce play Ulysses is chosen as the feayure show to be brought to New York as part of 2008 International News Limited's International Theatre Show... seats for this show will no doubt be a sell out, so when the dates are announced get your tickets early to make sure you do not miss out. Eilin O'Dea's performance of Molly Bloom was smash hit in Dublin and the INL News Group were fortunate enough to have seen the show while covering the 2007 Dublin Frnge Festival...and knew at once that INL had to share this academy award performance with New Yorkers.....
A review has been made by the USA Weekly News on the performance by Eilin O'Dea of James Joyce's Ulysses Molly Bloom's soliloquy at the end of the James Joyce's Ulysses'. This is recognised as one of the most famous female narratives in modern literature, which was performed by Eilin O'Dea and directed by Liam Carney at the Teachers Club 36 Parnell Square West Dublin 1, from the 25th September - 6th October. This famous narrative which has been used as the basis of songs, re-appeared in movies, quoted in other literary works and in terms of its effect on Irish culture is one of the most difficult narratives for an actor to perform. Eilin O'Dea performs Molly Bloom's otherwise silent voice to bear her soul on life, love, sex and loneliness. This has been done with absolute artistic genius by Eilen O'Dea in a genuine authentic way. Having heard Eilin O'Dea as Molly Bloom, it is hard to imagine any other actor performing this difficult narrative in anyway near the standard set by Eilin O'Dea. In effect Eilin O'Dea has become the real Molly Bloom is this absolute stunning academy award style performance which will no doubt receive a standing ovation from audiences all around the world. The USA Weekly News was compelled to give Eilin O'Dea's performance of Molly Bloom the highest industry award that is on offer. There is absolutely no doubt of her receiving the normal top five star industry award. However, the USA WEEKLY NEWS has a special 100 Star Award for performances that are in a class of their own. Eilin O'Dea's performance of Molly Bloom is one of these performances. The USA WEEKLY NEWS is confident that when Eilin O'Dea takes her performance of Molly Bloom to London, New York, Australia and the rest of the world, the play will have a very long and successful season. Awards from the USA WEEKLY NEWS to Eilin O'Dea as Molly Bloom directed by Liam Carney : The normal Industy 5 star award plus the USA WEEKLY NEWS special 100 star award for being is class far above the standard to the normal five star ward performance. Sincere congradulations from the USA WEEKLY NEWS..... A performance not to be missed....
KERRY LEIGH and her amazingly funny and provocative one woman show.. .oh... not really there is also 'baby pumkin' as well... has been selected by International News Limited - INL News Group to be brought to New York as part of the 2008 INL's International Theatre Show
It was decided to let New Yorkers share in Kerry's unique brand of humour in All Change, "about motherhood, babies and her impersonation of a retarded woman with a new baby obsession which is absolutely superb. Go and see this show...” John Collins
ALL CHANGE
"Juggling isn't easy - some days you hand your baby a beer and ask your man if he's done a poo-poo. Has this funny mummy gone gaga? Ride the highs and lows of a comedian's experience of first-time motherhood as she shares her tory with painful honesty and curious humour...." Kerry Leigh
Rap on Kerry Leigh Often mistaken for an Antipodean, Kerry was sent to Australia as a convict when she was just 9 years old for heinous crimes against fashion, returning to the UK in her twenties where she has since developed a dry and witty comedic style musing on the absurdities of life through the eyes of a pseudo-Australian.
She has successfully written and performed her own one-woman comedy theatre show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2007 in which she shares her experience as a first-time mother with painful honesty and curious humour, reviewed here by John Collins:
“…this is a great show!! Kerry Leigh is very funny about motherhood, babies and her impersonation of a retarded woman with a new baby obsession was superb. Go and see this show...”
As resident compere for ‘Laughing Cows’ at The Frog and Bucket in Manchester since 2004, Kerry has become adept at comedy crowd control. Her surreal twist on recent events combined with a talent for quickly building a rapport with the audience makes her a fresh and captivating host each month.
Kerry’s hosting talent is in demand as she now also MCs the recently formed ‘Roughsketch Comedy Club’ in Manchester for which she also writes and performs.
Kerry was invited to Edinburgh as a Semi-finalist in Channel 4’s ‘So You Think You’re Funny’ competition in 2004 and was a finalist in 2005’s Citylife Comedian of the Year competition, reviewed here by Citylife writer Marissa Burgess:
"...Kerry Leigh displayed a beautifully sardonic edge to express an inventive and refreshing set with an occasional unexpected surreal moment."
Comedy History
August 2007 Wrote, directed and performed her one-woman show: All Change Edinburgh Fringe Festival
May 2007 – Resident compere and sketch writer / performer at Roughsketch Comedy Club Castbar, Manchester
2004 – Resident compere of Laughing Cows Comedy Nite The Frog and Bucket, Manchester
January – December 2005 Co-Presenter with Caroline Rennie on Drivetime All FM Radio, Manchester
February 2005 BBC3 I-Dent, comic actor
November 2005 Finalist in Citylife Comedian of the Year competition Comedy Store, Manchester
August 2004 Semi-Finalist ‘So You Think You’re Funny’ competition Gilded balloon, Edinburgh
2002 – Stand up comedian performing at various venues throughout the UK
1996 – 1999 BA (Hons) English (Double Major in Creative Writing and Theatre Arts) Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia
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Read the only blog that will give you a unique insight into the process of writing an original musical theater show. Calcatelli & Gray are planning on writing a new show in 80 days in order not to miss the deadline to take it to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August. Will they make it? Follow the daily progress!
EDINBURGH: Peter Furlong sings about suicide bombers during the day, and in the evenings he hands out fliers. "It's quite a contrast," said the Boston-born tenor, who is performing in "Manifest Destiny," a new opera involving a love story and Al Qaeda, at the 59th Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the largest arts festival in the world, ending here on Monday.
For the month of August, the streets of Edinburgh transform into a blurry carnival of tartan, bagpipes and street-side acts below Edinburgh Castle, which towers dramatically over the scene. The city population more than doubles as tourists attend a variety of festivals, which, besides the Fringe, include the International Festival (the original arts festival that began in 1947, where the work is still by invitation only), the Book Festival, the Film Festival and the Military Tattoo (a daily array of marching, drumming and fireworks).
But the major attraction is the Fringe, currently 6 percent ahead of last year's record-breaking number of tickets sold: 1.25 million.
The Edinburgh Fringe, which began on Aug. 7, overlaps with the New York International Fringe Festival, held during the last two weeks in August, but it is about five times larger. Anyone who can pay the roughly $540 registration fee is eligible, although participants must broker a deal for a performing site. The sheer size - more than 1,800 shows this year, performed almost around the clock - makes standing out hard. The local paper, The Scotsman, prints a 24-page daily festival supplement to help tourists. But for some performers, nothing beats shoe-leather promotion.
"New opera at the Fringe," Furlong said, as he thrust a flier toward the clasped hands of a passer-by. Furlong was competing for attention near a man covered in white chalk squatting on a toilet, a juggling unicycle rider and a 17-piece band in kilts. Others rely on a celebrity name: Rain Pryor billed herself in the official program guide as "Richard Pryor's daughter" for her solo autobiographical show, "Fried Chicken and Latkes," seen in New York last year. For many performers, a favorable newspaper review can mean the difference between 8 and 80 people in the audience. Fringe has traditionally been a place for comedy, but this year critics have griped about a dearth of outstanding talent. The Sunday Telegraph reported that judges for the Perrier Award, the equivalent of an Oscar for comedians, had "described this year's shows as 'silly,' 'flat' and 'of the level of fifth-form humor,' and complained that they concentrated too much on politics."
Kate Copstick, a comedy critic for The Scotsman, dismissed the grumbles, saying, "I have seen a lot more good comedy this year," though she acknowledged that "even though the overall quality is better, there is less singular work that rocks my world."
With show titles like "War, Terror and Other Fun Stuff," "Me and Hitler" and "Terrorist! The Musical," it might sound as if politics was being addressed solely through spoofs. But the festival's director, Paul Gudgin, said this year's Fringe is by far the most seriously political. The registration deadline was in April, so that tone came about well before the London bombings on July 7 and 21. None of the more than 30 shows about terrorism was canceled as a result, but many involved a rethinking.
Mark Ravenhill, the writer of the cult hit play "Shopping and F***ing," made the festival's most-hyped acting debut in "Product," his drama about a suicide bomber that he said he started thinking about more than a year ago. Then July 7 happened. "I knew the bombings would change things," Ravenhill said. "I just didn't know how. In the end, I kept it the same. I'd sanitize the play if I took things out, or emotionally hijack it if I added references to the London bombings. Surely the bombings change the play; I'm just not sure how."
The British composer Keith Burstein similarly kept to his original concept in "Manifest Destiny," the story of a Palestinian poet who finds herself drawn to the act of suicide bombing. But he did think twice about transporting one of his main props, a fake bomb made of exposed wires and cardboard tubes spray-painted gold, on the London Underground. "I decided it best we use a taxi instead," he said.
Other serious-sounding works with titles like "The Exonerated," the off-Broadway hit, and Peter Morris's ironically titled "Guardians," about Abu Ghraib and the news media, were praised by critics and audiences alike. "The Exonerated," the strongest-selling American show at the Fringe - there are about 40 - tells the real-life stories of six people, including a woman named Sunny Jacobs, who were wrongfully convicted of crimes and spent years on death row. When, at the end of one performance, the actor Aidan Quinn, who was in the show, announced that the actor playing Sunny Jacobs was the real Sunny Jacobs, the crowd at the Assembly at Queen's Hall space jumped to its feet in a standing ovation.
"Each time I perform, I reopen old wounds that are better left healed," said Jacobs, a quiet, gray-haired woman. "But if I can help generate interest in the show, then I will help out where I can."
With the Fringe operating as a kind of department store and the shows as merchandise, the idea, of course, is to be purchased. There are 1,359 registered producers and others here on scouting missions.
Wesley Brustad, the president of the State Theater in New Brunswick, New Jersey, is one such scout who arrived looking for "fresh, new, nonrecycled" talent. In four days, Brustad saw 32 shows and said he hoped to bring a Fringe act to New Jersey next year. "Edinburgh is one of the great secrets," he said. "It's so bizarre and fun here, like nothing I ever thought. Artistically, it is mind-blowing."
For his part, Furlong, the singer, said he had found that the best promotional tactics were the traditional ones. Only a quarter of passers-by accept his fliers, he said, but he is sharpening his strategy. He has started saying "new opera at the Fringe" with an exaggerated Italian accent and a touch of vibrato. "I think it's helping," he said.
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL NEWS FLASH Molly Bloom coming to New York for a January-February 2008 Season
If you are interested in expressing an interest in reserving your tickets for "Molly Bloom in New York" before they go on sale through the Box office when they are likey to be sold out in a few days of their release, please email the INL News Group at Admin@inlnews.us
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All Change
Jessica Delfino
Beat Up Dirty Yanks
Das Contras Scottish Jass-Rock-Funk Band
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Irish novelist, noted for his experimental use of language in such works as ULYSSES (1922) and FINNEGANS WAKE (1939). During his career Joyce suffered from rejections from publishers, suppression by censors, attacks by critics, and misunderstanding by readers. From 1902 Joyce led a nomadic life, which perhaps reflected in his interest in the character of Odysseus. Although he spent long times in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zürich, with only occasional brief visit to Ireland, his native country remained basic to all his writings.
"But when the restraining influence of the school was at a distance I began to hunger again for wild sensations, for the escape which those chronicles of disorder alone seemed to offer me. The mimic warfare of the evening became at last as wearisome to me as the routine of school in the morning because I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad." (from Dubliners)
James Joyce was born in Dublin as the son of John Stanislaus Joyce, impoverished gentleman, who had failed in a distillery business and tried all kinds of professions, including politics and tax collecting. Joyce's mother, Mary Jane Murray, was ten years younger than her husband. She was an accomplished pianist, whose life was dominated by the Roman Catholic Church and her husband. In spite of the poverty, the family struggled to maintain solid middle-class facade.
From the age of six Joyce, was educated by Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College, at Clane, and then at Belvedere College in Dublin (1893-97). Later the author thanked Jesuits for teaching him to think straight, although he rejected their religious instructions. At school he once broke his glasses and was unable to do his lessons. This episode was recounted in A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN (1916). In 1898 he entered the University College, Dublin, where he found his early inspirations from the works of Henrik Ibsen, St.Thomas Aquinas and W.B. Yeats. Joyce's first publication was an essay on Ibsen's play When We Dead Awaken. It appeared in Fortnightly Review in 1900. At this time he began writing lyric poems.
After graduation in 1902 the twenty-year-old Joyce went to Paris, where he worked as a journalist, teacher and in other occupations in difficult financial conditions. He spent in France a year, returning when a telegram arrived saying his mother was dying. Not long after her death, Joyce was traveling again. He left Dublin in 1904 with Nora Barnacle, a chambermaid (they married in 1931), staying in Pola, Austria-Hungary, and in Trieste, which was the world’s seventh busiest port. Joyce gave English lessons and talked about setting up an agency to sell Irish tweed. Refused a post teaching Italian literature in Dublin, he continued to live abroad.
The Trieste years were nomadic, poverty-stricken, and productive. Joyce and Nora loved this cosmopolitan port city at the head of the Adriatic Sea, where they lived in a number of different addresses. During this period Joyce wrote most of DUBLINERS (1914), all of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the play, EXILES (1918), and large sections of Ulysses. Several of Joyce's siblings joined them, and two children, Giorgio and Lucia, were born. The children grew up speakin the Trieste dialect of Italian. Joyce and Nora stayed together althoug Joyce fell in love with Anny Schleimer, the daughter of an Austrian banker, and Roberto Prezioso, the editor of the newspaper Il Piccolo della Sera, tried to seduce Nora. After a short stint in Rome in 1906-07 as a bank clerk ended in illness, Joyce returned to Trieste.
In 1907 Joyce published a collection of poems, CHAMBER MUSIC. The title was suggested, as the author later stated, by the sound of urine tinkling into a prostitute's chamber pot. The poems have with their open vowels and repetitions such musical quality that many of them have been made into songs. "I have left my book, / I have left my room, / For I heard you singing / Through the gloom." Joyce himself had a fine tenor voice; he liked opera and bel canto.
In 1909 Joyce opened a cinema in Dublin, but this affair failed and he was soon back in Trieste, still broke and working as a teacher, tweed salesman, journalist and lecturer. In 1912 he was in Ireland, trying to persuade Maunsel & Co to fulfill their contract to publish Dubliners. The work contained a series of short stories, dealing with the lives of ordinary people, youth, adolescence, young adulthood, and maturity. The last story, 'The Dead', was adapted into screen by John Huston in 1987.
It was Joyce's last journey to his home country. However, he had became friends with Ezra Pound, who began to market his works. In 1916 appeared Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, an autobiographical novel. It apparently began as a quasi-biographical memoir entitled Stephen Hero between 1904 and 1906. Only a fragment of the original manuscript has survived. The book follows the life of the protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, from childhood towards maturity, his education at University College, Dublin, and rebellion to free himself from the claims of family and Irish nationalism. Stephen takes religion seriously, and considers entering a seminary, but then also rejects Roman Catholicism. "-Look here, Cranly, he said. You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using my defence the only arms I allow myself to use - silence, exile, and cunning."At the end Stephen resolves to leave Ireland for Paris to encounter "the reality of experience". He wants to establish himself as a writer.
There once was a lounger named Stephen Whose youth was most odd and uneven --He throve on the smell --Of a horrible hell That a Hottentot wouldn't believe in. (Joyce's limerick on the book's protagonist)
At the outset of the First World War, Joyce moved with his family to Zürich, where Lenin and the poet essayist Tristan Tzara had found their refuge. Joyce's WW I years with the legendary Russian revolutionary and Tzara, who founded the dadaist movement at the Cabaret Voltaire, provide the basis for Tom Stoppard's play Travesties (1974).
In Zürich Joyce started to develop the early chapters of Ulysses, which was first published in France, because of censorship troubles in the Great Britain and the United States, where the book became legally available 1933. The theme of jealousy was based partly on a story a former friend of Joyce told: he claimed that he had been sexually intimate with the author's wife, Nora, even while Joyce was courting her. Ulysses takes place on one day in Dublin (June 16, 1904) and reflected the classic work of Homer (fl. 9th or 8th century BC?).
The main characters are Leopold Bloom, a Jewish advertising canvasser, his wife Molly, and Stephen Dedalus, the hero from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. They are intended to be modern counterparts of Telemachus, Ulysses, and Penelope. Barmaids are the famous Sirens. One of the models for Bloom was Ettore Schmitz (Italo Svevo), a novelist and businessman who was Joyce's student at the Berlitz school in Trieste. The story, using stream-of-consciousness technique, parallel the major events in Odysseus' journey home. However, Bloom's adventures are less heroic and his homecoming is less violent. Bloom makes his trip to the underworld by attending a funeral at Glasnevin Cemetary. "We are praying now for the repose of his soul. Hoping you're well and not in hell. Nice change of air. Out of the fryingpan of life into the fire of purgatory."The paths of Stephen and Bloom cross and recross through the day.Joyce's technical innovations in the art of the novel include an extensive use of interior monologue; he used a complex network of symbolic parallels drawn from the mythology, history, and literature.
From 1917 to 1930 Joyce endured several eye operations, being totally blind for short intervals. (According to tradition, Homer was also blind.) In March 1923 Joyce started in Paris his second major work, Finnegans Wake, suffering at the same time chronic eye troubles caused by glaucoma. The first segment of the novel appeared in Ford Madox Ford's transatlantic review in April 1924, as part of what Joyce called Work in Progress. Wake occupied Joyce's time for the next sixteen years - its final version was completed late in 1938. A copy of the novel was present at Joyce's birthday celebration on February 1939.
Joyce's daughter Lucia, born in Trieste in 1907, became Carl Jung's patient in 1934. In her teens, she studied dance, and later The Paris Times praised her skills as choreocrapher, linguist, and performer. With her father she collaborated in POMES PENYEACH (1927), for which she did some illustrations. Lucia's great love was Samuel Beckett, who was not interested in her. In the 1930s, she started to behave erratically. At the Burghölz psychiatric clinic in Zurich, where Jung worked, she was diagnosed schizophrenic. Joyce was left bitter at Jung's analysis of his daughter - Jung thought she was too close with her father's psychic system. In revenge, Joyce played in Finnegans Wake with Jung's concepts of Animus and Anima. Lucia died in a mental hospital in Northampton, England, in 1982.
After the fall of France in WWII, Joyce returned to Zürich, where he died on January 13, 1941, still disappointed with the reception of Finnegans Wake. The book was partly based on Freud's dream psychology, Bruno's theory of the complementary but conflicting nature of opposites, and the cyclic theory of history of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744).
Finnegans Wake was the last and most revolutionary work of the author. There is not much plot or characters to speak of - the life of all human experience is viewed as fragmentary. Some critics considered the work masterpiece, though many readers found it incomprehensible. "The only demand I make of my reader," Joyce once told an interviewer, "is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works." When the American writer Max Eastman asked Joyce why the book was written in a very difficult style, Joyce replied: "To keep the critics busy for three hundred years." The novel presents the dreams and nightmares of H.C.Earwicker (Here Comes Everywhere) and his family, the wife and mother Anna Livia Plurabelle, the twins Shem/Jerry and Shaun/Kevin, and the daughter Issy, as they lie asleep throughout the night. In the frame of the minimal central story Joyce experiments with language, combines puns and foreign words with allusions to historical, psychological and religious cosmology. The characters turn up in hundreds of different forms - animal, vegetable and mineral. Transformations are as flexible as in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The last word in the book is 'the', which leads, by Joyce's ever recurrent cycles, to the opening word in the book, the eternal 'riverrun.'
Although the events are set in the Dublin suburb of Chapelizod, the place is an analogy for everywhere else. Wake's structure follows the three stages of history as laid out by Vico: the Divine, the Heroic, and Human, followed period of flux, after which the cycle begins all over again: the last sentence in the work runs into the first. The title of the book is a compound of Finn MaCool, the Irish folk-hero who is supposed to return to life at some future date to become the savior of Ireland, and Tim Finnegan, the hero of music-hall ballad, who sprang to life in the middle of his own wake.
For further reading:James Joyce by Herbert Gorman (1939); Introducing James Joyce, ed. by T.S. Eliot (1942); Stephen Hero, ed. by Theodore Spencer (1944); James Joyce by W.Y. Tindall (1950); Joyce: The Man, the Reputation, the Work by M. Maglaner and R.M. Kain (1956); Dublin's Joyce by Hugh Kenner (1956); My Brtother's Keeper by S. Joyce (1958); James Joyce by Richard Ellmann (1959); A Readers' Guide to Joyce (1959); The Art of James Joyce by A.W. Litz (1961); Surface and Symbol: The Consistency of James Joyce's Ulysses by R.M. Adams (1962); J. Joyce-again's Finnegans Wake by B. Benstock (1965); James Joyce's 'Ulysses': Critical Essays, ed. by Clive Hart and David Hayman (1974); A Conceptual Guide to 'Finnegans Wake' by Michael H. Begnal and Fritz Senn (1974); James Joyce: the Citizen and the Artist by C. Peake (1977); James Joyce by Patrick Parrinder (1984); Joyce's Anatomy of Culture by Cheryl Herr (1986); Joyce's Book of the Dark: 'Finnegans Wake by John Bishop (1986); Reauthorizing Joyce by Vicki Mahaffey (1988); 'Ulysses' Annotated by Don Gifford (1988); An Annotated Critical Bibliography of James Joyce, ed. by Thomas F. Staley (1989); The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce, ed by Derek Attridge (1990); Joyce's Web by Margot Norris (1992); James Joyce's 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' by David Seed (1992); Critical Essays on James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake ed. by Patrick A. McCarthy (1992); James Joyce and the Language of History: Dedalus's Nightmare by Robert E. Spoo (1994), Gender in Joyce, ed. by Jolanta W. Wawrzycka (1997) ; A Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses, ed. by Margot Norris (1999); Toiseen maailmaan. James Joycen novelli "Kuolleet" kirjallisuustieteen kohteena by Pekka Vartiainen (1999); The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste, 1904-1920 by John McCourt (2000) - See also: Little Blue Light, Samuel Beckett, William Butler Yeats, Marcel Proust
Selected works:
CHAMBER MUSIC, 1907
DUBLINERS, 1914 - Dublinilaisia - film Dead (1987), based on the last story in the collection, dir. by John Huston, starring Anjelica Huston
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, 1916 - Taiteilijan omakuva nuoruuden vuosilta (trans. into Finnish by Alex Matson) - film 1979, dir. by Joseph Strick, starring Bosco Hogan, T.P. McKenna, John Gielgud
EXILES, 1918
ULYSSES, 1922 - Odysseus (trans. into Finnish by Pentti Saarikoski) - film 1967, dir. by Joseph Strick, starring Barbara Jefford, Molo O'Shea, Maurive Roeves, T.P. McKenna
POMES PENYEACH, 1927
COLLECTED POEMS, 1936
FINNEGANS WAKE, 1939 - film 1965, dir. by Mary Ellen Bute
STEPHEN HERO, 1944
THE PORTABLE JAMES JOYCE, 1947
THE ESSENTIAL JAMES JOYCE, 1948
THE LETTERS OF JAMES JOYCE, 3 vols., 1957-66
THE CRITICAL WRITINGS, 1959
'LIVIA PRULABELLA' - THE MAKING OF A CHAPTER, 1960
A FIRST DRAFT VERSION OF 'FINNEGANS WAKE', 1963
THE LETETRS OF JAMES JOYCE, 3 vols., 1957-66
GIACOMO JOYCE, 1968
SELECTED LETTERS OF JAMES JOYCE, 1975
THE JAMES JOYCE ARCHIVES, 63 vols., 1977-80
ULYSSES: A READER'S EDITION, 1997 (ed. by Danis Rose
A review has been made by the USA Weekly News on the performance by Eilin O'Dea of James Joyce's Ulysses Molly Bloom's soliloquy at the end of the James Joyce's Ulysses'. This is recognised as one of the most famous female narratives in modern literature, which was performed by Eilin O'Dea and directed by Liam Carney at the Teachers Club 36 Parnell Square West Dublin 1, from the 25th September - 6th October. This famous narrative which has been used as the basis of songs, re-appeared in movies, quoted in other literary works and in terms of its effect on Irish culture is one of the most difficult narratives for an actor to perform. Eilin Odea performs Molly Bloom's otherwise silent voice to bear her soul on life, love, sex and loneliness. This has been done with absolute artistic genius by Eilen Odea in a genuine authentic way. Having heard Eilin Odea as Molly Bloom, it is hard to imagine any other actor performing this difficult narrative in anyway near the standard set by Eilin Odea. In effect Eilin Odea has become the real Molly Bloom is this absolute stunning academy award style performance which will no doubt receive a standing ovation from audiences all around the world. The USA Weekly News is compelled to give Eilin's performance of Molly Bloom the hightest industry award that is on offer. There is absolutely no doubt of her receiving the normal top five star industry award. However, the USA WEEKLY NEWS has a special 100 star award for perpormances that are in a class of their own. Eilin's performance of Molly Bloom is one of these performances. The USA WEEKLY NEWS is confident that when Eilin Odea takes her performance of Molly Bloom to London, New York, Australia and the rest of the world, the play will have a very long and successful season. Awards from the USA WEEKLY NEWS to Eilin Odea as Molly Bloom directed by Liam Carney : The normal Industy 5 star award plus the USA WEEKLY NEWS special 100 star award for being is class far above the standard to the normal five star ward performance. Sincere congradulations from the USA WEEKLY NEWS..... A performance not to be missed....
I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book," James Joyce told his friend the artist Frank Budgen as he was laboring on his epic novel Ulysses in Zurich.
In voluntary exile from his native Ireland, Joyce wrote with Thom's Directory, a Dublin city reference book at his elbow and often sought in letters to relatives and friends precise details of various locations. Dublin also provided the backbone for Joyce's other major works: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Finnegans Wake. "...the personality of the city is present in an almost human way," notes the Trinity College scholar David Norris, "lightly buried under the texture of the prose."
In recent years I have discovered Dublin by literally walking in the steps of James Joyce and his characters and in so doing have enjoyed a dual love affair. I always carry a copy of Ulysses and one of the literary maps or guides available at Dublin's proliferating shrines to the writer whose books were proscribed during his lifetime.
Ulysses takes place on the single day and evening of June 16, 1904 which commemorates the author's first walk about town with Nora Barnacle who would become his life companion. Over the last 20 years the date has been celebrated as Bloomsday in honor of Leopold Bloom, the hero of the novel. Bloom, a Jewish advertising salesman, wanders about the city, sometimes crossing paths with Stephen Dedalus, a young writer who is Joyce's alter ego.
The Dublin inhabited by Joyce and his Everyman was an Edwardian backwater of the British Empire, a city of gaslight, horsedrawn carriages, outdoor plumbing and many unpaved streets. The magnificent Georgian houses and squares built in the 18th century, Dublin's golden age, for the Anglo-Irish landowners attending the short-lived Irish Parliament had been lapsing into slums. Grinding poverty confronted faded elegance. Revolution was more than a decade in the future. The Irish Literary Revival led by William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory was unfolding in theaters and meeting rooms but the prickly 22-year-old Joyce did not participate in the movement.
This Dublin, recalls the actress Fionnula Flanagan, was "frozen in amber like a fly until World War II." Then real estate developers, unrestrained by civic pride or preservation instincts, demolished many of the architectural gems. About 20 years ago, dedicated urbanists like David Norris, professor of English studies at Trinity College Dublin and a member of the Irish Senate, began to reverse the destructive tide. The centenary of Joyce's birth in 1982 further stimulated efforts at recognizing the writer's work and preserving his environment.
As a result Dublin today is a rewarding destination for Joycean pilgrims whether scholars or novitiates. Despite the lacunae caused by those earlier wrecking balls Joyce's Hibernian Metropolis survives in the midst of a vibrant Irish capital he would scarcely recognize. Ireland in the 1990's has become one of the most flourishing economies in Europe. With political and cultural straitjackets removed, Dublin is the magnet for young writers, film makers, artists and even food connoisseurs.
The very best time to explore Dublin through James Joyce's life and fiction is on a Bloomsday or the week leading up to it, an enlarged celebration called Bloomstime. The capricious Irish weather is inclined to present a sunny face in late spring and apart from scheduled literary events, the streets are filled with actors and mimes giving impromptu performances.
Still, any season is conducive to discovering James Joyce on his own turf. Just remember to take an umbrella and puddleproof footwear.
Dublin is a pedestrian's city, welcoming to the inquisitive saunterer. Haste has not yet seeped into the Irish consciousness nor have Dubliners speeded up to the pace of New York or London. Robert Nicholson, curator of the James Joyce Museum, reckons that Leopold Bloom covered 18 miles of city streets in as many hours, about half on foot, the rest by tram and horse-drawn carriage.
Bloom did not follow a straight course in his meanderings. Moreover, Nicholson reminds us, the third major character, Molly Bloom, spends practically the entire time in her bed. I am therefore proposing a series of walks, loosely but not exclusively based on chapters in Ulysses. There are references to Joyce's Dubliners and Portrait as well because numerous characters appear in more than one book and their hapless lives are played out in the heart of Dublin and some of its outlying districts.
These excursions are by no means comprehensive and their design is idiosyncratic since it is based on my own literary infatuations. Not everyone will want to see the back wall of the building in which Nora Barnacle worked as a chambermaid or choose to eschew a search for Nighttown and Bella Cohen's vanished brothel.
In the course of a day, the literary tourist like the fictional folk in Joyce's other books will repeatedly encounter the River Liffey. His "dear dirty Dublin" is one of those cities whose aspect is determined by a river--and a dear dirty river it is, too. The Liffey rises in the Wicklow mountains to the south, descends to bisect the city and them empties into the Irish Sea. Joyce made the Liffey a character in Finnegans Wake, his last and most challenging novel. Anna Livia Plurabelle, the matriarchal figure of the Wake, is at times transposed into the Liffey. (Livia is the Latin name for Liffey.)
O tell me all about Anna Livia! I want to hear all
about Anna Livia. Tell me all. Tell me now. You'll die when you hear. [FW 196.1]
Logic would seem to dictate the center of the city for an initial excursion devoted to an urban author. I propose instead an early morning trip to suburban Sandycove and the James Joyce Museum located in the Martello Tower, the setting for the opening chapter of Ulysses.
At the Westland Row station for DART, Dublin's above-ground train system, head in the southerly direction of Bray for a 20-minute ride to Sandycove. Leaving the station take the nearest side street and proceed toward the water ("the snot-green sea" of Dublin Bay.) Turn right and walk along the coast road toward the round gray fortification. The Martello Tower was built in 1804 by the British as a safeguard against a feared Napoleonic invasion that never materialized.
In the summer of 1904, Oliver St. John Gogarty, a young medical student and poet rented the tower which had just been demilitarized by the British army and invited James Joyce to stay there with him. During the brief visit the friendship ruptured. Joyce repaid Gogarty by casting him as the insensitive character of Buck Mulligan in Ulysses.
The entrance to the James Joyce Museum is tucked behind a white-walled residence of stark modern design by Michael Scott, a noted Dublin architect. The ground floor of the museum is given to a bookstore, a gift shop and exhibits of memorabilia. All are worth scrutiny but best climb straight to the roof of the tower where on a Bloomsday Joyceans will be perched on the parapets reading aloud.
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:
-Introibo ad altare Dei.
Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely:
--Come up, Kinch! Come up, you fearful jesuit!
After walking around the parapet and gazing out to sea in recollection of Stephen Dedalus, climb down the spiral staircase to the Round Room, the principal living area and the setting for the breakfast scene. A ceramic black panther stands guard in front of the hearth, a reminder of the nightmare suffered by the English guest Haines (and his original Samuel Chenevix Trench) which prompted the gun blasts that provoked Stephen (and James Joyce) into leaving the tower.
Now we can peruse the exhibits on the first floor. They range from a pandybat such as the one administered to Stephen at Clongowes Wood College in the first chapter of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to numerous manuscripts, photographs and letters exchanged between James and Nora Joyce and their friends. An essential purchase in the bookstore is Robert Nicholson's The Ulysses Guide: Tours Through Joyce's Dublin.
Leaving the Tower and bearing left, repeat after Buck Mulligan the ballad of joking jesus. This should take us to the Forty-Foot perched at the edge of the cliff. Now as in Joyce's time hardy members of the Sandycove Bathers Association plunge into the scrotumtightening sea [U4/78] in weather foul or fair. On Bloomsday, in the interest of fidelity to the text, Joyceans follow Buck Mulligan and take the leap in the buff.
In the novel Stephen parts company with Mulligan and Haines and proceeds to his teaching job at a school in Dalkey, a distance of about one mile. Nicholson conjectures that he walked along Sandycove Avenue East to Breffni Road and its continuation on Ulverton Road to the village of Dalkey, celebrated in the works of several Irish writers, in particular the playwright Hugh Leonard.
At the corner of Dalkey Avenue and Old Quarry is "Summerfield", an estate once occupied by the Clifton School. There Joyce instructed the sons of wealthy Protestant families for a brief period in 1904 and used its obnoxious headmaster as a model for Mr. Deasy.
--Ireland, they say, has the honour of being the only country which never persecuted the jews...do you know why? [Mr. Deasy asked Stephen] --Because she never let them in, Mr. Deasy said solemnly. A coughball of laughter leaped from his throat dragging after it a rattling chain of phlegm. [U30/437]
Walk along Dalkey Avenue, turning left into Cunningham Road until the Dalkey Railway Station. Take the train in the northbound direction City-Howth until the Landsdowne Road station. In June 1904 Joyce was living in a rented room at 60 Shelbourne Road.
Turn right from the station and proceed via Newbridge Avenue toward the Sandymount Strand beach. In Chapter 13 Nausicaa Leopold Bloom observed Gerty MacDowell at twilight seated on the rocks. En route, we will pass the Church of St. Mary Star of the Sea. Its Benediction service furnishes the background parody for Bloom's and Gerty's silent flirtation.
Then they sang the second verse of the Tantum Ergo and Canon O'Hanlon got up again and censed the Blessed Sacrament and knelt down and he told Father Conroy that one of the candles was going to set fire to the flowers and Father Conroy got up and settled it all right and she could see the gentleman winding his watch and listening to the works and she swung her leg more in and out. [U296/552]
As the priest restores the Blessed Sacrament to the tabernacle and the choir sings "Laudate Dominum omnes gentes" fireworks from a bazaar nearby illuminate the sky behind the church causing Gerty to reveal her underwear and Bloom to satisfy his passion.
And then a rocket sprang and bang shot blind blank and O! and everyone cried O! O! in raptures and it gushed out of it a stream of rain gold hair threads and they shed and ah! they were all greeny dew stars falling with golden, O so lovely, O, soft, sweet, soft! [U300/736]
Earlier in the day Stephen Dedalus had walked by the very same spot meditating (Chapter 3 Proteus) and back on Newbridge Avenue Leopold Bloom had joined the mourners bound for Paddy Dignam's funeral (Chapter 6 Hades.)
I suggest we return to the train station and then to the center of the city. Get off at the Westland Row station where we started. At the foot of Westland Row, Sweny's the chemist at 1 Lincoln Place still dispenses the fragrant lemon soap Bloom bought for Molly in the Lotuseaters episode.
Mr. Bloom raised a cake to his nostrils. Sweet lemony wax. --I'll take this one, he said. That makes three and a penny. [U69/512]
Lemon soap is the Joycean's emblematic souvenir. Expect to pay an Irish pound or more.
Let us go straightaway to the James Joyce Centre at 35 North Great George's Street to pick up literature and guidance, particularly the map So this is Dyoublong?/ The City of Dublin in the Writings of James Joyce. The Centre is the hub of Bloomsday events and of other literary activities the year round. Ken Monaghan, son of Joyce's sister May, discourses with brutal frankness on the family's tragic history and leads a tour of the neighborhood.
The rose-brown brick mansion with its door colored in robin's egg blue stands in the middle of a block of Georgian houses developed in the late 1700's for Protestant landowners when they came to town to attend the Irish Parliament. In 1800 the Act of Union legislated in Westminster abolished that body; the aristocrats gave up their urban residences and during the 19th century the elegant quarters began to decay.
In its time many notables lived in the houses along the street. The plaque at Number 38 announces that Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, provost of Trinity College and tutor of Oscar Wilde, was one such resident. Mahaffy disapproved of Joyce, a student at University College, the Catholic institution on St. Stephen's Green and cited him as proof that "it was a mistake to establish a separate university for the aborigenes of this island__for the corner-boys who spit in the Liffey."
Twenty years ago, David Norris bought a house across the street and was instrumental in efforts to retrieve the block. Norris found a link to Ulysses that led to the founding of the Centre, thereby saving Number 35 from demolition. In 1904, one Dennis MaGinnis had operated a dancing school on the ground floor under the Italianized name of Professor Denis J. Maginni. Joyce turned him into one of the transient characters in his novel.
Framing the entrance to the tearoom at the back of the Centre is the door of 7 Eccles Street, holiest of Ulysses icons. Joyce gave this nearby address of his loyal friend John Francis Byrne to the Blooms in the novel. There the reader first meets Leopold in Chapter 4 Calypso when he prepares the "mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine." [U 45/1]
Upstairs in her bedroom Molly Bloom has her adulterous interlude with Blazes Boylan and in a 30-page reverie concludes the book with an affirming "..and yes I said yes I will Yes." [U643/1608]
At the head of North Great George's Street is Belvedere College on Great Denmark Street. Joyce attended the Jesuit school from the ages of 11 to 16 after his father wheedled a scholarship for him from Father John Conmee, the headmaster. The priest was rewarded with roles in Portrait and Ulysses. Chapters 2 to 4 of Portrait take place at this 1786 Adam-style building which, like the Joyce Centre, boasts interior plasterwork by the noted stuccadore Michael Stapleton. From the street one can glimpse the chapel in which Stephen Dedalus listens to a terrifying sermon on hell. Until 1960 students at Belvedere were discouraged from reading the work of its most famous alumnus.
The Wandering Rocks episode of Ulysses begins here.
The superior, the very reverend John Conmee S.J. reset his smooth watch in his interior pocket as he came down the presbytery steps. Five to three.
Rather than follow his journey through Dublin I prefer to linger in this neighborhood which has a wealth of identification with Joyce's writing.
Proceed right on Great Denmark Street for one block and turn left into Upper Gardiner Street to St.Francis Xavier Church. The real-life Father Conmee served as its superior. In Portrait, Stephen struggles to decide whether he has a vocation.
He was passing at that moment before the Jesuit house in Gardiner Street and wondered vaguely which window would be his if he ever joined the order. [PA Chapter 4]
In the Dubliners story Grace, the businessmen's retreat__ "washing the pot" on a Thursday evening-- is held in this church.
Take the first left into Dorset Street. Eccles Street is the second street at the right. The Mater Private Hospital occupies the site of Number 7. On the left side of Dorset is Hardwicke Place and St. George's Church. This Protestant house of worship serves as a marker in several chapters of Ulysses __as Bloom sets out for the butcher, visits Bella Cohen's brothel in Tyrone Street and, in the penultimate chapter, when he and Stephen part after midnight at the house in Eccles Street.
"The belfry of St. George's Church sent out constant peals" on a summer Sunday morning in the Dubliners story The Boarding House (at 29 Hardwicke Street,) stiffening Mrs. Mooney's resolve to shame Mr. Doran into marrying her daughter.
Hardwicke Street dead ends at Frederick Street. Turn left one block until Parnell Square (Rutland Square in Ulysses time as Paddy Dignam's funeral procession wends its way to Glasnevin Cemetery.) The Writers Museum at the north end of the square merits a serious visit. A center of the Irish literary tradition, it includes a bookshop, an antiquarian book search service and a pleasant cafeteria.
Oliver St. John Gogarty's home is at Number 5 Parnell Square across the street from the Rotunda Hospital, a respected medical facility since 1745 but more noteworthy in Joyce's writing for its concert hall. The Gate Theatre on Cavendish Row, also part of the Rotunda complex, maintains its legendary reputation for classical and avant-garde productions.
At the base of the square the Augustus Saint-Gaudens statue of Charles Stewart Parnell, heralds the start of O'Connell Street, the great wide boulevard of Dublin's north side. In Joyce's time it was Sackville Street. Parnell, the patriot who led the Home Rule Movement in the 1880's and was toppled by a love affair, is a defining figure in Joyce's political consciousness. He reappears constantly in Joyce's writing, most pointedly in the Christmas dinner scene in the first chapter of Portrait and in the Dubliners story Ivy Day in the Committee Room.
At the Gresham Hotel at the top of O'Connell Street Joyce set the epiphanic scene in the Dubliners story The Dead. Gabriel and Gretta Conroy spend the night at the Gresham after his aunts' party. In their room the young husband learns of his wife's earlier love. Gabriel stands at the window as the story concludes.
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
Turning from the sublime to the tacky, Joyce would surely have been appalled by the statue purporting to represent his heroine Anna Livia in a pool of water in the middle of O'Connell Street. Dubliners who are much given to nicknaming their properties refer to the monument as "the floozy in the Jacuzzi."
EXCURSION 3: Aeolus, Lestrygonians, Scylla and Charybdis, Wandering Rocks, Oxen of the Sun.
Let us catch up with Leopold Bloom at noon IN THE HEART OF THE HIBERNIAN METROPOLIS in front of the General Post Office on O'Connell (Sackville) Street. He is returning from Paddy Dignam's funeral, an excursion we will take later on. In Bloom's time, a column in the middle of the street commemorated the British victory at Trafalgar in 1805 and served as one of the city's important transportation hubs.
*Before Nelson's Pillar trams slowed, shunted, changed trolley, started for Blackrock, Kingstown and Dalkey...begins the Aeolus chapter. Right and left parallel clanging ringing a doubledecker and a singledeck moved from their railheads, swerved to the down line, glided parallel.[U 96/1]
(Later in the chapter, under the heading DEAR DIRTY DUBLIN Stephen Dedalus will recount "The Parable of the Plums" about two elderly women climbing the pillar's spiral staircase to get the best views of Dublin.)
Admiral Lord Nelson, "the onehandled adulterer" and his base were destroyed in a mysterious act of sabotage in 1966, and the trams have long since been replaced by buses. But the General Post Office, functioning with notable efficiency, remains a sacred landmark in Irish history. On Easter Monday in 1916 when Joyce was living in Zurich working on Ulysses, nationalist insurgents occupied the building for a bloody week of rebellion. Lines from the Proclamation of Independence read by the poet Patrick Pearse are posted near the main door. As a college student Joyce had briefly studied the Irish language with Pearse whom the British would execute for his part in the Rising.
Bloom heads for Prince's Street on the south side of the GPO and enters the offices of the Freeman's Journal to place an advertisement for the tea merchant Alexander Keyes. In the adjacent offices of the Evening Telegraph, Stephen Dedalus tries to persuade the editor Myles Crawford to publish a letter about bovine foot and mouth disease by the schoolmaster Garrett Deasy. The building fell victim to the destruction visited on the area in 1916 but we can still recall the wealth of Homeric themes and symbols--and for this former journalist the ambiance of an old-fashioned newspaper office-- with which Joyce endowed the chapter.
The characters in Aeolus leave the newspaper by its exit on Middle Abbey Street. No visit to literary Dublin is complete without attending a performance at the Abbey Theatre, founded by Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats in Lower Abbey Street on the other side of O'Connell. But that is an evening's pleasure and at this point we will follow Leopold Bloom into O'Connell Street heading toward the bridge over the Liffey. We are in the Lestrygonians episode at 1:10 P.M.
Pineapple rock, lemon platt, butter scotch. A sugarsticky girl shovelling scoopfuls of creams for a christian brother. Some school treat. Bad for their tummies. Lozenge and comfit manufacturer to His Majesty the King. God. Save. Our. Sitting on his throne sucking red jububes white. A sombre Y.M.C.A. man, watchful among the warm sweet fumes of Graham Lemon's, placed a throwaway in a hand of Mr. Bloom.[U 124/1]
The sign "the Confectioner's Hall" still hangs over the store which housed Lemon's sweetshop. Along this stretch of the boulevard a few postboxes of the British imperial era survive with the royal seal implanted on the red ground.
The hugecloaked Liberator's form__ the monument to Daniel O'Connell, the father of Catholic emancipation in 1829 __ which Bloom had passed earlier in the morning in the Dignam funeral procession punctuates the end of the boulevard. Bloom looks to the right along Bachelor's Walk, a Liffeyside quay. He spots Stephen's sister Dilly Dedalus outside Dillon's auction house and surmises she has been trying to sell family possessions to keep the household afloat. "Good Lord, that poor child's dress is in flitters. Underfed she looks too. Potatoes and marge, marge and potatoes. It's after they feel it." [U 124/41] In the next chapter Wandering Rocks she will corner her ne'er-do-well father Simon Dedalus and extract a shilling from him. The scenes evoke the cruel reality of the Joyce family's descent into destitution after their father squandered his inheritance.
Crossing the O'Connell Bridge Bloom looks down at the traffic on the muddy Liffey. Barges from the Guinness Brewery, still a potent presence in the city, and gulls "flapping strongly, wheeling between the gaunt quaywalls." He looks ahead to the Ballast Office at the corner of Aston Quay and its famous clock set to 25 minutes behind Greenwich time which was Irish time before 1914. The building has been reconstructed and its clock, set ahead and moved to where it is no longer visible from this spot.
We are on the south bank of the city, on Westmoreland Street, one of its more bustling crossroads.
Hot mockturtle vapor and steam of newbaked jampuffs rolypoly poured out of Harrison's. The heavy noonreek tickled the top of Mr. Bloom's gullet. [U 129/232]
In front of the restaurant, which is still in operation, Bloom chats with Mrs. Josie Breen. Further ahead on the other side of the street he remarks on the imposing curved facade of the Bank of Ireland.
Before the huge high door of the Irish house of Parliament a flock of pigeons flew. Their little frolic after meals. Who will we do it on? I pick the fellow in black.
Two hundred years ago in the Georgian era the building housed the Irish Parliament. Its former chambers are open to the public during banking hours. In Portrait Stephen Dedalus goes to the Bank of Ireland to cash in prizes he won as a student at Belvedere so that he can shower his impoverished family with food, theater tickets and gifts. [PA Chapter 2]
Across Westmoreland Street from the bank at the beginning of College Street is the commanding statue of the poet Thomas Moore. He [Bloom] crossed under Tommy Moore's roguish finger. They did it right to put him up over a urinal; meeting of the waters. Ought to be places for women. Running into cakeshops. Settle my hat straight. [U 133/414] The statue of the author of The Meeting of the Waters, situated next to a men's toilet, inspired a chronic Dublin joke.
Behind Moore looms the campus of Trinity College. Ireland's distinguished institution of higher learning was established by Queen Elizabeth I in 1592 and over the centuries educated the likes of Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett. Although Bloom probably never set foot inside the gates (Catholics were forbidden by their bishops to attend until fairly recent times) it's worth a Joycean digression to do so, at the very least to see the Book of Kells, the 9th century illuminated manuscript of the Gospels in the Library.
Dodging traffic on College Green, one of the most frenetic of Dublin's hubs (in Joyce's time a tram intersection), follow Bloom around the periphery of the College along Nassau Street, the boundary of the fashionable commercial quarter. It includes several bookstores with Irish inventory. [Fred Hanna on Nassau Street; Waterstone's in Dawson Street and Greene's Bookshop, Ltd. in Clare Street.] On June 10, 1904, Joyce encountered an auburn-haired young woman walking on Nassau Street and asked her for a date four evenings later. Nora Barnacle was working at Finn's Hotel at the corner of Clare Street. The rooming house long since ceased operation but when the leaves are off the trees on the College playing fields its name can be discerned on the side wall of the building.
We will peel off from Nassau Street at this point.
Grafton Street gay with awnings lured his senses. Muslin prints, silkdames and dowagers, jingle of harnesses, hoofthuds lowringing in the baking causeway. [U 137/614]
Grafton Street, now a pedestrian mall, is still Dublin's foremost shopping center. He passed, dallying, the windows of Brown Thomas, silk mercers. Cascades of ribbons. Flimsy China silks. Bloom considers buying a pincushion for Molly at Brown Thomas, still a possibility today.
Bewley's Oriental Cafe at Number 10 Grafton Street is one of a chain of century-old coffee houses in which Joyce and his friends gathered to talk. Its popularity and the quality of its moderately priced fare endure.
We turn left into Duke Street with Bloom so that we can order the very same lunch at Davy Byrne's "the moral pub" at Number 21. The gorgonzola sandwich and a glass of Burgundy wine remain on the menu after nine decades, the cheese still deliciously biting on strips of Irish brown bread."
...fresh clean bread, with relish of disgust pungent mustard, the feety savour of green cheese. Sips of his wine soothed his palate. Not logwood that... [U 142/818]
Bloom leaves the pub and turns right toward Dawson Street, follows a blind man into Molesworth Street until Kildare Street where he catches sight of Blazes Boylan. To avoid meeting his wife's lover Bloom swerves right toward the National Museum. No Dublin tourist should miss its collection of Celtic antiquities.
After inspecting ancient Greek statues on the ground floor, Bloom proceeds to the neighboring institution on Kildare Street, the National Library of Ireland. This is the setting for the Scylla and Charybdis chapter in which Stephen Dedalus expounds his theory about Shakespeare and Hamlet to a group of Dublin intellectuals. At the head of the stairs is a monument to T. William Lyster, the Quaker (or in Joyce punctuation quaker) librarian who presides over the session. To the right are the reading room and the librarian's office in which Stephen holds forth. [U 154/142]
Leaving the National Library, turn left and proceed to the end of Kildare Street. The entrance to the Shelbourne, Dublin's grande dame hotel opened in 1867, faces the north side of St. Stephen's Green, one of Europe's loveliest parks.
But the trees in Stephen's Green were fragrant of rain and the rainsodden earth gave forth its mortal odour, a faint incense rising upward through the mould from many hearts. The soul of the gallant venal city which his elders had told him of had shrunk with in a moment when he entered the sombre college he would be conscious of a corruption other than that of Buck Egan and Burnchapel Whaley. [PA chapter 5]
Stroll through the Green to its south side and notice the bust of James Joyce just beyond the bandstand where concerts are given at lunchtime in summer. "The sombre college" is Newman House of University College Dublin (alma mater of Joyce and of Stephen Dedalus) which occupies a pair of noble Palladian buildings at Numbers 85/86 St.Stephen's Green South. Constructed in the mid-1700's as private residences, they were taken over a century later by the first Catholic university established in Ireland. John Henry Cardinal Newman served as rector. One can visit the spartan room in which Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Jesuit poet and scholar lived as well as the Physics Theatre in which the dean of studies challenges Stephen Dedalus's views on aesthetics and Stephen attends a deadly science class. The Commons Restaurant in the basement has a Michelin star and a celebrity clientele.
Walk around to the east side of the Green bearing right into Merrion Row and Merrion Street until we reach another enchanting oasis framed by Georgian houses, Merrion Square. The house at Number 1 belonged to Sir William Wilde, the physician father of Oscar. Joyce chose the spot for his first date with Nora Barnacle on June 14; she stood him up.
Follow along the north side of the square to Holles Street and the National Maternity Hospital, setting for the Oxen of the Sun chapter of Ulysses in which Bloom visits Mrs. Purefoy while Stephen Dedalus drinks and philosophizes as he awaits Buck Mulligan.
Returning to Merrion Square, look at other houses with famous former residents such as Daniel O'Connell's at Number 58, W. B. Yeats's at Numbers 52 and 82. George Russell (A.E.), editor of the Irish Homestead and one of the real life characters who make an appearance in Ulysses, had his office at Number 84.
Discussing these and kindred topics they made a beeline across the back of the Customhouse and passed under the Loop Line bridge where a brazier of coke burning in front of a sentrybox or something like one attracted their rather lagging footsteps. [U503/100]
It is 12:40 A.M. and Leopold Bloom, in the hope of sobering up Stephen Dedalus after their wild evening in Nighttown is trying to lead the younger man to the cabman's shelter on Custom House Quay.
I am proposing a walk focused on the River Liffey which we will criss-cross from the north bank to the south and in the process recall not only James Joyce's writings but highlights from Dublin's earlier history that shaped his mindset. We should begin, therefore, at the city's proudest public building, the Custom House situated two quays east of O'Connell Bridge.
It took a decade beginning in 1781 to construct this imposing structure of of Portland stone and granite. James Gandon was the architect. Harps are etched into the capitals of the front columns. A copper dome with four clocks surmounted by a 16-foot statue of Hope resting on an anchor gives it a soaring quality particularly when the illuminated building is viewed at night from the opposite bank of the Liffey.
In this penultimate episode Eumaeus, Bloom is bound for his home on Eccles Street, but since we we have already covered this territory in Excursion 2 we will head in the opposite direction. Walking west past O'Connell Bridge we cross the river by the Halfpenny Bridge to Wellington Quay on the south bank and go under the Merchants' Arch.
We have plunged into the Temple Bar area, one that has been transformed in the 1990's from derelict to super-trendy. Joyce would be amused by its current reputation as Dublin's Left Bank, a homing ground for rock 'n' roll royalty and celebrities from the film, art and fashion colonies of Europe and the United States. In Joyce's time, the narrow cobblestone streets and crooked lanes were dotted with second-hand bookstores, some of which still survive. In the earlier episode Wandering Rocks, Bloom buys a copy of Sweets of Sin [U 194/610] for Molly from a bookseller under Merchants' Arch while in nearby Bedford Row Stephen is scanning the slanted bookcarts. [U 199/836] "I might find here one of my pawned schoolprizes". In this poignant scene, he meets his sister Dilly who has just paid a penny for a tattered French primer.
__What did you buy that for? he asked. To learn French? She nodded, reddening and closing tight her lips... __Here, Stephen said. It's all right. Mind Maggy doesn't pawn it on you. I suppose all my books are gone. __Some, Dilly said. We had to. She is drowning. Agenbite. Save her. Agenbite. All against us. She will drown me with her, eyes and hair. Lank coils of seaweed hair around me, my heart, my soul. Salt green death. We. Agenbite of inwit. Inwit's agenbite. Misery! Misery!
Let us trace Bloom's footsteps as he strides along Wellington Quay, Sweets of Sin in his pocket, and crosses Grattan Bridge (formerly Essex) to the north bank of the Liffey. Yes, Mr. Bloom crossed bridge of Yessex. To Martha I must write. Buy paper. Daly's.
The stationery store on Ormond Quay Upper is gone but Bloom's destination, the Ormond Hotel at Number 8, is where at 4 P.M. on a Bloomsday Joyceans invariably congregate. This is the setting for the Sirens episode, the musical chapter of Ulysses, which begins with an overture as a viceregal procession passes by.
*Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing. Imperthnthn thnthnthn. Chips, picking chips off rocky thumbnail, chips. Horrid! And gold flushed more. A husky fifenote blew. Blew.Blue bloom is on the. Goldpinnacled hair. ....[U 210/1]
The Ormond has undergone several refurbishings over the century but it is still just dreary enough to permit a re-enactment of the episode in which Leopold Bloom, Simon Dedalus, Blazes Boylan and several other characters from previous chapters converge to chatter and listen to songs. In the bar which is still at the right of the entrance Boylan orders a sloegin to drink before setting off for his rendez-vous with Molly. On the left, rechristened "the Siren Suite", is the dining room in which Bloom sups on liver, "mashed mashed potatoes" and cider while he broods over what must be transpiring in his bedroom on Eccles Street.
In strict chronological order we would move along to the Cyclops chapter, Joyce's satirical take on Irish nationalism and bigotry, in which a citizen and his dog harass Bloom. The episode unfolds in Barney Kiernan's pub at Number 9 New Britain Street, a short distance from the Ormond Hotel up Arran Street. The actual pub, a hangout for a clientele drawn from the Four Courts, no longer exists so we might as well survey the law complex from Inns Quay adjacent to the Ormond. Aso designed by James Gandon, and a frequent point of reference in Joyce's writing, the Four Courts were destroyed during the Irish Civil War in 1922 and scrupulously reconstructed.
Back across the Liffey we go via Richmond Bridge to Merchants' Quay. At the corner of Winetavern Street is the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, known to Dubliners as Adam and Eve's. Born as an underground church in the 17th century when Catholic worship was severely repressed in Ireland, its nickname derives from a nearby tavern of that era.
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.[FW 1]
In the opening lines of Finnegans Wake, Joyce's reversal of the nickname, according to scholars, signals that further games will be played with language and with concepts of time and space.
Miss Julia Morkan, one of the hospitable sisters in the Dubliners story The Dead, is the leading soprano in the choir of Adam and Eve's. "The dark, gaunt house" in which the women conduct their genteel lives is two quays beyond at 15 Usher's Island. According to Richard Ellmann, the Morkan ladies were modeled after Joyce's great-aunts who ran a music school from their home at that address and gave an annual Christmas party. Joyce's father, like Gabriel Conroy in the story, carved the goose and made a speech. Though much the worse for wear including fire damage to its roof, the house still maintains its elegant Georgian facade and the rooms on the first floor in which the party takes place are intact. John Huston used the exterior for the filming of The Dead in 1987.
The Guinness Brewery, founded in 1769 and an industrial enterprise whose influence on the Dublin economy and culture cannot be exaggerated, dominates the area west of Usher's Island. Bloom doubted that it was possible to cross Dublin without passing a pub on every corner and in that respect nothing has changed. "Be interesting some day get a pass through Hancock to see the brewery," Bloom mused [ U125/46] Today he would not have to use influence. The entrance to the brewery and its visitors center are at the end of hilly Watling Street. A block away in Crane Street, the Guinness Hop Store, a museum and exhibition space, offers tastings of "the wine of the country" as Joyce labelled the ubiquitous Guinness stout.
We are now in the oldest part of Dublin and although the Joycean links diminish we should not overlook certain major sights. The residential area around the brewery is called the Liberties, because in medieval times the land belonged to two cathedrals and was therefore excluded from municpal jurisdiction. A slum in Joyce's time, it has in recent years achieved some cachet as background for popular films and novels.
From the top of Watling Street let us take the winding path of Thomas Street to Patrick Street until the spire of St. Patrick's Cathedral comes into view. The Anglican cathedral has a medieval provenance dating to 1191 but its most illustrious association is with Jonathan Swift. The author of Gulliver's Travels ("A hater of his kind" as Stephen Dedalus referred to him) [U 33/109]__served as its dean for 30 years in the early 1700's. He is buried in the cathedral with his beloved Stella.
Within St. Patrick's Close is Marsh's Library, the oldest public library in Ireland. Built in 1701 by Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, another eccentric cleric, it still retains the wire cages into which readers were locked in order to safeguard its rare book collection.
Moving down toward the river we come to Christ Church, the rival Anglican cathedral to St. Patrick's and the oldest building in the city. The Norman lord who had it built in 1169, Richard de Clare, a.k.a. Strongbow, is buried in the nave.
Dublin Castle, just east of Christ Church, was erected on the ruins of a Danish fortress in 1204 and has been the seat of municipal power ever since. In Joyce's time it was the official residence of the English viceroys. Martin Cunningham, a character in the Dubliners story Grace who figures in several episodes of Ulysses, worked at the Castle in the Royal Irish Constabulary Office. With the establishment of the sovereign nation of Ireland or Eire in 1937, Dublin Castle lost its colonial aspect forever.
Wood Quay, where the Vikings laid anchor in 840, lies ahead. We have completed a partial circle of the Liffey. Let us wave goodbye to the river with Anna Livia Plurabelle in the last lines of Finnegans Wake.
Away a lone a last a loved a long the [ FW 628/15]
There are two Dublin sites relevant to Joyce and his writing that I hesitate to offer as walking tours except to the hardiest pedestrians. Both are located more than two miles north of the center of the city over routes that provide scant opportunities for scenic pauses although there are enough within Glasnevin Cemetery and Phoenix Park to recommend them as morning or afternoon excursions. Both can be reached by public bus from Upper O'Connell Street and Parnell Street. Bicycle and taxi are also options.
EXCURSION 5: HADES
On Bloomsday, Joyceans in Edwardian garb make the trip to Glasnevin Cemetery in hired horsedrawn carriages. The most dedicated rent a hearse for this replay of Paddy Dignam's funeral. The procession begins at the deceased's home, Number 9 Newbridge Avenue in Sandymount [Excursion 1] and proceeds along streets covered in Excursions 2 and 3 until it reaches the North Circular Road and Phibsborough Road. Total authenticity is impossible. There can be no halt to let a herd of cattle pass by and one-way motor traffic patterns force diversions from the 1904 route.
Pick up the Hades episode at the Finglas Road entrance to the burial grounds. The high railings of Prospect rippled past their gaze. Dark poplars, rare white forms. Forms more frequent, white shapes thronged amid the trees, white forms and fragments streaming by mutely, sustaining vain gestures on the air. [U83/486]
Dubliners call Prospect Cemetery Glasnevin after the surrounding area. Opened in 1832 as a national cemetery available to all regardless of religious, political or other affiliation, Glasnevin gives eternal rest to the mighty and to the humble; the latter are arranged in plots for Irish Republicans killed in the Civil War, cholera victims of 1849, smallpox victims of 1872 and members of religious orders.
Ireland's leaders, both friends and foes, are buried here: Daniel O'Connell, Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Collins, Eamon de Valera. Female revolutionaries such as W.B. Yeats's love Maud Gonne and Countess Constance Marckiewicz. Writers like James Clarence Mangan, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Brendan Behan. A writer's parents, John Stanislaus and May Joyce. In Hades the father appears as Simon Dedalus, weeping as he passes the grave of his long-suffering wife.
I'll soon be stretched beside her. Let Him take me whenever He likes. [U86/650] Richard Ellmann attributes the exact words to John Stanislaus, inconsolable after May's death.
Celtic motifs and Victorian architecture predominate. The 168-foot round tower of granite in memory of O'Connell, an example of early Irish Christian design, soars from the entrance walk.
Mr. Power's soft eyes went up to the apex of the lofty cone. __He's at rest, he said, in the middle of his people, old Dan O'. But his heart is buried in Rome. How many broken hearts are buried here, Simon! [U86/642]
To the left is the mortuary chapel in which Dignam's funeral service is conducted. Bloom comments on the priest's ritual. Said he was going to paradise or is in paradise. Says that over everybody. Tiresome kind of a job. But he has to say something.
Afterwards Bloom and the other mourners follow the coffincart toward Dignam's grave. Robert Nicholson in The Ulysses Guide suggests taking the cypress avenue by the chapel, turning left at the bottom, and right at the next intersection.
The Botanic Gardens are just over there. It's the blood sinking in the earth gives new life. Same idea those jews they said killed the christian boy. Every man his price. Well preserved fat corpse, gentleman, epicure, invaluable for fruit garden. A bargain. [U 89/770]
The National Botanic Gardens Bloom glances at over the cemetery wall are a 50-acre park and horticultural preserve of international rank. An uplifting place to visit after Bloom's lugubrious musings.
The gates glimmered in front: still open. Back to the world again. Enough of this place. Brings you a bit nearer every time. Last time I was here was Mrs. Sinico's funeral. [U 94/996]
Emily Sinico, an unhappily married woman rebuffed by a man she met at a concert, dies in an accident at a railroad station in the Dubliners story A Painful Case.
Before leaving we might pay our respects to Joyce's parents and to his father's hero Parnell. Retracing our steps to the intersection, the Joyce grave is near the path at the right. On the other side of the path is a massive rock of Wicklow granite inscribed simply with one name, Parnell. The anniversary of his death on October 6, 1891 has been known ever after as Ivy Day because mourners clipped ivy leaves from the cemetery wall. Hence the Dubliners story about political intrigue Ivy Day in the Committee Room.
EXCURSION 6: Wandering Rocks, Aeolus, Penelope, Finnegans Wake
William Humble, earl of Dudley, and Lady Dudley, accompanied by lieutenant colonel Heseltine, drove out after luncheon from the viceregal lodge... The cavalcade passed out by the lower gate of Phoenix park saluted by obsequious policemen and proceeded past Kingsbridge along the northern quays. The viceroy was most cordially greeted on his way through the metropolis. [U 207/1176]
The Viceregal Lodge, now the residence of the President of Ireland, is in Phoenix Park, one of Europe's largest public recreational areas and a significant landmark in Joyce's writings. Opened in 1747, it includes the residence of the United States Ambassador, playing fields for cricket, hurling, and polo and the magnificent Dublin Zoo whose most famous alumnus was the lion in the MGM logo.
The route of the cavalcade in Wandering Rocks encompasses familiar geography explored in Excursions 3 and 4 as the various characters strain to watch the procession go by.
One of the most sensational crimes in Ireland's violent political saga was committed in Phoenix Park. In 1882 Lord Frederick Cavendish, Under-Secretary for Ireland, and an associate were stabbed to death by an Irish nationalist group, the Invincibles. The assassins were betrayed by an informer and hanged.
The Phoenix Park murders occupy a lengthy section of the Aeolus episode under the headline THE GREAT GALLAHER as Myles Crawford, the newspaper editor, recalls coverage of the crime. That was the smartest piece of journalism ever known. Ignatius Gallaher, a reporter, planted clues to the getaway route in an advertisement in the Weekly Freeman. [U 111/628] Gallaher, a condescending scribe, appears earlier in the Dubliners story A Little Cloud.
In the Penelope episode, Molly Bloom plans the menu for an improbable picnic with her husband and lover "in the furry glen or the strawberry fields" of Phoenix Park. [U 629/948] The Furry is a wooded nook near the Knockmaroon Gate, the Strawberry Fields lie beyond the Gate on the north bank of the Liffey.
For anyone embarked on the daunting task of deciphering Finnegans Wake, Joyce's most inscrutable work, a visit to Phoenix Park (Phornix Park) does much to clear the head. Strolling within its Irish greener-than-green boundaries amidst active human beings helps to rescue the book from its extreme abstraction and brings its puzzling characters to life.
Mind your hats goan in! Now yiz are in the Willingdone Museyroom. This is a Prooshious gunn. this is a ffrinch. Tip. This is the flag of the Prooshious. Saloos the Crossgunn! Up with your pike and fork! Tip. (Bullsfoot! Fine!) This is the triplewon hat of Lipoleum. Tip Lipoleumhat. This is the Willingdone on his same white harse, the Cokenhape...[FW 8/9-18].
Now come close to the Wellington Monument, the 205-foot granite obelisk near the main entrance of the park commemorating the victories of the Duke of Wellington in the Napoleonic Wars.
Finnegans Wake is set in Chapelizod, in Joyce's time a pastoral neighborhood along the Liffey bordered by Phoenix Park to the north. Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, a local publican, wrestles in his guilt-ridden dream with allegations that he committed a crime in Phoenix Park. Three soldiers say they saw HCE behaving inappropriately toward two young girls__
of having behaved with ongentilmensky immodus opposite a pair of dainty maidservants in the swoolth of the rushy hollow whither, or so the two gown and pinners pleaded,...but whose published combinations of silkinlaine testimonies are, where not dubiously pure, visibly divergent, as wapt from wept, on minor points touching the intimate nature of this, a first offence in vert or venison which was admittedly an incautious but, at its wildest, a partial exposure with such attenuating circumstances (garthen gaddeth green hwere sokeman brideth girling) as an abnormal Saint Swithin's summer and, Jesses Rosasharon!) aripe occasion to provoke it. [FW 34/19-30]
Reading this passage in the politically febrile summer of 1998 how can one doubt the prescience of James Joyce or fail to appreciate the Viconian theory of the cyclical flow of history on which he based the Wake.
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Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce's psychological and fictional universe is firmly rooted in his native Dublin - the city which provides the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction. In particular, his tempestuous early relationship with the Irish Roman Catholic Church is reflected through a similar inner conflict in his recurrent alter ego Stephen Dedalus. As the result of his minute attentiveness to a personal locale and his self-imposed exile and influence throughout Europe, (notably in Paris, France), Joyce became paradoxically one of the most cosmopolitan yet one of the most regionally-focussed of all the English language writers of his time.[1]
Photograph of James Joyce taken by fellow University College student Constantine P. Curran in the summer of 1904. When asked later what he was thinking at the time, Joyce replied 'I was wondering would he lend me five shillings' (in Ellmann).
Dublin, 1882–1904
In 1882, James Augustine Joyce was born into a Roman Catholic family in the Dublinsuburb of Rathgar. He was the oldest of 10 surviving children; two of his siblings died of typhoid. His father's family, originally from Fermoy in Cork, had once owned a small salt and lime works. Joyce's father and paternal grandfather both married into wealthy families. In 1887, his father, John Stanislaus Joyce, was appointed rate (i.e., a local property tax) collector by Dublin Corporation; the family subsequently moved to the fashionable adjacent small town of Bray 12 miles from Dublin. Around this time Joyce was attacked by a dog; this resulted in a lifelong canine phobia. He also suffered from a fear of thunderstorms, which his deeply religious aunt had described to him as being a sign of God's wrath.[2]
In 1891, Joyce wrote a poem, "Et Tu Healy," on the death of Charles Stewart Parnell. His father was angry at the treatment of Parnell by the Catholic church and at the resulting failure to secure Home Rule for Ireland. The elder Joyce had the poem printed and even sent a copy to the Vatican Library. In November of that same year, John Joyce was entered in Stubbs Gazette (an official register of bankruptcies) and suspended from work. In 1893 John Joyce was dismissed with a pension. This was the beginning of a slide into poverty for the family, mainly due to John's drinking and general financial mismanagement.[3]
Photograph of James Joyce taken by fellow University College student Constantine P. Curran in the summer of 1904. When asked later what he was thinking at the time, Joyce replied 'I was wondering would he lend me five shillings' (in Ellmann).
James Joyce was initially educated by the Jesuit order at Clongowes Wood College, a boarding school near Sallins in County Kildare, which he entered in 1888 but had to leave in 1892 when his father could no longer pay the fees. Joyce then studied at home and briefly at the Christian Brothersschool on North Richmond Street, Dublin, before he was offered a place in the Jesuits' Dublin school, Belvedere College, in 1893. The offer was made at least partly in the hope that he would prove to have a vocation and join the Order. Joyce, however, was to reject Catholicism by the age of 16, although the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas would remain a strong influence on him throughout his life.[4]
He enrolled at the recently established University College Dublin in 1898. He studied modern languages, specifically English, French and Italian. He also became active in theatrical and literary circles in the city. His review of Ibsen'sNew Drama, his first published work, was published in 1900 and resulted in a letter of thanks from the Norwegian dramatist himself. Joyce wrote a number of other articles and at least two plays (since lost) during this period. Many of the friends he made at University College Dublin would appear as characters in Joyce's written works. He was an active member of the Literary and Historical Society, University College Dublin, and presented his paper "Drama and Life" to the L&H in 1900.
After graduating from UCD in 1903, Joyce left for Paris to "study medicine", but in reality he squandered money his family could ill afford. He returned to Ireland after a few months, when his mother was diagnosed with cancer.[5] Fearing for her son's "impiety", his mother tried unsuccessfully to get Joyce to make his confession and to take communion. She finally passed into a coma and died on August 13, Joyce having refused to kneel with other members of the family praying at her bedside.[6] After her death he continued to drink heavily, and conditions at home grew quite appalling. He scraped a living reviewing books, teaching and singing — he was an accomplished tenor, and won the bronze medal in the 1904 Feis Ceoil.[7]
On 7 January1904, he attempted to publish A Portrait of the Artist, an essay-story dealing with aesthetics, only to have it rejected by the free-thinking magazine Dana. He decided, on his twenty-second birthday, to revise the story and turn it into a novel he planned to call Stephen Hero. This was the same year he met Nora Barnacle, a young woman from Galway city who was working as a chambermaid at Finn's Hotel in Dublin. On 16 June1904, they went on their first date, an event which would be commemorated by providing the date for the action of Ulysses.
Joyce remained in Dublin for some time longer, drinking heavily. After one of his alcoholic binges, he got into a fight over a misunderstanding with a man in Phoenix Park; he was picked up and dusted off by a minor acquaintance of his father, Alfred H. Hunter, who brought him into his home to tend to his injuries.[8] Hunter was rumored to be Jewish and to have an unfaithful wife, and would serve as one of the models for Leopold Bloom, the main protagonist of Ulysses.[9] He took up with medical student Oliver St John Gogarty, who formed the basis for the character Buck Mulligan in Ulysses. After staying in Gogarty's Martello Tower for 6 nights he left in the middle of the night following an altercation which involved Gogarty shooting a pistol at some pans hanging directly over Joyce's bed.[10] He walked all the way back to Dublin to stay with relatives for the night, and sent a friend to the tower the next day to pack his possessions into his trunk. Shortly thereafter he eloped to the continent with Nora.
Joyce and Nora went into self-imposed exile, moving first to Zürich, where he had supposedly acquired a post teaching English at the Berlitz Language School through an agent in England. It turned out that the English agent had been swindled, but the director of the school sent him on to Trieste, which was part of Austria-Hungary until World War I (today part of Italy). Once again, he found there was no position for him, but with the help of Almidano Artifoni, director of the Trieste Berlitz school, he finally secured a teaching position in Pula, then also part of Austria-Hungary (today part of Croatia). He stayed there, teaching English mainly to Austro-Hungarian naval officers stationed at the Pula base, from October 1904 until March 1905, when the Austrians — having discovered an espionage ring in the city — expelled all aliens. With Artifoni's help, he moved back to the city of Trieste and began teaching English there. He would remain in Trieste for most of the next 10 years.[1]
Later that year Nora gave birth to their first child, George. Joyce then managed to talk his brother, Stanislaus, into joining him in Trieste, and secured him a position teaching at the school. Ostensibly his reasons were for his company and offering his brother a much more interesting life than the simple clerking job he had back in Dublin, but in truth, he hoped to augment his family's meagre income with his brother's earnings.[11] Stanislaus and James had strained relations the entire time they lived together in Trieste, with most arguments centering on James' frivolity with money and drinking habits.[12]
With chronic wanderlust much of his early life, Joyce became frustrated with life in Trieste and moved to Rome in late 1906, having secured a position working in a bank in the city. He intensely disliked Rome, however, and ended up moving back to Trieste in early 1907. His daughter Lucia was born in the summer of the same year.
Joyce returned to Dublin in the summer of 1909 with George, in order to visit his father and work on getting Dubliners published. He visited Nora's family in Galway, meeting them for the first time (a successful visit, to his relief). When preparing to return to Trieste he decided to bring one of his sisters, Eva, back to Trieste with him in order to help Nora look after the home. He would spend only a month back in Trieste before again heading back to Dublin, this time as a representative of some cinema owners in order to set up a regular cinema in Dublin. The venture was successful (but would quickly fall apart in his absence), and he returned to Trieste in January 1910 with another sister in tow, Eileen. While Eva became very homesick for Dublin and returned a few years later, Eileen spent the rest of her life on the continent, eventually marrying Czech bank cashier František Schaurek.
Joyce returned to Dublin briefly in the summer of 1912 during his years-long fight with his Dublin publisher, George Roberts, over the publication of Dubliners. His trip was once again fruitless, and on his return he wrote the poem "Gas from a Burner" as a thinly veiled invective against Roberts. It was his last trip to Ireland, and he never again came closer to Dublin than London, despite the many pleas of his father and invitations from fellow Irish writer William Butler Yeats.
Joyce came up with many money-making schemes during this period of his life, such as his attempt to become a cinema magnate back in Dublin, as well as a frequently discussed but ultimately abandoned plan to import Irish tweeds into Trieste. His expert borrowing skills saved him from indigence. His income was made up partially from his position at the Berlitz school and from taking on private students. Many of his acquaintances through meeting these private students proved invaluable allies when he faced problems getting out of Austria-Hungary and into Switzerland in 1915.
One of his students in Trieste was Ettore Schmitz, better known by the pseudonymItalo Svevo; they met in 1907 and became lasting friends and mutual critics. Schmitz was Jewish, and became the primary model for Leopold Bloom; most of the details about the Jewish faith included in Ulysses came from Schmitz in response to Joyce's queries.[13] Joyce would spend most of the rest of his life on the Continent. It was in Trieste that he first began to be plagued by major eye problems, which would result in over a dozen surgeries before his death.
In 1915, when Joyce moved to Zürich in order to avoid the complexities (as a British subject) of living in Austria-Hungary during World War I, he met one of his most enduring and important friends, Frank Budgen, whose opinion Joyce constantly sought through the writing of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. It was also here where Ezra Pound brought him to the attention of English feminist and publisher Harriet Shaw Weaver, who would become Joyce's patron, providing him thousands of pounds over the next 25 years and relieving him of the burden of teaching in order to focus on his writing. After the war he returned to Trieste briefly, but found the city had changed, and his relations with his brother (who had been interned in an Austrian prison camp for most of the war due to his pro-Italian politics) were more strained than ever. Joyce headed to Paris in 1920 at an invitation from Ezra Pound, supposedly for a week, but he ended up living there for the next twenty years.
1920–1941: Paris and Zürich
Joyce and Nora went into self-imposed exile, moving first to Zürich, where he had supposedly acquired a post teaching English at the Berlitz Language School through an agent in England. It turned out that the English agent had been swindled, but the director of the school sent him on to Trieste, which was part of Austria-Hungary until World War I (today part of Italy). Once again, he found there was no position for him, but with the help of Almidano Artifoni, director of the Trieste Berlitz school, he finally secured a teaching position in Pula, then also part of Austria-Hungary (today part of Croatia). He stayed there, teaching English mainly to Austro-Hungarian naval officers stationed at the Pula base, from October 1904 until March 1905, when the Austrians — having discovered an espionage ring in the city — expelled all aliens. With Artifoni's help, he moved back to the city of Trieste and began teaching English there. He would remain in Trieste for most of the next 10 years.[1]
Later that year Nora gave birth to their first child, George. Joyce then managed to talk his brother, Stanislaus, into joining him in Trieste, and secured him a position teaching at the school. Ostensibly his reasons were for his company and offering his brother a much more interesting life than the simple clerking job he had back in Dublin, but in truth, he hoped to augment his family's meagre income with his brother's earnings.[11] Stanislaus and James had strained relations the entire time they lived together in Trieste, with most arguments centering on James' frivolity with money and drinking habits.[12]
With chronic wanderlust much of his early life, Joyce became frustrated with life in Trieste and moved to Rome in late 1906, having secured a position working in a bank in the city. He intensely disliked Rome, however, and ended up moving back to Trieste in early 1907. His daughter Lucia was born in the summer of the same year.
Joyce returned to Dublin in the summer of 1909 with George, in order to visit his father and work on getting Dubliners published. He visited Nora's family in Galway, meeting them for the first time (a successful visit, to his relief). When preparing to return to Trieste he decided to bring one of his sisters, Eva, back to Trieste with him in order to help Nora look after the home. He would spend only a month back in Trieste before again heading back to Dublin, this time as a representative of some cinema owners in order to set up a regular cinema in Dublin. The venture was successful (but would quickly fall apart in his absence), and he returned to Trieste in January 1910 with another sister in tow, Eileen. While Eva became very homesick for Dublin and returned a few years later, Eileen spent the rest of her life on the continent, eventually marrying Czech bank cashier František Schaurek.
Joyce returned to Dublin briefly in the summer of 1912 during his years-long fight with his Dublin publisher, George Roberts, over the publication of Dubliners. His trip was once again fruitless, and on his return he wrote the poem "Gas from a Burner" as a thinly veiled invective against Roberts. It was his last trip to Ireland, and he never again came closer to Dublin than London, despite the many pleas of his father and invitations from fellow Irish writer William Butler Yeats.
Joyce came up with many money-making schemes during this period of his life, such as his attempt to become a cinema magnate back in Dublin, as well as a frequently discussed but ultimately abandoned plan to import Irish tweeds into Trieste. His expert borrowing skills saved him from indigence. His income was made up partially from his position at the Berlitz school and from taking on private students. Many of his acquaintances through meeting these private students proved invaluable allies when he faced problems getting out of Austria-Hungary and into Switzerland in 1915.
One of his students in Trieste was Ettore Schmitz, better known by the pseudonymItalo Svevo; they met in 1907 and became lasting friends and mutual critics. Schmitz was Jewish, and became the primary model for Leopold Bloom; most of the details about the Jewish faith included in Ulysses came from Schmitz in response to Joyce's queries.[13] Joyce would spend most of the rest of his life on the Continent. It was in Trieste that he first began to be plagued by major eye problems, which would result in over a dozen surgeries before his death.
In 1915, when Joyce moved to Zürich in order to avoid the complexities (as a British subject) of living in Austria-Hungary during World War I, he met one of his most enduring and important friends, Frank Budgen, whose opinion Joyce constantly sought through the writing of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. It was also here where Ezra Pound brought him to the attention of English feminist and publisher Harriet Shaw Weaver, who would become Joyce's patron, providing him thousands of pounds over the next 25 years and relieving him of the burden of teaching in order to focus on his writing. After the war he returned to Trieste briefly, but found the city had changed, and his relations with his brother (who had been interned in an Austrian prison camp for most of the war due to his pro-Italian politics) were more strained than ever. Joyce headed to Paris in 1920 at an invitation from Ezra Pound, supposedly for a week, but he ended up living there for the next twenty years.
1920–1941: Paris and Zürich
He traveled frequently to Switzerland for eye surgeries and treatments for Lucia, who, according to the Joyce estate, suffered from schizophrenia. In her 2003 work, Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake, Carol Loeb Shloss alleges that there may have been incest between Lucia and her father and quite possibly between Lucia and her brother Georgio.[14] She cites the admission of the current heir of the Joyce estate, Stephen Joyce, that he burned thousands of letters between Lucia and her father that he received upon Lucia's death in 1982.[15] There is much correspondence of Joyce's showing that Lucia was his muse in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. All three works include a voyeuristic father with a libidinal interest in nubile pre-pubescent and adolescent girls—very often his own daughter.[16]Finnegans Wake ends with a father having sex with his daughter.[17] There is correspondence from Joyce proving that he spoke with Lucia in a language similar to that of the fragmented multi-language style in Finnegans Wake. There is much evidence that Lucia was not diagnosed with schizophrenia by several doctors. In fact, she was analyzed by Carl Jung who was of the opinion that her father was a schizophrenic after reading Ulysses.[18] Jung noted that she and her father were two people heading to the bottom of a river, except that he was diving and she was falling.[19][20]
In Paris, Maria and Eugene Jolas nursed Joyce during his long years of writing Finnegans Wake. Were it not for their unwavering support (along with Harriet Shaw Weaver's constant financial support), there is a good possibility that his books might never have been finished or published. In their now legendary literary magazine "transition," the Jolases published serially various sections of Joyce's novel under the title Work in Progress. He returned to Zürich in late 1940, fleeing the Nazi occupation of France. On 11 January1941, he underwent surgery for a perforated ulcer. While at first improved, he relapsed the following day, and despite several transfusions, fell into a coma. He awoke at 2 a.m. on 13 January1941, and asked for a nurse to call his wife and son before losing consciousness again. They were still en route when he died 15 minutes later. He is buried in the Fluntern Cemetery within earshot of the lions in the Zürich zoo - Nora's offer to permit the repatriation of Joyce's remains was declined by the Irish government. Nora, whom he had finally married in London in 1931, survived him by 10 years. She is buried now by his side, as is their son George, who died in 1976. Ellmann reports that when the arrangements for Joyce's burial were being made, a Catholic priest tried to convince Nora that there should be a funeral Mass. Ever loyal, she replied, 'I couldn't do that to him'.
Joyce's Irish experiences constitute an essential element of his writings, and provide all of the settings for his fiction and much of their subject matter. His early volume of short stories, Dubliners, is a penetrating analysis of the stagnation and paralysis of Dublin society. The final and most famous story in the collection, "The Dead," was made into a feature film in 1987, directed by John Huston (it was Huston's last major work).
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a nearly complete rewrite of the abandoned novel Stephen Hero, the original manuscript of which Joyce partially destroyed in a fit of rage during an argument with Nora. A Künstlerroman, or story of the personal development of an artist, it is a biographical coming-of-age novel in which Joyce depicts a gifted young man's gradual attainment of maturity and self-consciousness; the main character, Stephen Dedalus, is in many ways based upon Joyce himself.[21] Some hints of the techniques Joyce was to frequently employ in later works — such as the use of interior monologue and references to a character's psychic reality rather than his external surroundings — are evident in this novel.[22]Joseph Strick directed a film of the book in 1977 starring Luke Johnston, Bosco Hogan, T.P. McKenna and John Gielgud.
Despite early interest in the theatre, Joyce published only one play, Exiles, begun shortly after the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and published in 1918. A study of a husband and wife relationship, the play looks back to The Dead (the final story in Dubliners) and forward to Ulysses, which was begun around the time of the play's composition.
Joyce also published a number of books of poetry. His first mature published work was the satirical broadside "The Holy Office" (1904), in which he proclaimed himself to be the superior of many prominent members of the Celtic revival. His first full-length poetry collection Chamber Music (referring, Joyce explained, to the sound of urine hitting the side of a chamber pot) consisted of 36 short lyrics. This publication led to his inclusion in the Imagist Anthology, edited by Ezra Pound, who was a champion of Joyce's work. Other poetry Joyce published in his lifetime includes "Gas From A Burner" (1912), Pomes Penyeach (1927) and "Ecce Puer" (written in 1932 to mark the birth of his grandson and the recent death of his father). It was published in Collected Poems (1936).
Announcement of the initial publication of Ulysses.
As he was completing work on Dubliners in 1906, Joyce considered adding another story featuring a Jewish advertising canvasser called Leopold Bloom under the title Ulysses. Although he did not pursue the idea further at the time, he eventually commenced work on a novel using both the title and basic premise in 1914. The writing was completed in October, 1921. Three more months were devoted to working on the proofs of the book before Joyce halted work shortly before his self-imposed deadline, his 40th birthday (2 February1922).
Thanks to Ezra Pound, serial publication of the novel in the magazine The Little Review began in 1918. This magazine was edited by Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, with the backing of John Quinn, a New Yorkattorney at law with an interest in contemporary experimental art and literature. Unfortunately, this publication encountered censorship problems in the United States; serialization was halted in 1920 when the editors were convicted of publishing obscenity. The novel remained banned in the United States until 1933.
At least partly because of this controversy, Joyce found it difficult to get a publisher to accept the book, but it was published in 1922 by Sylvia Beach from her well-known Rive Gauche bookshop, Shakespeare and Company at 12 Rue l'Odéon. A commemorative plaque placed in 1989 by JJSSF (James Joyce Society of Sweden and Finland) is to be found on the wall. An English edition published the same year by Joyce's patron, Harriet Shaw Weaver, ran into further difficulties with the United States authorities, and 500 copies that were shipped to the States were seized and possibly destroyed. The following year, John Rodker produced a print run of 500 more intended to replace the missing copies, but these were burned by English customs at Folkestone. A further consequence of the novel's ambiguous legal status as a banned book was that a number of 'bootleg' versions appeared, most notably a number of pirate versions from the publisher Samuel Roth. In 1928, a court injunction against Roth was obtained and he ceased publication.
The year 1922 was a key year in the history of English-language literary modernism, with the appearance of both Ulysses and T. S. Eliot's poem, The Waste Land. In Ulysses, Joyce employs stream of consciousness, parody, jokes, and virtually every other literary technique to present his characters.[23] The action of the novel, which takes place in a single day, 16 June1904, sets the characters and incidents of the Odyssey of Homer in modern Dublin and represents Odysseus (Ulysses), Penelope and Telemachus in the characters of Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, contrasted with their lofty models. The book explores various areas of Dublin life, dwelling on its squalor and monotony. Nevertheless, the book is also an affectionately detailed study of the city, and Joyce said that "I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book".[24] In order to achieve this level of accuracy, Joyce used the 1904 edition of Thom's Directory — a work that listed the owners and/or tenants of every residential and commercial property in the city. He also bombarded friends still living there with requests for information and clarification.
The book consists of 18 chapters, each covering roughly one hour of the day, beginning around about 8 a.m. and ending sometime after 2 a.m. the following morning. Each of the 18 chapters of the novel employs its own literary style. Each chapter also refers to a specific episode in Homer's Odyssey and has a specific colour, art or science and bodily organ associated with it. This combination of kaleidoscopic writing with an extreme formal, schematic structure represents one of the book's major contributions to the development of 20th century modernist literature.[25] The use of classical mythology as a framework for his book and the near-obsessive focus on external detail in a book in which much of the significant action is happening inside the minds of the characters are others. Nevertheless, Joyce complained that, "I may have oversystematised Ulysses," and played down the mythic correspondences by eliminating the chapter titles that had been taken from Homer.[26]
Having completed work on Ulysses, Joyce was so exhausted that he did not write a line of prose for a year.[27] On 10 March1923 he informed a patron, Harriet Weaver: "Yesterday I wrote two pages — the first I have since the final Yes of Ulysses. Having found a pen, with some difficulty I copied them out in a large handwriting on a double sheet of foolscap so that I could read them. Il lupo perde il pelo ma non il vizio, the Italians say. The wolf may lose his skin but not his vice or the leopard cannot change his spots".[28] Thus was born a text that became known, first, as Work in Progress and later Finnegans Wake.
By 1926 Joyce had completed the first two parts of the book. In that year, he met Eugene and Maria Jolas who offered to serialise the book in their magazine transition. For the next few years, Joyce worked rapidly on the new book, but in the 1930s, progress slowed considerably. This was due to a number of factors, including the death of his father in 1931, concern over the mental health of his daughter Lucia and his own health problems, including failing eyesight. Much of the work was done with the assistance of younger admirers, including Samuel Beckett. For some years, Joyce nursed the eccentric plan of turning over the book to his friend James Stephens to complete, on the grounds that Stephens was born in the same hospital as Joyce exactly one week later, and shared the first name of both Joyce and of Joyce's fictional alter-ego (this is one example of Joyce's numerous superstitions).[29]
Reaction to the work was mixed, including negative comment from early supporters of Joyce's work, such as Pound and the author's brother Stanislaus Joyce.[30] In order to counteract this hostile reception, a book of essays by supporters of the new work, including Beckett, William Carlos Williams and others was organised and published in 1929 under the title Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress. At his 47th birthday party at the Jolases' home, Joyce revealed the final title of the work and Finnegans Wake was published in book form on 4 May1939.
Joyce's method of stream of consciousness, literary allusions and free dream associations was pushed to the limit in Finnegans Wake, which abandoned all conventions of plot and character construction and is written in a peculiar and obscure language, based mainly on complex multi-level puns. This approach is similar to, but far more extensive than that used by Lewis Carroll in Jabberwocky. If Ulysses is a day in the life of a city, then Wake is a night and partakes of the logic of dreams. This has led many readers and critics to apply Joyce's oft-quoted description in the Wake of Ulysses as his "usylessly unreadable Blue Book of Eccles"[31] to the Wake itself. However, readers have been able to reach a consensus about the central cast of characters and general plot.
Much of the wordplay in the book stems from the use of multilingual puns which draw on a wide range of languages. The role played by Beckett and other assistants included collating words from these languages on cards for Joyce to use and, as Joyce's eyesight worsened, of writing the text from the author's dictation.[32]
The view of history propounded in this text is very strongly influenced by Giambattista Vico, and the metaphysics of Giordano Bruno of Nola are important to the interplay of the "characters". Vico propounded a cyclical view of history, in which civilisation rose from chaos, passed through theocratic,
Cast members from the smash hit La Cliqueat the famous Spiegeltent,
along with a mesmerising "water" peerformance by Russian groupDerevo,
at the Georges Dock, which was beautifully transformed, topped up with dance till you drop night with Red, Hot & Brass with the first ever Brass Band Club night with Fanfara from the hills of Romania a revolutionary fusion of tradition marching music repertoire with hip hop, jazz and funk styles and the sound of Blasmusik by 11-piece Beat ‘n’ Blow from Germany. Dance ‘til you drop’.....
launched the 13th Dublin Fringe Festival, which will see more than 100 shows in over 30 venues across the city. The annual two-week event provides a platform for the most innovative and fresh theatre, visual arts, dance, live art, mixed media and music performances in the country. La Clique, which features a world-class roll-call of circus and cabaret performers including sword-swallower MisBehave and bathtub aerialist David O’Mer, opened tonight in the Fringe Spiegeltent, George’s Dock. The festival boasts an eclectic line-up, including a radical Stormont musical, bovine bone installations, freaked-up fire shows, lunatic clowns, crazy nuns and Buddhist monks, plus the biggest sell-out shows from Edinburgh and New York. Theatre buffs will also be well-served, with plays by Mark Ravenhill, Albert Camus, Moliere, Anton Chekhov, Stewart Parker and award-winner Declan Gorman added to the mix.
The Dublin Fringe Festival runs until September 23.
The World Famousleads the way at the opening of Dublins 13th Fringe Festival
The Crowd went wild at the World Famous , on set up on the Georges Dock for Dublins 13th Annual Fringe Festival. The lucky crowd that had tickets for the opening night of La Clique had comments like, " utterly amazing"...."we were just blown away by such a spectacular show..." " we were so fortunate to be at the opening night of a show that our freinds have called the Greatest Show On Earth.....and one that can not be missed...." Then the spetacular entertainment at the World Famous kept the party goers dancing till they dropped to the sounds of Red, Hot & Brass with the first ever Brass Band Club night with Fanfara from the hills of Romania a revolutionary fusion of tradition marching music repertoire with hip hop, jazz and funk styles and the sound of Blasmusik by 11-piece Beat ‘n’ Blow from Germany. The crown just went mental dancing in every dance style one could dream up, stampinmg their feet and yelling when the music stopped after each performance for more... they just could not get enough........
Watch this space for live video footage coming up soon of yourself dancing the night away at one ofthe hot favourite venues at the Dublin Fringe Festival the World Famous. Spiegeltent 2007
16 nights of unashamed, unabashed, unadulterated sound and vision.
Our dates for 2007 are the 8th to the 23rd of September 2007 Joined by Hennessy and the South William bar boys, this year’s late-night Hennessy Spiegelclub features gigs specifically programmed in response to the tent. One-off collaborations between music-scene behemoths, nights curated by the top names in Irish music, cult club nights from across the globe and premiers of shows from top international companies fill out the glamorous and seductive Spiegeltent
Tributes are flowing for legendary opera singer Luciano Pavarotti, who died earlier today in Italy after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Acclaimed as the greatest tenor of his generation, many former opera singers have lauded the 71-year-old for his outstanding career including performances in Australia. The former artistic director of the Australian Opera, Moffat Oxenbould, says Pavarotti will always be fondly remembered for his performances with soprano Dame Joan Sutherland in Australia. "He was always very complimentary particularly to Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge for that 1965 experience because ... he always used to say that he learnt how to breathe from Dame Joan in that season," he said. "He used to say 'I put my hand on her diaphragm'. He always used to say in so many interviews throughout his career he said that time was very special to him."
Great voice in history
Dame Joan hailed Pavarotti as one of the great voices in the history of opera. She performed operas including La Traviata and Turandot with Pavarotti, telling BBC radio there was "no question" he ranked among opera's greats. "I'm very sorry to hear he's gone, God bless," she said. "It was incredible to stand next to it and sing along with it," the 80-year-old Australian star nicknamed "La Stupenda" said. "The quality of the sound was quite different - you knew immediately it was Luciano singing." She added she had seen Pavarotti recently and he was "not the same person at all". Retired Australian opera singer Donald Shanks says Pavarotti was a master of his craft. "He had something very, very special about the timbre and the tone of the voice and he was such a larger than life character that it shone through in what he did with his voice," he said. The great tenor passed at his home in Modena, the city of his birth, with his wife, Nicoletta; his daughters, Lorenza, Cristina, Giuliana and Alice as well other friends and family by his side. In fitting with the approach that characterised his life and work, the maestro remained positive until finally succumbing to the last stages of his illness.
Legacy
London's Royal Opera House issued a statement hailing Pavarotti as "one of the finest singers of our time". "He was one of those rare artists who affected the lives of people across the globe in all walks of life," it said. "Through his countless broadcasts, recordings and concerts he introduced the extraordinary power of opera to people who perhaps would never have encountered opera and classical singing, in doing so he enriched their lives - that will be his legacy." "He had a unique ability to touch people with the emotional and brilliant quality of his voice. He was a man with the common touch and the most extraordinary gift. He will be truly missed by millions." British tenor Russell Watson told ITV television that Pavarotti had "without question" brought opera to a wider audience. "He was a complete tour de force, he was incredible, he lived life to the full," he said. "He was a big football fan, a real fanatic. Above and beyond all else, he had an incredible voice.
Funeral
Mayor of Modena, Giorgio Pighi, says the funeral for the opera singer might be held on Saturday. "Pavarotti wanted to die at home. I saw him last week. He was very worn by the illness but he wanted to make conversation. We even spoke in the local dialect," the mayor said. Pighi honoured Pavarotti as "a person of unequalled genius".
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The Tao of Everest Expedition 2007 Giving dignity to those who did not return - Between 1996 and 2003 Ian Woodall had the privilege of leading four expeditions to Mt Everest, and was lucky enough to reach the summit on two occasions. Now during April and May 2007 Ian is returning to Mt Everest to bury two climbers who are lying just 350 metres below the summit - an Indian climber who died in the great storm of 1996 and Francys Arsentiev, who became the first American woman to climb Mt Everest without using supplementary oxygen but then tragically died on the descent.
Armed with pencil puppets and a webcam, James Kotecki doled out Web 2.0 advice from his college dorm room. It turns out that the politicians were paying attention.
WASHINGTON - President Bush breathed new life into the CIA's terror interrogation program Friday in an executive order that would allow harsh questioning of suspects, limited in public only by a vaguely worded ban on cruel and inhuman treatment.
NEW YORK - With the cleanup from a deadly steam pipe explosion expected to drag on for days, businesses in the "frozen zone" could lose hundreds of millions of dollars, a business leader said Friday.
WASHINGTON - President Bush breathed new life into the CIA's terror interrogation program Friday in an executive order that would allow harsh questioning of suspects, limited in public only by a vaguely worded ban on cruel and inhuman treatment.
NEW YORK - With the cleanup from a deadly steam pipe explosion expected to drag on for days, businesses in the "frozen zone" could lose hundreds of millions of dollars, a business leader said Friday.
WASHINGTON - President Bush breathed new life into the CIA's terror interrogation program Friday in an executive order that would allow harsh questioning of suspects, limited in public only by a vaguely worded ban on cruel and inhuman treatment.
NEW YORK - With the cleanup from a deadly steam pipe explosion expected to drag on for days, businesses in the "frozen zone" could lose hundreds of millions of dollars, a business leader said Friday.
WASHINGTON - President Bush's top two military and political advisers on Iraq will warn Congress on Monday that making any significant changes to the current war strategy will jeopardize the limited security and political progress made so far, The Associated Press has learned.
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Lord Black of Crossharbour Conrad Black, the former press baron jailed for 15 years for fraud, makes the front pages of most papers. His rise and fall is summed up in the Independent ... Lord Black of Crossharbour Conrad Black, the former press baron jailed for 15 years for fraud, makes the front pages of most papers. His rise and fall is summed up in the Independent ...
Black found guilty of criminal fraud Fri Jul 13,CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Friday found Conrad Black guilty of criminal fraud and obstruction of justice in a grim Friday the 13th verdict that could send the former media baron to jail for up to 35 years.
Conrad M. Black [was] Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Operating Officer ofHollinger International Inc.. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Nixon Center. He is known politically for his staunch criticism of the Liberal Party of Canada. The issue of whether Black could accept a title in Britain was the most notable battle between Black and Canadian Prime MinisterJean Chretien - Canadian citizens cannot accept such titles without giving up citizenship and Chretien would not make exceptions. The National which had been launched by Black was not financially successful, and was sold to the CanWest chain then owned by Israel Asper.
Maude Barlow, the chair of the Council of Canadians [QUERY: still current?]is cited by Leiterman stating Black is known to "routinely intervene in editorial policy-making". [1] Leiterman also cites Radler, Hollinger's president, as telling Maclean's (2/3/92): "If editors disagree with us they should disagree with us when they're no longer in our employ. The buck stops with ownership. I am responsible for meeting the payroll; therefore I will ultimately determine what the papers say and how they're going to be run." [2] Hollinger also owns the Jerusalem Post. In September 2003 that newspaper advocated killingYasser Arafat. This was quickly raised by the Israeli Cabinet, but described by Colin L. Powell, Condoleeza Riceas "unhelpful" and by The Economist as "wrong".
Israel has no law against foreign press ownership.
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Bush presses Musharraf to hold elections
By DEB RIECHMANN and ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writers 48 minutes ago WASHINGTON - President Bush, personally intervening in the political crisis in Pakistan, told President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday he must hold parliamentary elections soon and step down as army leader. "You can't be the president and the head of the military at the same time," Bush said, describing a 20-minute telephone call with Musharraf. "I had a very frank discussion with him." It was Bush's first contact with Musharraf since he declared emergency rule on Saturday and granted sweeping powers to authorities to crush political dissent. "My message was very plain, very easy to understand, and that is, the United States wants you to have the elections as scheduled and take your uniform off," Bush said during a news conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy held at George Washington's home in Mount Vernon, Va. For days, the White House has faced questions about why Bush was taking a softer line on Pakistan than he did, for instance, against Myanmar where military rulers cracked down on pro-democracy protesters in September. Bush defended his response to both governments, "Look, our objective is the same in Burma as it is in Pakistan, and that is to promote democracy," Bush said. "There is a difference, however. Pakistan has been on the path to democracy. Burma hadn't been on the path to democracy. And it requires different tactics to achieve the common objective." Musharraf, who has been promising to restore democracy since seizing power in a 1999 coup, has ousted independent-minded judges, put a stranglehold on the media and has put thousands of Pakistanis in jail or under house arrest since assuming emergency powers last weekend. Musharraf said his decisions to suspend the constitution and oust its top judge were necessary to prevent a takeover by Islamic extremists. "My message was that we believe strongly in elections, and that you ought to have elections soon, and you need to take off your uniform," Bush said. The White House would not disclose details of the call or Musharraf's response. "President Musharraf listened carefully and heard what President Bush had to say," said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council. He said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had talked with Musharraf on Monday. "The president felt like he should give him a call today and reiterate his position," Johndroe said. Sarkozy said France also was concerned about the rising instability in Pakistan and urged Musharraf to hold elections as quickly as possible. "Let me remind you that this is a country of 150 million inhabitants who happens to have nuclear weapons," Sarkozy said. "It is very important for us that one day we shouldn't wake up with a government, an administration in Pakistan, which is in the hands of the extremists." Mahmud Ali Durrani, Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S., said he expected Musharraf to lift the state of emergency soon. "It may go into a week or two, but I don't think more," he said. Musharraf "has made this commitment already. The emergency will be lifted, he will doff his uniform, and the elections will be held as soon as possible," the diplomat said on PBS' "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." On Capitol Hill, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte repeated U.S. criticism of Musharraf's crackdown, but described the Pakistani leader as a key ally. He said Musharraf has been so indispensable in the global war on terror that extremists and radicals have tried to assassinate him multiple times. "No country has done more in terms of inflicting damage and punishment on the Taliban and the al-Qaida since 9-11," Negroponte told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "Their record is quite impressive." The Bush administration is reviewing its aid to Pakistan, but Negroponte said he hopes the U.S. will not have to punish Pakistan. "I think that the longer the situation goes on in its present form, the more difficult it's going to become," he said. Many lawmakers are skeptical. They say the U.S. should be more serious about penalizing Pakistan and that Musharraf should not be so readily praised. "Our foreign policy should not be faith-based," said Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y., who heads the House subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia. The war on terror is at the forefront of U.S.-Pakistan relations. At the Pentagon, Lt. Gen. Carter Ham, director of operations for the Joint Chiefs, said cooperation along the border is crucial to U.S. war efforts but that communication and cooperation with the Pakistani military along the Afghan border have not been affected by the political crisis. More than half of U.S. supplies to forces in Afghanistan go through Pakistan. "There's good communication between U.S. and Afghan forces on the one side and the Pakistan forces on the other. And we would certainly not want to see that jeopardized in any way," Ham said. Associated Press Military Writer Robert Burns contributed to this report.
Stop Press International News Flash The Crime and Misconduct Commission of Queensland in Australia headed by John David Kallahan, Michael O'Connor, Dan Bartlet, Ian Thomas and others are accused of being used by powerful corrupt Queensland Police and their shady business associates which includes an ex-Queensland Police Officer for a wrongful purpose to cover up serious crimes and wrongful acts commited by them which includes conspiracy to break and enter, conspiracy to defraud, major drug dealing in the Queensland's Gold Coast and to cover up major crimes committed by public company directors and their associates-
ANDREW MOLONEY Managing Partner Gold Coast office Acc. Spec. (Crim.) of Ryan Bosscher Lawyers Click here to view the Ryan Bosscher Web Site http://www.ryanbosscher.com.au/
Andrew attended School at Villanova College in Brisbane, before attending Queensland University of Technology to study Business and Law in 1985. After completing degrees in Business (Accountancy) and Law in 1989, Andrew undertook a two (2) year Articled Clerkship with a Logan City firm. Andrew was admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland in 1991. Two years as a Clerk in Logan City saw Andrew obtain a grounding in all areas of Law however he discovered a desire to do Criminal Law which had been a substantial part of this practice. After admission as a Solicitor, Andrew took a twelve months vacation and travelled overseas working and living predominantly in the UK. Upon his return in January 1993, Andrew started his first step with the firm (then known as Brendan P. Ryan and Associates). After twelve months Andrew received an offer to return to Logan City. Then in late 1994 Andrew moved to the Gold Coast to take the position with a prominent Gold Coast Criminal Law firm. In 1996, Andrew was offered a position as partner at Ryan and Bosscher to run the new Gold Coast practice. The office started in August 1996. It has been successful and is now staffed by two Solicitors and undertakes all forms of Criminal Law work. Andrew has appeared as an advocate in all Criminal Law jurisdictions and has instructed and briefed experienced Counsel in large and complex matters. In 1995 Andrew was admitted as a Legal Practitioner in New South Wales and undertakes matters in the Northern Rivers area. Andrew's ten years experience in the Criminal Law field has seen him develop a desire to see the rights of the individual protected, as they are under ever increasing attack by Governments and the media. Andrew is committed to the cornerstone of the Criminal Justice System, namely the presumption of innocence, the right to silence, and trial by jury. Any attempt to erode the rights of the accused person will be staunchly defended. In the future Andrew hopes to continue and further the Gold Coast office to offer the residents of the Gold Coast area strong legal representation to protect their rights and interests, should they ever find themselves accused by Police or other prosecuting authorities. Andrew is a Criminal Law Accredited Specialist in Queensland.
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Andrew is the man at present taking the corrupt Crime and Misconduct Commsion head on defending the average Queensland citizen's rights, Andrew said the CMC interrogated one witness who is not well, on two days notice to attend the CMC from 10 am till 6.30 PM, and states that this was completely unethical behaviour by the lawyers running the CMC, and this sort of corrupt behaviour has to stop.. Andrew told INL News that he would campaign in any way possible to stop the CMC acting in such a corrupt manner...it seems that Andrew Maloney and his large legal firm at Bosscher are the right team for the job to force the lawyers running the CMC to start to act honestly. The Ryan & Bossher legal team consists of over 20 laywers in Queensland and New South Wales which include:
BRENDAN RYAN Senior Partner Brendan Ryan is the Senior Partner of the firm. Brendan was admitted to practice in Queensland in February of 1985 after completing his university degree at the Queensland Institute of Technology.
MICHAEL BOSSCHE Managing Partner Acc. Spec. (Crim) QLD Acc. Spec. (Crim) NSW Michael was born and raised in Melbourne and upon completion of his secondary schooling in the United Kingdom he arrived in Brisbane to undertake his university degree. Throughout the course of his degree Michael worked full time for the Crown Solicitor's Office as well as completing his degree on a full time basis at the University of Queensland
PETER SHIELDSPartnerAcc. Spec. (Crim.)QUEENSLAND
PETER RUSSO Partner Peter has been a sole practitioner in the area of criminal law for over 12 years and with the merge of Russo Lawyers and Ryan & Bosscher Lawyers is now a partner of the firm. Peter is admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland, the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia. Peter has been involved in many high profile cases and he has a consistent track record of obtaining favourable results for his clients. Peter worked in the Magistrates Court for approximately 10 years whilst completing his studies with the Solicitors's Board. As a result, he is very familiar with that jurisdiction. Peter has a strong commitment to access-to-justice issues and is a member of committees that deal with these issues.
MITCHELL CAVANAGH Acc. Spec. (Crim.) Managing Partner Sydney and Parramatta
Crime and Misconduct Commission Yes, the CMC protects corrupt police offices who live beyond their means and that can not provide any lawful evidence as to where their funds comes from, in particular large drug dealers that provide funds to support the employees of the Crime and Misconduct Commission to support our expensive life styles.. as the wages that the people of Queensland are simply not enough to pay for all our expensive life styles...
Yes, the CMC supports criminal behavour by police officers in Queensland, in fact anywhere really, as long as they have some sort of police badge we make sure they can continue their criminal behaviour without being harassed in their activities...if anyone tries to expose these criminal activities we have unlimited powers to drag them and/or their families into secret hearings that cost about $2,000 a day to pay a lawyer to attend these hearings with them, as we have made the rules such that only a lawyer can attend with the person we get our corrupt police to drag off the street on only two days notice into these secret hearings.. at the same time we are all paid large salaries by the people of Queensland and the cash we receive on the side from our corrupt police mates and other other criminal mates...
Yes, the CMC supports misconduct as long as it is misconduct by any of our criminal mates employed in the Police Service and/or another Government Departments or other private criminals that are friends, who are prepared to offer funds to support our expensive life styles that the salaries we obtain from the Queensland Taxpayers do not cover... we specialise in supporting, protecting and encouraging the Queensland and Federal Police and others to import and sell illegal drugs and break and enter houses without a warrant to steal whole housefuls of furniture (as they did in Tallai) and steal the original manuscripts of books such as the Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching the Watchers) that was in the process of being published world wide by International News Limited in books and films and a TV series that would have brought a lot of world wide attention to our criminal behaviour of our corrupt police mates and expose our own criminal activities.. we simply had no choice but to break into that house with the help of our drug taking and selling mates and the Queensland Police, were we suspected this book could be stored.. after all we had to protect our livelihood and our business associates who provide our ability for ourselves to live beyond our means... we at the CMC of course can not be investigated as we are not going to investigate ourselves and we are the only ones with such power... we are simply untouchable and have a very protected monopoly in that regard
Victorian Police corruption author vindicated four and a half years later Police corruption author vindicated -from Smuggled.com Whistleblowers Australia draws attention to the fact that author Raymond Hoser's claims of corruption in the Victoria Police have been vindicated as true. In 1999 he published two extensive books on the subject, Victoria Police Corruption and Victoria Police Corruption - 2. Each book ran in excess of 700 pages and detailed extensively networks of corruption involving police, drug squad police, politicians and their friends they appointed to key judicial posts. In 2000, the Bracks government ordered the police to raid bookshops and seize books. They sent letters to bookshops in all Australian states telling them not to sell the books and stating that any person who sold Hoser books would be jailed. This week, the damning revelations of police corruption are no different to those detailed in the first of the two books. The secret is out! In fact the Ombudsman, Mr. Brouwer, himself previously denying police corruption has just published a report confirming the central Hoser claims … that is that the Police corruption now being reported is both systemic and all pervasive and been that way for many years! Whistleblowers Australia now calls on the Bracks government to concede that all the alleged conspiracy theories of Raymond Hoser are in fact true. Furthermore, Whistleblowers Australia calls on the government to compensate Hoser for losses arising from their illegal banning of the Victoria Police Corruption books. These books had been best-sellers before the government ordered them from the shelves. Hoser and his publishing company have itemized losses now running to several hundred thousand dollars. Author Raymond Hoser was quoted today saying "Denying the truth won't make it cease to exist. The news reports from this week, prove this more than adequately." At a public meeting at Melbourne University last year, Commissioner Christine Nixon said that she didn't have to worry about the Hoser disclosures as the government had effectively sent him broke and destroyed him. She said "Ray Hoser's allegations are no longer a threat to the police force". Hoser later said, that he was no threat to the police, especially the honest ones, but that the corruption he'd uncovered did pose a serious long term threat to both the honest police and decent law abiding people. The recent spate of murders in Melbourne, most now positively linked to corrupt police involvement proves Hoser's earlier statements to be correct. Further inquiries to:0412 777 211 (in Australia)
Today was a sad day for all Australians who thought that they lived in a free country where truth, justice and freedom of speech were meant to be rights of all citizens. In a case that's been suppressed in the mainstream media, or when reported, grossly misrepresented, Australia's leading corruption author has been declared guilty of "contempt" of court for publishing the truth about corruption in the legal system in two best-selling books.Corruption author stitched up for publishing truth about corruption in Australian legal system. Truth on trial - Legal System scandalised by the Victorian (Australia) Attorney General (Rob Hulls) and his appointed Judges-click on above link to read more...
Queensland Police involved in protecting Drug Chiefs INL News has been presented with evidence that senior state Queensland Police officers are involved with protecting major drugs dealers in the Gold Coast to help with developing and protecting the multi billion dollar drug industry thriving in the Gold Coast Queensland Australia who use their illegal drugs profits to lend out on shady high interest rate real estate loans at up to 15% interest per month using high profile lawyers trust accounts to launder the billions in drug profits- INL News has been given evidence by well known low level drug dealers and users who have agreed to help expose the corruption in the Queensland Police Force and the police involvement at high levels in drug taking and drug selling in the Gold Coast in Queensland- the witnesses who have provided sworn evidence to INL are now in hiding for fear of their lives..... Watch this space for more details soon to be published by INL News for the world to see what really goes on in the sunny Gold Coast Queensland Australia, which is fast becoming the crime capital of the world, with such crimes being developed, supported, maintained and protected by senior members of the Queensland Police Force- INL has been told by one senior ex-police officer that used to be in the major crime squad, that he had to leave the Queensland Police Force because he could not stand up against senior police protecting major drug dealers and allowing them to operate openly with senior police protection in the Gold Coast Queensland... it became a choice to either join their corrupt and illegal activities or leave the police force and keep his integrity... but again he was too scared to speak up publiclly as to what he saw for fear of his life and the life of his family living in the Gold Coast... these people will stop at nothing to protect their illegal business interests and because they are the police, there is no where to run and no where to hide from these people, who have no hesitation of having someone murdered to make sure of their silence and making threats of murder and physical body damage to anyone or their families that get in their way..... INL News has such evidence well secured in an international location ready to be presented to the International Court of Justice if those involved with such crimial and wrongful behavior cause any further trouble to innocent people who are presently being wrongfully being harrashed by The Crime and Misconduct Commission of Queensland in Australia headed by John David Hallahan, Michael O'Connor, Dan Bartlet, Ian Thomas and others being used by powerful corrupt Queensland Police and their shady business associates which includes an ex-Queensland Police Officer for a wrongful purpose to cover up serious crimes and wrongful acts commited by them which includes conspiracy to break and enter, conspiracy to defraud, major drug dealing in the Queensland's Gold Coast and to cover up major crimes committed by public company directors and their assistants... "...I texed lisa Quain today, to ask her how she was... this is the reply.....having a bad day again, as per usual. trying to correlate the whole saga of extremely traumatic events.we are trying to put it in chronological order, with names and phone numbers of witnesses and government authority contacts or departments that can verify facts that prove a gross misconduct and negligence or official corruption . its just too much to cope with. too much occured . its a HUGE amount of criminal offences commited against us ! police refused to act on any of it, that includes hand guns pointed at us. unbelievable , but all true......." Art by this amazing Japanese artist Shizko Kiyohara for more on this artist click here to see her web
A review has been made by the USA Weekly News on the performance by Eilin O'Dea of James Joyce's Ulysses Molly Bloom's soliloquy at the end of the James Joyce's Ulysses'. This is recognised as one of the most famous female narratives in modern literature, which was performed by Eilin O'Dea and directed by Liam Carney at the Teachers Club 36 Parnell Square West Dublin 1, from the 25th September - 6th October. This famous narrative which has been used as the basis of songs, re-appeared in movies, quoted in other literary works and in terms of its effect on Irish culture is one of the most difficult narratives for an actor to perform. Eilin Odea performs Molly Bloom's otherwise silent voice to bear her soul on life, love, sex and loneliness. This has been done with absolute artistic genius by Eilen Odea in a genuine authentic way. Having heard Eilin Odea as Molly Bloom, it is hard to imagine any other actor performing this difficult narrative in anyway near the standard set by Eilin Odea. In effect Eilin Odea has become the real Molly Bloom is this absolute stunning academy award style performance which will no doubt receive a standing ovation from audiences all around the world. The USA Weekly News is compelled to give Eilin's performance of Molly Bloom the hightest industry award that is on offer. There is absolutely no doubt of her receiving the normal top five star industry award. However, the USA WEEKLY NEWS has a special 100 star award for perpormances that are in a class of their own. Eilin's performance of Molly Bloom is one of these performances. The USA WEEKLY NEWS is confident that when Eilin Odea takes her performance of Molly Bloom to London, New York, Australia and the rest of the world, the play will have a very long and successful season. Awards from the USA WEEKLY NEWS to Eilin Odea as Molly Bloom directed by Liam Carney : The normal Industy 5 star award plus the USA WEEKLY NEWS special 100 star award for being is class far above the standard to the normal five star ward performance. Sincere congradulations from the USA WEEKLY NEWS..... A performance not to be missed....
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Lord Black of Crossharbour the former press baron jailed for 15 years for fraud CONRAD BLACK A CLOSER LOOK
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Lord Conrad Black Richard Perle Hollinger International: Former Co-Chairman
Richard Perle is widely considered a core representative of the neoconservative political faction; he played a central role in championing the war in Iraq and an aggressive war on terror centered on the Middle East in the wake of 9/11. Once dubbed the “Prince of Darkness” because of his advocacy of extremely hawkish anti-Soviet policies while in Ronald Reagan's Department of Defense, Perle's former post as chairman of then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld' s Defense Policy Board (DPB) in the years leading up to the Iraq War gave him a privileged perch from which he helped shape Bush administration foreign policies.
Echoing the efforts of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a leading neoconservative advocacy group with which Perle was closely associated, and former Pentagon number two Paul Wolfowitz, who was the most vocal administration proponent for attacking Iraq in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Perle convened a meeting of the DPB shortly after the attacks to produce policy alternatives for the administration. Perle invited as a guest to the classified meeting Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi exile who was a longtime confidant of Perle's and served as the head of the Iraqi National Congress, which had for years been pushing for regime change in Iraq. Commenting on this apparent coordination in and outside the administration, Jim Lobe and Michael Flynn wrote: “It appears that after 9/11, the network of hawks and neoconservatives that had coalesced around PNAC's founding agenda had mobilized in a highly coordinated way to fashion the administration's response to the terrorist attacks and rally the public behind their new agenda” (see “The Rise and Decline of the Neoconservatives,” Right Web Analysis, November 17, 2006).
Affiliations
American Enterprise Institute: Resident Fellow
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies: Member, Board of Advisers
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs: Member, Board of Advisers
Hudson Institute: Member, Board of Trustees
Center for Security Policy: Member, National Security Advisory Council
U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon: Golden Circle Supporter
Council on Foreign Relations: Chairman, Study Group on Nonlethal Options in Overseas Contingencies (report published in 1995)
Project for the New American Century: Letter Signatory
Committee for the Liberation of Iraq: Member
Committee on the Present Danger: Member
Middle East Forum/U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon: Signed 2000 document sponsored by both groups calling on the United States to force Syria from Lebanon
American Committee for Peace in Chechnya: Member
Government Service
Department of Defense: Former member, Defense Policy Board (Chairman until 2003); Assistant Secretary of Defense (1981-1987)
U.S. Senate: Staff (1969-1980); served on the staffs of Sen. Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, the Senate Committee on Government Operations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Arms Control Subcommittee
Private Sector
Hollinger International: Former Co-Chairman
Trireme Partners L.P.: Managing Partner
Global Crossings: Consultant
Morgan Crucible: Co-Chairman
Jerusalem Post: Former Co-Chairman
Education
Princeton University: M.A., Political Science (1967)
University of Southern California: B.A., International Relations (1964)
Lord Black of Crossharbour Conrad Black, the former press baron jailed for 15 years for fraud, makes the front pages of most papers. His rise and fall is summed up in the Independent ...
Black found guilty of criminal fraud Fri Jul 13,CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Friday found Conrad Black guilty of criminal fraud and obstruction of justice in a grim Friday the 13th verdict that could send the former media baron to jail for up to 35 years.
Conrad M. Black [was] Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Operating Officer ofHollinger International Inc.. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Nixon Center.
He is known politically for his staunch criticism of the Liberal Party of Canada.
The issue of whether Black could accept a title in Britain was the most notable battle between Black and Canadian Prime MinisterJean Chretien- Canadian citizens cannot accept such titles without giving up citizenship and Chretien would not make exceptions. The National which had been launched by Black was not financially successful, and was sold to the CanWest chain then owned by Israel Asper.
Maude Barlow, the chair of the Council of Canadians [QUERY: still current?]is cited by Leiterman stating Black is known to "routinely intervene in editorial policy-making". [1]
Leiterman also cites Radler, Hollinger's president, as telling Maclean's (2/3/92): "If editors disagree with us they should disagree with us when they're no longer in our employ. The buck stops with ownership. I am responsible for meeting the payroll; therefore I will ultimately determine what the papers say and how they're going to be run." [2]
Hollinger also owns the Jerusalem Post. In September 2003 that newspaper advocated killingYasser Arafat. This was quickly raised by the Israeli Cabinet, but described byColin L. Powell, Condoleeza Riceas "unhelpful" and by The Economist as "wrong".
Israel has no law against foreign press ownership.
Black found guilty of criminal fraud Fri Jul 13,CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Friday found Conrad Black guilty of criminal fraud and obstruction of justice in a grim Friday the 13th verdict that could send the former media baron to jail for up to 35 years.
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Such positiove news that Chapmans now owns 10% of a company that seems to be worth over one billion dollars, would give Chapmans an extra $100 million added to their balance sheet. With only 100 milion issued shares in Chapmans, this should make the Chapmans shares valued at over $1 a share from their current trading price of around 2-3c a share. It seems like Chapmans managing director, Borris Ganke, known in business circles as "THE OLD FOX", well known for his ability to get shares moving in the right direction-upwards of course, as he did with Offshore Oil and Poisden, during the Australian mining boom of the 1960's , is up to his old tricks again and turning Chapmans Limited into another Poisden for Chapmans share holders, with a potential rise from 2-3c to over $1 a share. Good luck and congradulations to those shareholders who had faith in Borris Ganke and his right hand man and new personal business advisor Dan Lanskey, who they say Mr Ganke will not move on any business deal without consulting Mr lanskey first. In fact I have many business friends in Sydney Australia, where Chapmans Limited has it's head office, and they say Mr Ganke is never seen without Dan Lanskey from 8am to about 12pm when they finally are seen leaving the Chapmans office in Elizebeth Street Sydney, after spending another long day plotting Chapman's next take over and business moves. No one can say they do not earn their money as the main managers and driving force behind Chapmans Limited. They certainly deserve the recognition and success that Chapmans Limited and its shareholders are about to enjoy. Again, well done boys, I have been a faithful shareholder of Chapmans for a long time after my business friends in Sydney recommended it just because they said Borris Ganke will eventually make someting happen with the company, and have seen the shares go between 2c and 50c, now finally they are set to move to over the $1 a share mark. I certianly will not be selling then, as there is no doubt in my mind that when Chapmans lists on the London Stock Exchange next year, they will be over one English Pound a share, which is around $Aust2.50 a share with the current English Pound to Australian Dollar exchange rate.
Smart Ventures are not the only company interested in Chapmans Limited. International News Limited based in the USA, is apparently looking at a take over bid for Chapmans to use to head their expansion into the Australian media market with a hard copy Australia wide weekend newspaper called the Australian Weekend News and online real estate and business sales web sites in Australian and New Zealand called www.yahoorealestate.com.au and www.yahoorealestate.co.nz to take on www.realestate.com.au
which is said in the industry to be worth a few billion dollars, because of the very profitable advertising revenue it earns each year from real estate and business for sale advertising. Both groups are keen to take over Chapmans for a number of reasons, which includes the fact that, as Chapmans has been listed on the Australian Stock Exchange since about 1970, it will be easy to have the company listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), which is effectively the second board of the London Stock Exchange. This move will open up the opportunity and interest for European, United Kingdom and USA investors and large superanuation, insurance and mutual funds to invest in Chapmans Limited, which now has interests in a diverse range of industries listed in the Smart Ventures portfolio, and the interesting investments Chapmans have already made in mobile phone accessories, mining, real estate and an Irish based new roofing system called New-Lock , as well as the media. Brett Goldsworthy the CEO of Smart Ventures seems excited about what appears to be effectively a merger of two venture capital type companies. Another USA based media company called the USA Weekly News Limited has just last week purchased 10% of the issued shares in Chapmans Limited, and is making noises of purchasing another 9%, which will bring their shareholding just under the 20% mark. It is understood negotiations are going on at present with some of the of the other large shareholders of Chapmans to purchase these extra 9% off market, so that the share price on the market will not increase too much in case they want to make a formal take over bid in the near future. If the USA Weekly News Limited purchases 20% or more of the stock it will be forced to make a take over bid for Chapmans. From investigations done by INL, this is also on the cards. Watch this space for further developments. It is INL's understanding that on the 26th of April 2007 the general manager of Chapmans, Dan Lansky with the managing director of Chapmans Borris Ganke, brokered and signed the deal for Chapmans to buy 10% of Brett Goldswothy's, Smart Ventures which describes itself on Smart Venture's web site www.smartventures.com.au the following way
Objective To accelerate small market cap companies into the global market place by providing innovative solutions and services to growing companies in the small to medium cap sector, worldwide.
History Smart Ventures was founded in 2004 to provide innovative banking solutions to specific market verticals. Since that time the group has focused on market verticals in various countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, China, India, Peru, and the United States. Based out of Australia with regional offices in each location the team at Smart Ventures is able to provide personal service needed by many small to medium cap companies.
Management Team Public Company experience Senior technical and commercial management experience New business development and branding experience Track record in new venture creation Solid management skills Experience in developing new businesses/products Successful track record in delivering multi-million revenues Strong people management, negotiation skills and complex deal execution experience with blue-chip organizations Compliance and Training Investor relations Public Relations Media Briefing Legal Advice
Services Investment Brokerage Mergers and acquisitions Corporate finance products Institutional introductions Foreign Exchange Private investment Financial management Financial systems Public listing training Institutional Presentation training News flow program Daily Weekly Quarterly and Annual results Investor relations Shareholder relations Financial Public relations Commercial Market PR Board development for International growth Advisory board development Executive Management USA Europe, Middle East and Africa PACRIM
Smart Ventures portfolio of investments
Media and IT Global Media and Communications Businesses Global Integrated Blog Software and Technology Global Graphic Interface for Mobile and Gaming Industry Japan EAS and Security Systems Global Integrated Media and Technology Systems Japan Mobile Animation Japan 3G Mobile technology Japan
Gaming and Resorts Pachinko Groups Japan Hotels Japan Machine Manufacture and Distribution Global Casino Operation Macau Resort Casino and SPA Peru Resort Fiji Resort Sapporo Japan
Health Beauty and Food Industries Restaurant Group Japan & China Health and Beauty – SPA and Machinery Global Health and Beauty – SPA Japan Health and Beauty – H40 Water Global Dental Industry Consolidation Australia Dental Industry – Software Japan Hospital and Associated services Consolidation Japan Bio Tech – DNA Japan Sound and Energy Technology Global
Green Enery, Minerals and Alternative Technology Pyrolysis Technology – Waste to Oil and Gas Global Nano and Wave Technology – Waste Oil to Oil and Ethanol Global Pyrolysis Technology – Medical and Hospital Application Global Alternative Energy Resource Group – Solar, Wind, and Thorium Energy Organic Waste Decomposition Units Global CO2 Emission Conversion Global
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Stop Press: The original of this artilce came from YahooSearchNews.com and appears to have been first published in January 2007 A major Investment Group who are taking over USA company, USA Weekly News Limited,
are getting ready to take over Chapmans Limited ( Austalian Stock Exchange Code is CHP), a little known venture capital company that has been listed on the Australian Stock Exchange since about 1970. The plan is to use Chapmans Limited to back door list International News Limited, which is expected to cause the market to value the 90 million issued shares in Chapmans at about $Aust5 a share. Once the take over is completed, CHAPMANS will be listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) on the London Stock Exchange, at which time, it is expected that Chapmans shares will trade around five UK Pounds a shares. This equates to about $Aust10 dollars a share. The future share price of Chapmans Limited is expected to be strengthened as the bidding takes hold by the fact that the top 20 shareholders control about 80% of the shares in the company, and very few of these large shareholders are keen to sell their shares under $5 a share, as they are well aware of the future of the company. In fact the managing director of Chapmans Limited, Borris Ganke, a well know veteran in the public company world, has at present an effective control of Chapmans through his personal shareholders and the shareholdering of another company he is managing director of, being Southern Cross Explorations Limited. Mr Ganke continues to resist any take over of the company and refuses to discuss the the sale of the 30% of the capital of Chapmans which he and Southern Cross Explorations control. Mr Ganke has made it clear that these shares are not for sale at any price and does not need the money as he owns a development property in Fiji which he estimates has a potential development profit of about $Aust500 milion. It appears that Mr Ganke and his company Southern Cross Exporations Ltd, are there for the long term, to be involved with the move of Chapmans to the London Stock Exchange, where Mr Ganke is well known through previous companies he has been involved with on the London Stock Exchange. These previous companies have had capitalisations of around half a billion UK pounds on the London Stock Exchange. It is also understood that an oppositon camp of shareholders control about 30% of the share capital of Chapmans, and a smaller group control about 20% of Chapman's issued share capital. This only leaves about 20% of the issued share capital of Chapmans held by a lot a very small shareholders in small parcels from 10,000 to 200,000 shares. Very low key announcements have previously been made by the board of Chapmans about their aims to become involved in the media world, which have gone unnoticed by financial journalists in Australia. Mr Ganke is well known to be be a very conservative managing director who does not like to beat the drum too loundly until the ink is fully dry on final agreements. It is believed that representatives of AIM have already been over from London to approach Mr Ganke to request him to list Chapmans on AIM. AIM is a part of the London Stock Exchange, which provides automatic listing to any Australian company that has been listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) for more than three years. Chapmans has been on the Australian Stoxk Exchange for about 30 years. It is believed that the plan includes asking shareholders to agree to allow Chapmans to change its 70 year old name name to International News Limited, which is at present registered in Australia and the USA, as the owner of valuable media newspaper mastheads and internet URLs estimated to be worth over one billion UK Pounds.
The INL News is proud to announce that Patrick Obi has been promoted to World News Administration manager for INL News. After spending many years working for various new oranisations throughout Africa, Patrick Obi will bring a wealth of experince and world news contracts to INL News. The INL News Team gives you a very warm welcome to Patrick in his new role as World News Admin Manager. Great to have you on board Patrick From all the Staff at INL News
Black found guilty of criminal fraud Fri Jul 13,CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Friday found Conrad Black guilty of criminal fraud and obstruction of justice in a grim Friday the 13th verdict that could send the former media baron to jail for up to 35 years.
This week on ABC's Sunday Profile, jailed businessman Rodney Adler talks about the impact of the HIH collapse on him, his family and his business ventures and what he expects from prison life.
"..this last four and a half years has cost me just shy of seven and a half million dollars."..."
Adler could be free in two-and-a-half years. (ABC TV)
Transcript
Hello and welcome to Sunday Profile. I'm Monica Attard...tonight, as he sits behind bars for the next 2 and a half years, Rodney Adler. It's been an amazing fall from grace. The son of business icon Larry Adler had it all...a great education, a life of luxury, his name was on Sydney's A-list and people knocked on his door with investment proposals. Now - that's all - largely -gone. No doubt, FAI Insurance - the company Larry Adler left his son - had problems and the 29 year old was rather green when he took the helm. But he stuck with it and in turn became known as Mr FAI.
In 1999, he sold FAI...to HIH.....one of four factors identified by the HIH Royal Commission as contributing to its 2001 collapse. Adler was never charged directly in relation to the HIH collapse. But the charges for which he's been jailed, came out of the 22 months he spent on the HIH Board. He resigned before the collapse but in the year before ,, he'd convinced HIH to allow him to oversee investments. He set up a trust - Pacific Eagle equity - or PEE - with $10 million dollars of HIH money. That trust bought HIH shares, when they were on a downward slide. And during the buying spree, Adler told a journalist he was using his money to buy the HIH stock. It wasn't his. It was HIH's. And in sentencing him , Justice Dunford said Adler's intention, in talking to the journalist, was to convince others to buy HIH!
The other charges related to a struggling company called Business Thinking Systems owned by HIH and Adler Corporation. Adler convinced HIH to invest $2 million dollars in BTS ... in return he would put up half a million dollars of his own . He didn't. And he never intended to. In 2002, in civil proceedings brought by ASIC, Justice Santow fined Rodney Adler 900,000 dollars, banned him from acting as a company director for 20 years and ordered him - along with Ray Williams and Dominic Federa, the Chief Financial Officer of HIH, to pay the HIH liquidator $8 million dollars to compensate for the money lost in HIH investments Adler controlled. Adler paid the lot.
But now, its all over...Adler is no longer a venture capitalist. No longer a director of a major company. And no longer a professional litigant. He is a prison inmate. As you'll hear,in an interview recorded just before his sentencing hearing, he accepts no blame for HIH's collapse - and points the finger at those he thinks are to blame...he is anxious about jail - sad for his family - and glad it's all over.
Rodney Adler: It's hard to equate relief with what I've gone through but I am happy that it is coming to an end not just for myself but for my family, it's been a great strain.
Monica Attard: Do you feel that it's coming to an end?
Rodney Adler: Yes, I do.
Monica Attard: Cause you've done a deal with ASIC, the corporate regulator and you've pleaded guilty after years of pleading not guilty. It was a move that took a lot of people by surprise. Presumably the terms of that deal were enough to allow you to feel assured that this jail term is in fact the end of it? At least in so far as HIH is concerned.
Rodney Adler: Well, the term 'done a deal with ASIC' is not something I'd like to agree with. When ASIC and my solicitors made the decision that the three market manipulation charges would be dropped and they were very serious charges and I was very concerned about those because I did not feel that I manipulated the market, I was then put into a position where I could plead guilty and bring this situation to an end and I took that opportunity to draw a line in the sand and say, "I'm sorry, I am guilty, can we please move on?"
Monica Attard: Did you feel in changing your plea that if you didn't that this would just go on, that they would get you somehow?
Rodney Adler: Well, it's been four and a half years. There were a number of recommendations by the HIH royal commissioner, Justice Neville Owen and a number of them could be followed up if there was enough evidence for them to be followed up. But we never got to that stage and so I could see another four or five years minimum of legal discussions, win or lose and that would mean a decade of my life whatever the result, and that was just too high a price to pay.Whatever the result, even if I'd won everything, a decade of my life would have been spent fighting with my money, my dwindling money to a body that had many people on it and a great deal of financial resources.
Monica Attard: How much has it cost you so far?
Rodney Adler: Well, in a purely legal sense, this last four and a half years has cost me just shy of seven and a half million dollars.
ATLANTA (Reuters) - U.S. authorities should halt the execution next Tuesday of a man for killing an off-duty police officer in 1989 because of growing indications he might not be guilty, campaigners said on Friday.
The Bush Breakdown By Jim Lobe July 6, 2007 On everything from domestic policy to the Iraq War, an increasing number of Republicans and members of the public are abandoning the president and the vice president.
Putting Friends in High Places By Tom Barry | July 10, 2007 President Bush's decision to back Robert Zoellick as Paul Wolfowitz's replacement at the World Bank served two purposes: making sure a loyalist led the powerful multilateral institution, and continuing the trend of putting U.S. interests ahead of those of the rest of the world.
The Right Gets Africa Wrong By Conn Hallinan | July 9, 2007 Africa plans pushed by outfits like the Heritage Foundation and instituted by the Bush administration reveal an agenda aimed at securing oil interests while extending the war on terror to a new continent. But observers in and outside Africa see an agenda that repeats the same mistakes of the past.
The Media War By Khody Akhavi | June 28, 2007 Despite signs that the neoconservative-led agenda to reshape the Middle East has fallen out of favor in Washington, neocons have recently tightened their grip on several key aspects of the public diplomacy apparatus. Does this herald a new period of strictly ideological programming?
Blowback, from Palestine to Pakistan By Jim Lobe | June 20, 2007 Four years after embarking on a neoconservative-inspired agenda of reshaping the Middle East, beginning with the invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration is now beset by crises across the globe.
Time to Ignore the Middle East? By Leon Hadar | June 7, 2007 If a Democrat wins the 2008 presidency, one should not be surprised to discover that the major element in the neoconservative agenda—maintaining U.S. military and diplomatic hegemony in the Middle East—will likely remain alive and well, producing the never-ending vicious circle: more U.S. military interventions, leading to more anti-U.S. terrorism, resulting in more regime changes. It's time for "constructive disengagement" from the Middle East. U.S. policymakers need to recognize that U.S. military intervention there only ignites anti-Americanism in the form of international terrorism.
The Political War Over the Iraq War By John Isaacs | May 30, 2007 What seems like a huge defeat—scrapping the deadlines for troop withdrawal in the latest war-funding bill—could instead be a minor setback; but it has become clear that President Bush wants to draw out the Iraq War until he can hand off the mess to his successor.
Religious Right Rejects Giuliani By Bill Berkowitz | May 24, 2007 Republican presidential candidates seem to be fighting a losing battle in their efforts to talk tough on Iraq while sidelining core conservative domestic issues, and foreign policy in the broader Middle East is emerging as a campaign catch. Not to mention that powerful figures on the Religious Right are now trumpeting the same arguments as neoconservatives regarding regime change in Iran.
Democrats Remold Military Budget By John Isaacs | May 10, 2007 Despite vociferous support from some Republicans and from hardline outfits like the Center for Security Policy, a number of controversial military programs—like designing new nuclear weapons, placing missile defense sites in Europe, and developing space-based weapons—are being targeted for cuts by the Democrat-controlled Congress.
Last Days of the Bush Administration: Protecting the Legacy By Leon Hadar | April 24, 2007 What seems to have survived from the neoconservative project of Democratic Empire in the Middle East is merely the Empire. Drained of its Wilsonian idealism, the project has been transformed into a hasty Realpolitik-based program of sustaining the U.S. hegemonic position in the region—and salvaging President Bush's legacy. But the chances of success seem slim.
The Conservative Credibility Test By Tom Barry | April 3, 2007 The Republicans may have found a leading man for the presidential run in lawyer/thespian/senator Fred Thompson, but his ties to Corporate America and the neoconservatives may dissuade many grassroots conservatives from giving him their vote.
Congress Wrestles With the Iraq War By John Isaacs | March 26, 2007 Last week, as the Iraq War entered its fifth year, the House voted on legislation to force troop withdrawal by mid-2008. Although the resolution was an impressive victory for anti-war legislators, stopping the war will require more Republican leaders to step up and force the president's hand, just like they did in 1974 with President Nixon.
"A Great Little Racket": The Neocon Media Machine By Eli Clifton | March 20, 2007 From high-brow intellectualism to tabloid spin, the neoconservative movement has evolved in ways that its early progenitors could hardly have imagined. The result is a well-oiled media machine that continues to impact policymaking even as the neoconservatives themselves fall deeper into ill repute.
Pushing the Anti-Immigration Agenda Further Right By Tom Barry | March 13, 2007 Connecting immigration restrictionism to the "global war on terror" and the "clash of civilizations," Republican presidential hopeful Rep. Tom Tancredo is helping to forge a new unity among social conservatives on a far-right agenda, even as other presidential candidates endeavor to steer clear of the immigration debate.
Africa: The Right's Stuff By Conn Hallinan | March 7, 2007 A seasoned cadre of neoconservatives and right-wingers have latched on to the human rights issue in Sudan, pushing an agenda that favors military over political solutions. It is hard not to conclude that the Bush administration's strategy for Africa is less about freedom and God than about oil and earthly power.
America's Crusaders By Tom Barry | February 23, 2007 A fervent blend of ideology and faith is spurring various factions of the American right to champion an imperial foreign policy that envisions the United States forever at war.
Is Washington Being Sidelined on the Middle East? By Leon Hadar | February 20, 2007 When U.S. officials warn of the chaos that would follow a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, they are actually expressing their anxiety over their real nightmare scenario—a Middle East in which the United States is marginalized to a position of little power. But they seem to have found a solution: Attacking Iran.
Gingrich at the Gate By Bill Berkowitz | February 8, 2007 The former Speaker of the House continues his non-campaign for the GOP's presidential nomination with warnings of a nuclear holocaust and by receiving $1 million from big-time Vegas gaming interests for his new 527 self-promoting "soft-money" organization.
Somalia in the Crosshairs By Najum Mushtaq | February 1, 2007 The Bush administration's Somalia policy has been consistently dictated by an exaggerated fear of al-Qaida's strength in Somalia, leading it to equate the indigenous Somali Islamic courts with the global network of terrorism.
Expanding the War to Iran: Another ?Urban Legend?? By Leon Hadar | January 26, 2007 Strong signals indicate that the Bush administration could be creating the conditions for another war in the Middle East. A sense of d?j? vu is descending on Washington as many begin to wonder whether the White House is planning to expand the current war into Iran.
A Look at the 110th Congress By John Isaacs | January 18, 2007 Early votes in the new Congress reveal a determined effort by Democrats to maintain party unity and also reveal a breakdown of the Republican unanimity that has dominated during much of the Bush presidency. But the hard votes on national security are still to come.
The Push behind the Surge By Jim Lobe and Michael Flynn | January 11, 2007 Neoconservatives and their allies are practically the only supporters of the ?surge? idea to send more troops to Iraq. But this doesn?t seem to bother the president, who was given a brand new blueprint for ?victory? last week, gift-wrapped by the same ideologues at the American Enterprise Institute who helped lead the country into war.
Selected Profiles
Heritage Foundation A mainstay of the conservative movement for over three decades, the Heritage Foundation has lately taken to hawking the "Islamofascist" threat while pushing an indefinite U.S. intervention in Iraq.
Hillel Fradkin Fradkin, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, noted Straussian scholar, and longtime fellow traveler of the neocons, hears the threatening echoes of the distant past in the words of America's "enemies."
Paul Wolfowitz The controversial former Pentagon official and ex-president of the World Bank has followed other erstwhile Bush administration officials, including John Bolton, to the American Enterprise Institute.
Robert Zoellick The erstwhile U.S. trade rep and supporter of the Project for the New American Century, Zoellick began his new job as head of the World Bank this month.
Jerusalem Summit Bringing together Evangelicals, U.S. neoconservatives, and hardline pro-Israel figures from across the globe, this Israel-based outfit aims to prevent Palestinian statehood, stop "global Islamism," and promote worldwide support for Israel.
Morris Amitay The former head of the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee argues that "Islamofascists" are intent on establishing a global caliphate.
Richard Cheney The secretive VP is pushing to bomb Iran at the same time he's fending off efforts to put his office under greater scrutiny, going so far as to propose abolishing the executive agency charged with such oversight.
Dennis Prager The conservative radio talk show host and champion of the Iraq War argues that the United States must stay there to finish the job.
Carl Gershman Like other promoters of the Bush administration's "forward strategy of freedom," Gershman, head of the National Endowment for Democracy, has had second thoughts about the best way to promote this agenda.
David Horowitz A former California liberal associated with the Black Panthers, Horowitz eventually moved his politics to the far right, making outlandish comments about liberals and attacking progressive academics.
Michael Chertoff The front man for President Bush's immigration reform plans, Chertoff is also a staunch defender of the tactics employed by the administration in waging the "war on terror."
Daniel Pipes The scion of a long-standing neoconservative family, Pipes runs the hardline Middle East Forum and promotes efforts to discredit professors who are critical of Israel.
U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon The now largely defunct USCFL was part of a network of tightly linked hardline groups that helped champion an expansive war on terror in the wake of 9/11.
Middle East Forum The Middle East Forum, a creation of hardline neocon Daniel Pipes, champions U.S. intervention in the Middle East and knocks scholars who are critical of Israel.
Ziad Abdelnour A private equity banker, Abdelnour has worked closely with neocons like Daniel Pipes to push for U.S. intervention in Syria.
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs A core component of the right-wing of the U.S. pro-Israel lobby, JINSA specializes in fomenting U.S.-Israeli military-to-military relations while promoting a hard line on Mideast peace, pushing for an expansive war on terror, and advocating controversial weapons programs.
The Al-Qaida Gambit? By Gareth Porter June 11, 2007 Blaming Tehran for al-Qaida attacks could be the gambit used by the United States to justify bombing Iran.
The Let's-Bomb-Iran Crowd Mobilizes By Trita Parsi June 18, 2007 Senator Lieberman, Norman Podhoretz, and company are busy trying to preempt the diplomatic track on Iran, arguing that bombing is the only solution.
The Bush Breakdown By Jim Lobe July 6, 2007 On everything from domestic policy to the Iraq War, an increasing number of Republicans and members of the public are abandoning the president and the vice president.
Whose Arms, Whose Agenda? By Gareth Porter June 28, 2007 Is the office of the vice president behind recent allegations made by administration officials that categorically connect Iran to efforts to arm the Taliban?
Bono's reputation as the Mother Teresa of rock is in jeopardy following a pair of business deals tying him to one of the most conservative businessmen in America and the creators of violent video-games with an anti-socialist bent. He's also been criticised for a plan to avoid U2 paying tax in Ireland.
The deals were struck by Elevation Partners, a $1.9bn (£1bn) Silicon Valley-based investment firm, of which Bono is a founding partner. On Monday, Elevation announced an investment of $250m (£130m) in Forbes Media, a publishing company managed by Steve Forbes. Forbes ran twice for the US presidency - in 1996 and 2000 - arguing for a flat income tax, prayer in schools and a ban on abortion.
Bono, a champion of Third World debt relief and AIDS treatment, thus becomes part-owner of Forbes magazine and a number of other business titles serving America's financial elite. U2 has also joined many business high-fliers in moving part of its multi-million-dollar operation from Ireland to Amsterdam, to take advantage of a lighter tax regime. Meanwhile, another of Elevation's portfolio companies, Pandemic Studios, a video-game developer, has incurred the wrath of American liberals for creating a game in which players take the role of mercenaries sent to Venezuela to depose a Hugo Chavez-like figure. Players of Mercenary 2: World in Flames are told "if you can see it, you can buy it, steal it or blow the living crap out of it". Pandemic has also done work creating computerized war simulations with the Institute for Creative Technologies, a southern Californian research centre funded by the US Army. Lisa Featherstone, a columnist for The Nation, a liberal magazine based in New York, yesterday challenged Bono to choose between his investments and his declared commitment to improving the lot of the world's poor: "If Bono is serious in his commitment, and not, as one frequently suspects, a vapid celebrity poser, he should immediately use his financial muscle to deep-six this horrible video game (right)." Elevation was founded in 2004 by Bono and five prominent Silicon Valley investors and executives, led by Roger McNamee, a venture capitalist and former business adviser to the Grateful Dead. Their goal is to invest in media and entertainment businesses. U2 is known as one of the most financially astute bands in the world, having retained all rights to their music. Bono's name helped Elevation raise its first fund, but he rarely attends the firm's meetings in California. He may care to drop by before Pandemic's next major release, Destroy All Humans 2, in which players "have total freedom to destroy anything and manipulate everything in the world". FIRST POSTED AUGUST 10, 2006
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which is expected to cause the market to value the 90 million issued shares in Chapmans at about $Aust5 a share. Once the take over is completed, CHAPMANS will be listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) on the London Stock Exchange, at which time, it is expected that Chapmans shares will trade around five UK Pounds a shares. This equates to about $Aust10 dollars a share. The future share price of Chapmans Limited is expected to be strengthened as the bidding takes hold by the fact that the top 20 shareholders control about 80% of the shares in the company, and very few of these large shareholders are keen to sell their shares under $5 a share, as they are well aware of the future of the company. In fact the managing director of Chapmans Limited, Borris Ganke, a well know veteran in the public company world, has at present an effective control of Chapmans through his personal shareholders and the shareholdering of another company he is managing director of, being Southern Cross Explorations Limited. Mr Ganke continues to resist any take over of the company and refuses to discuss the the sale of the 30% of the capital of Chapmans which he and Southern Cross Explorations control. Mr Ganke has made it clear that these shares are not for sale at any price and does not need the money as he owns a development property in Fiji which he estimates has a potential development profit of about $Aust500 milion. It appears that Mr Ganke and his company Southern Cross Exporations Ltd, are there for the long term, to be involved with the move of Chapmans to the London Stock Exchange, where Mr Ganke is well known through previous companies he has been involved with on the London Stock Exchange. These previous companies have had capitalisations of around half a billion UK pounds on the London Stock Exchange. It is also understood that an oppositon camp of shareholders control about 30% of the share capital of Chapmans, and a smaller group control about 20% of Chapman's issued share capital. This only leaves about 20% of the issued share capital of Chapmans held by a lot a very small shareholders in small parcels from 10,000 to 200,000 shares. Very low key announcements have previously been made by the board of Chapmans about their aims to become involved in the media world, which have gone unnoticed by financial journalists in Australia. Mr Ganke is well known to be be a very conservative managing director who does not like to beat the drum too loundly until the ink is fully dry on final agreements. It is believed that representatives of AIM have already been over from London to approach Mr Ganke to request him to list Chapmans on AIM. AIM is a part of the London Stock Exchange, which provides automatic listing to any Australian company that has been listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) for more than three years. Chapmans has been on the Australian Stoxk Exchange for about 30 years. It is believed that the plan includes asking shareholders to agree to allow Chapmans to change its 70 year old name name to International News Limited, which is at present registered in Australia and the USA, as the owner of valuable media newspaper mastheads and internet URLs estimated to be worth over one billion UK Pounds.
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The two men accused in a wild crime spree that included shooting a deputy and holding hostages in a bank are being held on bond. And, Chicago police are investigating the stabbing death of the man whose car was used by the suspects. (June 22)
Watch and listen to the story of a deer rescue from a short roof at a university in Bellevue, Nebraska. Eventually, animal welfare workers installed a plywood bridge and the deer made its way back to the ground. (June 22)
LONDON - Police in London's bustling nightclub and theater district on Friday defused a bomb that could have killed hundreds, after an ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from a Mercedes filled with a lethal mix of gasoline, propane and nails, authorities said.
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court, reversing course, agreed Friday to review whether Guantanamo Bay detainees may go to federal court to challenge their indefinite confinement.
FORT WORTH, Texas - Flood-weary residents hoping for a reprieve from the heavy rain that has soaked parts of Texas may have to wait, as forecasts called for more thunderstorms Friday.
Authorities in New York's Staten Island evacuated a block after a large amount of potassium nitrate was found. Authorities say a man was selling the chemical on the internet. (June 29)
Many people went back to their burned down homes for the first time since the flames broke out. Things got pretty emotional as families saw the destruction first hand.
Gilbert Gasice, 49, is accused of taking advantaged of some very well meaning children and their families, after he tricked them into believing he was a Hurricane Katrina victim. A federal judge believes Gascie is now truly getting what he deserves-- prison.
The FBI and Santa Monica Police Department are offering a $20,000 reward to capture Paul Edmond Carpenter in connection with the murder of Horst Fietze. Jennifer Sabih reports.
The imprisoned Hmong-American leader at the center of an alleged plot to overthrow the communist government of Laos has been hospitalized with an irregular heart beat.
A powder is popping up for the first time that is a deadly dangerous version of the original. Colored candy flavored cocaine is something so new, most cops haven't heard about it.
Think walking to work would be tiresome? Try walking from Nevada to Washington, D.C. A man passed through Salt Lake City on Friday hoping that his long journey will help needy children. Brian Martin reports.
Authorities chased a motor home through the streets of northern Utah on Friday evening, which was driven by a suspect who even rammed a police car, dragged an officer -- and nearly crashed into a family's home. Fields Moseley reports.
We're kicking off a fun, summer project. It's called 'CCO Rewind. It's a chance for you to learn a little more about us and how we got here. Don Shelby takes a look at Paul Douglas (4:31).
The city of Charleston, South Carolina buried nine of its firefighters today. Don Shelby says, whenever a firefighter dies in the line of duty, a part of his heart breaks (1:07).
He was just a week away from turning 20, but now a young soldier won't get to celebrate his birthday. Tony Hebert died fighting in Iraq, James Schugel reports (2:19).
A Chicago area woman says airport security rules should be changed after she was kept off a plane for what she says was an acceptable amount of breast milk. CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports.
A Middletown teen is blind in one eye after being shot by a BB gun. Investigators seem to think she may not have been the intended target. Andrew Kirtzman reports.
Officials closed the Pitt Fall ride for a time today to conduct a special inspection, after an accident involving a similar ride in Louisville; KDKA's Paul Martino reports
Two Chicago men jailed following a central Illinois crime spree have been tied to a bizarre killing on the South Side with Satanic overtones. CBS 2's Jay Levine reports.
A New Hampshire man and his wife are in a standoff with police. Edward Brown and his wife have been convicted of tax evasion, and residents of their community wonder if it might end up like Ruby Ridge in 1992. (June 22)
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Two held in Madeleine case Spanish police have arrested an Italian man and Portuguese woman who allegedly tried to extort money from Maddy's parents.» More
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Many people say there's nothing like a cold beer on a hot day. But did you ever consider savoring a frozen beer? One restaurant chef is making what he calls a "hopsicle," and they're selling like, well, hotcakes.
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A News Story that New Yorkers can not forget Flames and smoke are seen coming out of windows at the location where a small plane crashed into a 50-story residential apartment building near 71st Street and York Avenue in New York, Wednesday, October 11, 2006. New York Fire Department officials reported two deaths in the crash. (AP Photo/Dax Gardner). NEW YORK - A small plane carrying New York Yankee Cory Lidle slammed into a 50-story skyscraper Wednesday, apparently killing the pitcher and a second person in a crash that rained flaming debris onto the sidewalks and briefly raised fears of another terrorist attack. A law enforcement official in Washington said Lidle — an avid pilot who got his license during last year's offseason — was aboard the single-engine aircraft when it plowed into the 30th and 31st floors of the high-rise on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said both people aboard were killed. Lidle's passport was found on the street, according to a federal official, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. It was not immediately clear who was at the controls and who was the second person aboard. Investigators look for answers in NYC plane crash death..... New York Yankee Cory Lidle slammed into a 50-story skyscraper Wednesday
Check out the latest Gossip from Chicago's Sun Times Team BILL ZWECKER BIOGRAPHY : From the top stars of Hollywood to Chicago's best-known celebrities like Michael Jordan and Oprah Winfrey, Bill Zwecker is the expert when it comes to knowing the scoop on the rich and famous. The Chicago Sun-Times columnist -- who is also the entertainment reporter and film critic for WBBM-TV (CBS) in Chicago -- covers the globe finding out the latest news about celebrities for his readers and viewers. From 2000-2003, Bill was the entertainment reporter and film critic for WFLD-TV (Fox) in Chicago. From 1995-2005, Bill was the entertainment contributor and film critic for ''The Eric & Kathy Show'' on WTMX-FM radio. From 1993-2000, Bill was the entertainment reporter and film critic for WMAQ-TV (NBC) in Chicago. He was also a regular contributor to ''The Joan Rivers Show,'' 1990-1994. The Chicago native grew up in Oak Park and River Forest -- graduating from Oak Park-River Forest High School before heading to Princeton University where he received his bachelor's degree with honors in American History and American Civilization. He also attended the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. After working in politics (for former U.S. Sen. Charles Percy), banking and retailing, Bill turned to journalism fulltime in the early 1980s, following in the footsteps of his mother, Peg Zwecker, the nationally-syndicated, award-winning fashion editor and columnist for the Chicago Daily News and Sun-Times. Bill was associate editor and columnist for the Lerner Newspapers, 1987-92. Bill has been a frequent contributor to various national news and entertainment programs -- including Access Hollywood,'' Entertainment Tonight, Extra, Today Show, The NBC Nightly News, Biography on A&E and Larry King Live. Among numerous honors, Bill has twice been awarded the prestigious Peter Lisagor Award, Chicago journalism's highest accolade. He has been nominated for three Emmy Awards for the Midwest/Chicago region for his work at both WBBM-TV and WFLD-TV. Bill was part of the WBBM-TV news team honored with an Associated Press award in 2004 for coverage of the E-2 nightclub disaster in February, 2003. Oak Park-River Forest High School inducted Bill into its Hall of Fame in 1995, presenting him with its top alumni honor, the ''Tradition of Excellence'' award. In 2000, Bill was named ''Man of Vision'' by the Midwest Eye Banks for his various civic and charitable contributions. The Isreal Film Festival presented Bill with it's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004, along with Larry King and Hollywood producer, Laura Ziskin. Bill Zwecker currently serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Academy for the Arts -- one of only four private high schools for the performing arts in the U.S. He's a board member of Off the Street Club, Chicago's oldest organization serving children and teenagers on the city's West Side; and the Advisory Board of the Midwest Eye-Banks. Past board memberships have included: Auxiliary Board, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Greater North Michigan Avenue Association, Auxiliary Board of Lincoln Park Zoo (founding member), Mental Health Association of Greater Chicago, Chicago Lung Association, Princeton Club of Chicago, Henrotin Hospital, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Junior Governing Board), AIDS Foundation of Chicago, North Dearborn Association and the Headline Club of Chicago (Society of Professional Journalists). Bill lives in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood and is the father of one son and recently became a grandfather for the first time.
What The Bush Administration Won't Tell You About The War in Iraq The United States has thoroughly destabilized the Middle East by invading Iraq. The task of the occupying forces is no longer confined to fighting a Sunni insurrection; they have to contain an incipient civil war. The country has divided along sectarian lines and each faction has established a fighting capacity. Now the situation in the Middle East is dire. Iran threatens to become a nuclear power. The low-grade civil war in Iraq threatens to broaden into a regional conflict. We are facing a clash of civilizations and/or armed sectarian conflict. And all this in a region that is responsible for the bulk of the world’s oil supply. Something is fundamentally wrong with President Bush’s contention that he has made us safer at home by taking the war on terror abroad. There are many more people willing to sacrifice their lives to kill Americans than there were on 9/11. The Bush administration shows no awareness of the contradictions in its policies or of the negative consequences. Here is President Bush’s introduction to the 2006 National Security Strategy so that you can judge for yourself. George Soros's new book, "The Age of Fallibility: Consequence of the War on Terror" is now available in stores. In his new book George Soros reveals the philosophy that he attributes to his successes and shows you how you can use this philosophy to make your world a better place. "I have developed a philosophy that has played a central role in my life. It has guided me in making money and spending it, although it is not about money. I know how important that philosophy is for me personally, but I am still in the process of finding out whether it can have a similar significance for others. That is my first priority and this book is probably my final effort in this regard." ~ George Soros, The Age of Fallibility The World of Cannibalism -One of the most misunderstood subjects that is hardly ever discussed
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Vow on Missing Children's Day Press Assoc. - Friday, May 25 06:24 am
The parents of missing Madeleine McCann have vowed not to lose hope as International Missing Children's Day is marked around the world. Madeleine, four, will be the focus of many international events more than three weeks after she was snatched from her parents' holiday apartment in Praia Da Luz on the Algarve, Portugal. In a message carried in the Portuguese press, Gerry and Kate McCann identified with parents of missing children in all countries. "We, like parents of missing children around the world, will not lose hope," they said. In Britain, Mr McCann's brother John will visit the London head office of the National Missing Persons Helpline to highlight its work. Last night Madeleine's image was projected on Marble Arch in London as part of the appeal for information on her whereabouts.
Today she will be the focus of events across Europe, including in Portugal, where her mother Kate is expected to attend a private lunch with a children's charity. International Missing Children's Day originates from the disappearance on May 25, 1979, of six-year-old Etan Patz in New York. Over subsequent years his case was kept in the public eye by various organisations and in 1983 US President Ronald Reagan declared May 25 "Missing Children's Day" in America. The tradition spread to Canada three years later and has since been adopted around the world including the European Union.
AFP Photo: Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr speaks to supporters at Friday prayers at his local mosque... Slideshow: Iraq
Al-Sadr makes public appearance in Iraq
By RAVI NESSMAN, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD - Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr appeared in public for the first time in months on Friday, delivering a fiery anti-American sermon to thousands of followers and demanding U.S. troops leave The U.S. military also announced that six U.S. soldiers were killed in a series of attacks across Iraq in recent days. The deaths put May on pace to be one of the deadliest months for U.S. forces here in years. Military officials have warned that U.S. casualties were likely to rise as more troops deployed to Iraq and the military pushed ahead with its Baghdad security crackdown. "As we are conducting more operations, we are going into areas we haven't gone into in force before. We have more people on the ground, this leads to an opportunity for more contact, more conflict, more clashes," said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, a U.S. military spokesman. "This is a tough fight. We are in a war." In Washington, the Democratic-controlled Congress grudgingly approved fresh billions for the Iraq war, minus the troop withdrawal timeline that drew President Bush's earlier veto. Bush warned that August could prove to be a bloody month for U.S. troops and said: "The Iraqi government needs to show real progress in return for America's continued support and sacrifice." Al-Sadr had gone into hiding inIranfour months ago at the start of the U.S.-led Baghdad security crackdown. It was not immediately clear why he chose to return now to his base in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. However, he could be trying to take advantage of the absence of a major rival, Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq leader Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, who was recently diagnosed with lung cancer and went to Iran for treatment. Al-Sadr traveled in a long motorcade from Najaf to the adjacent holy city of Kufa on Friday morning to deliver his sermon before 6,000 worshippers. "No, no for Satan. No, no for America. No, no for the occupation. No, no for Israel," he chanted in a call and response with the audience at the start of his speech. He repeated his long-standing call for U.S. forces to leave Iraq. "We demand the withdrawal of the occupation forces, or the creation of a timetable for such a withdrawal," he said. "I call upon the Iraqi government not to extend the occupation even for a single day."He also condemned fighting between his Mahdi Army militia and Iraqi security forces, saying it "served the interests of the occupiers." Instead, he said the militia should turn to peaceful protests, such as demonstrations and sit-ins, he said. As part of his effort to recast himself as a nationalist — instead of a radical with a narrow Shiite agenda — the 33-year-old leader called on Sunnis to join with him in the fight against the U.S. troop presence here. He also criticized the government's inability to provide reliable services to the people. Al-Sadr is believed to be honing plans to consolidate political gains and foster ties with Iran. His Mahdi Army fought U.S. troops to a virtual standstill in 2004, but to avoid renewed confrontation he ordered his militants off the streets when the U.S. began its security crackdown in the Baghdad area. His associates say his strategy is based partly on a belief that Washington soon will start reducing troop strength, leaving behind a hole in Iraq's security and political power structure that he can fill.
Al-Sadr also believes that Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government may soon collapse under its failure to improve security, services and the economy, al-Sadr's aides say. A political reshuffle would give the Sadrist movement, with its 30 seats in the 275-member parliament, an opportunity to become a major player. In a move that could hasten the collapse, al-Sadr pulled his supporters out of al-Maliki's government last month over the prime minister's refusal to call for a timetable for a U.S. withdrawal. The legislation approved by Congress on Thursday includes nearly $95 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistanthrough Sept. 30. Democrats also abandoned their attempts to require the Pentigonto adhere to troop training, readiness and rest requirements unless Bush waived them. The bill establishes a series of goals for the Iraqi government to meet as it strives to build a democratic country able to defend its own borders. Continued U.S. reconstruction aid would be conditioned on progress toward the so-called benchmarks, although Bush retains the authority to order that the funds be spent regardless of how the Baghdad government performs. Meanwhile, three U.S. soldiers were killed in roadside bombings in the capital and the surrounding areas, the military said Friday. Two others were killed in explosions north of Baghdad, and a sixth soldier was hit by gunfire in the volatile Diyala province, the military said. The killings raised the American death toll for the month to at least 88. Last month, 104 U.S. troops were killed in Iraq. Iraq
BAGHDAD - Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr appeared in public for the first time in months on Friday, delivering a fiery anti-American sermon to thousands of followers and demanding U.S. troops leave Iraq.
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John Prescott has described leaked video footage of Saddam Hussein just before he was executed as "deplorable". Speaking on the Today programme, the deputy prime minister said whoever carried it out should be "condemned".
Iraq investigates Saddam footage
Saddam Hussein was taunted and insulted in his last moments which was shown world wide on mobile phone footage...
The Iraqi government has launched an inquiry into unofficial mobile phone footage showing the execution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The mobile phone footage showed he exchanged taunts and insults with witnesses at his hanging on Saturday. The grainy video showed the former leader being told to "go to hell" by someone attending the hanging. UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott said the circumstances of the execution were "deplorable". Do you consider this bravery? Saddam Hussein, on new video.
The Iraqi authorities fear the footage, released on the internet hours after the execution, could contribute to a dramatic rise in sectarian tensions between Iraq's Sunni and Shia communities. "There were a few guards who shouted slogans that were inappropriate and that's now the subject of a government investigation," an adviser to Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, Sami al-Askari, told Reuters news agency.
Chants and insults
Saddam Hussein, a Sunni Muslim, was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court on 5 November over the killings of 148 Shias from the town of Dujail in the 1980s. He was executed before dawn on Saturday in Baghdad and buried near his hometown of Tikrit a day later.
I think whoever was involved and responsible for it should be ashamed of themselves John Prescott
Death scenes 'deplorable'
The Iraq authorities released official footage of the execution, to prove to the public that Saddam Hussein was dead. But that film did not include any sound and did not show the actual moment of death. The grainy mobile phone footage that emerged hours later was shot from below the gallows.
"I lived through the bloody war that Saddam started with Iran. But still I am not happy with Saddam's execution "Alireza Pahlavani, Tehran
As Saddam Hussein is led towards the trapdoor, one of the unseen observers shouts "go to hell". Others can be heard chanting the name of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr and of Muhammad Sadiq Sadr, his father who was murdered by Saddam Hussein's agents. In response Saddam Hussein is sarcastic, asking "do you consider this bravery?"
'Unacceptable'
In a BBC interview, John Prescott called it "deplorable" and "totally unacceptable" that video clips of the execution had surfaced on the internet. Mr Prescott is in charge while Prime Minister Tony Blair is on holiday. "I think the manner was quite deplorable really," he said. "I don't think one can endorse in any way that, whatever your views about capital punishment. "Frankly, to get the kind of recorded messages coming out is totally unacceptable, and I think whoever was involved and responsible for it should be ashamed of themselves."
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Saddam Hussein to Be Hanged Within 30 Days After Appeal Denied Bloomberg.comTue, 26 Dec 2006 1:22 PM PST Dec. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is set to be hanged within the next 30 days after losing a court appeal of his death sentence, an Iraqi judge said.
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