Stanislaus Joyce (Jim’s brother):
Joyce exhibited a character trait so common among Irishmen that it could be called the Irish paradox – faithfulness to one woman and at the same time a profound hostility toward women in general. This may be due to the Puritanism which exists in Irish Catholicism … It would be interesting to determine whether the coldness, the bigotry, and the absolute lack of romance in Irish women are innate or whether they are unconsciously desired by the males of the race; for, in the final analysis, women are always blamed for being what men themselves desire them to be.
