They are all arriving now, and it feels, already, like visitations from a ghost of the long-distant past.
— The letters of Maud Gonne and WB Yeats
— Maud Gonne’s autobiography
— Shane Leslie’s memoirs
— Conor Cruise O’Brien’s memoirs
— a collection of John Montague’s poetry
— the letters of James Joyce – an old copy from BEFORE the revelation of the “dirty letters”. The preface seems cheerfully and unbelievably naive. There’s almost a defensive quality to the writing, because you know the “dirty letters” were already known about, so the tone of the editor reeks of the man doth protesting too much. It was published right after Joyce’s death.
— Black List Section 8 by Francis Stuart
