JAMES AUGUSTINE JOYCE 1827 - 1866 (GRANDFATHER OF JAMES JOYCE 1882 - 1941) RESIDED IN THIS HOUSE JAMES A. JOYCE WAS AN OFFICER OF THE CORK CORPORATION BY WHOM THIS PLAQUE WAS PROVIDED 1984 | '....just a few metres further on, we come to the eastern end of the South Terrace. This area is known as Rocksavage and it was around here in 1769 that James Morrison developed a mill and salt and lime works. This business later came to the family of one of Ireland’s greatest writers, James Joyce, whose grandparents lived in a house on the corner of Anglesea Street and Hibernian Road, now the site of a fast food outlet. A plaque commemorating this fact was commissioned by the Cork Corporation in 1984 but they curiously inserted it in the ground in front of the building instead of placing it more prominently on the front wall.’ |
each day and there then follows some information about some words relating to that letter.
This morning was the letter ‘J’ and after hearing about the various types of jigs, they spoke about James Joyce and told us that he was born in Dublin, he left for Europe in his twenties but his writings were about Dublin. His most famous books were Ulysses and Dubliners.
They did not mention Cork at all.
On the basis of this plaque, precedent could be argued for a plaque commemorating:
- Every person who ever worked for Cork Corporation or Cork City Council
- The house where every child, parent, uncles, and grandfather of the likes of Tomás MacCurtain, Jack Lynch, Frank O’Connor, and others ever live