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Lot 459 1895-1898: The Clongowian. Volume 1, No. 1 to 6
10 by 8 in.
Original wrappers bound into half leather, marbled boards.The first six issues of the school magazine of Clongowes Wood College, which Joyce attended between 1889 and 1891. His father, wanting to provide young Joyce with the best education he could afford, enrolled him at Clongowes, which was then regarded as the top preparatory school in Ireland. Joyce's experiences in the Jesuit educational system coloured his attitudes for the rest of his life. This volume of The Clongowian includes the story of Oliver St. John Gogarty's daring rescue of a drowning man in the river Liffey. Joyce would later incorporate that event into Ulysses, with Buck Mulligan performing the heroic act.
Original wrappers bound into half leather, marbled boards.The first six issues of the school magazine of Clongowes Wood College, which Joyce attended between 1889 and 1891. His father, wanting to provide young Joyce with the best education he could afford, enrolled him at Clongowes, which was then regarded as the top preparatory school in Ireland. Joyce's experiences in the Jesuit educational system coloured his attitudes for the rest of his life. This volume of The Clongowian includes the story of Oliver St. John Gogarty's daring rescue of a drowning man in the river Liffey. Joyce would later incorporate that event into Ulysses, with Buck Mulligan performing the heroic act.
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