Journey Westward

Frank Shovlin is Professor of Irish Literature in English at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. He is the editor of The Letters of John McGahern (2021) and is working on McGahern's authorized biography.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: 'The journey westward'1. 'Endless stories about the distillery': Joyce and Whiskey2. 'Their friends, the French': Joyce, Jacobitism and the Revival3. 'He would put in allusions': The Uses and Abuses of RevivalismConclusion: Protestant Power and Plates of PeasSelect BibliographyIndex

This elegantly written and illuminating study of Joyce’s Dubliners is a powerful argument for the view that the deepest understanding of Joyce’s work is to be found in the dense network of its allusions to the cultural and historical contexts of Ireland at the beginning of the twentieth century.