Note: A mortgage dated 21 April 1887 gives JSJ’s address as Castlewood Avenue, while another of 6 May 1887 gives the new address of 1 Martello Tce., Bray. (Ellmann, James Joyce, 1957, p.760 [notes].
; JSJ defends his collector’s pouch from thieves in Phoenix Park, 1887; moved to North Dock Ward rates area, 1888; placed on probation at work; threatened with dismissal for bad behaviour, but retained, 1888-90; JSJ travelled to Cork to canvas his tenants’ votes for Parnellites in General Election and incurs reproof from Rates Office, July 1891; lost action against James Reuben Dodd for £22.15.0 in Queen’s Bench Division, 22 June 1892; lost other actions against him taken by Richard Dawson, corn and potato merchant, Bolton St. (£30 and costs) and Francis H. Caulfield, moneylender of Fownes St. (£13 and costs), in 1893; appeared in Stubb’s Weekly Gazette and Perry’s Gazette, 2 Nov. 1892, arising from loan of £130 secured furniture [bill of sale] with John Lawler (110 Middle Abbey St.); suspended by Collector-General, 3 Nov. 1892; family moves from Blackrock when Lawler collects on bill of sale. [Nov.] 1892; removal to Fitzgibbon st., prob. with furniture to prevent destraint; wrote to Chief Sec. Morley to seek commutation of pension into capital for purposes of paying Reuben and refused; Cork property sold by auction, 14 Dec. 1893, realising c.£2,000 [£475 & £1,400, from emptors Mullins & Murphy and another sum from McMullen]; Dodd releases JSJ from mortgage on full repayment (14 Feb. 1893) [...]; JSJ commutes half his pension to buy house at 7 St Peter’s Tce. [now 5 St Peter’s Rd., Cabra], 24 Oct. 1902; repayments made by means of insurance and a loan with Eagle Star (£650 and £550), with repayments to these at a rate of £12.6.3 p.m. made directly from pension; takes out further mortgages amounting to £100 from Sheridan, Oct. 1902, with a further mortgage £50, 18 Dec. [& another, £50]; mortgage for £65 on 3 Nov. 1903; forced to sell up at St. Peter’s Tce., 1905; writes reproachful letter from Millmount Tce., Drumcondra to JAJ, 24 April 1907, announcing imminent eviction and necessity of moving into solo lodgings; [Letters, Vol. II (1966), p.221-23]; living at Whitworth Place, May 1906 [vide letter to James Joyce, dated 16 May 1909 in Letters, Vol. II, p.228ff., thus addressed but containing circumstantial evidence associated it with the earlier period]; living at 44 Fontenoy St., nr. Dorset St., in 1909 (when JAJ and Giorgio come to stay); suffered the death of Mabel [‘Baby’], 1911; latterly settled with the Medcalf’s on Claude Rd., c.1920; subject of portrait by Patrick Tuohy, commissioned by his son, May 1924; d. 29 Dec., 1931, at Drumcondra Hospital, following a short illness at the Medcalf’s [ ‘I’ve got more out of life than any white man’]; cause of death give as ‘senile decay and Endocarditis’; his son JSJ sole legatee, received estate of £665.0s.9d. based on Eagle Star insurance which rendered, after debts paid, £36.12s [var. £32];
JSJ was obituarised in Irish Press and Chicago Premier, the latter calling him a master of the vernacluar and a fine storyteller: ‘His versatility enabled him to adapt his style to all surroundings, whether that of a drawing room or a saloon. He was full of reminiscences of Irish life in the last half century, and his stories were usually embellished with rare artistry.’ (See excerpt from Gordon Bowker, Joyce: A Biography, Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2011, in The Irish Times, 21 May 2011.)
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Date: 2013-09-15 08:33 am (UTC)Note: A mortgage dated 21 April 1887 gives JSJ’s address as Castlewood Avenue, while another of 6 May 1887 gives the new address of 1 Martello Tce., Bray. (Ellmann, James Joyce, 1957, p.760 [notes].
; JSJ defends his collector’s pouch from thieves in Phoenix Park, 1887; moved to North Dock Ward rates area, 1888; placed on probation at work; threatened with dismissal for bad behaviour, but retained, 1888-90; JSJ travelled to Cork to canvas his tenants’ votes for Parnellites in General Election and incurs reproof from Rates Office, July 1891; lost action against James Reuben Dodd for £22.15.0 in Queen’s Bench Division, 22 June 1892; lost other actions against him taken by Richard Dawson, corn and potato merchant, Bolton St. (£30 and costs) and Francis H. Caulfield, moneylender of Fownes St. (£13 and costs), in 1893; appeared in Stubb’s Weekly Gazette and Perry’s Gazette, 2 Nov. 1892, arising from loan of £130 secured furniture [bill of sale] with John Lawler (110 Middle Abbey St.); suspended by Collector-General, 3 Nov. 1892; family moves from Blackrock when Lawler collects on bill of sale. [Nov.] 1892; removal to Fitzgibbon st., prob. with furniture to prevent destraint; wrote to Chief Sec. Morley to seek commutation of pension into capital for purposes of paying Reuben and refused; Cork property sold by auction, 14 Dec. 1893, realising c.£2,000 [£475 & £1,400, from emptors Mullins & Murphy and another sum from McMullen]; Dodd releases JSJ from mortgage on full repayment (14 Feb. 1893) [...]; JSJ commutes half his pension to buy house at 7 St Peter’s Tce. [now 5 St Peter’s Rd., Cabra], 24 Oct. 1902; repayments made by means of insurance and a loan with Eagle Star (£650 and £550), with repayments to these at a rate of £12.6.3 p.m. made directly from pension; takes out further mortgages amounting to £100 from Sheridan, Oct. 1902, with a further mortgage £50, 18 Dec. [& another, £50]; mortgage for £65 on 3 Nov. 1903; forced to sell up at St. Peter’s Tce., 1905; writes reproachful letter from Millmount Tce., Drumcondra to JAJ, 24 April 1907, announcing imminent eviction and necessity of moving into solo lodgings; [Letters, Vol. II (1966), p.221-23]; living at Whitworth Place, May 1906 [vide letter to James Joyce, dated 16 May 1909 in Letters, Vol. II, p.228ff., thus addressed but containing circumstantial evidence associated it with the earlier period]; living at 44 Fontenoy St., nr. Dorset St., in 1909 (when JAJ and Giorgio come to stay); suffered the death of Mabel [‘Baby’], 1911; latterly settled with the Medcalf’s on Claude Rd., c.1920; subject of portrait by Patrick Tuohy, commissioned by his son, May 1924; d. 29 Dec., 1931, at Drumcondra Hospital, following a short illness at the Medcalf’s [ ‘I’ve got more out of life than any white man’]; cause of death give as ‘senile decay and Endocarditis’; his son JSJ sole legatee, received estate of £665.0s.9d. based on Eagle Star insurance which rendered, after debts paid, £36.12s [var. £32];
JSJ was obituarised in Irish Press and Chicago Premier, the latter calling him a master of the vernacluar and a fine storyteller: ‘His versatility enabled him to adapt his style to all surroundings, whether that of a drawing room or a saloon. He was full of reminiscences of Irish life in the last half century, and his stories were usually embellished with rare artistry.’ (See excerpt from Gordon Bowker, Joyce: A Biography, Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2011, in The Irish Times, 21 May 2011.)