...fiction like so many others to which the scalpels of present-day scientists have given the coup-de-grace) must find its reason for being rooted in something...informs changing things like blood and the human word. The mystic theologian who assumed the pseudonym of Dionysius, the pseudo-Areopagite, says somewhere,...

...fiction like so many others to which the scalpels of presentday scientists have given the coup de grace) must find its reason for being rooted in something...changing things like blood and the human word" (CW 166). Joyce insists that nations, like individuals, have egos, and that a proper conception of nationality...

...instance. With more particular reference to Ireland and the contemporary Independence Movement, 34 he went on: ... no race has less right to utter such..."nation" as "the same people living in the same place" ((7430) — a definition which includes himself, in spite of his Jewish extraction. Yet Joyce was not...

.... . . can boast of being pure today? Nationality (if it really is not a convenient fiction . . . ) must find its reason for being rooted in something...informs changing things like blood and the human word. (C'lF 165 66) Later his wariness of nationality and national languages deepened: they struck him as...

...living in Ireland. Nationality (if it really is not a convenient fiction like so many others . . .) must find its reason for being rooted in something...changing things like blood and the human word. [CW 165-66] Hence, for Joyce in this essay, "to exclude from the present nation all who are descended from...

...nationality, for Joyce, cannot be made to repose upon race does not invalidate it as a category—it "must find its reason for being rooted in something...changing things like blood and the human word" (CW 166). Joyce's 1907 list of Protestant Anglo-Irish leaders is pertinent to the significance of the Easter...

...fiction like so many others to which the scalpels of present-day scientists have give the coup de grace) must find its reason for being rooted in something...informs changing things like blood and the human word. The mystic theologian who assumed the pseudonym of Dionysius, the pseudo-Areopagite, says somewhere,...

...what language . . . can boast of being pure today? And no race has less right to utter such a boast than the race now living in Ireland. Nationality ....informs changing things like blood and the human word" 1 65—66). Works cited Adantean: An Irishman 's Search for North African Roots. Dir. Bob Quinn. Carraroe,...

...fiction like so many others to which the scalpels of present-day scientists have given the coup de grace) must find its reason for being rooted in something...changing things like blood and the human word. (CW, 166) Clearly, Joyce debunks the myth of racial or ethnic purity upon which nationalist sentimentalism starts...

...fiction like so many others to which the scalpels of present-day scientists have given the coup de grace) must find its reason for being rooted in something...informs changing things like blood and the human word" (166). Joyce argues for the pragmatic necessity of the preservation of nation as concept and in so...