Through Ireland Irish and Irish Catholicism, Joyce ancestral voices heard callers. Recognized as the voices of sirens and, as his model, Ulysses, is tied to the mast, not to follow them and drown. It was good for his art to do so. He resisted them, not because they despise, as suggested by some of his modern admirers, but he feared the power that could have on him. After all, they were voices of their ancestors. As are mine.
Conor Cruise O'Brien, "Ancestral Voices. Religion and Nationalism in Ireland", The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1995 (2 nd ed.), P. 49.
Translated and quoted by Jon Juaristi, "The Loop Melancholy. Stories of Basque nationalists." Espasa Calpe, 1997.
(Photograph by Eamonn McCabe.)
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