Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity

Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity (Dublin: Grand Canal Publishing, 2024) is a special limited edition illustrated 78 page book, which reclaims Lucia Joyce (only daughter of James Joyce) as an artist, partly by connecting her career intentions with WB Yeats’ and Ninette de Valois short-lived but culturally significant Abbey Theatre Ballets (1927 – 1933). Meticulously researched with 25 pages of footnotes, the book outlines Lucia’s overlooked artistic achievements in 1920s Paris, and her career intentions. Little known connections are highlighted with WB Yeats, Samuel Beckett, and Tom MacGreevy. Originally published as ‘Fail Better: Lucia Joyce and the Abbey Theatre Ballets’ in Joyce Studies Annual (New York: Fordham Press, 2021). Produced by Printwell Books & Design, Dublin.

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