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\nJames Joyce and Belvedere College (\u201cBlog Post IV\u201d)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Fig. 1. Our ISI Summer Camp for Teenagers is hosted at Belvedere College., S.J., in Great Denmark St., Dublin. Just a \u201cstone\u2019s\nthrow\u201d from O\u2019Connell St. in Dublin\u2019s city-centre, this prestigious College was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1832.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Did you know that James Joyce was educated at Belvedere College, the prestigious private school that hosts our English Summer Camp for Teenagers, for no less than five of what were arguably the most formative years of his life? Joyce \u2014 who would go on to become a world-famous novelist of the modernist avant-garde, making Belvedere College renowned worldwide through his autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)<\/em> \u2014 entered Belvedere in 1893 at the tender age of 11 and proved himself to be a very bright pupil there right up until his departure upon graduation in 1898 at the hardy age of 16. In a previous blog post<\/a>, we shed partial light on ISI\u2019s unique relationship \u2014 as an English school in Dublin\u2014 to this stalwart literary figure; universally acclaimed as one of the most in influential writers of the 20th century. In this blog post, part \u201cIV\u201d of a very enlightening series of \u201cV\u201d (you can read part \u201cIII\u201d here<\/a>) we want to enlighten you further by focusing on the rich religious heritage of Belvedere College \u2014 the base of our English Summer Camp in Dublin \u2014 as well as Joyce\u2019s place, as but one of many famous alumni, within and beyond it.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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In 1898, James Joyce graduated from Belvedere College, S.J., Dublin: a private inner-city Catholic boys\u2019 school under the trusteeship of the Society of Jesus (or Jesuits, as they are less formally known). He had been a student there for five years. Prior to this, notwithstanding a brief hiatus with the Christian Brothers, Joyce had been a student at Clongowes Wood, the Jesuit\u2019s sister College in Salins, Co. Kildare. His Jesuit masters, \u201ceven when they had not attracted him, had seemed to him always intelligent and serious priests, . . . During all the years he had lived among them in Clongowes and in Belvedere . . . he had never heard from any of his masters a flippant word: it was they who had taught him christian doctrine and urged him to live a good life and, when he had fallen into grevious sin, it was they who had led him back to grace\u201d (James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Joyce\u2019s debt to his Jesuit education, both as a writer and a person, has been sufficiently explored in disquisitions on his life and works. Indeed, writing about his time at Belvedere College alone, Constantin Curran, a close friend of Joyce and a character in A Portrait<\/em>, said that in so far \u201cas teaching can make a writer, it was [here] that the neophyte learned his art . . .\u201d \u201cDuring those five years at Belvedere,\u201d Kevin Sullivan writes, \u201cJoyce showed himself a serious and ambitious student, submissive to the intellectual discipline of the Jesuits and obedient to their moral and religious counsels.\u201d \u201cThey taught me how to order and to judge,\u201d Joyce himself later remarked. To which his most esteemed \u201cbiografiend\u201d Richard Ellmann would add that the Jesuits endowed him with \u201cthe ritual and moral codes which, in all his rebellion, he would never cease to Tind fascinating. For Joyce\u2019s books could not exist without Catholicism as panoply or as theme.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rather than suggest fresh perspectives for this discussion here, this post and the previous one<\/a>, follow Leo M. Manglaviti, S.J., in revisiting a living artefact of Joyce\u2019s Jesuit education: \u201cBelvedere House, the Jesuit community residence at Joyce\u2019s Dublin alma matter.\u201d With Manglaviti, we are curious to know what exactly Joyce saw each day during the years he spent in Great Denmark Street?<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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As mentioned in our previous post, Manglaviti claims that \u201cstudents in Joyce\u2019s time [actually] saw very little of the Jesuit residence itself, except for the imposing facade on Great Denmark Street,\u201d pictured above (Fig. 3). \u201cDesigned by Robert West in 1786 for George Augustus Rochfort, the 2nd Earl of Belvedere, Belvedere House, despite replacement brick walls and timber sash windows, retains its original appearance and detailing complete with a very fine Doric door-case. Having also one of the finest eighteenth-century interiors in Dublin with extensive neo-Classical plasterwork by Michael Stapleton, Belvedere House provides one of the most dramatic vistas as it terminates the north end of North Great George’s Street, adding to the overall impression of this Georgian mansion. The late twentieth-century wings mimic the architecture of the earlier building and complement its setting (National Built Heritage Service, Ireland).\u201d Manglaviti\u2019s \u201cSticking to the Jesuits: Revisiting Belvedere House\u201d (2000) follows Bruce Bradley\u2019s James Joyce\u2019s Schooldays<\/em> (1982) in noting how this \u201chouse, which was acquired by the [Jesuits] in 1841, was no longer in use for school matters in the 1890s, since by that time all student activities were centered in the adjoining buildings.\u201d Accordingly, a student of Belvedere College would, in Joyce\u2019s day, only have seen the stunning interiors of Belvedere House itself through a private invitation from one of their Jesuit superiors \u2014 as this was their living quarters \u2014 and there is no extant evidence to suggest the young Joyce was ever accorded one. For Bradley, \u201c[t]his accounts for Joyce\u2019s \u2018surprising failure\u2019 to have his alterego, Stephen, in A Portrait make \u2018any mention at all of the magnificent interior decoration\u2019 of the main hall, stairway, or rooms in the classical style dedicated to Apollo, Venus, and Diana . . .\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Fig. 4. Illustrations by J.D. Williams depicting The Venus Room and The Diana Room (left to right, respectively) at Belvedere\nHouse as it was in 1786: the year Charles Doyle, S.J., told alumnus James Joyce the building was \u201ccompleted and occupied.\u201d<\/figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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It is doubtful then, in following Manglaviti\u2019s account, that Joyce ever saw \u201cthe ornate ceilings and the elaborately decorated rooms of Belvedere House.\u201d When the young Joyce entered Belvedere College in 1893, \u201conly the Jesuits living there could enjoy the splendor of what was then solely a residence for the school faculty.\u201d However, as Manglaviti notes, in A Portrait Joyce does depict his literary alter-ego Stephen visiting the Rector \u2014 though he remains nameless in the context of this oblique autobiographical novel, this was Fr William Henry, S.J. \u2014 about pursuing a Jesuit vocation. Their meeting takes place in the \u201ccollege parlour,\u201d which Manglaviti, in following Bradley, suggests would have been just off the entrance hallway pictured above (Fig. 2). \u201cAs Bradley reconstructs the scene when plays were performed, the audience would have entered from the street and passed through this hallway to the rear door of Belvedere house for access to the theatre in the quadrangle. After his interview with the rector, Stephen exited the house through the nearby \u2018heavy hall door\u2019 [Fig. 1 above], stepping into \u2018the caress of mild evening air\u2019 (P 160) of Great Denmark Street [Fig. 5. below]. He, like Joyce, would have seen only the hallway leading from entrance to rear door\u201d (Manglaviti, \u201cRevisiting Belvedere House\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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While the hallway leading from the entrance is itself impressive (Fig. 2 above), the ground floor rooms of Belvedere House were only ever intended for everyday and business use and are therefore minimally ornamented, as we can see in the picture below (Fig. 6); which also contains a close-up shot of Joyce\u2019s name in gold lettering on a wooden plaque commemorating, in chronological order, the various prefects of the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Belvedere College: a devotional Roman Catholic Marian society, which a thirteen-year-old Joyce became a member of on December 7th 1895 before assuming the honorary position of being the Sodality\u2019s Prefect or \u201chead\u201d from 1896-98.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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So, as mentioned, while the hallway leading from the entrance to the rear door on the ground floor of Belvedere House is itself impressive, this area was only ever intended for diurnal business purposes and as a result is minimally ornamented \u2014 accounting for Joyce\u2019s \u201csurprising failure\u201d in A Portrait<\/em> to have his literary alter-ego Stephen make any mention whatsoever of Belvedere\u2019s magnificent interiors. However, as one ascends the grand stairway of Belvedere House they encounter incredible stucco-work depicting scenes from Greek and Roman mythology (Fig. 7, below). On the half-landing, the Bacchanalia is celebrated. The left panel depicts Bacchus with his thyrsis and staff, the right panel is Ceres with her cornucopia. The central oval shows Cupid being demoted by the three Graces. The arched window is ornamented with symbols of the authority of ancient Rome. One could go on, . . .<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Manglaviti \u2014 whose account is replete with illustrations by J.D. Williams, which appeared in the Dublin Historical Record in 1953 (Figs. 4 and 8) \u2014 states that in order to fully appreciate the place of Belvedere House in Joyce\u2019s school days and the effect it had upon his Tiction, it is necessary to review the troubling and somewhat haunting history of the house itself, now in its fourth century. In the first of this series of blog posts, we did just that \u2014 relaying the scandalous case of Mary Rochfort, first Countess of Belvedere, who languished under house arrest, having been accused by her husband, Robert Rochfort, first Earl of Belvedere, of an adulterous liaison with his brother, Arthur. As stated there, Lady Belvedere was imprisoned by her cruel husband in Gaulstown House in Co. Westmeath for the best part of thirty years. While it is doubtful that she ever even saw Belvedere House, which was constructed by her son George, erroneous legends abound that her ghost haunts the house; legends fuelled by the assumption that it was in this house that she was in fact imprisoned. Indeed, in Ulysses<\/em>, Joyce has Father John Conmee, S.J., suggest that a \u201cbook that might be written about jesuit houses and of Mary Rochfort\u201d would examine the truth of this Gothic fable. \u201cIn any event,\u201d as Manglaviti attests, \u201cBelvedere House was certainly in the Dublin consciousness around 1900 as having rather scandalous associations, and in Ulysses<\/em> Joyce exploits the story of adultery and its sensational, though vague, details.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is certainly possible that Mary Rochfort, Countess of Belvedere, frequented Belvedere House while it was under construction, but it is highly unlikely that she ever lived there. (Nevertheless, as Manglaviti reminds us, \u201cthe facts are uncertain.\u201d) By all accounts, the house was completed and occupied in 1786 \u2014 a letter from Charles Doyle, S.J., to Joyce himself states as much, while Joyce\u2019s biographer, Richard Ellmann, merely says it was completed in 1785. This date of completion is supported by Belvedere art teacher Terry McMullen, who crafted two metal plaques that were mounted at opposite sides of the rear entrance during the 1980s. These read: \u201cBelvedere House 1785\u201d and \u201cJesuit Residence 1841.\u201d Bruce Bradley, S.J., the Jesuitical authority on Joyce\u2019s school days, brings \u201cthe vagaries of history together in a brief essay in the college annual, The Belvederian 1981.\u201d As Manglaviti states, it is worth quoting in full:<\/p>\n

Having succeeded his father the previous year and released his mother from captivity in Westmeath (she went on a visit to Italy and became a Catholic), George Rochfort, second Earl of Belvedere, married and began building Belvedere House in what was then Gardiner\u2019s Row (the name \u201cGreat Denmark St\u201d dates only from 1792), a little further south of the Poor Clare\u2019s chapel. The building, designed and decorated by Michael Stapleton and with mantelpiece [sic] ornamentation by the Italian Bossi, was completed at a cost of \u00a324,000, about 1786. It possesses what Desmond Guinness calls \u201cthe Tinest, neo-Classical plasterwork interior in Dublin\u201d and is one of the most distinguished houses of its period and style in the city.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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According to Bradley in Schooldays, to this day, Belvedere House has remained \u201cvirtually unchanged from the time of Joyce\u201d with the exception of some modifications to the exterior.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Did you know that it was during his time at Belvedere College \u2014 in being assigned an English composition topic \u201cMy Favourite Hero\u201d \u2014 that Joyce Tirst read Charles Lamb\u2019s The Adventures of Ulysses<\/em> (1808): the book which would inspire the outline for his world-famous novel?<\/p>\n

Read all about it in the final instalment of this series of blog posts!<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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