Clive Hart, one of the founding fathers of Joyce criticism, died more than a year ago. As a tribute to Clive, his collaborator Ian Gunn has created a wonderfully useful digital archive with Joyce tools called JoyceTools.
It contains three contemporary maps of Dublin and an 1874 admiralty map of Dublin bay. Joyceans who find themselves in Phoenix Park, or in a Dublin newspaper office or, say, in a cabman’s shelter, may find useful a map of the Park, “Showing the routes taken by the assassins before and after the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr Burke, 6th May 1882.”
These maps, and the copy of the pink Evening Telegraph for 16 June 1904 that plays such an important role in the cabman’s shelter scene, must be of interest to all readers of Ulysses. Scholars will be happy to find digital copies of two tables, one correlating Gabler’s edition of Ulysses with all earlier editions, an indispensable tool when you want to make sense of some of the older literature on the book. Genetic scholars will be happy with the second which contains collation tables for the Little Review, Egoist, Rosenbach manuscript, and the relevant volumes of the James Joyce Archive.
The publication of these new tools is a fitting tribute to Clive Hart, who was not just a pioneer of Joyce studies, but more specifically of what the website calls “the empirical study of James Joyce’s work”. In addition to these goodies, Joyce scholars can also check out a series of emendations to the eminently useful Topographical Guide to “Ulysses” that Clive Hart and Ian Gunn created. The second edition of that book is still in print, but this page contains a number of emendations to that edition, testimony to the fact that an empirical student’s work on Joyce is never done.