From top: The first Bloomsday, 1954, from left: John Ryan, Anthony Cronin, Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and Tom Joyce; Patrick Kavanagh and John Ryan with the door of No. 7 Eccles Street, Bloomsday, 1967.
For the day that’s in it.
As Father’s Day falls on June 16, I would like to take this rare opportunity to acknowledge my late dad John Ryan (beloved of Deirdre) painter, writer, editor and one-man Arts Council to impoverished genius and chancer alike.
Happy Bloomsday.
Pics: National Library of Ireland/Leslie Mallory
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…fairplay John…had no idea we were in such exalted company…
Make that documentary John! Dee will have the between the lines details.
I read recently that even On Raglan Road was handed to Luke in your Dad’s The Bailey. John left an unsurpassed cultural legacy which should be properly documented. Get on it Boss.
Hear, hear!!
Will do, Gene. Thanks.
Ah ya dote
xV
Brilliant photo, happy FD JR
Ah that’s nice – I did not know you had such a notable Dad.
+1
Doing him proud as well
I wondered if you were related to the John Ryan… makes sense. Happy Bloomsday! They look so raffishly glamorous (well, except maybe for Kavanagh who looks like he might have egg encrusted in his shirt in pic 2.) It’s good to acknowledge our forebears and the imprint they made. Happy Father’s Day!
So that’s where you got your rock star looks from Mr Ryan ….
brown-nosing won’t get you out of moderation, charger
you’re there for keeps
fair point
Moderation again, bb?
not a bit of it, millie. have been squeaky clean these last few months.
I’ll say nothing about those dogging comments so ;)
You guys!!!! xx
Hear, hear!!
Nice one John! Definitely worth a mention on father’s day!
Thanks, Triona.
Literally “with the door of No. 7 Eccles Street” I’m sure there’s a great story there.
There is. The nuns in the Mater destroyed the most famous address in literature. Only the door was saved.
Bless me Father for I have sinned. I have not yet read Joyce’s Ulysses. However, I have read The Thief’s Journal by Jean Genet.
Most people haven’t read it. Many have started….
“What’s the difference between people who claim to have read Ulysses and employees of Google?”
Nothing. They’ll all tell you without your asking.
Nice memories, John. Thanks for sharing.
Lovely photo and wonderful to see your father remembered.
Sure we’re only another page in a long story.
Luke
For sure. xV
As a young buck I had the pleasure of drinking with him, Liam Brady & Jim Fitzgerald in the Waterloo after the annual March 17th gathering at the Kavanagh seat. I had to pour Fitzgerald into his taxi.
And lest we forget your Dad’s wonderful book on literary Dublin “Remembering how we Stood”
Enjoyed that, nice touch John.
I remember meeting him once late in his life in your house John. He kindly gave me some art materials.
Lovely memory. Thank you.
Nice story, that picture is one to cherish. Sounds like a great man.
Lovely photographs, thank you Mr Ryan!
Your Dad’s memoir ‘Remembering How We Stood’ is a great read.
nice! just ordered that Otis, looking forward to it, lovely photos John.
Ha that’s gas
So’ ve I
I had to buy a second hand one from 1989 Vanessa, I couldn’t resist the cover!
You’ll have to share it with us when you get it in so Muck
I just clicked on the first one that came up in the search
Lilliput Press
One quibble -you didn’t use the photo of the boys having a slash against the sea-wall at Sandymount -relieving themselves of the liquid taken on in Duke Street
+ 1
Lovely words John. X
xxx
Lovely tribute John.
Your Dad by all accounts was a real man of action and sincerity.
A lot like his son.
Fair play