On this day 103 years ago, 13 August 1904, something of significance happened in the literary world. The Irish Homestead, after having solicited him, first published the work of a certain Stephen Daedalus in its "Our Weekly Story" section. Daedalus wrote about a young boy recounting the circumstances around the death of an old priest he had befriended and titled his work "The Sisters." In it, the themes of paralysis, corruption and death are explored, themes the author would revisit in his later, more famous works.
You may be familiar with the name Stephen Daedalus in literature, but not as an author. Stephen Daedalus represented the early pseudonym for one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, James Joyce. "The Sisters" later became the first short story in his collection The Dubliners. Joyce would later become famous by writing A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. Stephen Daedalus was the name given the protagonist in Stephen Hero, an early version of what became Portrait. In Portrait as well as Ulysses, Daedalus is shortened to "Dedalus."
You may be familiar with the name Stephen Daedalus in literature, but not as an author. Stephen Daedalus represented the early pseudonym for one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, James Joyce. "The Sisters" later became the first short story in his collection The Dubliners. Joyce would later become famous by writing A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. Stephen Daedalus was the name given the protagonist in Stephen Hero, an early version of what became Portrait. In Portrait as well as Ulysses, Daedalus is shortened to "Dedalus."
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