A phantom engagement of sorts
Frank MacGabhann was wearing a specially commissioned T-shirt with the logo of “The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice”
And as immortalised in fiction, he too was a letter writer, although Joyce borrowed that part of the story from a friend in Trieste, Henry Blackwood Price, another Ulsterman, whose actual belief in a cure for foot-and-mouth disease Deasy echoes.An Irish Diary: Ieper, a 100-year-old medieval city Having just paid Stephen Dedalus his wages, he runs after him to share a joke about how Ireland is the only country never to have persecuted the Jews. “Do you know why?” he asks, with a phlegmy laugh: “Because she never let them in.”Here’s more of it. When I met Frank MacGabhann to discuss his film script about the Catalpa Escape recently, he was wearing a specially commissioned T-shirt with the logo of “The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice”.
Well, it’s thanks to the aforementioned Joseph Hassett that I know of another piece of jewellery sunk with the doomed vessel and itself perhaps worthy of cinema.
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