Then taoiseach wished to know if Giorgio Joyce, the writer’s son, expected the government to pay
“I met Mr Ulick O’Connor recently and in the course of the conversation he mentioned that Mr Giorgio Joyce, son of James Joyce, would be glad to have his father’s body brought back to Ireland if the government would formally approve it,” Flanagan wrote.
It would appear that is where the matter ended as there are no more letters in the files of the department of the taoiseach in relation to the request.His wife Nora made repeated attempts to have his body repatriated to Ireland, but the request was refused first by the Fianna Fáil government and then by the coalition government which included the minister for external affairs Seán MacBride. Joyce had mocked his birth parents Major John MacBride and Maud Gonne.
A note on the file of the department of the taoiseach dated July 17th 1949 reads: “Spoke to taoiseach. No action.”
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