Was playing over the Paddy's weekend, getting back to reality (or fiction!) now.

Bonnie Shaljean, yes, Joyce was a good singer. He attended the singing evenings that were held in the Sheehy's house in Belvedere Place on alternate Sundays. The Sheehy's father was an old Fenian and an MP in the Irish Parliamentary Party (which until January 1900 was split between the pro- and anti-Parnell factions). Joyce liked singing Italian songs and was keen on one of the Sheehy daughters (I think it was Mary, who later married Tom Kettle who was killed in WW1). Another daugher was Hanna who married Francis Skeffington.

Joyce's article was on Ibsen, whom he revered at the time.