Part I. Ireland. Introduction

The shade of Parnell

John Stanislaus Joyce

Four friends of the father

The 'dead king'

'Christ and Caesar' : the origins of Joyce's thesis of the 'two masters'

Joyce in University College, Dublin

Four friends from University College

'The language of the outlaw'

Moving towards exile : encountering literary and radical Dublin, 1902-4

Part II. Exile. The politics of Stephen Hero

'Professing to be a Socialist'

Writing Dubliners in exile

Reading Ireland from exile

The Triestine Joyce

Joyce's Triestine lectures and articles, 1907-10

Exile affirmed

'The society of Jewses' : gestating bloom

Passing into silence

Coda.