Sir,—I read Daniel Mulhall’s piece (HI 32.3, May/June 2024) with interest. No context is given for the Citizen’s jibe about King Edward VII—‘There’s a bloody sight more Pox than Pax in that boyo’. Joyce set the novel in 1904, the year of the Entente Cordiale between England and France. In the first paragraphs of his ... Read more
