If You Were James Joyce’s Grandson, You’d Become A Pain In The Neck, Too

“After too many scholars and writers took glee in unearthing family secrets, including the madness of his own mother, the madness of his aunt (James’ daughter Lucia), and the filthiest love letters ever sent between two people, who just happened to be his grandparents,” Stephen Joyce “became resentfully litigious, suing small productions of readings from Ulysses for copyright violations and refusing to grant reprint rights.”