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MedicatedMilkisare-tellingofthelifeLuciaJoyce,daughterofcelebratedIrishwriterJamesJoyce.OneofthefirstthingsIlearnedaboutLuciawasherpassionformoderndance.ShetrainedinFrancewithRaymondDuncan(brotherofIsadora)andperformedwithagroupoffemaledancerscalledLesSixdeRythmeetCouleur.ShecreatedherownchoreographyandreceivedcriticalacclaimfromtheParisTimes.Lucia’scareerwascutshortduetosupposedmentalillnessbutthedetailsaroundthisseemveryundefined. AsDublincelebratedanotherBloomsdayonthe16thofJunehonouringthereveredliterarygiant,asilenced,counter-narrativewasbeingheardintheIFI–thatofJoyce’smysteriousdaughter,Lucia.LittleisstillknownaboutLuciaJoyceyetherlimitedbiographypointstoacontroversial,untameablefigure,whoscholarsagreewasaclearmuseforherfather’swork.WhatisacceptedisthatLucia,borninTriestein1907andshowedgreatpromiseinbecomingadanceartist,hadherownartisticambitionsabruptlyhaltedinthecutting-edgeworldofmoderndance,yettheexactcircumstancesremainshroudedinmystery.Shewastospend50yearsofherlifeinamentalasylum,forgottenanderased,owingtotheJoyceestatedestroyingorcloselyguardingdocuments,makingthemunavailabletoscholars;anyscholasticenquirymetwithforthrightresistanceforattemptingtopenetratethesovereigntyofJoyce’swork.