Hell is breakfast with Buck Mulligan.Kelly and Dermot talk about the allegory of the old milk woman who visits Stephen and the boys in the Martello Tower. Topics covered include Hiberno-English, the importance of tea in Irish culture and who the hell Mother Grogan was.
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The Women of Ulysses: Mother Grogan and the Milk Woman
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Further Reading:
The full lyrics of the song “Ned Grogan” can be found here.More on Mother Grogan: http://web.sas.upenn.edu/ulysses-test/tag/mother-grogan/
Blamires, H. (1985). The Bloomsday Book. New York: University Paperbacks.
Burgess, A. (1968). ReJoyce. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
Gifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce’s Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press.