Ep. 16 - Dick Feeney

A super-sized Blooms and Barnacles! Dick is a friend of Kelly's and Dermot's who is a lover of Ulysses and the music found throughout the novel. Dick talks about some of his favorite songs that play a role in Ulysses and the history behind them. We also chat about the use of music in "The Dead," the final story in The Dubliners. And because we've never  met a tangent we didn't like, we also talk (briefly) about Dick's time in Turkey, Stephen's lost faith, Dick's love of the opera, and  grieving over tragedies that happened many generations ago.

A super-sized Blooms and Barnacles! Dick is a friend of Kelly's and Dermot's who is a lover of Ulysses and the music found throughout the novel. Dick talks about some of his favorite songs that play a role in Ulysses and the history behind them.

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Songs mentioned in this episode:

Lunchtime recitals by John Feeley and Fran O'Rourke with Joyce's recently restored guitar. Newman House, 86 St Stephen's Green http://www.associatededitions....

Recorded in October 1927. Written by C. Clifton Bingham and James Lyman Molloy. With Edwin Schneider at the piano.

Ronnie Drew, From their album 'more of the hard stuff'.

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The Croppy Boy (The Confession of an Irish Patriot), Charlotte Schreiber, 1879

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Further Reading:

1. Bowen, Z. (1974). Musical allusions in the works of James Joyce: Early poetry through Ulysses. Albany:State University of New York Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/yy85e3oq

2. Ellmann, R. (1959). James Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press.

3. Maddox, B. (2000). Nora: the real life of Molly Bloom. New York: Mariner Books.

4. O'Dowd, P. (1999). James Joyce's 'The Dead' and Its Galway Connections. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society,51, 189-193. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25535707