Cyclops
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I, Narrator
“Cyclops,” Ulysses’ twelfth episode, is delivered through the colorful narration of an anonymous patron of Barney Kiernan’s pub, occasionally interrupted by elaborate comedic interpolations. Our main POV characters are either totally absent (in Stephen Dedalus’ case) or totally subsumed by the Narrator’s running commentary on the events unfolding in the pub in the early evening…
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Who were the real men in Barney Kiernan’s pub?
This post is a part of an occasional series on the real people behind the characters in Ulysses. Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name, and unfortunately for Mr. Bloom, everyone seems to know all his business in Barney Kiernan’s pub. In “Cyclops”, the twelfth episode of Ulysses, Leopold Bloom shows up…
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Ulysses & The Odyssey: Cyclops
The Odyssey – Book IX Following their misadventure with the Lotus Eaters, Odysseus and his fleet come to the home of the Cyclopes, a rude, violent and uncivilized people. Odysseus and his men enter the cave dwelling of the Cyclops Polyphemus while he is out tending to his sheep. They eat Polyphemus’ food while waiting…
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Ep. 70 – Bloomsday 2021
Happy Bloomsday, one and all! Enjoy a selection of readings from Ulysses by our talented listeners from across the globe. It’s a Bloomsday bash you can listen to anywhere. Just add gorgonzola and burgundy! Cool stuff to support: Sweny’s Patreon helps keep this marvelous Dublin landmark alive. Please subscribe! U22: The Centenary Ulysses Podcast Ulysses –…
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Ep. 45 – Bloomsday 2020
Happy Bloomsday, one and all! Blooms & Barnacles presents our Bloomsday 2020 episode, a little Bloomsday party you can take anywhere you go. Many friends and listeners came together to record their favorite passages from Ulysses, and we’ve compiled them into one, gargantuan Blooms & Barnacles episode. Sweny’s Patreon helps keep this marvelous Dublin landmark alive.…
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Is Leopold Bloom Jewish?
“It is odd that the creator of the most outstanding Jew in modern literature did not at that time know any of the Jewish community in Dublin.” – Padraic Colum, p. 56, Our Friend James Joyce “Yes. Only a foreigner would do. The Jews were foreigners in Dublin at that time. There was no hostility…