Themes in Ulysses

  • Ulysses CCD: Mulligan Mocks Mass

    To hear a discussion of this topic, check out the podcast episode here. Part of an occasional series on Catholism in Ulysses. In 2017, I was a founding member of the Ulysses Support Group at T.C. O’Leary’s pub in Portland, Oregon. Our goal was to read the entirety of Ulysses aloud between two Bloomsdays. On…

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  • Decoding Dedalus: Heresies in “Telemachus”

    This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a paragraph of Ulysses and give it the ol’ Frank Delaney treatment – that is, break it down line by line. As an aside, if you haven’t listened to Frank Delaney’s excellent podcast, Re:Joyce, go treat yourself. His page by page analysis…

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  • The Women of Ulysses: Mother Grogan and the Milk Woman

    To hear a discussion of this topic, check out the podcast episode here. Part of an occasional series on the women of Ulysses. Mother Grogan pops up a couple times throughout Ulysses. She is a reference to an anonymous folk song called Ned Grogan. I couldn’t find a recording of it, so I suppose it’s…

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