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Ep. 65 – Old Tweedy’s Big Moustaches

Who was Molly Bloom’s father, Major Brian Cooper Tweedy? Far more than meets the eye. Topics in this episode include Michael Caine and Zulu, what the heck a footleaf is…

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Lord Kitchener

Who was Molly Bloom’s father, Major Brian Cooper Tweedy? Far more than meets the eye.

Topics in this episode include Michael Caine and Zulu, what the heck a footleaf is and other lovely minutiae, the origin of the Blooms’ jingly-jangly bed, Major Brian Cooper Tweedy and his military career, Molly’s time in Gibraltar and her memories of her father, Rorke’s Drift, Plevna, cheating at auctions, philately, sparrowfarts, Wolseley and Gordon in Khartoum, deception and lies, classism in the British military, and many shocking facts about Major Tweedy.

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Capturing Grivitza , Henryk Dembitzky, 1881; this painting shows a major turning point in the Siege of Plevna
Capturing Grivitza , Henryk Dembitzky, 1881; this painting shows a major turning point in the Siege of Plevna

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Media Mentioned in this Episode

Zulu

In the Track of the Sun, F. D. Thompson

The Defence of Rorke’s Drift, Lady Elizabeth Butler, 1880
The Defence of Rorke’s Drift, Lady Elizabeth Butler, 1880
George’s Church in the early 20th.c. (from Hardwicke St., not Eccles). If you look closely, you can see an ad for Tit Bits, with Bloom reads on the jakes in “Calypso.” ( National Library of Ireland )
George’s Church in the early 20th.c. (from Hardwicke St., not Eccles). If you look closely, you can see an ad for Tit Bits, with Bloom reads on the jakes in “Calypso.” ( National Library of Ireland )

Further Reading:

The title page from In the Track of the Sun
The title page from In the Track of the Sun

  1. Ellmann, R. (1959). James Joyce. Oxford University Press.

  2. Gifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce’s Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/vy6j4tk 

  3. Tierney, Andrew. (2013). “‘One of Britain’s fighting men’: Major Malachi Powell and Ulysses.” James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from http://www.jjon.org/jioyce-s-people/powell

  4. Von Phul, R. (1982). “Major” Tweedy and His Daughter. James Joyce Quarterly, 19(3), 341-348. Retrieved October 6, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476450