Ep. 102 - Murderer’s Ground

Wanna grab a pint at the Brian Boroimhe? Or is it Boroihme? Boru?

The former residence of Thomas Childs

Topics discussed in this episode include the days when cattle roamed the North Circular Road, the Royal Canal, the identity of Dublin’s own Charon, locks, how realistic it would be for Bloom to walk to Mullingar (it’s not), the Brian Boroimhe House, Tom Kernan’s debts to Mr. Fogarty, white silence, the popularity of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem “Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave”, thunderous loins, M’Intosh foreshadowing, the Childs murder case, what the heck a “felly” is, the disappointment of a paltry funeral, simnel cakes, defeating Cerberus, Elpinor’s drunken misadventure, Ned Lambert, Joe Hynes, Corny Kelleher, hired mutes from Lalouette’s, and the lost art of keening.

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The front of the Brian Boru

A POLISHED PERIOD

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Further Reading:

1. Beck, H. White silence in marble. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-allusions/silence 

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. Gifford, H. (2021, May 17). No keening carried on today. Lapham’s Quarterly. Retrieved from https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/no-keening-carried-nowadays 

4. Hardiman, A. (2017). Joyce in court. Head of Zeus.

5. Hepburn, A. (2014). The Irish Way of Dying: "Ulysses" and Funeral Processions. The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 38(1/2), 184-207. Retrieved March 15, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/43410728 

6. Killeen, T. Two poetic snippets: row me o’er the ferry (U 6.447-8) and maledictive stones (U 12.144). James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-allusions/two-snippets 

7. Simpson, J. Treading water to paradise. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-allusions/heaven 

8. Toolis, K. (2017). My father’s wake: How the Irish teach us to live, love, and die. Da Capo Press.