Ep. 103 - Dominenamine

Is there really a church in Dublin full of deadly corpsegas?

St. Werburgh’s Church, Dublin, January 2023

Glasnevin Cemetery chapel, home to Cerberus

Topics discussed in this episode include Cardinal McCabe and his mausoleum, the fate of orphans and widows in 1904, “Three Women to Every Men,” Leopold Bloom’s irreverence in the face of mortality, Victoria and Albert, getting up a whip, John Henry Menton, Elpinor, Cerberus, Father Coffey, a thing with a knob on the end going into a bucket, Cock Robin, Mervyn Browne, St. Werburgh’s organ, corpsegas, aspergills and aspersoriums, and going through the motions.

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The cardinal’s mausoleum

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Further Reading: 

Aspergill

  1. Adams, R.M. (1974). Hades. In C. Hart & D. Hayman (eds.), James Joyce’s Ulysses: Critical essays (91-114). Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/wu2y7mg

  2. 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/y9erlwtw 

  3. 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 

  4. McNally, F. (2015, Sep 9). An Irishman’s Diary about the rise and fall of St Werburgh’s. The Irish Times. Retrieved from https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irishman-s-diary-about-the-rise-and-fall-of-st-werburgh-s-1.2344692 

  5. Woods, C.J. (Oct 2009). Edward McCabe. Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved from https://www.dib.ie/biography/mccabe-edward-a5561 

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