Ep. 104 - Broken Hearts
Corpses rarely wear hats.
The Chapel & O'Connell Tower, Glasnevin Cemetery. Circa 1900. (from Glasnevin Museum)
Topics include the correspondent organ of Hades (the heart), the O’Connell Circle, Daniel O’Connell’s heart, Tom Kernan, hats, losing your identity in the underworld, freemasonery, whether or not Leopold Bloom is a mason, Mount Jerome and the Irish church, Bloom’s denial of an afterlife, humor in the face of death, ghosts in a modern epic, Corny Kelleher, John Henry Menton, a fateful game of bowls, Dublin’s Ajax, John O’Connell as Hades, John O’Connell as St. Peter, Mulcahy from the Coombe, and the kindness of John O’Connell.
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Sorrowful Ajax, Asmus Jakob Carstens, 1791
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Further Reading:
Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2023, January 9). Ajax. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ajax-the-Greater
Ellmann, R. (1972). Ulysses on the Liffey. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.65767/2015.65767.Ulysses-On-The-Liffey_djvu.txt
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
Igoe, V. (2016). The real people of Joyce’s Ulysses: A biographical guide. University College Dublin Press.
Osteen, M. (1995). The economy of Ulysses: making both ends meet. New York: Syracuse University Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/yycf2ar5
Ó Tuathaigh, G. (Oct 2009). Daniel O’Connell. In Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved from https://www.dib.ie/biography/oconnell-daniel-a6555
Schwarz, D. (2004). Reading Joyce’s Ulysses. Palgrave Macmillan.