Ep. 108 - The Chief's Grave (w/ Jordan LeVeque)

Sometimes, Bloom is right to be wrong.

Topics in this episode include Charles Stewart Parnell’s funeral and grave, Parnell as Agamemnon, Parnell as a Christ figure, graveyard iconography, Old Ireland’s Hearts and Hands, All Souls’ Day, euphemisms for death, Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” a stuffed owl, Milly’s funeral for a bird, white stones on Irish graves, Ireland’s devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the paintings of Zeuxis, grandfather’s graveyard gramophones, and who died while Bloom worked for Wisdom Hely.

Plus, we speak to Jordan LeVeque of the Portland band Slender Gems about how the works of Joyce have influenced his music.

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Further Reading: 

1. Beck, H. An anatomy of Gray’s Eulogy. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-allusions/gray 

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. Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus | Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles. (n.d.). Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles. Retrieved April 9, 2023, from https://carmelitesistersocd.com/devotion-to-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus/

4. Fuller, L. (May 2008). Devotion to the Sacred Heart and the Irish experience. Jesuits in Ireland. Retrieved from https://jesuit.ie/news/devotion-to-the-sacred-heart-and-the-irish-experience/ 

5. 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 

6. Hastings, P. (2013). Leopold Bloom’s “Curriculum Vitae.” James Joyce Quarterly, 50(3), 824–829. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24598582

7. Parnell Monument, Glasnevin Cemetery, Finglas Road, Dublin 11, DUBLIN. (n.d.). Buildings of Ireland. Retrieved April 9, 2023, from https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/50130074/parnell-monument-glasnevin-cemetery-finglas-road-dublin-11-co-dublin