Ep. 139 - The Meeting of the Waters

The constables have been let our to graze.

The roguish Tommy Moore, January 2024

Topics in this episode include: 1904 popular culture, James Carlyle and the Irish Times, foxhunting, horsey people, Leopold Bloom’s disdain for high class women, The Irish Field, a personal ad from the 1870’s, Mrs Miriam Dandrade, the Purefoys, Fletcherism, the Chew-Chew Method, fad diets of yore, munching parties, hardy annuals, whether or not consumption makes you randy, phthisis, searching for Mrs Moisel, Mrs Thornton, Bloom mocks the police, The Pirates of Penzance, Thomas Moore, Avoca, and “The Meeting of the Waters.”

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Further Reading:

1. Beck, H. (2021). Hardy annuals in the nursery of life. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-words/annuals 

2. Deane, V. (2022). The Chew-Chew school and Mr Purefoy’s whisker problem. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-allusions/thirtytwo-chews 

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. Hyman, L. (1972). Jews of Ireland: From earliest times to the year 1910. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/jewsofirelandfro0000loui 

5. Simpson, J. (2021). Carlyle one, Carlisle nil. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/jioyce-s-people/carlyle 

6. Williams, G. (16 Feb. 2024). For the 10,000th time - Welcome to the Irish Field. The Irish Field. Retrieved from https://www.theirishfield.ie/racing/racing-news/for-the-10-000th-time-welcome-to-the-irish-field-804796