Ep. 149 - Ancient Free and Accepted Order
Are you on the level?
Edward VII in Masonic garb
Topics in this episode include discussion of whether or not Leopold Bloom is a freemason, how well Nosey Flynn knows the business of the other Dubliners, why Bloom never thinks about being a freemason, whether or not Tom Kernan is in the craft, whether or not you can leave the freemasons, freemason symbols and lore, whether Bloom has connections to the upper echelons of Dublin society, the Hungarian lottery tickets scandal, what James Joyce knew about freemasons, times when Bloom deploys freemason symbols, the Catholic Church’s campaign against the freemasons, how that campaign was also antisemitic, and why Æ was talking about octopuses.
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Further Reading:
Beck, H. Lady Freemason. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-allusions/freemasons
Benstock, B. (1978). Leopold Bloom and the Mason Connection. James Joyce Quarterly, 15(3), 259–262. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476138
Conner, P. W. (1980). Bloom, the Masons and the Benstock Connection. James Joyce Quarterly, 17(2), 217–220. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476282
D’ARCY, A. M. (2013). JOYCE AND THE TWOHEADED OCTOPUS OF “JUDÉO-MAÇONNERIE.” The Review of English Studies, 64(267), 857–877. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24541022
Davison, N. R. (1998). James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Construction of Jewish Identity: Culture, Biography and ‘the Jew’ in Modernist Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/rp9ctrt
Hyman, L. (1972). Jews of Ireland: From earliest times to the year 1910. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/jewsofirelandfro0000loui
Ito, E. (2001). Is Leopold Bloom a Jewish Freemason? Journal of Policy Studies, 3 (2), 1-15. Retrieved from http://p-www.iwate-pu.ac.jp/~acro-ito/Joycean_Essays/U_JewishFreemason.html
Norris, M. (2006). Fact, Fiction, and Anti-Semitism in the “Cyclops” Episode of Joyce’s “Ulysses.” Journal of Narrative Theory, 36(2), 163–189. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30224645
Schneider, U. (1968). Freemasonic Signs and Passwords in the “Circe” Episode. James Joyce Quarterly, 5(4), 303–311. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25486725
Schwarz, D. (2004). Reading Joyce’s Ulysses. Palgrave Macmillan.