Ep. 65 - Old Tweedy’s Big Moustaches
Who was Molly Bloom’s father, Major Brian Cooper Tweedy? Far more than meets the eye.
Topics in this episode include Michael Caine and Zulu, what the heck a footleaf is and other lovely minutiae, the origin of the Blooms’ jingly-jangly bed, Major Brian Cooper Tweedy and his military career, Molly’s time in Gibraltar and her memories of her father, Rorke’s Drift, Plevna, cheating at auctions, philately, sparrowfarts, Wolseley and Gordon in Khartoum, deception and lies, classism in the British military, and many shocking facts about Major Tweedy.
Ground Control to Major Tweedy
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Media Mentioned in this Episode
In the Track of the Sun, F. D. Thompson
Further Reading:
Ellmann, R. (1959). James Joyce. Oxford University Press.
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
Tierney, Andrew. (2013). “‘One of Britain’s fighting men’: Major Malachi Powell and Ulysses.” James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from http://www.jjon.org/jioyce-s-people/powell
Von Phul, R. (1982). "Major" Tweedy and His Daughter. James Joyce Quarterly, 19(3), 341-348. Retrieved October 6, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476450