Ep. 84 - Iron Nails Ran In

Give us this day our daily Bloom.

Topics in this episode include: mazzoth, shewbread, matzo v. Communion wafer, what it feels like to consume the body of Christ in the Eucharist, more cannibals, the hokey pokey and whether or not it mocks the Catholic Mass, Leopold Bloom use of popular culture to connect with more complex issues, the feeling of religious community, how Holy Communion is like Plumtree’s Potted Meat, the spectacle of the Mass, Lourdes water, the Knock apparition, moving statues, salt stain Mary in Chicago (she was under the Kennedy Expressway, not Wacker Drive!), the narcotic quality of the Mass, IHS and INRI, the Invincibles and the Phoenix Park Murders, details hidden in addresses, James Carey, and suspicions against ostentatiously pious people.

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Priests replacing shewbread for the week, 1870’s

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Media Mentioned in this Episode:

“Crossing the Iron Bridge,” Michael Hartnett

The Irish History Podcast series on the Phoenix Park Murders

The Joyce Project

Further Reading:

1. Ellmann, R. (1972). Ulysses on the Liffey. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.65767/page/n39 

2. Finn, E., and Simpson, J. If I have sinned, I have suffered. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from http://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-allusions/sinned#_ftn1 

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. Gilbert, S. (1955). James Joyce’s Ulysses: a study. New York: Vintage Books. 

5. Herring, P. (1974). Lotuseaters. In C. Hart & D. Hayman (eds.), James Joyce’s Ulysses: Critical essays (71-90). Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/yy2gpfhs 

6. Hunt, J. (2018). Denzille Street. The Joyce Project. Retrieved from https://www.joyceproject.com/notes/040089denzille.htm.

7. Igoe, V. (2016). The real people of Joyce’s Ulysses: A biographical guide. University College Dublin Press.

8. Kent, K. S. (2013). "James Joyce's 'Ulysses' and Bloom's Utopian Vision of Ireland." Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse, 5(10). Retrieved from http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/a?id=772  

9. O'Shea, M. (1984). Catholic Liturgy in Joyce's "Ulysses". James Joyce Quarterly, 21(2), 123-135. Retrieved December 17, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476572 

10. Osteen, M. (1995). The economy of Ulysses: making both ends meet. New York: Syracuse University Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/yy6hq4x3 

11. Restuccia, F. (1984). Transubstantiating "Ulysses". James Joyce Quarterly, 21(4), 329-340. Retrieved December 30, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476613

12. Walsh, R. (1969). In the Name of the Father and of the Son... Joyce's Use of the Mass in Ulysses. James Joyce Quarterly, 6(4), 321-347. Retrieved December 17, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25486788