Orange Lodges

  • Ep. 21 – Croppies Lie Down

    This week, Kelly and Dermot explain the nightmarish history tucked into Stephen’s terse rebuttal of Mr. Deasy’s weak grasp of Irish history. The passage covered can be found on p. 31 of Kelly’s edition of Ulysses (1990 Vintage International). Topics covered include the history of the Orange Order, the Battle of the Diamond, the Planters’…

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  • Decoding Dedalus: Glorious, Pious and Immortal Memory

    This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a paragraph of Ulysses and  break it down line by line. The passage below comes from “Nestor,” the second episode of Ulysses. It appears on page 31 in my copy (1990 Vintage International). Glorious, pious and immortal memory. The lodge of Diamond……

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