Professor MacHugh
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MEMORABLE BATTLES RECALLED: The Sham Squire and the Boys of Wexford
“… it would be a shrewd dialectician indeed who would make much sense out of the editor’s crowings about North Cork militia with Spanish officers in Ohio.” – Robert M. Adams To listen to a discussion of this topic, check out the podcast episodes here and here. The nightmare of history is woven throughout “Aeolus,”…
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Who Were the Real Men in Aeolus’ Newsroom?
This post is a part of an occasional series on the real people behind the characters in Ulysses. Myles Crawford During a 1909 visit to Dublin, James Joyce made several visits to the office of the Evening Telegraph where he became acquainted with its then editor Patrick Meade, Lord of the Wind Bags. Meade was…