Ulysses locations
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Ep. 135 – HEL’SY
Rashers Tierney would have gotten those Hely’s Sandwichmen into shape. Plus, his name is thematically apt. Topics in this episode include memories of life in 1960’s Dublin, Leopold Bloom’s philosophy of advertising, whether or not a nun invented barbed wire, the intersection of religion, advertising and potted meat, the rite of Melchisedek, open-faced club sand…
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Ep. 134 – Parallax
If both clocks were correct, one would be redundant. Topics in this episode include the Ballast Office, the timeball, stellar parallax, ships’ navigators and chronometers, the whereabouts of the timeball, the political controversy of Greenwich Mean Time, Dunsink time, Sir Robert Ball and The Story of the Heavens, what the heck parallax actually means, how…
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Ep. 133 – Kino’s 11/- Trousers
What is the parallax of Aldebaran? Topics in this episode include gulls, Simon Dedalus, Little Chandler, Leopold Bloom’s poetic impulse, Leopold Bloom’s philosophy of advertising, the secret ingredient in Epps’ Cocoa, the supremacy of Kino’s 11/- Trousers over Plumtree’s Potted Meat, Victorian advertising styles, Howard Bridgewater’s theory of advertising, Dr. Hy Frank’s remedy for the…
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Ep. 130 – THOSE SLIGHTLY RAMBUNCTIOUS FEMALES
Nelson supposes his toeses are roses, but Nelson supposes erroneously. Topics in this episode include Barcelona, revisiting James Joyce’s Guinness ad, the history of Nelson’s pillar, Horatio Nelson, the final resting place of Nelson’s head, possible replacements for Nelson atop the former pillar, failed attempts to raise the wind, A Pisgah Sight of Palestine or…
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Ulysses & The Odyssey: Scylla & Charybdis
“[The paternity motif], which, applied to the Godhead, has been so fruitful a cause of misunderstanding and dissension in the Christian Church, that this episode is the subtlest and hardest to epitomize of all the eighteen episodes of Ulysses.” – Stuart Gilbert “The Aristotelian and Platonic philosophies are the monsters that lie in wait in…
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Ep. 129 – DEAR DIRTY DUBLIN
What if we held hands in the Akasic Record? Topics in this episode include too much information about the Freemasons, entering the Promised Land, Daniel O’Connell’s mass meeting at Mullaghmast, political radicalism, the Akasic Record, Stephen’s magic powers, rebutting John F. Taylor, Parnell’s parliamentary finesse, argumentum ad pasiones, leaning into your own bias, the origin…
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Ep. 126 – ITALIA, MAGISTRA ARTIUM
Sufficient for the day is the newspaper thereof. Topics in this episode include Grattan and Flood, Seymour Bushe and the Childs murder case, Hamlet references, Michelangelo’s Moses and where to find it, Lenehan’s cigarette scheme, J.J. O’Molloy’s love of forensic rhetoric, the shortcomings of memoria, court cases appearing in the works of Joyce, Samuel Childs…
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Leopold Bloom’s Gorgonzola
“He entered Davy Byrne’s. Moral pub. He doesn’t chat. Stands a drink now and then. But in leapyear once in four. Cashed a cheque for me once.” Following a long, restless journey across Dublin’s city centre in “Lestrygonians”, Ulysses’ eighth episode, Leopold Bloom finally sits down to his lunch. After a close encounter in the…
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Ep. 121 – Tales From the Tower Live (w/ Vivien Veale Igoe, Robert Nicholson, & Breandan O’Broin)
Kelly talks with former James Joyce Tower & Museum curators Vivien Veale Igoe and Robert Nicholson, and editor Breandan O’Broin about their experience curating the tower, how Dublin’s relationship with Joyce has changed over the years, and their new book, Tales from the Tower. Tales from the Tower will be available to purchase November 1,…