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Blooms & Barnacles

A blog and podcast that discuss James Joyce"s Ulysses from a non-academic point of view. Less snooty, more movie references.

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01:13:31

Exiles (w/ Steve Carey)

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2023/06/07

Once maligned, later tentatively praised, James Joyce's only existing play, Exiles, may be his least popular work. Though it is rarely staged these days, Bloomsday in Melbourne's Steve Carey is up to the challenge. We talk why Exiles has been so maligned, why it's actually good, and how to go about staging a play that is famously unpopular.Come see us in person this Bloomsday! Get tickets to our live show (in person or online) here!This episode was originally a Patreon bonus episode. For more

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00:02:11

Bloomsday Live Show Announcement!

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2023/06/02

We're thrilled to announce our live show at the James Joyce Centre this Bloomsday. Follow this link for more info and for links to in-person and online tickets.

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01:00:47

Ep. 111 - Enthymemic

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2023/05/24

All men are mortal, and Socrates is a man. Therefore, all men are Socrates. Wait... In this episode, we discuss the art and technic of "Aeolus": rhetoric and "enthymemic." Topics include Stuart Gilbert and his schema, rhetoric as a classical art form, the Jesuits and rhetoric, the extremely comprehensive lists of rhetorical forms found in "Aeolus", how "Aeolus" is structured like a classical rhetorical treatise, just a smidge of Aristotle's Rhetoric, how the rhetorical examples found in "Aeolus"

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01:27:45

Aeolus

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2023/05/10

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind…We kick off our series on Ulysses’ seventh episode, “Aeolus”! Topics in this episode include Book X of The Odyssey, Homeric parallels found in “Aeolus”, the headlines, the Evening Telegraph as it appears in Ulysses, Stromboli, brazen walls and floating isles, wind and air imagery, the history of the Freeman’s Journal, the Sham Squire, Sir John Gray, the downfall of the Freeman’s Journal, bathos, the degradation of language, and the oppression of mad,

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00:53:06

The Tower of Silence

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2023/04/26

Break out the Tantalus glasses - we’re finally getting out of the Underworld!Topics in our final episode covering “Hades” include paying the ferryman, turning a suit, rats, Robert Emmet, the speech from the dock, toxic nostalgia, cremation, the Catholic Church’s position on cremation, quicklime, Zoroastrianism, the Parsi Tower of Silence, the unexpected consequences of a reduced vulture population, the gentleness of seadeath, leaving the Underworld, Mrs. Sinico and “A Painful Case”, Leopold Bloom’s

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01:15:21

The Chief's Grave (w/ Jordan LeVeque)

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2023/04/12

Sometimes, Bloom is right to be wrong.Topics in this episode include Charles Stewart Parnell’s funeral and grave, Parnell as Agamemnon, Parnell as a Christ figure, graveyard iconography, Old Ireland’s Hearts and Hands, All Souls’ Day, euphemisms for death, Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” a stuffed owl, Milly’s funeral for a bird, white stones on Irish graves, Ireland’s devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the paintings of Zeuxis, grandfather’s graveyard gramophones, and who

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01:19:23

Far away a donkey brayed.

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2023/03/29

What’s up with that donkey in Glasnevin?Topics in this episode include seagulls in Ulysses, the Blooms’ old digs in Lombard St. West, The Joyce Project, Mesias the tailor, donkey lore, superstitions of death, a strange work of art, Lucia di Lammermoor, Ivy Day, the location of Bloom’s future grave, Altman the Saltman, Finglas, Joe Hynes, the crimes of Charley M’Coy, Bonnie Prince Charlie, more M’Intosh, kabbalah, numerology, hypostasis and umbilical cords.Support us on Patreon to access episodes

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01:27:45

M'Intosh

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2023/03/15

Who is the man in the macintosh?Topics in this episode include trying to figure out the identity of Ulysses’ most enigmatic figure, Penrose, HCE, Peter Falk, the details we can decipher from M’Intosh’s brief appearances in Ulysses, the infallibility of Bovril, Dusty Rhodes, why searching for Easter eggs can be unsatisfying, Theoclymenos, James Clarence Mangan, Wetherup, James Duffy, artist cameos, ghosts, the nadir of misery, and Carl Jung.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus

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01:05:17

The Ides of June

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2023/03/01

Beware the Ides of June.Topics in this episode include the power of keys, John O’Connell the St. Peter of Dublin, “Silver Threads Among the Gold”, Daniel O’Connell the Hercule of Dublin, Daniel O’Connell’s cheatin’ heart, the Persephone of Dublin, Christian burial practices, blood libel, vampire imagery and antisemitism, Leopold Bloom’s version for everlasting life after death, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, a hilarious Latin joke, Robinson Crusoe and Friday, the funeral practices of ants, and Jewish

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00:57:58

Broken Hearts

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2023/02/15

Corpses rarely wear hats.Topics include the correspondent organ of Hades (the heart), the O’Connell Circle, Daniel O’Connell’s heart, Tom Kernan, hats, losing your identity in the underworld, freemasonery, whether or not Leopold Bloom is a mason, Mount Jerome and the Irish church, Bloom’s denial of an afterlife, humor in the face of death, ghosts in a modern epic, Corny Kelleher, John Henry Menton, a fateful game of bowls, Dublin’s Ajax, John O’Connell as Hades, John O’Connell as St. Peter, Mulcahy

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00:59:16

Dominenamine

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2023/02/01

Is there really a church in Dublin full of deadly corpsegas?Topics discussed in this episode include Cardinal McCabe and his mausoleum, the fate of orphans and widows in 1904, “Three Women to Every Men,” Leopold Bloom’s irreverence in the face of mortality, Victoria and Albert, getting up a whip, John Henry Menton, Elpinor, Cerberus, Father Coffey, a thing with a knob on the end going into a bucket, Cock Robin, Mervyn Browne, St. Werburgh’s organ, corpsegas, aspergills and aspersoriums, and going

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00:58:39

Murderer's Ground

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2023/01/18

Wanna grab a pint at the Brian Boroimhe? Or is it Boroihme? Boru?Topics discussed in this episode include the days when cattle roamed the North Circular Road, the Royal Canal, the identity of Dublin’s own Charon, locks, how realistic it would be for Bloom to walk to Mullingar (it’s not), the Brian Boroimhe House, Tom Kernan’s debts to Mr. Fogarty, white silence, the popularity of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem “Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave”, thunderous loins, M’Intosh foreshadowing, the Childs

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01:03:10

The Dead (Patreon Bonus)

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2023/01/11

Kelly and Dermot talk about James Joyce's "The Dead" as well as John Huston's 1987 film of the same name. This episode was originally released as a bonus episode on our Patreon. To view a video version of this episode, check it out on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PSeZPqX5xykTo support the show and get monthly bonus content, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/barnaclecast

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00:58:57

Has anybody here seen Kelly?

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2023/01/04

Kay ee double ell wy. I can’t this song out of my head.Topics in this episode include Dermot on quantum mechanics, the phenomenon of ebullition, galloping funeral carriages, the Gordon Bennett, top speeds of old race cars, 100+ year old music hall songs, the Mater hospital, Orion, Joe Cuffe, sassy Leopold Bloom, kindness to animals, the North Circular Road, Dunphy’s Corner, drinking to the health of a corpse, the elixir of life, incubism, why Hades is where the heart is, embalming practices, and

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01:22:30

Glasnevin Cemetery (w/ Martin Mooney

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2022/12/21

We are thrilled to welcome Martin Mooney, taphologist extraordinaire, as the guest on our 100th episode! Martin gives us a once-in-a-lifetime tour of Glasnevin Cemetery.If you enjoy the podcast, please consider supporting us at Patreon.

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01:21:52

The Best Death

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2022/12/07

Rattle his bones over the stones! He ’s only a pauper whom nobody owns!Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of infant death and suicide.Topics in this episode include an O’Connell St. history quiz, how Dermot was radicalized as a ten-year-old, the demise of Nelson’s pillar, the floozie in the jacuzzi, Paddy’s adelite face (or was it adelaide?), John Barleycorn, the spiritual tragedy of a sudden death, last rites, extreme unction, Bloom’s lack of understanding about Catholic death

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00:59:06

Reuben J. Dodd

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2022/11/23

How long can you hold a grudge?Topics in this episode include Mr. Power’s kept woman, hot 1904 gossip, rumpsteak, Reuben J. Dodd the Younger’s plunge into the Liffey, Bloom’s storytelling ability, pre-decimal currency, petty score settling, Elvery’s elephant, our favorite vegetarian restaurant in Dublin, Barabbas, chisellers, gombeens, usury, antisemitic stereotypes, whether Bloom is a self-loathing Jew, Benjamin Disraeli, the relationship of the real Reuben J. Dodd and John Joyce, the relationship

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00:52:10

Henrik Ibsen

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2022/11/09

Do you have the address of Henry Gibson?Kelly and Dermot welcome special guest Paul Ringo to Blooms & Barnacles. Topics include Joyce’s love of Henrik Ibsen, Paul’s love of Finnegans Wake via the stage, Joyce’s study of Norwegian, realism as seen in the works of Joyce and Ibsen, the artist as a conduit for the world’s filth, Joyce’s dream to Europeanize Ireland, the search for Henry Gibson, Joyce’s attempt to introduce Ibsen to Ireland, Joyce’s letter to Ibsen on his birthday, Joyce’s review of When

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01:03:29

Worst Man in Dublin

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2022/10/26

The Worst Man in Dublin.Topics in this episode include begrudgery, so much Dublin geography, mourning customs, buildings found on Great Brunswick (Pearse) St., jarvies and the hazard, the Invincibles, the Antient Concert Rooms, Joyce’s music career, John McCormack and J.C. Doyle, Dermot’s history with the erstwhile Antient Concert Rooms’ building, St. Mark’s Church, Bloom’s strange alibi, Blazes Boylan, Books Upstairs, St. Mark’s church on Pearse St., a tale of graverobbery, Sir Philip Crampton’s

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00:59:31

Walking beside Molly in an Eton suit.

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2022/10/10

What kind of person has a picnic party in a funeral carriage?Topics in this episode include a heartfelt thank you, cats that hate technology, the name Poldy, Eton suits, the Blooms’ middle class pretensions, Rudy’s conception, Raymond Terrace and the cease to do evil, Milly Bloom, crustcrumbs and picnic parties, Milly’s trip to Lough Owel, M’Coy, “Grace”, Joe Hynes, incubism, unpaid debts, the Grand Canal, cures for whooping cough, duchas.ie, Athos the dog, Rudolph Bloom’s suicide note, Argos the

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