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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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00:50:17

Puck Mulligan

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2025/10/22

You will serve that which you laugh at.Topics in this episode include how to pronounce “Szombathely,” Buck Mulligan’s incredible entrance into “Scylla and Charybdis,” Nicolas Cage, the heresies of Photius and Sebellius, Gloria in Excelsis Deo, why the other men must be relieved to see Buck Mulligan, whether we agree with Joyce’s claim that Mulligan wears on the reader throughout the course of Ulysses, Buck Mulligan playing the role of a Shakespearean fool in Ulysses, Will Kempe, why Mulligan’s

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01:11:11

The Spirit of Reconciliation

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2025/10/08

Bitches love sonnets.Topics in this episode include putting Beurla on it, basilisks and 13th century bestiaries, Pericles and purported Shakespeare apocrypha, the Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship, Bacon ciphers, George Brandes, Sidney, Frank Harris, the power of a granddaughter’s love, Hans Walter Gabler and the most controversial line in Ulysses, Thomas Aquinas, George Bernard Shaw’s take on Shakespeare, we finally get to the sonnets, Mary Fitton, William Herbet, Shakespeare’s trauma,

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00:12:03

Nightwood [TEASER]

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2025/09/30

We discuss Djuna Barnes' novel NightwoodListen to the full episode at patreon.com/barnaclecast

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01:06:16

Quaker Librarian

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2025/09/24

I, for one, think geese really do have souls.Topics in this episode include librarian Thomas Lyster and his Quaker faith, why Lyster always seems to be dancing in “Scylla and Charybdis,” the journal of Quaker founder George Fox, what James Joyce knew about the Quakerism, Christfox, leather trews, confusing Shakespeare and George Fox in the context of “Scylla and Charybdis,” whether or not women have souls, George Fox traveling about debating people about religion, Stephen’s jealousy of spiritual

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01:10:43

Yogibogeybox

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2025/09/10

We finally learn the weirdest thing that Joyce and Gogarty got up to.Topics in this episode include Giacomo Joyce and dirty love letters, the pain of not being invited, Æ’s New Songs and Joyce’s exclusion from it, why Æ Russell hasn’t released any new songs this year, Aristotle’s experiment, the meaning of nookshotten, Shakespeare plays as political propaganda, so much theosophy, the true yogibogeybox, a pawned Pali book, the time Gogarty and Joyce vandalized the chambers of the Hermetic Society, Æ

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00:10:02

Bonus Ep. 32 - Giacomo Joyce [TEASER]

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2025/09/01

We discuss the James Joyce short story, Giacomo Joyce.To listen to the full episode, or see a video version, check out patreon.com/barnaclecast

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00:59:28

Anne Hath a Way

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2025/08/27

No, not that Anne Hathaway. The Shakespearean one.Topics in this episode include Socratididion’s Epipsychidion, unparalleled pettiness, Stephen’s unfair characterization of Shakespeare’s wife Anne Hathaway, why commentary about Anne Hathaway has been so problematic historically, Anne as a Gertrude stand-in, how we can learn factual information about the Shakespeares’ lives, sixteenth century age gap discourse, Anne and Will’s marriage prospects, “Venus and Adonis,” marriage and weddings in

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00:51:52

AEIOU

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2025/08/13

Stephen Dedalus beats debt with this one simple trick!Topics incluce: “Scylla and Charybdis’” dialectic as metacommentary on Ulysses as a whole, the perils of offending the gods of the sea, Stephen takes offense to Æ, Stephen’s many debts, the artistic value of green room gossip, contrasting Æ and Mr. Deasy, Stephen as the ship of Theseus, Aristotelian logic destroying Stephen’s sill loophole, Fr. Conmee, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, form of forms, entelechy, and many, many

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00:17:28

Bonus Ep. 31 - Hamlet [TEASER]

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2025/08/06

We decided to brush up on our Hamlet knowledge in the only way we know how -- by watching a movie from the forties! We watch and discuss Laurence Olivier's Hamlet from 1948.Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/barnaclecast

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00:59:35

Hamnet

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2025/07/30

Stephen Dedalus finally gets to the fireworks factory.Topics in this episode include lots of Hamlet, Stephen introduces his theory of Hamlet, James Joyce’s Shakespeare sources, Elizabethan slang, Sackerson the bear, everything we know about the real Hamnet Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s reaction to his son’s death, how Hamnet’s death shows up in the works of Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s reaction to his father’s death, Shakespeare as a commercial artist, audience interpretations of Hamlet over the

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01:05:53

The Absentminded Beggar

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2025/07/16

Was Hamlet just distracted the whole time?Topics in this episode include: the continued character assassination of Mr. Best, Haines makes a return, Douglas Hyde’s poetry, the artistic ethos of the Celtic Revival, the political demands of the art scene in 1904 Dublin, Æ, symbolist poetry and Stéphane Mallarmé, the influence of Mallarmé on Joyce, “Hamlet et Fortinbras,” Rudyard Kipling and “The Absentminded Beggar,” the politics of the Boer War in 1904, Shakespeare as propaganda, Khaki Hamlets and the

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00:00:44

Bloomsday 2025 Live Show!

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2025/06/13

We hope to see you at our live show in Dublin on Bloomsday. You can join us in person or on the livestream.Tickets at the link below:https://www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/event/blooms-barnacles-podcast-could-an-ai-write-ulysses/

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00:53:44

Horseness is the Whatness of Allhorse

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2025/06/04

Are you Team Aristotle or Team Plato?Topics in this episode include Charybdis, schoolboys and schoolmen, whether or not Plato was shallow, artists being rejected by Plato’s Republic, platonism v. neoplatonism, Aristotle’s view of art, Stephen’s dagger definitions, the Plato and Antisthenes’ thoughts on horses, horse v. horseness, Plato’s Forms, the ineluctable modality of the visible, Joyce’s thoughts on William Blake, and how to solve an impossible binary.Support us on Patreon to access episodes

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00:16:31

Bonus #29 - The Dark Gaunt House on Usher’s Island...

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2025/06/02

We discuss the history of the house at 15 Usher's Island where "The Dead" was set.Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/barnaclecast

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01:13:33

On this side idolatry.

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2025/05/21

You naughtn’t to look, missus, so you naughtn’t when a lady’s ashowing of her elemental.Topics in this episode include Old Ben’s critique of Shakespeare, bardolatry, Shakespeare as a symbol of English supremacy, how Plato is like Charybdis, formless spiritual essences, seeing ourselves as others see us, the paintings of Gustave Moreau, and so much theosophy.On the Blog:Decoding Dedalus: Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Blooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe

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00:58:47

Folly. Persist.

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2025/05/07

Satan comes forward a sinkapace.Topics in this episode include Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister, Goethe’s thoughts on Hamlet translated through Thomas Lyster, Elizabethan dances, Sir Toby Belch, Monsieur de la Palice and a hilarious French pun, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Stephen’s six brave medicals, Marie Corelli’s The Sorrows of Satan, Cranly, Medical Dick and Medical Davy, betrayal, W.B.’s shining seven, the significance of the number seven, Malacoda’s trumpet, Dante, extended Wicklow imagery, Satanic

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00:16:20

Bonus Ep. 28 - Two Stories About Women [TEASER]

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2025/04/30

Kelly and Dermot discuss the stories of Elizabeth Aldworth, the lady mason, and author P.L. TraversListen to the full episode at patreon.com/barnaclecast

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00:47:51

Who Were the Real Men in the Library from "Scylla and...

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2025/04/24

Eglinton knows Best.Topics in this episode include the real-life versions of John Eglinton and Richard Best, Best’s contribution to the study of Irish mythology, how Best supported James Joyce’s abandoned music career, what his portrayal in Ulysses gets right and wrong, how the real Best felt about his fictional counterpart in Ulysses, gay-coding and homophobia in the fictional portrayal of Best, Oscar Wilde, the ancient Greeks, Joyce’s misguided attempt to re-connect with Best in 1909, William

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00:58:05

Scylla and Charybdis

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2025/04/09

Here be monsters.We crack into Ulysses' ninth episode: "Scylla and Charybdis." Topics in this episode include: a great philosopher's thoughts on Shakespeare, Dermot, another great philosopher's, thoughts on Shakespeare, Odysseus' encounter with Scylla and Charybdis, the geography and currents of the Strait of Messina that likely inspired the story of Scylla and Charybdis, the triumphant return of Stephen Dedalus, Aristotle and Plato, George Æ Russell the engulfer of souls, why the brain is man's

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00:10:06

Bonus Ep. 27 - The Picture of Dorian Gray [TEASER]

Blooms & Barnacles ·

2025/03/31

We discuss Oscar Wilde's novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. To listen to the full episode, visit patreon.com/barnaclecast

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