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Kelly and Dermot talk dogs, specifically Tatters, the dog encountered by Stephen on the strand at Sandymount. Topics include Joyce's belief that the dog is the most protean creature, Tatters' many forms on the seashore, cocklepickers then and now, seamorse, heraldry, Stephen's many phobias, reincarnation, sea gods, the ninth wave, pards, the Buddha-nature of a dog, cameos by Nicolas Cage and Peter Falk, Tatters as a muse, Tatters as a Zen master, Stephen's struggle with duality, Stephen's creative inspiration, urination,  and why Dermot thinks the medievals are great (not stupid). Sweny's Patreon helps keep this marvelous Dublin landmark alive. Please subscribe!On the Blog:DogsbodySocial Media:Facebook|TwitterSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:iTunes| Google Play Music| StitcherFurther Reading:Atura, A. & Dionne, L. Proteus - Modernism Lab. Retrieved from https://modernism.coursepress.yale.edu/proteus/Budgen, F. (1972). James Joyce and the making of Ulysses, and other writings. London: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=header&id=JoyceColl.BudgenUlysses&isize=MBurgess, A. (1968). ReJoyce. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.Clements, P. (2016, May 14). Adventures of a sea god – an Irishman’s diary about Manannán mac Lir. The Irish Times. Retrieved from https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/adventures-of-a-sea-god-an-irishman-s-diary-about-manannán-mac-lir-1.2647217Frost, N. (2017, Oct. 13). Just about everything we know about the pard. Atlas Obscura. Retrieved from https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pard-big-cat-mythology-leopard-lion-taxonomyNorris, M. (2017). Tatters, Bloom’s cat, and other animals in Ulysses. Humanities, 6(3), 50. Retrieved fromhttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/6/3/50/htmO’Shea, M.J. (1986). James Joyce and heraldry. Albany: State University of New York Press. Retrieved fromhttps://tinyurl.com/y4u57wyaOsteen, M. (1995). The economy of Ulysses: making both ends meet. New York: Syracuse University Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/yy6hq4x3Paterakis, D. T. (1972). Mananaan MacLir in Ulysses. Éire-Ireland (quarterly journal of the Irish American Cultural Institute, St. Paul, Minnesota) Vol. VII, 3. Retrieved from http://blossomsandbarnacles.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/57bf6-manannanmaclirinulysses.pdf   

Sweny's Patreon helps keep this marvelous Dublin landmark alive. Please subscribe!On the Blog:Decoding Dedalus: PretendersDogsbodySocial Media:Facebook|TwitterSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:iTunes| Google Play Music| StitcherFurther Reading:Atura, A. & Dionne, L. Proteus - Modernism Lab. Retrieved from https://modernism.coursepress.yale.edu/proteus/Delaney, F. (2012, Dec 18). Episode 132: Barking at Boccaccio. Re:Joyce. [Audio podcast].Gifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press.Gilbert, S. (1955). James Joyce’s Ulysses: a study. New York: Vintage Books.Joyce, P.W. (1910). A Concise History of Ireland. Retrieved from https://www.libraryireland.com/JoyceHistory/Contents.phpSchama, S. (2011, Feb. 17). Invasions of Ireland from 1170 - 1320. The BBC. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/ireland_invasion_01.shtml#topStolze, D. (2017, Jun. 8). Cold case chronicles: The unsolved mystery of the princes in the tower. Forensic Magazine. Retrieved from https://www.forensicmag.com/article/2017/06/cold-case-chronicles-unsolved-mystery-princes-towerWebb, A. (1878). A Compendium of Irish Biography. Retrieved from https://www.libraryireland.com/biography/index.php

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Sweny's Patreon helps keep this marvelous Dublin landmark alive. Please subscribe!Social Media:Facebook|TwitterSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:iTunes| Google Play Music| StitcherMany thanks to our readers:Richard Feeney, "Telemachus," 7:10Jane Davis, "Telemachus," 12:50Andrew Basquille, "Nestor," 17:47Steve Carey, "Calypso," 25:42Bill Kennedy, "Calypso," 31:48PJ Murphy, "The Lotus Eaters," 39:47Shelby Haber, Krystal Bressmer Cam Edwards, and Vidu Morugama, "Hades," 44:39Will Humphries, "Hades," 50:08Swati Joshi, "Aeolus," 55:34Russell Raphael, "Aeolus," 01:01:15Conor Farnan, "Lestrygonians," 01:08:53Tom O'Leary, "Lestrygonians," 01:16:00Phil Holden, "Lestrygonians," 01:21:15Stephen, "Sirens," 01:27:27Sela Ellan Underwood, "Sirens," 01:31:53Michael O'Shea, "Cyclops," 01:40:13Jinan Ashraf, "Cyclops," 01:47:42Jack Walsh, "Cyclops," 01:54:24Chris Lewis, The King of Ithaca, 02:00:29Joe Gallagher, "Nausicaa," 02:05:24Paul Ringo, "Nausicaa," 02:11:41Talia Abu, "Oxen of the Sun," 02:19:06David Monelly, "Oxen of the Sun," 02:23:37Mark Segall, "Circe," 02:27:49Colm Faulkner, "Circe," 02:35:19Brendan Riley, "Eumaeus," 02:40:29Kevin O'Doherty, "Ithaca," 02:46:28Kenji Hayakawa, "Ithaca," 02:49:51Ellen Murphy, "Ithaca," 02:57:00Janet Lynch, "Penelope," 02:59:40Siobhán McCann, "Penelope," 03:07:03 Music:Noir - S Strong & Boogie Belgique

Kelly and Dermot set sail for the time of Vikings and jerkiness dwarfs! They discuss the differences of similarly-shaped seafaring vessels, Lochlanns, Fr. Dineen's Irish dictionary, the intersection of Viking and Celtic cultures in Ireland, torcs, tomahawk, the horrors of 14th c. Dublin, famine, plague and slaughters, the story of the time a pod of cetaceans washed ashore in medieval Dublin, the story of the time the Liffey froze over and people grilled on top of it, Stephen as a changeling, Stephen momentarily becoming displaced in time, and Stephen's attempt to construct an Irish identity.Steve Carey of Bloomsday in Melbourne drops by to chat about how to put on a Bloomsday theatre production in the time of Covid.  **Now accepting submissions for our Bloomsday 2020 episode. ** Sweny's Patreon helps keep this marvelous Dublin landmark alive. Please subscribe! On the Blog:Decoding Dedalus: Galleys of the Lochlanns Bloomsday in Melbourne:Bloomsday in Melbourne - the official site for Bloomsday in MelbourneBloomsday 2020 - Facebook group where Bloomsday in Melbourne's performances will be broadcast Social Media:Facebook|Twitter Subscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:iTunes| Google Play Music| Stitcher Further Reading:Carver, C. (1978). James Joyce and the Theory of Magic. James Joyce Quarterly, 15(3), 201-214. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476132Dwyer, F. (2013, May 7). Medieval Dublin; a tale of two cities. The Irish History Podcast. Retrieved from https://irishhistorypodcast.ie/medieval-dublin-a-tale-of-two-cities/#sdfootnote10ancDwyer, F. (2014, Dec 11). Cannibalism, famine & fun - 4 ferocious medieval winters. Irish History Podcast. Retrieved from https://irishhistorypodcast.ie/cannibalism-famine-fun-4-ferocious-medieval-winters/Gifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press.Kelly, M. (2001). ‘Unheard-of mortality’.... The black death in Ireland. History Ireland. Vol 9 (4). Retrieved from https://www.historyireland.com/medieval-history-pre-1500/unheard-of-mortality-the-black-death-in-ireland/McGreevy, R. (2018, Jul 26). Maps reveal scale of economic devastation in 14th century Ireland. The Irish Times. Retrieved from https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/maps-reveal-scale-of-economic-devastation-in-14th-century-ireland-1.3576962Ó Séaghdha, D. (2017). Motherfoclóir: dispatches from a not so dead language. Head of Zeus: London. Rickard, J.S. (1999). Joyce’s book of memory: the mnemotechnic of Ulysses. Duke University Press: London. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/yxt9jfujSugg, R. (2018). Fairies: a dangerous history. Reaktion Books: London. Retrieved from https://longreads.com/2018/06/08/fairy-scapegoats-a-history-of-the-persecution-of-changeling-children/Tuchman, B. W. (1978). A distant mirror: the calamitous 14th century. Ballantine Books: New York.  Music:Noir - S Strong & Boogie BelgiqueTommy Makem - The Minstrel Boy/ Let Erin Remember 

**Now accepting submissions for our Bloomsday 2020 episode. ** Sweny's Patreon helps keep this marvelous Dublin landmark alive. Please subscribe! On the Blog:DogsbodyForm of Forms Social Media:Facebook|Twitter Subscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:iTunes| Google Play Music| Stitcher Further Reading:Budgen, F. (1972). James Joyce and the making of Ulysses, and other writings. London: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=header&id=JoyceColl.BudgenUlysses&isize=MGifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/vy6j4tkEllmann, R. (1972). Ulysses on the Liffey. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.65767/page/n39Joyce, S. (1958). My brother’s keeper: James Joyce’s early years. New York: The Viking Press.Nicholson, R. (2015). The Ulysses guide: tours through Joyce’s Dublin. Dublin: New Island Books.  Music:Noir - S Strong & Boogie Belgique

Dermot and Kelly take on some of the history behind the tale of Irish exile Kevin Egan. This episode's discussion covers the story of the 1867 Clerkenwell explosion, what that has to do with Kevin Egan, Egan's relationship to his wife and son, Dermot's relationship to Tayto crisps, Egan's memories of Kilkenny, the Berkeleyan quality of memory, more father-son angst, and a cautionary tale for young Stephen. Sweny's Patreon helps keep this marvelous Dublin landmark alive. Please subscribe! On the Blog: Decoding Dedalus: Wild Geese Social Media: Facebook|Twitter Subscribe to Blooms & Barnacles: iTunes| Google Play Music| Stitcher Media Mentioned in this Episode: L'Assomoir - Emile Zola Further Reading: Anghinetti, P. (1982). Berkeley's Influence on Joyce. James Joyce Quarterly, 19(3), 315-329. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476446 Ellmann, R. (1959). James Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press. Eugene Davis & the Casey brothers. (n.d.) Retrieved from http://www.irishmeninparis.org/revolutionaries/eugene-davis-the-casey-brothers “Irish Agitators in Paris,” (1884, April 22).  The New York Times. Retrieved from https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1884/04/22/103614112.pdf “The Irish Colony in Paris,”(1884, June 11).  The Brisbane Courier. Retrieved from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3430959 Zingg, G. (2013). Is there Hiberno-English on them? Hiberno-English in modern literature: the use of dialect in Joyce, O’Brien, Shaw and Friel. Bern: Peter Lang AG. Music: Noir - S Strong & Boogie Belgique The Boys of Kilkenny - Reg Keating

Images of early morning Paris through the ineluctable modality of Stephen Dedalus' memory, smells of incense and absinthe. We discuss Stephen's life as a starving artist (literally), Kevin Egan and his unwilling exile in Paris, Egan's real life counterpart, New York Times write-ups of duels in the 19th century, Irish nationalist groups of the 19th century, the proper way to drink absinthe, dalcassians and Arthur Griffith, Maud Gonne, Édouard Drumont v. Léo Taxil, and the pitfalls of attempting to make Ireland more like continental Europe.  Sweny's Patreon helps keep this marvelous Dublin landmark alive. Please subscribe! On the Blog: Decoding Dedalus: Latin Quarter Hat Decoding Dedalus: Wild Geese  La Vie de Léo Taxil Maud Gonne Social Media: Facebook|Twitter Subscribe to Blooms & Barnacles: iTunes| Google Play Music| Stitcher Media Mentioned in this Episode: "Get Drunk", Charles Baudelaire (in French and English) How to make a classic Absinthe Drip - DrinkSkool Cocktails Further Reading: Earle, D. (2003). "Green Eyes, I See You. Fang, I Feel": The Symbol of Absinthe in "Ulysses". James Joyce Quarterly,40(4), 691-709. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25477989 Ellmann, R. (1959). James Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press. Eugene Davis & the Casey brothers. (n.d.) Retrieved from http://www.irishmeninparis.org/revolutionaries/eugene-davis-the-casey-brothers Gifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press. Gopnik, A. (2009, Sept. 21). Trial of the Century. The New Yorker. Retrieved from https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/28/trial-of-the-century Haverty, A. (2016, Dec. 10). The adulterous muse – Maud Gonne, Lucien Millevoye and WB Yeats review. The Irish Times. Retrieved from https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-adulterous-muse-maud-gonne-lucien-millevoye-and-wb-yeats-review-1.2889474 Heininger, J. (1986). Stephen Dedalus in Paris: Tracing the Fall of Icarus in "Ulysses". James Joyce Quarterly, 23(4), 435-446. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476758 “Irish Agitators in Paris,” (1884, April 22).  The New York Times. Retrieved from https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1884/04/22/103614112.pdf “The Irish Colony in Paris,”(1884, June 11).  The Brisbane Courier. Retrieved from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3430959 Joyce, S. (1958). My brother’s keeper: James Joyce’s early years. New York: The Viking Press. Magalaner, M. (1956). Labyrinthine motif: James Joyce and Leo Taxil. Modern Fiction Studies, 2(4), 167-182. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/26273108 McNally, F. (2018, Oct. 4). Bones of contention - Why the remains of James Joyce are still in exile. The Irish Times. Retrieved from https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/bones-of-contention-why-the-remains-of-james-joyce-are-still-in-exile-1.3651912 O’Connor, U. (2011, Jan. 30) Joyce should join Yeats in the Irish soil. The Irish Independent. Retrieved from https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/joyce-should-join-yeats-in-the-irish-soil-26619115.html Reizbaum, M. (1999). James Joyce’s Judaic Other. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/y4sxxtlv Schofield, H. (2015, Jan. 31). Ireland’s heroine who had sex in her baby’s tomb. BBC News. Retrieved from https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31064648 Music: Il est cinq heures, Paris, s'éveille - Jacques Dutronc

Bon soir, mes amis, et bienvenue a Blooms et Barnacles! Kelly and Dermot discuss Joyce's disastrous sojourn to Paris as a youth and its parallels to Stephen Dedalus' recollections of his time in Paris. Discussion topics include the fin de siècle fashion of French symbolist poets, what exactly mou en civet is, Stephen feeling down and out in a French post office, the mockery of saints in Heaven, Stephen's collection of French pornography, and whether it was Stephen's mother or his nother mentioned in that fateful telegram. Sweny's Patreon helps keep this marvelous Dublin landmark alive. Please subscribe! On the Blog: Decoding Dedalus: Latin Quarter Hat Ulysses CCD: St. Columbanus Social Media: Facebook|Twitter Subscribe to Blooms & Barnacles: iTunes| Google Play Music| Stitcher Further Reading Bowen, Z. (1974). Musical allusions in the works of James Joyce: Early poetry through Ulysses. Albany: State University of New York Press. Earle, D. (2003). "Green Eyes, I See You. Fang, I Feel": The Symbol of Absinthe in "Ulysses". James Joyce Quarterly,40(4), 691-709. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25477989 Ellmann, R. (1959). James Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press. Gifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press. Gilbert, S. (1955). James Joyce’s Ulysses: a study. New York: Vintage Books. Heininger, J. (1986). Stephen Dedalus in Paris: Tracing the Fall of Icarus in "Ulysses". James Joyce Quarterly, 23(4), 435-446. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476758 Joyce, S. (1958). My brother’s keeper: James Joyce’s early years. New York: The Viking Press. McCourt, J. (2007). Joyce’s Well of Saints. Joyce Studies Annual. 2007, 109-133. Retrieved from https://www.academia.edu/1818991/Joyces_Well_of_the_Saints Music Noir - S Strong & Boogie Belgique Mat Hanigan's Aunt - Des Keogh 

Stephen Dedalus learns the value of gentlemanly blasphemy in this episode of Blooms & Barnacles. Our hero evades the nets of his oppressors while recalling a conversation with a friend in Paris. Topics include the changing face of Ringsend, the Pigeonhouse, Stephen's epiphanies and the Epiphany, Dermot speaking French, what Jules Michelet doesn't know about women, absinthe, the elaborate blasphemies of Leo Taxil's pornographic pope period, Baphomet, the freemasons, and the greatest trick ever played on the Catholic Church (that might be overstating it, but it's a fun story).  Sweny's Patreon helps keep this marvelous Dublin landmark alive. Please subscribe! On the Blog: La Vie de Léo Taxil Poetry in Ulysses: The Ballad of Joking Jesus Social Media: Facebook|Twitter Subscribe to Blooms and Barnacles: iTunes| Google Play Music| Stitcher Media discussed in this episode: Leo Taxil's Confession La Vie de Jésus (complete text) Jack Chick tract on freemasonry Catholic Encyclopedia "Imposters" Hail Satan? documentary trailer Transcendental Magic Its Doctrine and Ritual by Eliphas Levi Further Reading: de Hoyos, A., & Morris, S.B. (2010). Is it true what they say about freemasonery? New York: M. Evans.  Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/y43m54ml Gifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/vy6j4tk  Greer, J.M. (2006). Palladian Order. In The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies. New York: Harper Element. Magalaner, M. (1956). Labyrinthine motif: James Joyce and Leo Taxil. Modern Fiction Studies, 2(4), 167-182. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/26273108 Image source for chalked door Music Noir - S Strong & Boogie Belgique