Ep. 101 - Has anybody here seen Kelly?
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 explosions so big they blow your pants off.
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Further Reading:
Adams, R.M. (1974). Hades. In C. Hart & D. Hayman (eds.), James Joyce’s Ulysses: Critical essays (91-114). Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/wu2y7mg
Bowen, Z. (1974). Musical allusions in the works of James Joyce: Early poetry through Ulysses. Albany: State University of New York Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/y9erlwtw
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
Hepburn, A. (2014). The Irish Way of Dying: "Ulysses" and Funeral Processions. The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 38(1/2), 184-207. Retrieved March 15, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/43410728
Igoe, V. (2016). The real people of Joyce’s Ulysses: A biographical guide. University College Dublin Press.
McNally, F. (2019, June 18). Turning a corner – Frank McNally on the mysteries of one of Dublin’s more unusual civic honours. The Irish Times. Retrieved from https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/turning-a-corner-frank-mcnally-on-the-mysteries-of-one-of-dublin-s-more-unusual-civic-honours-1.3929879
Nicholson, R. (2015). The Ulysses guide: tours through Joyce’s Dublin. Dublin: New Island Books.