Ep. 175 - Father Conmee

PodcastWandering Rocks
Written By Kelly Bryan

What is Dublin without Church and State?

The Superior, The Very Reverend Father Conmee S.J.

Topics in this episode include Stephen/Joyce's past with Father Conmee, what Father Conmee represents, the eternal battle between Church and State (is it even a battle?), the collusion between Church and State, Father Conmee's fondness for high-class women, which children Father Conmee likes, Father Conmee's love of the aristocracy, the pawnbrokers of souls, Father Conmee's love of missions to Africa, St. Peter Claver, joybells in gay Malahide, Old Times in the Barony, Mary Rochfort, the parable of the unjust steward, Father Conmee's uncharitable charity, the General Slocum, Fr. Bernard Vaughan, and the Lady Maxwell question.

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Further Reading:

  1. Adams, R. M. (1962). Surface and symbol: The consistency of James Joyce’s Ulysses. New York: Oxford University Press.

  2. Gibbons, L. (2005). Spaces of Time through Times of Space: Joyce, Ireland and Colonial Modernity. Field Day Review, 1, 71–86. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30078604

  3. 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

  4. Gilbert, S. (1930). James Joyce’s Ulysses: a study. New York: Vintage Books. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124373/page/n3/mode/2up

  5. NORRIS, M. (2007). Possible-Worlds Theory and Joyce’s “Wandering Rocks”: The Case of Father Conmee. Joyce Studies Annual, 21–43. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26288706

  6. Osteen, M. (1995). The economy of Ulysses: making both ends meet. New York: Syracuse University Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/yycf2ar5

  7. PLATT, L. (2002). MOVING IN TIMES OF YORE: HISTORIOGRAPHIES IN “WANDERING ROCKS.” European Joyce Studies, 12, 141–154. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44871119

  8. Schwarz, D. (2004). Reading Joyce’s Ulysses. Palgrave Macmillan. 

  9. Sullivan, K. (1958). Joyce Among the Jesuits. New York: Columbia University Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/joyceamongjesuit00sull/page/16/mode/2up

  10. Williams, T. (1992). “Conmeeism” and the Universe of Discourse in “Wandering Rocks.” James Joyce Quarterly, 29(2), 267–279. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25485259

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