Blooms & Barnacles

Dr. Katherine Ebury (she/they) of the University of Sheffield joins the podcast to talk about how to approach older scholarship that contains misogynist interpretations of Molly Bloom. Should we dismiss them entirely, or is it ok to just fish out the good bits? What direction is Joyce studies taking with regards to interpretations of Molly? We also discuss the ongoing issue of sexual harassment in Joyce studies.Listen to the full episode and see a video version at patreon.com/barnaclecast

Fermentation is hot.Topics in this episode include Davy Byrne’s moral pub, Nosey Flynn, Noah and the curse of Ham, Plumtree’s Potted Meat, cannibalism, missionaries who get eaten by cannibals, long pig, Reverend MacTrigger, lapses in Leopold Bloom’s empathy, the Jesuits’ mission of conversion, colonialism, Yom Kippur, food as an expression of religion, mity cheese, why Bloom chooses cheese, sunyata, why it’s extremely anachronistic for Bloom to seek cheese, a brief history of indigenous Irish cheese, why no one ate cheese in Dublin in 1904, the 20th century revival of Irish cheese, burgundy, and sexy, sexy fermentation.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast.On the Blog:Leopold Bloom’s GorgonzolaBlooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

Let’s hope for something galoptious when all’s said and done.Topics in this episode include the lestrygonian feast in the Burton, masculinity and meat eating, societal paralysis, Bloom’s plan to feed the masses, Bloom’s memories of working in the cattle market, the importance of cattle to the Irish economy, the horror that is dicky meat, the violence of the cattle trade, the carnivore diet, Bloom’s performative masculinity, Bloom’s political moderateness, class horror, Padraic Pearse and the Easter Rising, Æ’s political decline, and the problem of pacifism.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast.On the Blog:Rawhead and Bloody Bones in the BurtonBlooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

Think unsexy thought. Think unsexy thoughts. Think unsexy thoughts.Topics included corrections, Yeates and Son, parallax, eclipses, Dunsink Time, Thomas Moore, peristalsis, Bob Doran, Take off that white hat!, Huguenots, the princess of the Lestrygonians, Leopold Bloom’s failed attempt to think unsexy thoughts, Bloom as sideways Odysseus, Bloom failing to destroy Molly’s suitor, and a quick escape.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast. Blooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

Zoe Patterson of Trinity College Dublin joins Blooms & Barnacles to talk about about her research into James Joyce community groups. To listen to the full episode, check out patreon.com/barnaclecast

"If you do the eyes of that cow will pursue you through all eternity."Topics in this episode include two-headed octopuses, the Freemasons, the real Lizzie Twigg, Dublin's oldest vegetarian restaurants, Æ, vegetarianism in the early twentieth century, Pythagorus, nutarians and fruitarians, Leopold Bloom's brief foray into vegetarianism, nutsteak, mashed yeast, the elitism of vegetarians, James Joyce's vendetta against vegetarians, whether or not a vegetarian diet inspires poetry, the transformative power of food, taking the soup, and metempsychosis.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast.On the Blog:Weggebobbles and Fruit: Vegetarianism in UlyssesBlooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

We discuss the Dubliners short story, "Grace", in the final episode of our Dubliners series.Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/barnaclecast

“Simon Dedalus said when they put him in parliament that Parnell would come back from the grave and lead him out of the house of commons by the arm.”Topics in this episode include James Stephens and his organizational blunder, Michaelmas traditions, architecture and peristalsis, the legacy of Dr George Salmon and his big spooky house, reevaluating historical figures like Dr Salmon, John Howard Parnell and his many siblings, the difficulty of being a “brother’s brother,” the Irish connection to peach cultivation in the American South, Charles Stewart Parnell becomes a problematic fave, obtaining a cushy sinecure as Dublin city marshal, Charley Boulger, the Dublin Bread Company, John Howard Parnell’s anemic political career, Fanny Parnell, Emily Dickinson, Anna Parnell, historical misogyny, the Kennedys, David Sheehy M.P., the time Dermot met Conor Cruise O’Brien, the Chiltern hundreds, ghost Parnell, and eating oranges in the Phoenix Park to own the Orangemen. Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast. On the Blog:​​Decoding Bloom: John Howard ParnellBlooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube 

Was Leopold Bloom ever totally radical?Topics in this episode include Bloom’s memory of a protest, Bloom’s view of the police, the significance of soup imagery, the origins of the Boer War, Irish Nationalist opposition to the Boer War, Joseph Chamberlain, Christiaan de Wet, the irony of Irish Nationalist support for the Boer cause, a French depiction of the protests in Dublin, the class politics of political protest, Sean O’Casey’s daring showdown with a mounter police officer, profiting from the colonization of Africa, poetry as propaganda, a Parnell conspiracy theory, Bloom’s failed attempts to seem more patriotic than he is, the wrong Gough in the park, Bloom’s own profiteering, and the fate of Percy Apjohn.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast. On the Blog:Up the Boers!Decoding Dedalus: Hamlet, ou le Absentminded BeggarBlooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube 

We discuss the Dubliners story, “Ivy Day in the Committee Room"To listen to the full episode, please visit patreon.com/barnaclecast

The constables have been let out to graze.Topics in this episode include: 1904 popular culture, James Carlyle and the Irish Times, foxhunting, horsey people, Leopold Bloom’s disdain for high class women, The Irish Field, a personal ad from the 1870’s, Mrs Miriam Dandrade, the Purefoys, Fletcherism, the Chew-Chew Method, fad diets of yore, munching parties, hardy annuals, whether or not consumption makes you randy, phthisis, searching for Mrs Moisel, Mrs Thornton, Bloom mocks the police, The Pirates of Penzance, Thomas Moore, Avoca, and “The Meeting of the Waters.”Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast.Blooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

“Everybody who met her liked her - because she was warm and outgoing. Here I am saying good things about Lizzie. Poor Liz - nobody remembers her now.” - Padraic Colum, 1969This episode features an interview with scholar Elizabeth Foley O’Connor about Irish poet Lizzie Twigg, her legacy as a poet, her brief mention in Ulysses, how she fell under James Joyce’s critical eye, and why she deserved better. We also discuss tarot artist Pamela Colman Smith, the subject of Foley O’Connor’s book Pamela Colman Smith: Artist, Feminist & Mystic.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast.On the Blog:The Women of Ulysses: Lizzie TwiggBlooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

“Dubliners were proud of Endymion. They were proud that they tolerated Endymion, but also that he tolerated them. Most people watched him and remembered him with affection, and only a few were aware of the darker side to some of his mutterings.” - John SimpsonSupport us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast.On the Blog:Who was the real Cashel Boyle O'Connor Fitzmaurice Tisdall Farrell?Blooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

We discuss Dubliners stories “A Painful Case” and “A Mother” Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/barnaclecast

Inside the madness of BreenTopics in this episode include deep Ulysses lore, nostalgia traps, Molly’s suitors, the Glencree dinner, Old Professor Goodwin, Mr. and Mrs. Breen, U.p: up, the Ace of Spades, Breen’s postcard as an empty threat, an old forgotten expression, word play, hidden meanings, codes, peeing up and cloacal obsessions, Larry David, body shaming and erectile dysfunction, the Nolan and the wildest theory about U.p: up, accusations of apostasy, a controversy of Presbyterians, Michael Cusack and U.p: up, who sent the U.p: up postcard, Ulysses Pseudangelos and the lure of false messengers, Sailor Murphy, to roc and the black spot in “Ithaca.”Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast.On the Blog:U.P: UpBlooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

Rashers Tierney would have gotten those Hely’s Sandwichmen into shape. Plus, his name is thematically apt.Topics in this episode include memories of life in 1960’s Dublin, Leopold Bloom’s philosophy of advertising, whether or not a nun invented barbed wire, the intersection of religion, advertising and potted meat, the rite of Melchisedek, open-faced club sand wedge, the Hely’s sandwichmen, Wisdom Hely, Bloom’s employment history, Bloom’s grief, whether or not Wisdom Hely is good at advertising, whether Bloom’s ideas actually have any merit, Victorian advertising, cannibals, Szombathely and all the secret codes hidden therein.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast.On the Blog:Kino's & Hely's: Two Ads in LestrygoniansBlooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

We discuss Dubliners stories “Counterparts” and “Clay”Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/barnaclecast

We discuss James Plunkett’s 1969 novel, Strumpet City and the 1980 mini-series of the same name.

If both clocks were correct, one would be redundant.Topics in this episode include the Ballast Office, the timeball, stellar parallax, ships’ navigators and chronometers, the whereabouts of the timeball, the political controversy of Greenwich Mean Time, Dunsink time, Sir Robert Ball and The Story of the Heavens, what the heck parallax actually means, how James Joyce uses the term parallax in Ulysses, being your own solar eclipse, how to make friends and influence astronomers at the Dunsink Observatory, Robert Anton Wilson, Clyde Tombaugh, the epiphanies to be found in common street furniture, Bishop Berkeley’s thoughts on stereoscopic vision, Dedalus and Bloom as a binary star system, the hypostasis of urination, and crossing the streams.Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast.On the Blog:ParallaxBlooms & Barnacles Social Media:Facebook | Twitter | InstagramSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

We share our thoughts on Dubliners short stories "The Boarding House" and "A Little Cloud"Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/barnaclecast