Latest Irish literature Podcast Episodes
Kino's 11/- Trousers
Blooms & Barnacles - April 24, 2024 04:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWhat is the parallax of Aldebaran? Topics in this episode include gulls, Simon Dedalus, Little Chandler, Leopold Bloom’s poetic impulse, Leopold Bloom’s philosophy of advertising, the secret ingredient in Epps’ Cocoa, the supremacy of Kino’s 11/- Trousers over Plumtree’s Potted Meat, Victorian ...
Elijah is Coming!
Blooms & Barnacles - April 10, 2024 04:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsSunday! Sunday! Sunday! Elijah is Coming!!! Topics in this episode include epiphanies in Dubliners, the transformative power of peristalsis, Leopold Bloom and the Prophet Elijah, the peculiar tale of John Alexander Dowie, God’s bloodlust, the also peculiar history of the Salvation Army, what re...
The Lestrygonians
Blooms & Barnacles - March 27, 2024 05:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWho’s for dinner? Topics in this episode include revisiting Ulysses-themed tarot, Odysseus’ encounter with the Lestrygonians, being in Leopold Bloom’s head once more, the Homeric parallels found in Ulysses’ eighth episode, the dangers of being too hangry, translating The Odyssey into French, an...
Dubliner #3 - “After the Race” & “Two Gallants"
Blooms & Barnacles - March 23, 2024 20:01 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsListen to the full episode now at patreon.com/barnaclecast
Dubliner #3 - “After the Race” & “Two Gallants” [TEASER]
Blooms & Barnacles - March 23, 2024 20:01 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsListen to the full episode now at patreon.com/barnaclecast
THOSE SLIGHTLY RAMBUNCTIOUS FEMALES
Blooms & Barnacles - March 13, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsNelson supposes his toeses are roses, but Nelson supposes erroneously. Topics in this episode include Barcelona, revisiting James Joyce’s Guinness ad, the history of Nelson’s pillar, Horatio Nelson, the final resting place of Nelson’s head, possible replacements for Nelson atop the former pilla...
Dubliners #2 - Araby & Eveline [TEASER]
Blooms & Barnacles - February 21, 2024 21:27 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWe share our thoughts on Dubliners short stories "Araby" and "Eveline" Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/barnaclecast
DEAR DIRTY DUBLIN
Blooms & Barnacles - February 14, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWhat if we held hands in the Akasic Record? Topics in this episode include too much information about the Freemasons, entering the Promised Land, Daniel O'Connell's mass meeting at Mullaghmast, political radicalism, the Akasic Record, Stephen's magic powers, rebutting John F. Taylor, Parnell's ...
FROM THE FATHERS
Blooms & Barnacles - February 01, 2024 05:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsFeaturing a surprise historical cameo! Topics in this episode include our final example of Aristotelian rhetoric, the only passage of Ulysses recorded by James Joyce, the battle of wits between Mr. Justice Fitzgibbon and John F. Taylor, misperceptions about Taylor’s oratory, the Gaelic Revival,...
Dubliners #1 - The Sisters & An Encounter [TEASER]
Blooms & Barnacles - January 28, 2024 21:07 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWe share our thoughts on the Dubliners short stories "The Sisters" and "An Encounter" Hear and watch the full episode at patreon.com/barnaclecast
A MAN OF HIGH MORALE
Blooms & Barnacles - January 17, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratings“Speaking about me. What did he say? What did he say? What did he say about me? Don’t ask.” Topics in this episode include a rumor about Stephen, Professor Magennis, Æ the mastermystic, drama within Dublin’s occult circles, how Æ helped James Joyce get published, the opal hush poets, Joycean ta...
Ep. 126 - ITALIA, MAGISTRA ARTIUM
Blooms & Barnacles - January 04, 2024 05:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsSufficient for the day is the newspaper thereof. Topics in this episode include Grattan and Flood, Seymour Bushe and the Childs murder case, Hamlet references, Michelangelo’s Moses and where to find it, Lenehan’s cigarette scheme, J.J. O’Molloy’s love of forensic rhetoric, the shortcomings of m...
Bonus Ep. 12 - At Swim-Two-Birds (w/ Paul Fagan) [TEASER]
Blooms & Barnacles - December 26, 2023 12:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWe welcome Paul Fagan (founder of the International Flann O'Brien Society) to Blooms & Barnacles to discuss a work heavily influenced by James Joyce - Flann O'Brien's 1939 novel, At Swim-Two-Birds. To hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/barnaclecast
Why aren’t there any black characters in Ulysses? (w/ Ryan Kerr)
Blooms & Barnacles - December 20, 2023 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsRyan Kerr joins the Blooms & Barnacles podcast to discuss the racial politics of Ulysses. Topics include the minstrel show performer Eugene Stratton, the absence of black characters in Ulysses, and the depiction of anti-black racism within the novel. Support us on Patreon to access episodes ear...
RHYMES AND REASONS
Blooms & Barnacles - December 06, 2023 05:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsClamn dever. Topics in this episode include Dublin journalism minutiae, pallindromes, Lenehan’s spoonerisms, the sad history behind the real-life inspiration for Professor MacHugh, the return of Stephen Dedalus’ extremely erudite daydreams, Stephen punches up Douglas Hyde’s poem, poetic meter a...
THE GREAT GALLAHER
Blooms & Barnacles - November 22, 2023 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWhat opera is like a railway line? Topics in this episode include MacHugh's love of Greek, kyrie eleison, Lenehan's riddle and limerick, the legendary Ignatius Gallaher, the real-life Gallaher, the Phoenix Park murders and the Invincibles, what Crawford gets wrong about the Invincibles, Gumley ...
A Hungarian it was one day...
Blooms & Barnacles - November 08, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWhat do Stephen and Bloom have in common with Austria-Hungary? Topics in this episode include Stephen delivering Mr. Deasy’s letter, Stephen’s vampire poem, Crawford dunks on Mr. Deasy, a cure for foot and mouth disease, the assassination attempt against Emperor Franz Josef, Maximilian Karl O’D...
Tales From the Tower Live (w/ Vivien Veale Igoe, Robert Nicholson, & Breandan O'Broin)
Blooms & Barnacles - October 25, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsKelly talks with former James Joyce Tower & Museum curators Vivien Veale Igoe and Robert Nicholson, and editor Breandan O'Broin about their experience curating the tower, how Dublin's relationship with Joyce has changed over the years, and their new book, Tales from the Tower. Tales from the To...
THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME
Blooms & Barnacles - October 11, 2023 04:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsHow often does James Joyce think about the Roman Empire? Topics in this episode include Leopold Bloom bullied by children and adults, stealing upon larks, the Oval, The Rose of Castille, Lenehan’s riddle unfulfilled, the Roman Empire as an analogue to the British Empire, puns, cloacae, the orig...
Why aren't there any black characters in Ulysses? w/ Ryan Kerr [TEASER]
Blooms & Barnacles - October 03, 2023 14:46 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsRyan Kerr joins the Blooms & Barnacles podcast to discuss the racial politics of Ulysses. Topics include the minstrel show performer Eugene Stratton, the absence of black characters in Ulysses, and the depiction of anti-black racism within the novel. Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/ba...
MEMORABLE BATTLES RECALLED
Blooms & Barnacles - September 27, 2023 04:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings“... it would be a shrewd dialectician indeed who would make much sense out of the editor’s crowings about North Cork militia with Spanish officers in Ohio.” - Robert M. Adams Topics in this episode include the North Cork Militia, the Battle of Oulart, Ned Lambert’s superior improv skills, Bloo...
[TEASER]Lizzie Twigg (w/ Elizabeth Foley O'Connor)
Blooms & Barnacles - September 15, 2023 19:05 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsA discussion with scholar Elizabeth Foley O'Connor about a minor but fascinating minor Ulysses character, Lizzie Twigg, and what her satirical depiction in "Lestrygonians" tells us about early 20th century politics and literature in Dublin, and whether or not she deserved Joyce's ire (she didn't...
The Sham Squire
Blooms & Barnacles - September 13, 2023 04:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings—And here comes the sham squire himself! professor MacHugh said grandly. Topics in this episode include the last vestiges of Doughy Daw’s effulgence, the mysterious identity of Wetherup, Myles Crawford, the real men behind Myles Crawford, red the correpsondent color of “Aeolus”, the Egyptian go...
A Reign of Uncouth Stars (Live w/ Conner Habib)
Blooms & Barnacles - August 30, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsThis is a recording of our live show from the 2023 Bloomsday Festival at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin. We discuss the occult influences on Ulysses with special guest Conner Habib. Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast. Conner Habi...
September Live Show Announcement
Blooms & Barnacles - August 23, 2023 13:46 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWe are thrilled to announce our upcoming live show as part of the Joycenights Festival at the Joyce Tower and Museum. We will be welcoming special guests Vivien Igoe and Robert Nicholson to talk about their upcoming book, "Tales from the Tower." You can get your tickets here: https://joycetower...
ERIN, GREEN GEM OF THE SILVER SEA
Blooms & Barnacles - August 16, 2023 04:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsInspired by your beauty…effulgent. Topics in this episode include lemon soap, Ned Lambert, Wilson Ruttledge, Hedges Eyre Chatterton, waiting for your rich uncle to die, Dan Dawson and “Our Lovely Land,” Aristotle’s Rhetoric, epideictic speeches, encomia for Helen, what Dan Dawson’s speech has i...
[Teaser] Drawing This Thing w/ Robert Berry
Blooms & Barnacles - August 09, 2023 18:52 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsDermot chats with Ulysses Seen artist Robert Berry about the joys of drawing Ulysses. To listen to the full episode and see a video version (very much recommended for this episode!), visit patreon.com/barnaclecast
AND IT WAS THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER
Blooms & Barnacles - August 02, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWhy is this Bloomsday different from all other Bloomsdays? Topics in this episode include orthography, Dermot’s recollections of working in graphic design, the saving grace of calligraphy, spellingbee conundrums, dayfathers, nightfathers, Old Monks, unions, an obituary surprise, Passover and ho...
HOUSE OF KEY(E)S
Blooms & Barnacles - July 19, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWe finally unlock the secrets of Ulysses! Topics in this episode include Joseph Nannetti Sr. and Jr., the debts of Joe Hynes, Bloom’s passivity, the real Alexander Keyes, his struggle to advertise in print in Dublin, advertising in late Victorian Ireland, an innuendo of Home Rule and the Manx P...
Ulysses (1967) [TEASER]
Blooms & Barnacles - July 17, 2023 14:37 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsKelly and Dermot discuss Joseph Strick's 1967 film adaptation of Ulysses. To hear the rest of the show, support us on Patreon: patreon.com/barnaclecast
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