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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
IN THE HEART OF THE HIBERNIAN METROPOLIS
Blooms & Barnacles - July 05, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsAll aboard for the heart of the Hibernian metropolis! Topics in this episode include HEADLINES, trams, Nelson’s Pillar, The GPO, the mythic kingdom of Aeolia, post boxes, Joyce’s portrayal of his uncle John “Red” Murray, excessive piety, reformed atheists, Ruttledge the ghost, Davy Stephens the...
Exiles (w/ Steve Carey)
Blooms & Barnacles - June 07, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsOnce maligned, later tentatively praised, James Joyce's only existing play, Exiles, may be his least popular work. Though it is rarely staged these days, Bloomsday in Melbourne's Steve Carey is up to the challenge. We talk why Exiles has been so maligned, why it's actually good, and how to go ab...
Bloomsday Live Show Announcement!
Blooms & Barnacles - June 02, 2023 11:38 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWe're thrilled to announce our live show at the James Joyce Centre this Bloomsday. Follow this link for more info and for links to in-person and online tickets.
Ep. 111 - Enthymemic
Blooms & Barnacles - May 24, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsAll men are mortal, and Socrates is a man. Therefore, all men are Socrates. Wait... In this episode, we discuss the art and technic of "Aeolus": rhetoric and "enthymemic." Topics include Stuart Gilbert and his schema, rhetoric as a classical art form, the Jesuits and rhetoric, the extremely co...
Aeolus
Blooms & Barnacles - May 10, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsThe answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind… We kick off our series on Ulysses’ seventh episode, “Aeolus”! Topics in this episode include Book X of The Odyssey, Homeric parallels found in “Aeolus”, the headlines, the Evening Telegraph as it appears in Ulysses, Stromboli, brazen walls and floa...
The Tower of Silence
Blooms & Barnacles - April 26, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsBreak out the Tantalus glasses - we’re finally getting out of the Underworld! Topics in our final episode covering “Hades” include paying the ferryman, turning a suit, rats, Robert Emmet, the speech from the dock, toxic nostalgia, cremation, the Catholic Church’s position on cremation, quicklim...
The Chief's Grave (w/ Jordan LeVeque)
Blooms & Barnacles - April 12, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsSometimes, Bloom is right to be wrong. Topics in this episode include Charles Stewart Parnell’s funeral and grave, Parnell as Agamemnon, Parnell as a Christ figure, graveyard iconography, Old Ireland’s Hearts and Hands, All Souls’ Day, euphemisms for death, Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Cou...
Far away a donkey brayed.
Blooms & Barnacles - March 29, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWhat’s up with that donkey in Glasnevin? Topics in this episode include seagulls in Ulysses, the Blooms’ old digs in Lombard St. West, The Joyce Project, Mesias the tailor, donkey lore, superstitions of death, a strange work of art, Lucia di Lammermoor, Ivy Day, the location of Bloom’s future g...
M'Intosh
Blooms & Barnacles - March 15, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWho is the man in the macintosh? Topics in this episode include trying to figure out the identity of Ulysses’ most enigmatic figure, Penrose, HCE, Peter Falk, the details we can decipher from M’Intosh’s brief appearances in Ulysses, the infallibility of Bovril, Dusty Rhodes, why searching for E...
The Ides of June
Blooms & Barnacles - March 01, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsBeware the Ides of June. Topics in this episode include the power of keys, John O’Connell the St. Peter of Dublin, “Silver Threads Among the Gold”, Daniel O’Connell the Hercule of Dublin, Daniel O’Connell’s cheatin’ heart, the Persephone of Dublin, Christian burial practices, blood libel, vampi...
Broken Hearts
Blooms & Barnacles - February 15, 2023 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsCorpses rarely wear hats. Topics include the correspondent organ of Hades (the heart), the O’Connell Circle, Daniel O’Connell’s heart, Tom Kernan, hats, losing your identity in the underworld, freemasonery, whether or not Leopold Bloom is a mason, Mount Jerome and the Irish church, Bloom’s deni...
Dominenamine
Blooms & Barnacles - February 01, 2023 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsIs there really a church in Dublin full of deadly corpsegas? Topics discussed in this episode include Cardinal McCabe and his mausoleum, the fate of orphans and widows in 1904, “Three Women to Every Men,” Leopold Bloom’s irreverence in the face of mortality, Victoria and Albert, getting up a wh...
Murderer's Ground
Blooms & Barnacles - January 18, 2023 05:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWanna grab a pint at the Brian Boroimhe? Or is it Boroihme? Boru? Topics discussed in this episode include the days when cattle roamed the North Circular Road, the Royal Canal, the identity of Dublin’s own Charon, locks, how realistic it would be for Bloom to walk to Mullingar (it’s not), the B...
The Dead (Patreon Bonus)
Blooms & Barnacles - January 11, 2023 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsKelly and Dermot talk about James Joyce's "The Dead" as well as John Huston's 1987 film of the same name. This episode was originally released as a bonus episode on our Patreon. To view a video version of this episode, check it out on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PSeZPqX5xyk To support the show ...
Has anybody here seen Kelly?
Blooms & Barnacles - January 04, 2023 05:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsKay 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, s...
Glasnevin Cemetery (w/ Martin Mooney
Blooms & Barnacles - December 21, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWe are thrilled to welcome Martin Mooney, taphologist extraordinaire, as the guest on our 100th episode! Martin gives us a once-in-a-lifetime tour of Glasnevin Cemetery. If you enjoy the podcast, please consider supporting us at Patreon.
The Best Death
Blooms & Barnacles - December 07, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsRattle his bones over the stones! He ’s only a pauper whom nobody owns! Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of infant death and suicide. Topics in this episode include an O’Connell St. history quiz, how Dermot was radicalized as a ten-year-old, the demise of Nelson’s pillar, the...
Reuben J. Dodd
Blooms & Barnacles - November 23, 2022 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsHow long can you hold a grudge? Topics in this episode include Mr. Power’s kept woman, hot 1904 gossip, rumpsteak, Reuben J. Dodd the Younger’s plunge into the Liffey, Bloom’s storytelling ability, pre-decimal currency, petty score settling, Elvery’s elephant, our favorite vegetarian restaurant...
Henrik Ibsen
Blooms & Barnacles - November 09, 2022 05:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsDo you have the address of Henry Gibson? Kelly and Dermot welcome special guest Paul Ringo to Blooms & Barnacles. Topics include Joyce’s love of Henrik Ibsen, Paul’s love of Finnegans Wake via the stage, Joyce’s study of Norwegian, realism as seen in the works of Joyce and Ibsen, the artist as ...
Worst Man in Dublin
Blooms & Barnacles - October 26, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsThe Worst Man in Dublin. Topics in this episode include begrudgery, so much Dublin geography, mourning customs, buildings found on Great Brunswick (Pearse) St., jarvies and the hazard, the Invincibles, the Antient Concert Rooms, Joyce’s music career, John McCormack and J.C. Doyle, Dermot’s hist...
Walking beside Molly in an Eton suit.
Blooms & Barnacles - October 10, 2022 15:59 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWhat kind of person has a picnic party in a funeral carriage? Topics in this episode include a heartfelt thank you, cats that hate technology, the name Poldy, Eton suits, the Blooms’ middle class pretensions, Rudy’s conception, Raymond Terrace and the cease to do evil, Milly Bloom, crustcrumbs ...
A Fine Old Custom
Blooms & Barnacles - September 14, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsI’ll tickle his catastrophe, believe you me! Topics include Ulysses tarot cards, incubism, the system of correspondences found in Ulysses, Martin Cunningham, Mr Power, Simon Dedalus, armstraps, caring for corpses, women’s role in caring for the dead, hats as identities, economic incubism, Bloom...
As Decent a Little Man as Ever Wore a Hat
Blooms & Barnacles - August 30, 2022 15:17 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsShakespeare is in the eye of the beholder. Topics in this episode include the real-world inspiration for Paddy’s Dignam’s funeral, Matthew Kane, the funeral cortège to Glasnevin, attendees to Matthew Kane’s funeral, Martin Cunningham, Sisyphus, the short story “Grace,” the true story behind “Gr...
Hades
Blooms & Barnacles - August 07, 2022 16:51 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsThe parallels between Bloom and Odysseus’ journeys to the Underworld. Topics include a summary of Chapter XI of The Odyssey, Bloom as sideways Odysseus, the neighborhoods of Glasnevin and Sandymount, Paddy Dignam and his “apoplexy,” Elpenor, Martin Cunningham the Sisyphus of Dublin, Dublin’s wa...
Bantams and Bathtubs
Blooms & Barnacles - July 20, 2022 15:47 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings“Bantam” is an anagram of “Batman.” Coincidence? Topics include the state of Bantam Lyons’ hygiene, horseracing, Conway’s pub, cat wrangling, the Ascot Gold Cup, Throwaway, Bloom’s accidental racing tip, Dublin geography, Bloom’s disinterest in gambling, lotuses, the fleshpots of Egypt, Dermot’...
Bloomsday 2022
Blooms & Barnacles - June 28, 2022 11:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsDermot and Kelly take to the streets of Dublin on Bloomsday 2022 with the goal to talk to as many people celebrating the occasion as possible. They talk to revelers at the Sandycove Martello Tower, Kennedy’s Pub in Lincoln Place, outside Sweny’s Pharmacy, and on Duke St. in the general vicinity ...
Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom (w/ Aedín Moloney)
Blooms & Barnacles - June 21, 2022 14:11 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsKelly speaks with actress Aedín Moloney about playing Molly Bloom in her one-woman show, Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom. Aedín Moloney: http://www.aedinmoloney.com/ Instagram | Twitter Blooms & Barnacles Social Media: Facebook | Twitter Subscribe to Blooms & Barnacles: Apple Podcasts | S...
NIGHTTOWN (w/ Benjamin Wenzelberg)
Blooms & Barnacles - June 08, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsBlooms & Barnacles chat with composer Benjamin Wenzeberg about his new, Ulysses-inspired opera NIGHTTTOWN. Topics include adapting Ulysses for the stage, the process of writing an opera during Covid, gender politics and #metoo in Ulysses, gender-inclusive casting, Molly as a force of nature, th...
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