Blooms & Barnacles
A blog and podcast that discuss James Joyce's Ulysses from a non-academic point of view. Less snooty, more movie references.Podcasts
DEAR DIRTY DUBLIN
Published: Feb. 14, 2024, 5 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 38 seconds
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Dubliners #1 - The Sisters & An Encounter [TEASER]
Published: Jan. 28, 2024, 9:07 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 21 seconds
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A MAN OF HIGH MORALE
Published: Jan. 17, 2024, 5 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 58 seconds
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Ep. 126 - ITALIA, MAGISTRA ARTIUM
Published: Jan. 4, 2024, 5 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 8 seconds
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Bonus Ep. 12 - At Swim-Two-Birds (w/ Paul Fagan) [TEASER]
Published: Dec. 26, 2023, noonDuration: 10 minutes 7 seconds
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A Hungarian it was one day...
Published: Nov. 8, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 12 seconds
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Ep. 122- A Hungarian it was one day...
Published: Nov. 8, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 12 seconds
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Tales From the Tower Live (w/ Vivien Veale Igoe, Robert Nicholson, & Breandan O'Broin)
Published: Oct. 25, 2023, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 12 seconds
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Ep. 121 - Tales From the Tower Live (w/ Vivien Veale Igoe, Robert Nicholson, & Breandan O'Broin)
Published: Oct. 25, 2023, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 9 seconds
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THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME
Published: Oct. 11, 2023, 4 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 40 seconds
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Ep. 120 - THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME
Published: Oct. 11, 2023, 4 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 40 seconds
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Why aren't there any black characters in Ulysses? w/ Ryan Kerr [TEASER]
Published: Oct. 3, 2023, 2:46 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 52 seconds
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MEMORABLE BATTLES RECALLED
Published: Sept. 27, 2023, 4 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 11 seconds
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[TEASER]Lizzie Twigg (w/ Elizabeth Foley O'Connor)
Published: Sept. 15, 2023, 7:05 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds
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A Reign of Uncouth Stars (Live w/ Conner Habib)
Published: Aug. 30, 2023, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 27 seconds
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September Live Show Announcement
Published: Aug. 23, 2023, 1:46 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds
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ERIN, GREEN GEM OF THE SILVER SEA
Published: Aug. 16, 2023, 4 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 10 seconds
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[Teaser] Drawing This Thing w/ Robert Berry
Published: Aug. 9, 2023, 6:52 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes
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AND IT WAS THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER
Published: Aug. 2, 2023, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 24 seconds
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HOUSE OF KEY(E)S
Published: July 19, 2023, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 21 seconds
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Ulysses (1967) [TEASER]
Published: July 17, 2023, 2:37 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 33 seconds
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IN THE HEART OF THE HIBERNIAN METROPOLIS
Published: July 5, 2023, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 26 seconds
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Exiles (w/ Steve Carey)
Published: June 7, 2023, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 31 seconds
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Bloomsday Live Show Announcement!
Published: June 2, 2023, 11:38 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 11 seconds
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The Tower of Silence
Published: April 26, 2023, 4 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 6 seconds
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The Chief's Grave (w/ Jordan LeVeque)
Published: April 12, 2023, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 21 seconds
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Far away a donkey brayed.
Published: March 29, 2023, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 23 seconds
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The Ides of June
Published: March 1, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 17 seconds
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The Dead (Patreon Bonus)
Published: Jan. 11, 2023, 3:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 10 seconds
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Has anybody here seen Kelly?
Published: Jan. 4, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 57 seconds
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Glasnevin Cemetery (w/ Martin Mooney
Published: Dec. 21, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 30 seconds
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The Best Death
Published: Dec. 7, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 52 seconds
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Worst Man in Dublin
Published: Oct. 26, 2022, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 29 seconds
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Walking beside Molly in an Eton suit.
Published: Oct. 10, 2022, 3:59 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 31 seconds
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A Fine Old Custom
Published: Sept. 14, 2022, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 20 seconds
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As Decent a Little Man as Ever Wore a Hat
Published: Aug. 30, 2022, 3:17 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 18 seconds
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Bantams and Bathtubs
Published: July 20, 2022, 3:47 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 20 seconds
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Bloomsday 2022
Published: June 28, 2022, 11:12 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 8 seconds
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Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom (w/ Aedin Moloney)
Published: June 21, 2022, 2:11 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 28 seconds
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NIGHTTOWN (w/ Benjamin Wenzelberg)
Published: June 8, 2022, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 37 seconds
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Chemists rarely move.
Published: May 18, 2022, 4 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 52 seconds
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How long since your last mass?
Published: May 4, 2022, 4 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 2 seconds
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One Old Booser Worse than Another
Published: April 21, 2022, 11:50 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 59 seconds
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Iron Nails Ran In
Published: Jan. 21, 2022, 3:49 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 49 seconds
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Eating Bits of a Corpse (w/ Russell Raphael)
Published: Jan. 5, 2022, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 22 seconds
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The Buddha in the Museum
Published: Dec. 22, 2021, 8:58 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 38 seconds
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No rose without thorns.
Published: Dec. 11, 2021, 11:27 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 37 seconds
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The Language of Flowers
Published: Nov. 19, 2021, 9:16 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 49 seconds
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An Abode of Bliss
Published: Oct. 25, 2021, 6:33 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 3 seconds
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M'Coy. Get rid of him quickly.
Published: Oct. 7, 2021, 2:31 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes
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Henry Flower, Esq
Published: Sept. 23, 2021, 2:59 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 5 seconds
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Bloomsday 2021
Published: June 16, 2021, noonDuration: 3 hours 17 minutes 25 seconds
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Met Him Pike Hoses
Published: June 3, 2021, 1:38 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 20 seconds
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The Ferreteyed Porkbutcher
Published: May 5, 2021, 9:14 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 14 seconds
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Old Tweedy's Big Moustaches
Published: April 8, 2021, 10:20 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 13 seconds
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Altman the Saltman (w/ Vincent Altman O'Connor)
Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 seconds
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Who Was the Real Leopold Bloom?
Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 11:16 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 11 seconds
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The Holy Office
Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 43 seconds
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Barnacle Goose and Featherbed Mountain
Published: Dec. 30, 2020, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 9 seconds
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Full fathom five thy father lies.
Published: Dec. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 14 seconds
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Fourworded Wavespeech
Published: Dec. 2, 2020, 1 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 52 seconds
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What is that word known to all men?
Published: Nov. 5, 2020, 5:16 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 56 seconds
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The Virgin at Hodges Figgis' Window
Published: Oct. 21, 2020, noonDuration: 59 minutes
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A Reign of Uncouth Stars
Published: Oct. 7, 2020, noonDuration: 53 minutes 37 seconds
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A Break for Jelly Donuts
Published: Sept. 23, 2020, noonDuration: 8 minutes 32 seconds
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The Birth of Ulysses (w/ Phil Holden)
Published: Aug. 26, 2020, noonDuration: 1 hour 25 minutes 52 seconds
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O, My Dimber Wapping Dell
Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 7:07 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 second
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Haroun al-Raschid's Melons
Published: July 29, 2020, 6:58 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 31 seconds
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Paradise of Pretenders
Published: July 1, 2020, 9:07 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 43 seconds
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Bloomsday 2020 Supplement
Published: June 22, 2020, noonDuration: 8 minutes 57 seconds
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Bloomsday 2020
Published: June 16, 2020, noonDuration: 3 hours 13 minutes 39 seconds
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Galleys of the Lochlanns
Published: June 3, 2020, noonDuration: 52 minutes 4 seconds
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Panthersahib and Pointer
Published: May 20, 2020, noonDuration: 58 minutes 37 seconds
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Under the Walls of Clerkenwell
Published: May 6, 2020, noonDuration: 55 minutes 32 seconds
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C'est le pigeon, Joseph.
Published: March 25, 2020, noonDuration: 47 minutes 25 seconds
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Pico della Mirandola like.
Published: March 12, 2020, 3:27 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 11 seconds
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Who is this Dan Occam fellow, anyway?
Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 3:48 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 59 seconds
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The Complex Life of Lucia Joyce- (w/Linus Ignatius & Llewie Nunez)
Published: Feb. 13, 2020, 4:43 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 13 seconds
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The Hundredheaded Rabble
Published: Jan. 30, 2020, 3:06 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 53 seconds
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Translating Finnegans Wake into Japanese (w/ Kenji Hayakawa)
Published: Jan. 15, 2020, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 52 seconds
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James Joyce Tower and Museum
Published: Dec. 21, 2019, 8:46 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 17 seconds
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Contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality
Published: Dec. 4, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 13 seconds
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Sweny's Pharmacy Revisited (w/ P.J. Murphy & Jack Walsh)
Published: Nov. 20, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 35 seconds
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Gaze in Your Omphalos
Published: Nov. 6, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 37 seconds
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Nacheinander and Nebeneinander
Published: Oct. 10, 2019, 12:43 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 45 seconds
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Ineluctable Modalities
Published: Sept. 25, 2019, noonDuration: 1 hour 4 minutes 34 seconds
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A Shout in the Street
Published: Aug. 26, 2019, 1:49 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 2 seconds
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The Nightmare of History
Published: Aug. 15, 2019, 4:41 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 11 seconds
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Perviest Breakfast
Published: Aug. 1, 2019, 7:17 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 58 seconds
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Croppies Lie Down
Published: July 18, 2019, 2:18 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 32 seconds
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Big Words Which Make Us So Unhappy
Published: July 3, 2019, noonDuration: 58 minutes 25 seconds
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Bloomsday in Melbourne (w/ Steve Carey)
Published: June 5, 2019, noonDuration: 41 minutes 59 seconds
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Averroes and Moses Maimonides
Published: May 22, 2019, noonDuration: 52 minutes 52 seconds
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A Fox Burying His Grandmother
Published: April 10, 2019, noonDuration: 40 minutes 59 seconds
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The Nostalgia Trap (w/ Tom O'Leary)
Published: March 27, 2019, noonDuration: 52 minutes 50 seconds
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Remorse of Conscience
Published: Jan. 30, 2019, 8 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 45 seconds
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In Defense of Dorkiness
Published: Dec. 28, 2018, 2:36 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 32 seconds
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Tea for the Tower-Men
Published: Dec. 13, 2018, 8:04 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 17 seconds
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Sweny's Pharmacy
Published: Nov. 29, 2018, 8:10 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 47 seconds
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Introibo Ad Altare Dei
Published: Nov. 15, 2018, 10:05 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 6 seconds
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Joyce v. Gogarty
Published: Oct. 24, 2018, 8:14 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 13 seconds
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Ulysses & The Odyssey: Telemachus!
Published: Oct. 24, 2018, 7:53 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 11 seconds
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