Comments on: It’s Bloomsday! Celebrate Joyce and Ulysses

By: Tricia Marks

Tricia Marks — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:38:01 +0000

Hey, if you are a “The Dead” fan then this is to recommend – http://www.thedeadandtheugly.com

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:45:28 +0000

Years ago (many) I picked up a copy of Ulysses that was being discarded at the Pollard Library. In 1979, I found myself in a graduate class on Ulysses in Dublin. I had the book I’d pulled from the discard heap in Lowell. The professor directed us to a certain page and asked, “Who is the “him” in this passage?” I said, I presume it’s God, because it’s a capital “H”. The professor, Seamus Deane, said, “No, it’s not.” I said yes it is. He said “Let me see your copy.” He looked at it, and his eyes widened. Then he said, in his northern Irish accent, “Does anyone else have a capital “H” on that word?” There were over twenty people in the room. No one else had a capital H. My Pollard Library discard copy, I told him, had preserved Joyce’s original and definitive corrections.
He shook his head and said, “Jasus, you may be right.”

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:08:02 +0000

Dublin, NH may have been only town in USA to mark Bloomsbury Day – read the story here in the Nashua Telegraph: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/770247-196/idea-to-mark-when-joyces-ulysses-happens.html

By: kmarcin

kmarcin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:57:58 +0000

Excellent suggestions…”Dubliners” one of my favorite books; “The Dead” one of my favorite movies.

By: John Quealey

John Quealey — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:52:56 +0000

Poteen is Irish moonshine or illegal Irish whiskey.

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:31:33 +0000

elma – The article writer on eHow must be a Scot as you are correct that the Irish/English spelling is “whiskey” but the Scots drop the “e”… Whatever – it’s the taste and aferglow that count!

By: elma

elma — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:48:37 +0000

oh, sorry to be pedantic but you might like to change the spelling of whisky. The Irish version is spelt whiskey. There’ll be complaints! ;-)

By: John Quealey

John Quealey — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:38:45 +0000

Marie this picture was taken years after your Grandparents left Dublin.