U22 The Centenary Ulysses Podcast

In our first episode, we talk about how Ulysses begins. We’re joined by Karen Lawrence, President of the Huntington Libr... Read more

Exploring “Nestor,” the second episode of Ulysses, we think about teaching as farce and learning as historical trauma an... Read more

“Proteus,” the third episode of Ulysses, is notoriously difficult. We explore different responses to that difficulty as ... Read more

Enter Leopold Bloom. We talk about his odd ways and his responses to a range of concealed things in “Calypso,” from Blaz... Read more

Modelled on Odysseus’s encounter with the eaters of the narcotic lotus flower, this episode explores how people lose the... Read more

In Glasnevin cemetery for the funeral of Paddy Dignam, Bloom thinks “in the midst of death, we are in life.” We think ab... Read more

This episode centers on the Evening Telegraph offices where men gather to talk about journalism, tell jokes, mock politi... Read more

As we track Bloom's wanderings in this lunchtime episode, we consider the relationship between food and power. We talk a... Read more

Why does Joyce associate Stephen’s conversation in the National Library of Ireland with such a dangerous Homeric episode... Read more

This episode presents readers with nineteen seemingly random vignettes around Dublin featuring a mass of characters conn... Read more