Ulysses: “Hades”

James Joyce

“Are we all here now? Martin Cunningham asked.

Come along, Bloom” (6.8)

• Carriage seating of Cunningham, Dedalus, Power, and

Bloom

“The blinds of the avenue passed and number nine

with its craped knocker, door ajar.” (6.27)

• 9 Newbridge Ave. today

• Paddy Dignam’s house

“Irishtown, Martin Cunningham said. Ringsend.

Brunswick street.” (6.34)

• Map of the Funeral Procession.

“His fidus Achates!” (6.49)

• Latin: “the faithful Achates” (Aeneid 1:188)

• Aeneas’s friend and companion.

“Ringsend road. Dodder Bridge” (6.54-55)

• The River Dodder flows north and enters the Liffey just west of

Ringsend and Irishtown.

“Walking beside Molly in an Eton suit” (6.76)

• A short, waist-length jacket with

broad lapels and a shirt with a broad

white linen collar.

“…by the wall of the cease to do evil” (6.79)

• The motto over the door of the Richmond bridewell (jail).

• By the late nineteenth century the jail had been absorbed into the

Wellington (now Griffith) Barracks complex.

“The grand canal, he said” (6.120)

• The canal skirts the southern perimeter of central Dublin and links

Dublin with the west coast of Ireland.

“Dog’s home over there” (6.125)

• The Dog’s and Cat’s Home, on Grand Canal Quay.

• Established and maintained by the Dublin Society for the Prevention

of Cruelty to Animals.

“Thanks to the Little Flower” (6.161-63)

• “The Little Flower” is a popular name for St. Teresa of Lisieux.

“National School. Meade’s yard. The hazard”

(6.171)

• St. Andrews Boys’ and Girls’ National School

• Along Great Brunswick (now Pearse) Street.

“Antient concert rooms” (6.180)

• A hall where privately sponsored concerts were given.

• 42 Great Brunswick Street

“They went past the bleak pulpit of saint Mark’s, under the railway

bridge, past the Queen’s theatre: in silence” (6.183-84)

• Saint Mark’s Church and Queen’s Theatre (209 Pearse St.)

“Eugene Stratton” (6.184)

• An American who became a music-hall star as a Negro

impersonator.

“Or the Lily of Killarney? Elster Grimes Opera Company. Big

powerful change. Wet bright bills for next week. Fun on the

Bristol.” (6.186)

• The Queen’s Royal Theatre advertised the Elster-Grimes Grand

Opera Company in that “Irish” opera (1862) – a melodramatic,

musical version of The Colleen Bawn.

“Sir Philip Crampton’s memorial fountain bust”

(6.191)

• Crampton was a Dublin surgeon and

who served for several years as

surgeon general of Her Majesty’s Forces.

• Stood in College Street at the west

end of Great Brunswick (now Pearse) St.

“From the door of the Red Bank the white disc of a straw

hat flashed reply: spruce figure: passed” (6.198-99)

• Burton Bindon’s Red Bank Restaurant, 19-20 D’Olier Street.

“Mary Anderson is up there now. Have you good

artists?” (6.219)

• A world-renowned actress.

“Smith O’Brien. Someone has laid a bunch of

flowers there” (6.226)

• A statue at the intersection of

Westmoreland and D’Olier streets

where they converge at O’Connell

Bridge.

“O’Callaghan on his last legs” (6.236)

• His Last Legs (London, 1839) is the title of a brief and once-popular

two-act farce by the American William Bayle Bernard.

“Barmaid in Jury’s. Or the Moira, was it?” (6.248)

• Jury’s Commercial and Family Hotel, 7-8 College Green

• Moira Hotel, 15 Trinity Street

“They passed under the hugecloaked Liberator’s

form” (6.249)

• A twelve-foot statue of Daniel O’Connell on a twenty-eight-foot

pedestal.

• Stands in the northern approach

to O’Connell Bridge.

“Mr. Power, collapsing in laughter, shaded his face from the

window as the carriage passed Gray’s statue” (6.258)

• Sir John Gray (1816-75) was a Protestant Irish patriot, owner and

editor of the Freeman’s Journal.

• On a pedestal in the middle of

Sackville Street.

“Nelson’s Pillar” (6.293)

• Statue of Admiral Lord Nelson (1758-1805)

• In the middle of Sackville (now O’Connell) Street.

“Dull business by day, land agents, temperance hotel, Falconer’s

railway guide, civil service college, Gill’s, catholic club, the

industrious blind” (6.316-18)

• Sackville Street Upper (now O’Connell)

“Under the patronage of the late Father Mathew”

(6.319-20)

• “The Apostle of Temperance”

“White horses with white frontlet plumes came

round the Rotunda corner, galloping” (6.321-22)

• “The Rotunda” was a series of buildings that housed, variously, a

maternity hospital, a theatre, a concert hall, and “assembly rooms”.

• Where Sackville (now O’Connell) Street Upper gave into Cavendish

Row.

“And they call me the jewel of Asia, Of Asia, The

geisha” (6.355-57)

• “The Jewel of Asia,” from the light opera The Geisha.

• http://youtu.be/qRZBnI-1G-U

“Has anybody here seen Kelly? Kay ee double ell

wy” (6.373-74)

• An American adaptation from the English song “Kelly from the Isle of

Man” (1908) by C. W. Murphy and Will Letters.

• http://youtu.be/b-kB-Ytjcdg

“The Mater Misericordiae. Eccles street” (6.375-

76)

• In 1904, the largest hospital in Dublin.

• At the intersection of Berkeley Road and Eccles Street.

“In silence they drove along Phibsborough road”

(6.436)

• Part of a main north-south thoroughfare that gives into Prospect

Road beyond the Royal Canal.

“They drove on past Brian Boroimhe house”

(6.453)

• A pub at 1 Prospect Terrace, on

the corner of Prospect Road north of the

Crossguns Bridge.

“The high railings of Prospect rippled past their

gaze” (6.486)

• The cemetery in Glasnevin is called Prospect Cemetery.

“He glanced behind him to where a face with dark thinking

eyes followed towards the cardinal’s mausoleum” (6.533-34)

• Edward Cardinal MacCabe (1816-85), the archbishop of Dublin

(1879-85), created cardinal in 1882.

“Ned Lambert says he’ll try to get one of the girls

into Todd’s” (6.539)

• Todd, Burns & Co., Ltd. A department store in Dublin.

“Victoria and Albert. Frogmore memorial mourning”

(6.550)

• At the Frogmore Lodge at Windsor Castle, where Queen Victoria

had a special mausoleum constructed for herself, her husband,

Prince Albert, and her mother, the duchess of Windsor.

“They halted about the door of the mortuary

chapel” (6.574)

“Down in the vaults of saint Werburgh’s…” (6.609)

• The church on Werburgh Street is one of the oldest in Dublin.

• The original building was destroyed in 1301, then repaired and

enlarged in 1662.

“The O’Connell circle” (6.641)

• Near the center of the cemetery, a round platform of earth

surrounded by a deep ditch.

• In 1869, his remains were removed to a crypt in the O’Connell

monument, a 160-foot-tall replica of an Irish round tower.

“Deathmoths” (6.780)

• The death’s head moth has a skull-like marking on the upper part of

its thorax and is superstitiously regarded as a harbinger of death.

“Even Parnell. Ivy day dying out” (6.855)

• Parnell died 6 October 1891; on the anniversary of his death his

partisans wore a leaf of ivy in his memory.

“Charley, you’re my darling” (6.888)

• After the Scottish folk song “Charlie Is My Darlin’”

• http://youtu.be/gRChiJAw5tM

“Robert Emmet was buried here by torchlight,

wasn’t he?” (6.977-78)

• Robert Emmet (1778-1803), an Irish patriot who attempted to get

Napoleon’s assistance for an Irish uprising.

“Were is that Parsee tower of silence? Eaten by

birds. (6.987)

• After the Parsi custom of exposing the dead in towers.

“The gates glimmered in front: still open. Back to

the world again” (6.995)

• At the end of Book 6 of the Aeneid, Aeneas approaches the exit

from the underworld accompanied by his sibyl guide and the shade

of his father.