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"What parallel courses did Bloom and Stephen follow returning?
Starting united both at normal walking pace from Beresford Place they followed in the order named Lower and Middle Gardiner streets and Mountjoy square, west:" (U17.1) |
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"then, at reduced pace, each bearing left, Gardiner's place by an inadvertence as far as the farther corner of Temple street: then, at reduced pace with interruptions of halt, bearing right, Temple street, north, as far as Hardwicke place." (U17.4) |
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"Approaching, disparate, at relaxed walking pace they crossed both the circus before George's church diametrically, the chord in any circle being less than the arc which it subtends." (U17.7) |
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"Of what did the duumvirate deliberate during their itinerary?
Music, literature, Ireland, Dublin, Paris, friendship, woman, prostitution, diet, the influence of gaslight or the light of arc and glowlamps on the growth of adjoining paraheliotropic trees," (U17.11) This PC of Rathmines Rd shows a gaslight lamppost on the left side of the street, and electric light on the right. |
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In 1892, Dublin’s first electricity power station began operations in Fleet Street. In 1904, Dublin was still largely lit by gaslight. This image of O'Connell statue in 1900s show gaslight on the right, and electric light on the left. |
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"exposed corporation emergency dustbuckets, the Roman catholic church, ecclesiastical celibacy, the Irish nation," (U17.14)
A 19c. photograph of an Irish Nationalist. Please email me if you recognize who it is! |
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"jesuit education, careers, the study of medicine, the past day, the maleficent influence of the presabbath, Stephen's collapse." (U17.16) |
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"composed in the grate a pyre of crosslaid resintipped sticks and various coloured papers and irregular polygons of best Abram coal at twentyone shillings a ton from the yard of Messrs Flower and M'Donald of 14 D'Olier street, kindled it at three projecting points of paper with one ignited lucifer match, thereby releasing the potential energy contained in the fuel by allowing its carbon and hydrogen elements to enter into free union with the oxygen of the air." (U17.127) |
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"Of what similar apparitions did Stephen think?
Of others elsewhere in other times who, kneeling on one knee or on two, had kindled fires for him, [...] of his aunt Sara, wife of Richie (Richard Goulding), in the kitchen of their lodgings at 62 Clanbrassil street: of his mother Mary, wife of Simon Dedalus, in the kitchen of number twelve North Richmond street" (U17.134) |
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"on the morning of the feast of Saint Francis Xavier 1898:" (U17.143)
St Francis Xavier (1506-1552) was a Spanish nobleman. He studied philosophy and theology at the University of Paris. He met St Ignatius of Loyola and together they founded the 'Society of Jesus' (= Jesuits). Francis Xavier became the first Jesuit missionary. He traveled thousands of miles, most on foot, tolerated appalling conditions on long sea voyages, and saw the greater part of the Far East. He was a successful missionary for 10 years in India, the East Indies, and Japan, baptizing more than 40,000. He sought and helped the sick and the forgotten, preached in the streets, and taught children the catechism. It is said that he had the gift of tongues, was a healer and miracle worker, and calmed storms. He died in China of a febrile illness. Represented as a young bearded Jesuit. Feast December 3. |
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"What did Stephen see on raising his gaze to the height of a yard from the fire towards the opposite wall?
Under a row of five coiled spring housebells a curvilinear rope, stretched between two holdfasts athwart across the recess beside the chimney pier, from which hung four smallsized square handkerchiefs folded unattached consecutively in adjacent rectangles and one pair of ladies' grey hose with Lisle suspender tops and feet in their habitual position clamped by three erect wooden pegs, two at their outer extremities and the third at their point of junction." (U17.148) |
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"What did Bloom see on the range?
On the right (smaller) hob a blue enamelled saucepan: on the left (larger) hob a black iron kettle. What did Bloom do at the range? He removed the saucepan to the left hob, rose and carried the iron kettle to the sink in order to tap the current by turning the faucet to let it flow." (U17.157) |
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"Did it flow?
Yes." (U17.163) |
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"to the 26 acre reservoir at Stillorgan" (U17.168) |
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This PC shows the Water Tower at the Curragh Camp (Co. Kildare), an important British Army installation in Ireland. The tower is a red-brick building dating back to the late 19c. |