FROM THE FATHERS

Blooms & Barnacles

Featuring a surprise historical cameo!

Topics in this episode include our final example of Aristotelian rhetoric, the only passage of Ulysses recorded by James Joyce, the battle of wits between Mr. Justice Fitzgibbon and John F. Taylor, misperceptions about Taylor’s oratory, the Gaelic Revival, Dreamy Jimmy, ferial tone, a Moses for Ireland, MacHugh can’t catch a break, the analogy of the Irish and the biblical Israelites, The Shade of Parnell, Irish Orientalism, antisemitism in the Irish Nationalist movement of the early 20th century, The Language of the Outlaw and Roger Casement, Joyce’s punch-up of Taylor’s speech, and reading Ulysses backwards.

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The Language of the Outlaw: John F. Taylor's Speech in "Aeolus"

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