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This is a photo of Oliver Gogarty who the Buck Mulligan character is based off of.

A 1914 painting by Odilon Reddon entitled The Cyclops. It depicts Polyphemus, the Cyclops creature that Odysseus blinded in The Odyssey.

Lothario's speech in act I, scene i, in which he tells his friend Rossano how he seduced Calista yet refused to marry her. In the passage, Lothario tells how Calista berates him when she realizes he will not marry her. LOTH.  [ . . . ] I would still…

An account of the fashion trends among women in the nineteenth century

A photograph of Richard O'Sullivan Burke, one of the men that the Fenians tried to set free in the Clerkenwell affair.

A photograph of Patrick Egan, a prominent IRB member and supporter of the Home Rule movement who may have been the namesake of Kevin Egan in Ulysses. 

A Home Rule cartoon from the 1880s depicting Charles Stewart Parnell, the leader of the Home Rule movement who gained the support of a great number of Fenians at home and abroad as a result of his aggressive political stance and his ability to…

Excerpts from Maria S. Cumming's The Lamplighter (1854), which Gerty makes reference to reading in the "Nausicaa" episode of Ulysses

An excerpt from a speech given by Lord Randolph Spencer Churchill on February 22nd, 1888. The excerpt provides some of his discussion on the issue of Home Rule and what he generally refers to as the "Irish Question." The excerpt is taken from…