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Article: 'All them rocks in the sea': Ulysses as immram.
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- Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage...
- Joachim du Bellay, Les Regrets XXXI
In the sixteenth, or 'Eumaeus' episode of Ulysses, Bloom and Stephen encounter D.B. Murphy of Carrigloe, a seaman just off 'The threemaster Rosevean from Bridgewater'. (1) Their meeting in the coffee stall! cabman's shelter run by 'Skin-the-Goat' Fitzharris dexterously parodies the arrival of Odysseus on Ithaca, where he shelters in the hut of Eumaeus the swineherd and confers there with his son Telemachus. Already warned by Agamemnon's angry ghost that long-absent husbands are not always welcomed home when they return, Odysseus prudently stays with Eumaeus until ...