Characters in Ulysses
Material on a few of the characters in Ulysses.
Pages on Major Tweedy's Neighborhood
Locations of their homes, places of employment, friends, etc. Includes descriptive material. Links to pages for The Dublin High School and the Joyce family residence on Brighton Square (home of Major and Miss Tweedy).
Ancestors and relatives of Leopold Bloom; the Dedalus and Goulding families.
Carr and Compton, Privates
The social background and garrison life of infantry soldiers of the Edwardian British Army. Though the characters bear the names of persons Joyce knew in Zurich, they are actually archetypes of the British soldier as known by Dubliners of 1904.
Novels noted in Ulysses as having been read by Molly Bloom, Gerty McDowell, and other women. Has links to sites from which you can download for free the digitized books.
Tweedy, Brian Cooper
Father of Molly Bloom. Born c. 1833, probably in Dublin. Enlisted in the army and rose through the ranks to obtain a commission with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Retired in 1885 or 1886 while serving in Gibraltar and then moved to Dublin with his daughter. Tweedy likely died in 1893, shortly before the Blooms "were on the rocks in Holles Street" [U (Gabler) 13:840-41].
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Article by Mitchell Abidor in K., a French, academic e-journal on European Juadaism in the 21st Century. Links are to English language pages.
Article by Jeff McClung in The International Journal of Humanities and Social Science 2, no. 2 (Special Issue - January 2012): 16-22. Pdf file of 226kb.
Luca Crispi, "Molly, Mr. Stanhope, and Hester: A Genetic Reading of a Love Triangle in Ulysses," James Joyce Quarterly 51, no.1 (Fall 2013): 97-117. From the website Academia.
