Lestrygonians [8]

U8.90: Kino's

This advertisement taken from the 1903 Irish Catholic Directory and Almanac is

reminiscent of the floating ad that Boom sees on the river near O'Connell Bridge.

Kino's

II/-

Trousers

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U8.109: Timeball on the ballast office

“After one. Timeball on the ballast office is down. Dunsink time. Fascinating little book that is of sir Robert Ball's Parallax.”

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U8.185: Goodwin’s concert

“Windy night that was I went to fetch her there was that lodge meeting on about those lottery tickets after Goodwin’s concert in the supperroom or oakroom of the Mansion house.”

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U8.330: Lizzie Twigg

“And the other one Lizzie Twigg. My literary efforts have had the good fortune to meet with the approval of the eminent poet A. E. (Mr Geo. Russel).”

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U8.414: Tommy Moore's roguish finger

“He crossed under Tommy Moore's roguish finger. They did right to put him up over a urinal: meeting of the waters.”

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U8.434-36: Up the Boers!

— Up the Boers!

— Three cheers for De Wet!

— We'll hang Joe Chamberlain on a sourapple tree.

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U8.509: D.B.C.

Description of the D.B.C. (Dublin Bread Company) on Lr. Sackville street. The D.B.C. branch featuring in Ulysses is located on Dame street. Advertisement in the Visitor's Guide to Dublin (1907). p. 54. 

“Great man's brother: his brother's brother. He'd look nice on the city charger. Drop into the D.B.C. probably for his coffee, play chess there.”

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U8.606: The harp

“The harp that once did starve us all.”

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U8.614: Grafton street

“Grafton street gay with housed awnings lured his senses.”

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U8.911 | 18.1572: rhododendrons

“High on Ben Howth rhododendrons a nannygoat walking surefooted, dropping currants.”

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U8.921: library museum

“Beauty: it curves: curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires. Can see them library museum standing in the round hall, naked goddesses. Aids to digestion.”

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U8.971: there was one woman

“There was one woman, Nosey Flynn said, hid herself in a clock to find out what they do be doing. But be damned but they smelt her out and swore her in on the spot a master mason. That was on of the saint Legers of Doneraile.”

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U8.1058: Prescott

Advertisement published in the Evening Telegraph (last pink) of Thursday, July 25, 1907, ser. no. 8100

Prescott's Dye Works stationery

“Keyes: two months if I get Nannetti to. That'll be two pounds ten about two pounds eight. Three Hynes owes me. Two eleven. Prescott's dyeworks van over there. If I get Billy Prescott's ad: two fifteen. Five guineas about. On the pig's back.”

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U8.1070: Why I left the church of Rome

“Mr Bloom turned at Gray's confectioner's window of unbought tarts and passed the reverend Thomas Connellan's bookstore. Why I left the church of Rome.”

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U8.1151: the freemasons' hall

“Sir Frederick Falkiner going into the freemasons' hall. Solemn as Troy. After his good lunch in Earlsfort terrace.”