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U6.56: “Collis and Ward”

Collis and Ward postcard marked 1904

“Richie Goulding and the legal bag. Goulding, Collis and Ward he calls the firm.”

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U6.184: “Eugene Stratton”

Eugene Stratton 1903

Eugene Stratton 1903

Eugene Stratton in blackface, a theatre practice 

that would be considered offensive today but was common at the time

“They went past the bleak pulpit of saint Mark's, under the railway bridge, past the Queen's theatre: in silence. Hoardings: Eugene Stratton, Mrs Bandmann Palmer.”

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U6.226: Smith O'Brien

Postcard featuring Smith O'Brien's statue by Farrell in its original position

“Mr Bloom unclasped his hands in a gesture of soft politeness and clasped them. Smith O'Brien. Someone has laid a bunch of flowers there. Woman. Must be his deathday. For many happy returns. The carriage wheeling by Farrell's statue united noiselessly their unresisting knees.”

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U6.248: Jury's or ... the Moira

Advertisement in the Visitor's Guide to Dublin (1907) p. 75.

Advertisement in the Visitor's Guide to Dublin (1907) p. 42.

“What is this she was? Barmaid in Jury's. Or the Moira, was it?”

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U6.249: the hugecloaked Liberator

“They passed under the hugecloaked Liberator's form.”

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U6.253: “Elvery's”

“A tall blackbearded figure, bent on a stick, stumping round the corner of Elvery's Elephant house, showed them a curved hand open on his spine.”

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U6.327: “friendly society”

Friendly Society booklet

“A dwarf's face, mauve and wrinkled like little Rudy's was. Dwarf's body, weak as putty, in a whitelined deal box. Burial friendly society pays. Penny a week for a sod of turf.”

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U6.580: mortuary chapel

“They halted about the door of the mortuary chapel.”

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U6.595: Father Coffey

“Father Coffey. I knew his name was like a coffin. Dominenamine.”

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U6.963: Gramophone

London Magazine 1902

“Besides how could you remember everbody? Eyes, walk, voice. Well, the voice, yes: gramophone. Have a gramophone in every grave or keep it in the house. After dinner on a Sunday. Put on poor old greatgrandfather.”