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An academic website on the British Army, Ireland, Dublin, Gibraltar, Trieste, and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers with respect to James Joyce or his novel Ulysses. This website is owned and maintained by the publisher, F.F. Simulations, Inc. The author and webmaster is Peter Fishback.
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Why are these Pages Here?
Ireland: James Joyce was an Irishman and nearly all his Dublin family lived their entire lives in Ireland. Irish history, social conditions, geography, and politics play an important role in the novel.
People: Friends, acquaintances, persons known by Joyce, and real-life persons who appear in the novel. Many were models for characters in Ulysses.
Characters: Additional information on some fictional persons created by Joyce for the novel.
Dublin: The city permeates Ulysses and is practically a major character. Joyce once stated that if Dublin “one day suddenly disappeared from the Earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.” Dublin, of course, was Joyce’s home town and he lived there from birth until age 22.
Royal Dublin Fusiliers: The regiment of Molly Bloom’s father, Brian Cooper Tweedy. This Irish regiment of the British Army appears by name throughout Ulysses.
British Army: Joyce explicitly mentions or alludes to the army in all but one of the novel’s eighteen episodes.
Gibraltar: The British fortress-colony where Molly Bloom spent her formative years. Gibraltar is the novel's second most important locale.
Joyce’s Trieste: Joyce and his family lived in Trieste from early-1905 through mid-1915 (when they went to Zurich). During that period, both his children were born and he began work on Ulysses. In late 1919, the Joyces returned to Trieste and resided there for eight months.
Other: Literary tools; videos on Joyce, Ulysses, and 1904 Ireland; audio clips of songs featured in the novel; odd-and-ends.