Peter L. Fishback
Peter L. Fishback is a retired civil servant who holds university degrees in finance, law, and statistics. He served in the Air National Guard and did a short tour of duty with the regular U.S. Air Force. Mr. Fishback grew up in New York City. At age 30, he stopped practicing law and left New York to work for the federal government in Kansas, Iowa, and then Washington, DC. He currently resides in Birmingham, Alabama.
Late in life, Mr. Fishback developed a passion for Joyce's Ulysses, especially with respect to the British Army and Irish life in the Late-Victorian and Edwardian Eras. Research, writing and maintenance of this website occupies him full-time.
Peer Reviewed, Published Work
"The story behind Captain Marshall's horse" who in Ulysses won the the Epsom Derby of '92.
James Joyce Online Notes 18 (February 2022).JJON is an open-access journal. Click on the link to read for free.
"An appraisal of Molly Bloom's father."
James Joyce Quarterly 59, No. 4 (Summer 2022): 655-76.JJQ is on Project MUSE and is only available to persons with institutional access. Click on the link for the article's webpage then login through your institution. Project MUSE can be accessed free of charge in the reading rooms of the Library of Congress and the British Library.
Books Published by F.F. Simulations, Inc.
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The British Army on BloomsdayA Military Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses
Volume I
Volume II
Dublin and Ireland On Bloomsday
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Volume II of The British Army on Bloomsday can be purchased online at Amazon (paperback & Kindle), Books-A-Million (paperback), Lulu (better quality paperback), Smashwords (pdf), or through this website's eStore (pdf).