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Title

A load of Bull about the Bailey

Of pigs and poetry

Stephen's liquidity

Hand(s) up for the Imperial Yeomanry

Sitting on a form

Cottonball officers and cottonball barons

An Irish expression behind "the hasp of your back"?

You find my words dark?

The two maries re-examined

Squirrel - dead or alive?

Tolloll: a tolerable goodbye?

Carriage seating in Hades

Telling off a rosary of hours

Calico Belly and Caesar’s Gallic War

A portrait of the artist as a young angler

The whooping-cough cure from the gasworks

Molly’s furbelow or fur below?

Jaundiced (kite-faced) Nannetti

Comings and goings: Joyce’s words in the Oxford English Dictionary (updated February 2023)

Moonflowers and pregnancy at one remove

That queer thing called genius

The omelette cure

A cod in the wrong pot

The frozen music of architecture

The Chew-Chew school and Mr Purefoy’s whisker problem

The unseen "judashand" of the nineteenth century

Was 'Sufficient for the day is the newspaper thereof' Joyce's little twist on the Biblical text?

The case for "Hard by the block"

Author

Eamonn Finn

Vincent Deane

Sam Slote

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Vincent Deane

Eamonn Finn

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Eamonn Finn

Harald Beck and Hans Walter Gabler

John Gordon

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Vincent Deane

Harald Beck

John Gordon

Joyce's People

Issue 1

Captain Buller: that prodigious hit to square leg

The man behind Bartell d'Arcy

Some notes on the triple life of Thomas Goodwin Keohler

Marcella, the Midget Queen

Issue 1

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Eamonn Finn/John Simpson

John Simpson

Issue 2

They simply fade away: [...] Joseph Casey

Fullback for the Bective Rangers

May's band of brothers

Iremonger among the runs

Marie Dubedat - the Irish Nightingale

Carlyle one, Carlisle nil

Miss Douce and Miss Kennedy at a different bar

Daniel T. Sheehan: a University friend

Norman W. Tupper and the policeman's lap

Collecting the rates: Buckley, Cotter, Crofton, Henchy, and Weatherup

Issue 2

John Simpson

Issue 3

Susy Nagle and her concertina dress

Mrs Gus Ruhlin: boxing and women's suffrage

Philip Beaufoy and the philosopher's tone

Popping into Lynam's

Mulrennan from the west of Ireland

Issue 3

John Simpson

Issue 4

The Madams of Nighttown; or, a Dublin lupanarology

Gallant Mick Hart

Emily Lyons sets sail for Boston

J.P. Nannetti and the Lord Mayor's antecedents

Ditto MacAnaspey and the same for me, please

Issue 3

John Simpson

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Issue 5

In Lunacy of Potterton

Thos. H. Dennany on a spit of land

Freddy Mayer and Joseph Poole's Myriorama

Pat Claffey and the Dublin convents

Wondrous little Tommy Conneff

James Joyce and Matthew Kane

Ignatius per ignotius: Frederick Gallaher

Brunny Lynam the medical student

Issue 5

Homan Potterton

John Simpson

Chris Kane

John Simpson

Issue 6

Wheelmen don't eat quiche

'One of Britain's fighting men': Major Malachi Powell

Professor Bloody-Big-Umbrella Glynn

Issue 6

John Simpson

Andrew Tierney

John Simpson

Issue 7

The afflicted mother - two letters

The anonymous libeller of Denis Breen

Then here's a health to Mulligan's aunt

Issue 6

Terence Killeen

George Bergman

Harald Beck

Issue 8

Flynnlandia, or the rise (and fall) of the House of Usher

Old Parkinson, the English tenor

The short but remarkable life of John O'Mahony

Monks, night fathers, and day fathers

Issue 6

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Harald Beck/John Simpson

Issue 9

Death in Ennis

James Joyce to August Suter

Issue 6

Harald Beck

Issue 10

The reluctant professor MacHugh

Heinous Hainau and the Blooms

Issue 6

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Issue 12

Stopping by Woods next-door

Issue 6

John Simpson

Issue 13

Charles Dawson - lecturer on talking about everything

John O'Mahony and the Language of the Outlaw

Issue 6

Harald Beck

Ronan Crowley

Issue 14

Francis Irwin, TCD, in the fusty world of Garrett Deasy

Issue 6

John Simpson

Issue 15

The girl in the toga girilis

Issue 6

Harald Beck

Issue 16

Katey Keogh, Assistant at the Volta Cinema, Dublin

Issue 6

Vivien Igoe

Joyce's Words

Issue 1

adelite - a delightful colour word?

basilicogrammate: the Egyptian royal secretary

Contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality: jaw-breakers and spelling bees

Issue 6

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Issue 2

Miss This Miss That and Miss Theother

Or hanging up on the floor

Dog of my enemy

Join up the dots for Paradise

Volupcy and mystic bliss

The kidology of codology

Aquacity: awash with watery thoughts

Eatondph and douradora

I'd like my job! - Not likely!

Lapland closer home

Done but not forgotten

Issue 6

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck/John Simpson

John Simpson

Eamonn Finn

Harald Beck

Issue 3

Molly's doggery-woggery

The rabbits that caused all the trouble

Only for the other dog

Shine on, Harvest Moon

Solving the doubles

Drums of braided cord

Issue 6

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Issue 4

Duodenal harmony

Perverted from the truth

Praise Be! Here comes Old "Glory Hallelujurum" Purefoy

Head first and everything else behind

Issue 6

John Simpson

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Issue 5

Take me to your subleader!

The fifth quarter is the butcher's profit

Molly's taittering lips

Washing off the cobbles

Fried hencods' roe and mutton kidneys: these are a few of his favourite things

Issue 6

Terence Killeen

John Simpson

Vincent Deane

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Issue 6

Telling crams

Head upon shoulder

The tree of heaven

Issue 6

Harald Beck

Eamonn Finn

John Simpson

Issue 7

The forgotten arm-strap

Philirenists: peace-loving monarchs

The "charming soubrette" of the stage

Unlawfully watching and/or besetting

Laid on like the gas

His brain tipped over

Issue 6

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Issue 8

Altogether now for the ensemble

Undertones of the sacred offices

The benefit of speedpills

Issue 6

Harald Beck

Issue 9

Changing his drink

All bets are "off"

Hamlet's sledded poleaxe

Priestly water-divining

Issue 6

John Simpson

Robert Janusko

Harald Beck

Issue 10

An expression tossed around like snuff at a wake

Exclaiming St Denis

The mystic yogibogeybox

It's just one thing laughing at another

The swinging whiskers

Issue 6

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Issue 11

Pronouncing Joyce

A mess of four

Hardy annuals in the nursery of life

Comings and Goings: Joyce's words in the Oxford English Dictionary

Issue 6

Robert Nicholson

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Issue 12

Kishes, brogues, and ignorance

A rich breakfast of rashers

Issue 6

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Issue 13

Gods and clods

Issue 6

John Simpson

Issue 14

Pet lambs in Dublin

Moechus and scortum: not so neuter words

Issue 6

John Simpson

Geert Lernout

Issue 18

The case for "Hard by the block"

John Gordon

New

Hand(s) up for the Imperial Yeomanry

Sitting on a form

Cottonball officers and cottonball barons

You find my words dark?

The two maries re-examined

Tolloll: a tolerable goodbye?

Jaundiced (kite-faced) Nannetti

Molly’s furbelow or fur below?

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Vincent Deane

John Gordon

Harald Beck and Hans Walter Gabler

Joyce's Allusions

Issue 1

Spellingbee conundrum

When is a thigh not a thigh?

Mad Cow at Cabra

Is Spurgeon in heaven?

All Change at the Empire Palace

Aquinas on Friendship

The old hag with the yellow teeth

Two unidentified songs in the Penelope episode

Issue 6

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Clive Hart

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Issue 6

John Simpson

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck/John Simpson

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Eamonn Finn

Harald Beck/John Simpson

Issue 3

Glue-pot steals heart

My mother has married me...

Bonsoir la compagnie

A heaven-sent dove with razor-sharp teeth

A perfect cretic floating down the O-hi-O

Cheaper booze

The Hidden Life of Christ Revealed

Killarney's Beauties

Dusty Rhodes the Popular Tramp

Death of a sinner

Perfide Albion - Perfidious Albion

The irreverent Richard Blacow in Ulysses

William Field, the bard with the tumbling hair at Queen Dido's banquet

Issue 6

Harald Beck

Aida Yared

John Simpson

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Philip Keel Geheber

Harald Beck

Issue 4

Don't leave your mother an orphan!

Cuthbert the Wanderer

Malory and Sir Leopold, King

A doctor but not Dr Freud

Pater: Leopold the Epicurean

Ossian's Poems - notesheets

Issue 6

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Robert Janusko

Harald Beck

Robert Janusko

Harald Beck/John Simpson

Issue 5

Edward FitzGerald: Oxen notesheet 17

From Meredith to Mulligan via Moore

Treading water to paradise

Observing from his quaint-perched aerie

Molly's sandfrog shower in Gibraltar

Lady Morgan and "dear dirty Dublin"

Nothing to sit down on - nowhere to put it

Pantalons Blancs and Culottes Rouges

A pillow on the billow

Two poetic snippets

From Swerve of Shore to Bend of Bay Area: the Afterlife of Opal Hush

Issue 6

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Austin Briggs

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Terence Killeen

Vincent Deane

Issue 6

Lincoln, but not Abraham

The destruction of the fittest

Gimlet sounded like poetry with Hamlet

Mr O'Madden Burke's strong weakness

If I have sinned, I have suffered

Can't you talk?

And do the brave deserve the fair?

You're a rogue and I'm another

Kicking the Pope before us

White silence in marble

Issue 6

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Ronan Crowley

Harald Beck

Eamonn Finn/John Simpson

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Issue 7

The milk in the coconut - a hairy puzzle

"Is there anybody here for there?"

Caught it while it was flying

Beatrice Harraden guiding the thread

What is Sister Susie's Playing?

I smell the blood of an Irishman

Give and take is not fair play

Shoehorning your head into your hat

U.P: up and away

Ducks swim?

Bad luck arrives at Whitsuntide

Chase me Charlie, chase me Charlie do

Free fox, free hen-roost

Issue 6

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck

William Huth

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Issue 8

Mr Brown, Mr Robinson, and the average Joe

Catching a cold through an open gate

Soap-eating in the Arctic

A Fuller picture of the Lollards

Some Memories of Buffalo Bill in Ulysses

Brown sons

Washing possible is more than possible

The green gem of Ireland set in the silver sea

The tonic that braces the system

Fair and forty goes far in a day

On the Dead Sea, afloat with a parasol

What made a crocodile bite the fluke of an anchor?

Issue 6

John Simpson

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Ronan Crowley

John Simpson

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Issue 9

An anatomy of Gray's Eulogy

Milking ducks grandmother's way

Orphans in the Underworld

Newsboys and the child-biting bellows

Puffed and powdered, cocked and shaved

Retirement into public life

The half-seas-over empire of Britain

Musical breakfasts and a walk with the band

Issue 6

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Issue 11

Did he bring his crocodile?

A night of Irish entertainment

Brass by gold in your pocket

Hanged of a Tuesday

To the going-out entrance

Issue 6

Tim Conley

Harald Beck

Issue 12

An old woman in Prince's street

George Moore and the Brixton Empire

No followers allowed

Signs of resentment: to have something up your nose against me

Issue 6

John Simpson

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Issue 13

The Jeep-crux

Issue 6

Harald Beck

Issue 14

Ossian's Poems - notesheets

Save China's millions

Miss Kennedy's reading matter

The King of Spain's daughter

Buck Mulligan and Swinburne

Further additions from the Wrankmore translation of Moritz Busch’s Guide

Issue 6

Harald Beck/JS (and RC)

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Terence Killeen

Geert Lernout

Ronan Crowley

Issue 15

Rossini, Mercadante, and Meyerbeer

Shrieks of silence!

Camille Flammarion's Astronomy for Amateurs (1904) in Ulysses

Issue 6

Vincent Deane

John Simpson

Ronan Crowley

Issue 16

Of white hats and stolen donkeys

The Ursuline Manual in 'Circe'

The Lady Freemason and the clock

Issue 6

Marc A. Mamigonian

Áine Nolan

Harald Beck

Issue 17

A medley from Mickey Rooney's Macaronic Band

John Simpson

Issue 18

Moonflowers and pregnancy at one remove

That queer thing called genius

The omelette cure

A cod in the wrong pot

The frozen music of architecture

The Chew-Chew school and Mr Purefoy’s whisker problem

The unseen "judashand" of the nineteenth century

Was 'Sufficient for the day is the newspaper thereof' Joyce's little twist on the Biblical text?

Harald Beck

Vincent Deane

Harald Beck

New

An Irish expression behind "the hasp of your back"?

A portrait of the artist as a young angler

Calico Belly and Caesar’s Gallic War

Telling off a rosary of hours

Carriage seating in Hades

Of pigs and poetry

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Eamonn Finn

Vincent Deane

Joyce's Environs

Issue 1

Bright's bright eye

Elster Grime and the Grand Old Opera

The Shah's nose and ears

A Joycean price guide

The deleterious effect of copper sulphate on green peas

Issue 6

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck

John Smurthwaite

John Simpson

Issue 2

The destruction of the pulpit at St Mark's

Magazines for Christmas (1898)

Will you be my man will you carry my can

Genesis good for you

Sporting issues and racing tissues

Reliable rubber goods - perish the thought!

Bewitching eyes beneath a well-drawn eyebrow line

Issue 6

John Simpson

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Bob Janusko

Harald Beck

Issue 3

The Italian Colony in South Dublin

Kidfitting corsetry

Rochford's smart idea at Crampton Court

Pettiwidths, with Gerty MacDowell

That English invention: The Wonder Worker in nighttown

Issue 6

John Simpson

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Ronan Crowley

Issue 4

A good cigar is a smoke

Rheumatic wheels

Caught alive - oh!

Roll up for the human ostrich

The Corridors of the National Library

Rooms for Antient Concerts

The Prince and the Freeman

Issue 6

John Simpson

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Issue 5

The longstemmed Jacob pipe

Bells to call the servants

A tonic for that tired feeling

Issue 6

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Issue 6

Carlisle girls

Left-off clothes

Advertising names speak to you: Bacilikil

Advertising names speak to you: Veribest

Advertising names speak to you: Uwantit

Fashionable cobwebs

In the carriage for Paddy Dignam's funeral: Bloom was right all along

Issue 6

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Eamonn Finn

John Simpson

Harald Beck/John Simpson

Issue 7

A postcard from Bolivia

Stepping back to Leahy's terrace

Issue 6

Aida Yared

Ian Gunn

Issue 8

Salty missionaries

Stephen's stroll on the strand

A galería masquerading under the name of "Becche"

Issue 6

Harald Beck

Ian Gunn

John Simpson

Issue 9

Brown-paper suits in fashion

The cost of coal from Flower and M'Donald

A missing gent answering to the name of Bloom

Issue 6

John Simpson

Issue 10

The crossblind crux

Joyce's Ormond Hotel

Swansway: Father Conmee's walk to Artane

Cross words for crossed letters

A crumpled throwaway: an arresting tale

Issue 6

Harald Beck

Ian Gunn

Issue 11

The demise of Ithaca

Oxen of the Sun - allocating the closing paragraphs

Issue 6

Ian Gunn

Clive Hart, with Harald Beck

Issue 12

The jujube-sucking King

Issue 6

John Simpson

Issue 13

Burke's!

Jenny Lind soup for the professional soprano

The speed of the train during prayer

Joyce's Libraries

Issue 6

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Dylan Emerick- Brown

John Simpson

Issue 15

A floor plan for the Holles Street Hospital

Sanitary matters at No. 7 Eccles street

Exit Carr

Issue 6

Aidan Collins

Ian Gunn

William Brockman/Sabrina Alonso

Issue 16

On the authorship of a Freeman sub-editorial

Beyond the façade - Uncovering the physical structure of No 7 Eccles Street

Issue 6

Terence Killeen

Ian Gunn

Issue 17

Mad nun screeching: St Vincent’s Hospital as Joyce knew it

Captain Marshall's horse

Moses Golden

Aidan Collins

Peter Fishback

Ronan Crowley

New

Squirrel - dead or alive?

Tolloll: a tolerable goodbye?

Carriage seating in Hades

Telling off a rosary of hours

Calico Belly and Caesar’s Gallic War

A portrait of the artist as a young angler

The whooping-cough cure from the gasworks

Stephen's liquidity

A load of Bull about the Bailey

Harald Beck

Vincent Deane

Eamonn Finn

Harald Beck

John Simpson

Harald Beck

Eamonn Finn

Sam Slote

Eamonn Finn