Joe Hynes Character Analysis in Ulysses

The unscrupulous, nationalistic Dublin reporter Joe Hynes writes a piece on Dignam’s funeral, borrows three shillings from Bloom but never pays him back, and drinks with his friends, the citizen and the debt collector, in “Cyclops.” At Dignam’s funeral, Hynes fulfills Bloom’s request to take M’Coy’s name down, then asks about the man in the macintosh, whose name he erroneously records as “M’intosh.” He also misspells Bloom’s own name as “Boom.”

Joe Hynes Character Timeline in Ulysses

The timeline below shows where the character Joe Hynes appears in Ulysses. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

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...anyone would even know it. The mourners put their hats on and start to disperse. Hynes, who works for the newspaper, is taking the mourners’ names. Bloom adds M’Coy’s, and Hynes... (full context)

Alienation and the Quest for Belonging Theme Icon

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...to the office of the Freeman newspaper, but the paper’s manager Nannetti is busy with Hynes, who is filing his story on Dignam’s funeral. While Bloom waits, he notes that Nannetti... (full context)

...nearly stabs him in the eye. The narrator furiously turns around, then sees his buddy Joe Hynes and strikes up a conversation. Hynes asks what the narrator is up to, and... (full context)

Joe Hynes and the narrator agree to go to Barney Kiernan’s for a drink. Joe explains... (full context)

In the corner of Barney Kiernan’s pub, Joe Hynes and the narrator meet the citizen and his mangy, aggressive dog Garryowen. The citizen... (full context)

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...and declares that he just saw Willy Murray chatting with Paddy Dignam in the street. Joe Hynes clarifies that Paddy Dignam is dead, but Alf can scarcely believe it. Meanwhile, Bob... (full context)

...into tears instead. Bloom comes inside the bar and asks Terry for Martin Cunningham. Meanwhile, Joe Hynes reads one of Alf’s letters: a barber named Rumbold writes to the Dublin High... (full context)

Joe greets Bloom and offers him a drink, but Bloom doesn’t want anything. He eventually agrees... (full context)

One thing leads to another, and Joe Hynes and the citizen start talking excitedly about Irish nationalist revolutionaries. Bob Doran starts rambling... (full context)

Bloom, Joe Hynes, the citizen, and the narrator keep talking about politics. They discuss the Irish language... (full context)

...Bob is impious when he’s drunk, but he is a model Catholic when he isn’t. Joe Hynes, the citizen, and the narrator drink their pints. (full context)

Joe and Alf chat about Nannetti running for mayor, and Joe remembers seeing him at the... (full context)

Joe explains that Nannetti is headed to London to speak in Parliament about the cattle issue... (full context)

...with her husband’s madness. The Breens pass by again on the street with Corny Kelleher. Joe Hynes asks about the case of the scammer who sold people false tickets to Canada.... (full context)

...whom he blames for Ireland’s problems and wants out. Bloom ignores him and, instead, asks Joe Hynes to help get Keyes’s advertisement to Myles Crawford. (In exchange, Bloom will forget about... (full context)

...into a tirade about the potato famine of 1845-1852. The citizen, John Wyse Nolan, and Joe Hynes complain that the Irish fought for other nations (like France and Germany) in their... (full context)

...Martin agrees to have a drink with the other men, and he, the citizen, and Joe Hynes say a toast to St. Patrick. In a lengthy interlude, the novel gives an... (full context)

...up for Molly, the money he owes the shop owner, and the three shillings that Joe Hynes owes him. (full context)

In a desperate attempt to save himself, Bloom starts rambling and asks to talk to Hynes. The policemen accuse Bloom of planting a bomb, which was really the pig’s foot he... (full context)

...and hopes he can make money for it. He scans the Telegraph headlines and reads Hynes’s obituary of Dignam. He points out that, in the list of mourners, his name was... (full context)

...appetite. It was probably a prostitute, she thinks, and he was probably lying about meeting Hynes and Menton. Or maybe Leopold met the woman to whom he was secretly writing a... (full context)

...skirts, then starts thinking about Paddy Dignam’s death and running through list of mourners that Joe Hynes published in the newspaper. She has critical things to say about most of the... (full context)