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Nannetti is the Freeman newspaper’s foreman and a rising Dublin politician. During the events of Ulysses, he is a Member of Parliament representing part of Dublin, and he is also running for mayor. (Nannetti is a real person—and he really did serve as mayor in 1906-7.) When Bloom visits the Freeman offices to place Alexander Keyes’s ad, he sympathizes with Nannetti over their shared foreign origins (Nannetti’s father was Italian). Nannetti essentially ignores Bloom, who can’t tell if Nannetti dislikes him or is just a man of few words because he works next to the loud printing presses. Later, Nannetti goes off to London to speak about cattle foot and mouth disease, and Bloom feels betrayed because he never got to place Keyes’s ad. Nannetti’s indifference to Bloom reflects Bloom’s powerlessness in the face of real national and imperial politics.
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Joseph Patrick Nannetti Character Timeline in Ulysses
The timeline below shows where the character Joseph Patrick Nannetti appears in Ulysses. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Episode 7: Aeolus
...the Keyes ad clipping 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,...
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...Canvasser at Work,” the novel announces. Bloom gives the old Keyes ad to the unspeaking Nannetti and explains that Keyes wants to reprint it, along with a new logo: two crossed...
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Nannetti begins spellchecking a set of proofs, and Bloom wonders if he should have said something...
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Episode 10: Wandering Rocks
...John Wyse Nolan catches up to them, and then the narrative flashes back to Councilor Nannetti, Alderman Cowley, and Councilor Lyon passing one another on the City Hall steps. Nolan tells...
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Episode 11: Sirens
...Bloom passes several pictures of virgins in the frame-maker’s shop window, which reminds him of Nannetti’s father (who made similar paintings) and the ad he still owes Nannetti. He remembers that...
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Episode 12: Cyclops
Joe and Alf chat about Nannetti running for mayor, and Joe remembers seeing him at the meeting about foot and mouth...
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Joe explains that Nannetti is headed to London to speak in Parliament about the cattle issue and the legality...
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