Ned Lambert Character Analysis in Ulysses

Ned Lambert is a longtime friend of Simon Dedalus’s from their shared hometown of Cork. They attend Paddy Dignam’s funeral together in “Hades” and visit the Evening Telegraph office together in “Aeolus.” He later gives Rev. Love a tour of St. Mary’s Abbey, where he appears to work a job involving sacks of grain.

Ned Lambert Character Timeline in Ulysses

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

...life insurance and expresses his sympathies for Dignam’s wife and children. Simon Dedalus and Ned Lambert chat about events in their hometown of Cork. Bloom looks at Dignam’s son and imagines... (full context)

...stop pumping blood, and he feels that resurrection is impossible. John Henry Menton asks Ned Lambert who Bloom is, and Lambert explains that he’s Molly Tweedy’s husband, an ad canvasser. Menton... (full context)

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...sees that there are thirteen mourners, which is a conveniently superstitious number. He admires Ned Lambert’s suit and wonders how life would be, “if we were all suddenly somebody else.” (full context)

Bloom hears Ned Lambert’s voice in the Evening Telegraph office and decides to use the phone inside. He enters... (full context)

...the room. He and Professor MacHugh start making fun of each other, and then Ned Lambert and Simon Dedalus leave for a drink, making cryptic references to Irish military history on... (full context)

...walks away, and Crawford jingles his keys around and proposes the newsmen go drink with Lambert and Dedalus. O’Molloy, MacHugh, and Crawford light cigarettes and joke about how the British Empire... (full context)

In the eighth vignette, J.J. O’Molloy joins Ned Lambert in the dark St. Mary’s Abbey, where Ned is giving a clergyman (Rev. Hugh C.... (full context)

...management. A romantic literary voice praises Molly’s “peerless beauty,” then announces that J.J. O’Molloy and Lambert have entered the bar. The episode’s primary narrator criticizes O’Molloy, who pretends to be successful... (full context)

...asks about the case of the scammer who sold people false tickets to Canada. Ned Lambert complains that the Recorder who tried the case was sympathetic because of the scammer’s poverty.... (full context)

The citizen sarcastically compares Bloom to the Messiah and Ned Lambert remembers how excited Bloom was for his son Rudy’s birth. Martin agrees to have a... (full context)