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C.P. M’Coy
Although it’s unclear what or where he teaches, Professor MacHugh chats with Ned Lambert, Simon Dedalus, J.J. O’Molloy, Myles Crawford, and Lenehan in the Telegraph offices during “Aeolus.” He has strong feelings about Irish nationalism and history: he compares Ireland’s attempt to preserve its culture in the face of British imperialism to Pyrrhus’s attempt to save Greece from the Roman Empire. (This gives context to Stephen Dedalus’s intellectual pretensions and capacity to, in Buck Mulligan’s words, “Hellenise” Ireland.)
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Professor MacHugh Character Timeline in Ulysses
The timeline below shows where the character Professor MacHugh appears in Ulysses. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Episode 7: Aeolus
...decides to use the phone inside. He enters to find Ned, Simon Dedalus, and Professor MacHugh mocking an overelaborate speech made by the politician and baker Dan Dawson the previous night....
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The harsh, imposing editor Myles Crawford rushes into the room. He and Professor MacHugh start making fun of each other, and then Ned Lambert and Simon Dedalus leave for...
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...in the door by accident, letting in a draft that shuffles around the paper’s pages. MacHugh kicks the staffer out. Meanwhile, Bloom finishes his phone call and crashes into Lenehan on...
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Lenehan and MacHugh watch through the window as Bloom walks away, and Crawford jingles his keys around and...
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...threw her bowl of soup at a waiter, and Stephen suddenly understands Deasy’s misogyny. Professor MacHugh talks about how the Irish are “loyal to lost causes,” because they have lived under...
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Lenehan invents a limerick about MacHugh and makes a bad joke: the title of the English opera The Rose of Castille...
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...Park murders committed by the invincibles (a group of Irish nationalists). The phone rings, and MacHugh answers: it’s Bloom, calling for Crawford. But Crawford asks MacHugh to pass on a message:...
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MacHugh interrupts to declare that John F. Taylor gave the best speech he ever saw in...
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...news from the races, Stephen realizes, “I have much, much to learn.” He starts telling MacHugh about the story he’s hoping to write under the headlines “Dear Dirty Dublin” and “Life...
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MacHugh mentions Stephen’s story to Crawford, which gives Stephen a chance to finish telling it. The...
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...running because of a short circuit. Crawford admits that he doesn’t understand Stephen’s story, but MacHugh proposes a Latin name for it. Stephen prefers “A Pisgah Sight of Palestine or The...
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