Skin-the-Goat Character Analysis in Ulysses

Skin-the-Goat, whose real name is James Fitzharris, is a real-life Dublin cabman and former member of the Invincibles. He famously drove the getaway car for the Phoneix Park murderers, and he appears in “Eumaeus” as a virulent, conspiratorial nationalist. Bloom doesn’t know whether to admire Skin-the-Goat’s courage or abhor his crime.

Skin-the-Goat Character Timeline in Ulysses

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

...they reach the modest wooden cabman’s shelter, which is supposedly run by the famous Invincible Skin-the-Goat Fitzharris. Bloom and Stephen order food while the other patrons stare at them. Bloom comments... (full context)

...on the Invincibles’ Phoenix Park murders, and Bloom and Stephen are glad to see that Skin-the-Goat doesn’t notice what Murphy is saying. Bloom asks Murphy if he’s “seen the rock of... (full context)

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...alcoholic who falls right back asleep. Meanwhile, the men discuss Ireland’s struggling shipping industry, and Skin-the-Goat suggests that a certain shipwreck in Galway was really an English plot to stop a... (full context)

Skin-the-Goat praises Ireland’s rich natural resources and fertile soil, then warns that England’s “day of reckoning”... (full context)

...let on. But he doesn’t want to get involved in the conversation. Bloom remembers that Skin-the-Goat is a known criminal—although, Bloom admits, his political courage is admirable. That said, Skin-the-Goat only... (full context)