Parnell was a popular, influential Irish nationalist politician, active in the late 1800s, who is widely seen as the Home Rule (independence) movement’s greatest leader and popularizer.
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The timeline below shows where the term Charles Stewart Parnell appears in Ulysses. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Episode 6: Hades
The gravediggers fill Dignam’s grave and the ceremony ends. The mourners walk over to Parnell’s grave, and Bloom muses that it’s a waste to spend money on fancy graves instead...
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Episode 8: Lestrygonians
...He realizes that “no-one is anything” and starts to feel sick. Then, Bloom suddenly passes Charles Parnell’s brother John on the street. The poet George Russell cycles past with a woman....
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Episode 15: Circe
...immediately sends Molly away and marries “the princess Selene, the splendour of night.” John Howard Parnell names Bloom as his brother Charles’s rightful successor. Bloom receives the keys and charter to...
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Episode 16: Eumaeus
The cabmen chat about whether Parnell will return to Ireland. Bloom thinks that this rumor is bogus: Parnell is dead and...
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The cabmen chat derisively about Kitty O’Shea, the woman who ruined Parnell’s political career, then break out into laughter. Meanwhile, Bloom thinks about Parnell and O’Shea’s love...
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Bloom’s mind returns to Parnell, “Erin’s uncrowned king,” and the way he shaped his public image after his affair became...
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Episode 18: Penelope
...she’ll end up like some of the respectable old women she sees around Dublin, including Parnell and Edward VII’s mistresses, Kitty O’Shea and Mrs. Langtry. She recalls a “funny story” about...
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