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Leah the Forsaken
Limericks are a genre of comic Irish rhyming poem.
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Limerick Term Timeline in Ulysses
The timeline below shows where the term Limerick appears in Ulysses. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Episode 7: Aeolus
Lenehan invents a limerick about MacHugh and makes a bad joke: the title of the English opera The Rose...
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Episode 15: Circe
...cardinal, wearing a tattered uniform. Cardinal Dedalus cites a solemn verse, then sings a merry limerick, gets attacked by flies, and walks off into the distance singing a solemn song.
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Episode 16: Eumaeus
...to stop a development project in Galway Bay. Murphy returns inside and sings a vulgar limerick.
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