![]() ![]() Hugh “Blazes” Boylan, Molly Bloom’s lover, is a composite character. Hugh ‘Blazes’ Boylan Impresario and advertising man. Knowing who this eclectic mixture of people were creates a vivid picture of Dublin at the time and throws light on many passages in Ulysses. Many of the individuals it portrayed were well known here at the turn of the 20th century some of the minor characters also had impressive stories. The book contains hundreds of names, which include historical, legendary and contemporary people from both Ireland and abroad. When Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare & Company, the Paris bookshop, first published Ulysses in 1922, it was joked that many people checked to see whether they were in it. “They all belong to a vanished world, and most of them seem to have been very curious types” – James Joyce in a letter to Mrs William Murray, December 21st, 1922 ![]()
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