Frank Delaney's Re: Joyce

Stephen will never be a saint, for various reasons.

Still on Sandymount Strand. "Dan" Occam, the invincible doctor. Imagined bells and twinned principles.

Priests move through Stephen's mind, in the sort of passage that got Joyce in trouble. Three bells mark three Eucharists.

Frank delves into the second five stories of the Dubliners.

Stephen recalls friends and priests by nickname, and considers Jaochim Abbas, that old heretic.

Stephen ponders his family's fall from grace. Joachim Abbas. Frank unpacks "the rabble."

In Stephen's mind (still on Sandymount Strand), his uncle offers him food and drink, of a sorts. Second-hand opera, and a note of warning.

A special episode celebrates Bloomsday 2012 on June 16. Frank introduces us to the first five stories of Dubliners as a way of "getting into Joyce."

An imagined domestic scene, mock heroism, and Stephen's nuncle. Differing versions of the text, and contradictions. Names unpacked, and a poignant poem.

In Stephen's mind, his father continues to mock his mother's family, and Stephen visits his uncle's cottage.