What kind of person has a picnic party in a funeral carriage?

Topics in this episode include a heartfelt thank you, cats that hate technology, the name Poldy, Eton suits, the Blooms’ middle class pretensions, Rudy’s conception, Raymond Terrace and the cease to do evil, Milly Bloom, crustcrumbs and picnic parties, Milly’s trip to Lough Owel, M’Coy, “Grace”, Joe Hynes, incubism, unpaid debts, the Grand Canal, cures for whooping cough, duchas.ie, Athos the dog, Rudolph Bloom’s suicide note, Argos the dog, the immensity of Tom Kernan, the uncertainty of the weather in Ireland, correspondences, “The Croppy Boy”, the 1798 Rebellion, the Peake from Crosbie and Alleyne’s, “Counterparts”, and the real life inspiration for Alleyne in “Counterparts”.

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