Sources
In lieu of a complete bibliography, or a list of Works Cited
at the end of each note, this website cites referenced works
within the notes, often in shortened forms referring readers to
this list of Sources. The following published collections of Ulysses
annotations are cited frequently and identified only by the
authors' names:
Weldon Thornton,
Allusions in Ulysses, 2nd ed. (U North Carolina P,
1968)
The first free-standing published collection
of annotations
Don Gifford with
Robert J. Seidman, Ulysses Annotated, 2nd ed. (U
California P, 1988)
A fuller free-standing collection
James Joyce, Ulysses,
notes by Sam Slote (Alma Classics, 2012)
An edition of the novel with notes at the
back
Sam Slote, Marc A.
Mamigonian, and John Turner, Annotations to James Joyce's
Ulysses
(Oxford UP, 2022)
The latest, and fullest, free-standing
collection of annotations
Harald Beck and
John Simpson, eds., James Joyce Online Notes (JJON,
www.jjon.org)
An online, and ongoing, collection of web
pages aimed at experienced readers
Notes written from December 2022 onward refer to the Annotations
by Slote and his collaborators, while most earlier notes refer
to Slote's annotated edition of the novel. I typically refer
only to "Gifford," mentioning Robert Seidman only when
discussing the two areas in which he contributed to Gifford's
work: musical allusions and rhetorical tropes. In addition to
published annotations I frequently acknowledge the contributions
of interested readers who have communicated with me to point out
things that scholars have not yet noticed. They are identified
only by name.
Much less frequently cited are editions of Ulysses with
briefer annotations, annotated editions of Joyce's other
fictions, and guides for new readers of Ulysses:
Don Gifford, Joyce
Annotated: Notes for Dubliners and A Portrait, 2nd ed. (U
Cal P, 1982)
Terence Brown, ed., Dubliners
(Penguin, 1992)
Declan Kiberd,
ed., Ulysses: Annotated Students' Edition (Penguin, 1992)
Jeri Johnson, ed.,
Ulysses: The 1922 Text (Oxford UP, 1993)
Harry Blamires, The
Bloomsday Book, 3rd ed. (Routledge, 1996)
Roland McHugh,
Annotations to Finnegans Wake, 3rd ed. (Johns Hopkins UP,
2006)
Patrick Hastings, The
Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Terence Killeen, Ulysses
Unbound, 4th ed. (Penguin, 2022)
When not otherwise identified, quotations from Homer, Dante,
Shakespeare, the Bible, and Joyce's other works are taken from
the following published texts:
James Joyce, Collected
Poems (Viking, 1957)
The Critical Writings
of James Joyce, ed. Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann
(Viking, 1959)
Homer, The Odyssey, trans.
Robert Fitzgerald (Random House, 1961)
James Joyce, Dubliners,
ed. Terence Brown (Penguin, 1992)
James Joyce, A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, ed. Seamus Deane
(Penguin, 1992)
The
Riverside Shakespeare, ed. G. Blakemore Evans et al,
2nd ed. (Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
James Joyce, Finnegans
Wake, ed. John Bishop (Penguin, 1999)
Dante Alighieri, Inferno,
trans. Robert and Jean Hollander (Doubleday, 2000)
Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio,
trans. Robert and Jean Hollander (Doubleday, 2003)
Dante Alighieri, Paradiso,
trans. Robert and Jean Hollander (Doubleday, 2007)
The English Bible:
King James Version, The Old Testament, ed. Herbert Marks
(Norton, 2012)
The English Bible: King
James Version, The New Testament and the Apocrypha,
ed. Gerald
Hammond and Austin Busch (Norton,
2012)
Homer, The Odyssey,
trans. Emily Wilson (Norton, 2018)
Scholarly journal articles receive full bibliographical
citation––author, title, journal, volume, date, page
numbers––within the notes. Most websites are cited by URL
address, occasionally with an active link, and by an author and
date if this information is supplied on the site. Unpublished
dissertations, theses, and papers are cited simply by author,
title, and year of completion.
Most books other than volumes of annotations are identified in the notes by author, title, and year of publication. Some, however, come up so frequently that they are cited only by author and/or title:
Stuart Gilbert, James Joyce's Ulysses (Knopf, 1930)Frank Budgen, James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses (Smith & Haas, 1934)
Oliver St. J. Gogarty, As I Was Going Down Sackville Street (Reynal & Hitchcock, 1937)
Stanislaus Joyce, My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years (Viking, 1958)
Robert Martin Adams, Surface and Symbol (Oxford UP, 1967)
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) (Oxford UP, 1971)
Louis Hyman, The Jews of Ireland from Earliest Times to the Year 1910 (Israel Universities P, 1972)
Clive Hart and David Hayman, James Joyce's Ulysses: Critical Essays (U California P, 1974)
Zack Bowen, Musical Allusions in the Works of James Joyce (SUNY Press, 1974)
Mary Reynolds, Joyce and Dante: The Shaping Imagination (Princeton UP, 1981)
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, ed. Ivor H. Evans (Harper & Row, 1981)
Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, 2nd ed. (Oxford UP, 1982)
Robert Janusko, The Sources and Structures of James Joyce's Oxen (UMI Research P, 1983)
Hugh Kenner, Ulysses, 2nd ed. (Johns Hopkins UP, 1987)
A. Nicholas Fargnoli and Michael P. Gillespie, James Joyce A-Z (Oxford UP, 1995)
John Wyse Jackson and Peter Costello, John Stanislaus Joyce (St. Martin's, 1997)
Edna O'Brien, James Joyce (Viking, 1999)
Terence Patrick Dolan, A Dictionary of Hiberno-English, 2nd ed. (Gill & Macmillan, 2004)
Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable, ed. Sean McMahon and Jo O'Donoghue (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004)
Ian Gunn and Clive Hart with Harald Beck, James Joyce's Dublin (Thames & Hudson, 2004)
Douglas Bennett, The Encyclopaedia of Dublin, 3rd ed. (Gill & Macmillan, 2005)
Vivien Igoe, The Real People of Joyce's Ulysses (UC Dublin P, 2016)
Some images on the site have been selectively scanned from books in accordance with fair-use principles. Books that have supplied multiple images include:
John F. Finerty,
Ireland in Pictures (1898)
Photographs by Finerty
Gisèle Freund and V. B.
Carleton, James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years
(Harcourt, Brace, 1965)
Photographs by Freund
Flora H. Mitchell,
Vanishing Dublin (Allen & Figgis, 1966)
Watercolors by Mitchell
Chester G. Anderson, James
Joyce (Thames and Hudson, 1967)
Map by Hanni Bailey, photographs by Anderson
and from other sources
Cyril Pearl, Dublin
in Bloomtime (Viking, 1969)
Photographs from the National Library of
Ireland
William York
Tindall, The Joyce Country (Schocken, 1972)
Photographs by Tindall
James Joyce's Ulysses:
A Facsimile of the Manuscript, 3 vols. (Octagon, 1975)
Photographic facsimiles of the pages of the
Rosenbach Foundation manuscript
Clive Hart and Leo
Knuth, A Topographical Guide to Ulysses, 2nd ed.
(Wake Newslitter P, 1976)
Maps and drawings by Knuth
Frank Delaney and
Jorge Lewinski, James Joyce's Odyssey (Holt,
Rinehart and Winston, 1981)
Photographs by Lewinski and from various
archives
Jack McCarthy with
Danis Rose, Joyce's Dublin: A Walking Guide, 2nd
ed. (St. Martin's, 1988)
Maps by Bob Conrad and photographs from the
National Library of Ireland
David Pierce, James
Joyce's Ireland (Yale UP, 1992)
Photographs by Dan Harper and from various
archives
Bernard McCabe
and Alain Le Garsmeur, James Joyce: Reflections of Ireland
(Macmillan, 1993)
Photographs by Le Garsmeur
Richard Hamilton, Imaging
James Joyce's Ulysses (The British Council, 1999)
Drawings, prints, and digital images by
Hamilton
Ian Gunn
and Clive Hart with Harald Beck, James Joyce's
Dublin (Thames & Hudson, 2004)
Maps by Gunn and Stephen Patterson
The great majority of the photographic images that accompany
the notes are taken from the Web, and a majority of those come
from Wikimedia Commons. I make an effort to identify and cite
the creator of the work, its location if displayed in a museum
or other public space, and the address of a relatively
authoritative website if the image appears on many. The websites
of the National Library of Ireland (www.nil.ie) and the National
Archives of Ireland (www.census.nationalarchives.ie) have
provided many useful photographs. Others were taken in recent
years by John Hunt, Senan Molony, Gareth Collins, and Randall
Cone (see Contributors).
Video and audio clips come mainly from YouTube. When performers, dates, or locations can be identified, they are cited in the captions.