Death in Dublin During the Era of James Joyce’s Ulysses

Patrick Callan is a Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. His work on Ulysses, and the role of radio in Joyce's work, has appeared in the James Joyce Quarterly (2021), the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (2019), and the Dublin James Joyce Journal (2018-20).

Introduction Part A: Developing Ireland’s ‘National’ Cemetery — ‘the grave elders’ (U 12.1185) 1. Dublin’s New Burial Ground — ‘When churchyards yawn’ (U 6.750) 2. The Emergence of a National Cemetery — ‘hero martyr’ (U 12.609) 3. Managing Dublin’s Largest Cemetery — ‘over us dead they bend’ (U 14.393) Part B: Living and Dying in Paddy Dignam’s Dublin — ‘wipe away a tear’ (U 11.1101) 4. On the Edge in Dublin — ‘till their dying day’ (U 13.888–89) 5. ‘For all things dying’ (U 11.1102) Part C: Bringing Paddy Dignam to Glasnevin — ‘great race tomorrow’ (U 6.369) 6. Death Notices and Mourning Styles — ‘Sufficient for the day’ (U 7.726) 7. Getting to Glasnevin — ‘Grand Funeral’ (U 18.1093) Part D: Burial in Glasnevin — ‘the debt of nature’ (U 12.335) 8. Burying Paddy Dignam — ‘First the stiff’ (U 6.522–3) 9. The Joyce Family Plot, 1880–1957 — ‘ends and ultimates’ (U 14.388–89) Part E: Interment in Glasnevin, June 16, 1904 — ‘Ashes to ashes’ (U 6.986) 10. Burial in the Poor Ground — ‘burying the little dead’ (U 6.692) 11. Burial in the General Ground — ‘Cry you mercy, gentlemen’ (U 12.1607) Part F: Paying for Paddy Dignam’s funeral — ‘Good Fallback’ (U 5.119) 12. ‘Isn’t he in the insurance line? (U 8.939) 13. The ‘chapter of the saints of finance’ (U 15.1419) 14. Preparing for the ‘last farewell’ (U 12.525) Part G: Commemorating Paddy Dignam — ‘We obey them in the grave’ (U 6.126) 15. Legacies and Bequests — ‘All dead names’ (U 4.222) 16. Commemorating the dead — ‘as memory fabled it’ (U 2.08)