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Throughout Ireland's long and myth-enfolded history, each generation has thrown up its own icon: Names that resonate like those of Cuchulain, Wolfe Tone, Leopold Bloom and Terry Wogan.
An Irish Lesson in Hope and Marketing Sam Leith 2011
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This is the theme that James Joyce takes over and develops in Ulysses—the awakening of his hero, Stephen Dedalus, to manhood through a shared compassion with Leopold Bloom.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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An "Offaly good breakfast" may be a crap joke, but it was true to its word: grilled kidneys, pink at the eye, with Leopold Bloom's "faint tang of urine", a little fried wobbly liver, a round of black pudding, a fried egg trimmed unto the yolk on a piece of fried bread, a plank of crisp bacon and a dollop of their own ketchup.
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It is what the novel is for, whether the hero is Cervantes's chivalric Don Quixote or James Joyce's Homeric cuckold, Leopold Bloom.
Ping-Pong and the Game of Comedy Howard Jacobson 2011
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Throughout Ireland's long and myth-enfolded history, each generation has thrown up its own icon: Names that resonate like those of Cuchulain, Wolfe Tone, Leopold Bloom and Terry Wogan.
An Irish Lesson in Hope and Marketing Sam Leith 2011
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This is the theme that James Joyce takes over and develops in Ulysses—the awakening of his hero, Stephen Dedalus, to manhood through a shared compassion with Leopold Bloom.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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The novel takes place during the course of one day in Dublin, following a man named Leopold Bloom.
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Seated on a stool she passionately acted Gerty MacDowell, sitting on the beach observing Leopold Bloom, her perverted admirer, as he watches her.
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(Some have said that Joyce's character Leopold Bloom in "Ulysses" is partially based on the Jewish Svevo.)
Humor in Hopelessness Joseph Epstein 2010
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The book, widely considered to be one of the greatest modern novels ever written, takes place over the span of just one day -- June 16, 1904 -- and follows the musings and adventures of two men living in Dublin, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus.
Bloomsday 2010: 'Ulysses' Celebrated Around The World (PHOTOS, POLL) 2010
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