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    Nuala O'Connor on Penelope

    Nuala O'Connor explores a passage from the novel's final episode, Molly Bloom's soliloquy.

    Mary Costello on Ithaca

    Mary Costello chooses a passage from an episode towards the end of Ulysses: Ithaca.

    Colm Tóibín on Sirens

    Colm Tóibín explains singing in Ulysses, exploring a passage from the Sirens episode.

    John Patrick McHugh on Calypso

    Short story writer John Patrick McHugh chooses the fourth episode of Ulysses: Calypso.

    Anne Enright on Telemachus

    Anne Enright gives us a close reading of the opening pages of James Joyce's Ulysses.