Maggy Dedalus Another impoverished sister of Stephen; she fails to convince a pawn shop to accept her brother’s books.
Mrs. May (Mary) Dedalus Stephen’s refusal to pray at his mother’s deathbed occasions his major guilt in Ulysses. His mother appears to him in “Circe,” begging him to repent and to return to the Church. In an act of rebellion, Stephen smashes the brothel chandelier with his ashplant (walking stick) in “Circe.”
Simon Dedalus Stephen’s alcoholic father; he counters neglect of his family with a fine sense of humor, a clear critical eye, and an excellent singing voice.
Stephen Dedalus Joyce’s bright, creative, but perplexed young hero, whose story begins in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. For further discussion, see Character Analyses.
Charles-Paul de Kock French novelist (1794-1871) who wrote trashy books for the lower-middle class. Molly thinks that he probably acquired his name because of his sexual proclivities.
Paddy (Patrick) Dignam His death is the reason why Bloom is at Glasnevin Cemetery (“Hades”) and the reason why Bloom is dressed in black throughout the day. Another drunken Dubliner, Dignam corresponds to Odysseus’s inebriated retainer, Elpenor, who, in Homer’s epic, broke his neck in a fall from the roof of Circe’s house.
Master Patrick Dignam The main interest of Dignam’s son in his father’s death is that he might get some time off from school and can become a celebrity for awhile.
Mat Dillon His home provided a meeting place for Bloom and Molly in 1887 when they were going together. Also, it was at Dillon’s that Bloom bested Menton at bowls, an affront that the solicitor never forgot.
Dr. Dixon On May 23, 1904, Dixon treated Bloom for a bee sting, this wound in the side becoming a Christocentric symbol in Ulysses.
Moses Dlugacz At the shop of this pork butcher, Bloom (in “Calypso”) buys a kidney for breakfast. Also, at Dlugacz’s, Bloom ogles the buxom servant girl of the Blooms’ next door neighbors, the Woods, although he is unable to follow her after she leaves the store.
Reuben J. Dodd A stingy legal accountant who is the butt of a joke among Cunningham, Power, Simon Dedalus, and Bloom on the way to Glasnevin Cemetery.
Ben Dollard An overweight singer who gives a rendition of the patriotic ballad “The Croppy Boy” in “The Sirens.” Molly once punned on Dollard’s size, saying that he had a nice “barreltone” voice.
Bob Doran From “The Boarding House” in Dubliners. Doran is on his annual drinking binge in Ulysses, and his sinister, drunken antics in “The Cyclops” help to establish the macabre tone of the episode.
Lydia Douce One of Joyce’s sirens in “The Sirens,” Lydia Douce is a barmaid at the Ormond Hotel. Her observation that Bloom has “greasy eyes” relates him to Christ since the word is pronounced “grace-y” in Dublin. The other siren at the Ormond is Mina Kennedy.
Mary Driscoll A maid at the Blooms’ whom Molly dismissed on a false charge when Bloom began taking an interest in her.
Earl of Dudley (William Humble Ward) The cavalcade of this Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to open the Mirus Bazaar is one of the structuring devices of “The Wandering Rocks.”
Kevin Egan A self-exiled Irish patriot whom Stephen meets in Paris before the start of Ulysses.
John Eglinton (William Kirkpatrick Magee) Influential Anglo-Irish essayist who patronizes Stephen during Stephen’s discussion of Shakespeare in “Scylla and Charybdis.”
Lamppost (Cashel Boyle O’Connor Fitzmaurice Tisdall) Farrell A Dublin eccentric known for his wild clothes and for his habit of walking outside of lampposts. Farrell is sitting in the National Library’s reading room during the discussion of Shakespeare in “Scylla and Charybdis.”
James (Skin-the-Goat) Fitzharris He drove the decoy car after the Phoenix Park Assassinations of 1882. The cabman’s shelter to which Bloom and Stephen go in “Eumaeus” is said to be operated by him (but probably is not).
“Henry Flower” Bloom’s alias in his correspondence with Martha Clifford.
Nosey Flynn From “Counterparts” in Dubliners. A frequenter of Davy Byrne’s, who praises Bloom in “The Lestrygonians.”
Ignatius Gallaher From “A Little Cloud” in Dubliners. The star reporter discussed in the newspaper offices in “Aeolus,” Gallaher broke the story of the Phoenix Park Assassinations, possibly (Joyce implies) by infiltrating the group of Irish extremists.
Lieutenant Stanley G. Gardner Discussed in “Penelope,” Gardner is probably the only person (besides Bloom and Boylan) who has complete sexual intercourse with Molly during her marriage. If the affair did take place, it happened between 1899 and 1901. Gardner died of fever in South Africa during the Boer War.
Garryowen The large dog that menaces Bloom in Barney Kiernan’s pub in “The Cyclops.” It belongs to Gerty MacDowell’s grandfather, Giltrap.
Uncle Richie Goulding Stephen’s uncle, whom he considers visiting in “Proteus.” Simon Dedalus intensely dislikes his brother-in-law, who has been ruined by drink and who forms a pathetic figure as he eats with Bloom (another outcast) in “The Sirens.”
Haines The patronizing, anti-Semitic Oxonian who rooms with Mulligan and Stephen in the Martello Tower. Haines, who has come to Ireland to study Irish folklore, simplistically asserts that all of Ireland’s troubles are attributable to “history,” not to British misuse.
Charles Wisdom Hely The Dublin stationer and printer for whom Bloom used to work. Men advertising his business appear in “The Lestrygonians,” walking about wearing scarlet letters on large white hats.
Ellen Higgins Bloom’s mother, who married Rudolph Bloom, about 1865.
Zoe Higgins A prostitute in “Circe” who takes away Bloom’s talisman, a potato, which corresponds to Odysseus’s moly (the herb that prevented Odysseus from being turned into a swine by Circe).
Dr. Andrew J. Horne One of the superintendents of Dublin’s National Maternity Hospital, the setting for “The Oxen of the Sun.”
Joe Hynes From “Ivy Day in the Committee Room” in Dubliners. Vaguely associated with the Freeman’s journal and the Evening Telegraph, Hynes unwittingly includes several bits of false information in his report of Paddy Dignam’s funeral. Although Hynes owes Bloom money (for which Bloom has asked him three times), Hynes appears in “The Cyclops” and buys drinks for himself and others.
Georgina Johnson A prostitute upon whom Stephen spent the pound that he had borrowed from George Russell (A.E.). The loan is the basis for the execrable pun on Russell’s appellation: “A.E.I.O.U.”
Kathleen Kearney From “A Mother” in Dubliners. A rising songstress of whom Ily is jealous.
Corny Kelleher Works for an undertaker and is rumored to have underworld connections. In “The Wandering Rocks,” Kelleher spits out a “silent jet of hayjuice,” and in “Circe,” he refuses to take Stephen home after Private Carr has knocked him down.
Alexander Keyes The tea merchant with whom Bloom negotiates the placing of an ad in the Freeman’s Journal. Keyes will grant a two-month renewal of the ad in exchange for a free paragraph “puffing” his establishment in Freeman’s. Myles Crawford, the editor, insists on three months, and Bloom is caught in the middle.
Barney Kiernan The Cyclops Episode takes place in his pub and begins just before 5:00 p.m.
“Kinch” Stephen’s nickname; the sound of the word is probably suggestive of the cutting sound made by a knife, a reference to Stephen’s sharp Aristotelian logic.
