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.
Ned Lambert One of the discussants at the Freeman's office during "Aeolus." He and Simon Dedalus leave the others for a drink at The Oval.
