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Presents annotations to Joyce's classic that can inform any reading of "Ulysses". This volume includes annotations that gloss place names, define slang terms, give capsule histories of institutions and political and cultural movements and figures, supply bits of local and Irish legend and lore, and explain religious nomenclature and practices.

In James Joyce's early work meanings are often concealed in obscure allusions and details of veiled suggestive power. Consistent recognition of these hidden signififances in "Dubliners" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" would require a knowledge of life in 19th- and 20th-century Dublin. This book presents the requisite knowledge.