Kelly and Dermot talk about the allegory of the old milk woman who visits Stephen and the boys in the Martello Tower. Topics covered include Hiberno-English, the importance of tea in Irish culture and who the hell Mother Grogan was.
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The Women of Ulysses: Mother Grogan and the Milk Woman
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Further Reading:
The full lyrics of the song "Ned Grogan" can be found here.
More on Mother Grogan: http://web.sas.upenn.edu/ulysses-test/tag/mother-grogan/
Blamires, H. (1985). The Bloomsday Book. New York: University Paperbacks.
Burgess, A. (1968). ReJoyce. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
Gifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press.
