Tea for the Tower-Men

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. On the Blog: The Women of Ulysses: Mother Grogan and the Milk Woman Social Media: Facebook|Twitter Subscribe to Blooms and Barnacles: iTunes | Google Play Music | Stitcher 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.