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Broken Hearts

48 min • 15 februari 2023

Corpses rarely wear hats.

Topics include the correspondent organ of Hades (the heart), the O’Connell Circle, Daniel O’Connell’s heart, Tom Kernan, hats, losing your identity in the underworld, freemasonery, whether or not Leopold Bloom is a mason, Mount Jerome and the Irish church, Bloom’s denial of an afterlife, humor in the face of death, ghosts in a modern epic, Corny Kelleher, John Henry Menton, a fateful game of bowls, Dublin’s Ajax, John O’Connell as Hades, John O’Connell as St. Peter, Mulcahy from the Coombe, and the kindness of John O’Connell.