This is a personal holy grail, a record I've wanted for a while, from (perhaps) my favorite Brazilian musician. A lovely reissue of an impossibly hard to find lp.
Fini. De puis que je sais lire, j'ai lu des milliers de livres, j'en ai oublié beaucoup, détesté un peu. J'ai des souvenirs d'ambiance, de bouts d'intrigues, de personnages.
Mais il y en a très peu qui me laissent ce vide en finissant. Déjà ? Encore ! Deux mois de bouts de trajets ensemble et puis plus rien. Dernière page achevée. (oui, je le relirai) #Ulysse#Joyce
With a vague notion of reaching the now inaccessible Martello tower in Leith docks, perhaps it was inevitable that our wander would lead us to Ulysses & a now blind cyclops.
Francis Sheehy Skeffington, a pacifist, was murdered by the British forces on 26th April 1916 after being apprehended whilst trying to stop looting during the Easter Uprising. He was a friend and schoolmate of James Joyce and the real-life model for a character in Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
The "McCann" whom Stephen recalls owing one guinea in Nestor is apparently the "MacCann" with whom Stephen spars in part 5 of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, who in turn is the McCann called "Phil" in Stephen Hero. This character was based, as you say, on a real-life university friend named Francis Skeffington.
@bullivant
Skeffington was shot multiple times and then buried in quicklime (to dissolve his body and thus hide the crime.)
The British officer responsible for those crimes was “retired” to (I believe) British Columbia with a pension and completely escaped responsibility.