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Lecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

27 February 2025 at 6.30pm<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Please join us at the James Joyce Centre on Thursday, February 27th at 6.30pm<\/strong> for a talk by Vincent Altman O’Connor<\/strong> on the possible origins of Leopold Bloom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Ellmann writes, “When Dubliners asked each other in trepidation after the book appeared, ‘Are you in it?’ or ‘Am I in it?’ the answer was hard to give. A voice sounded familiar for an instant, a name seemed to belong to a friend, then both receded into a new being.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joyce’s methods and models in delineating his fictional characters has become a critical obsession for many, with the endeavor reaching its zenith in Vivien Igoe’s in The Real People of Joyce\u2019s Ulysses <\/em>(2016). Through years of painstaking research, she identifies the living models behind many of the fictional entities we meet in Dublin on Thursday 16th June 1904. And yet, the real-life identity of Leopold Bloom continues to challenge and haunt Joyceans to this day. Many of the contenders share personal qualities, beliefs, and aspects of a pre-Holocaust, assimilated Jewish identity with Joyce\u2019s Jew. Yet none can be described as an Irishman whose experience as a Jew in fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> Dublin was specific to that time and place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, an Irish-Jewish model for Bloom was proposed by Neil R. Davison in An Irish-Jewish Politician: Joyce\u2019s Dublin and Ulysses<\/em> (UP Florida). The Life and Times of Albert L. Altman<\/em> published by University Press of Florida. Albert Liebes Lascar<\/strong> Altman<\/strong>, a Jewish Dublin businessman and nationalist politician born in Prussian Poland, shared certain similarities with Bloom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O’Connor, a Joycean and relative of Albert, will discuss this new model within the broad frame of\u00a0<\/em>Cormac \u00d3 Gr\u00e1da\u2019s (author of\u00a0Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce\u00a0<\/em>(2006)),\u00a0<\/em>observation that knowledge of Altman \u2018opens up a whole new vista on Joyce scholarship\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event is free<\/strong> but booking is essential. Doors open at 6pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cover photo: Albert L. Altman with family. From\u00a0An Irish-Jewish Politician, Joyce’s Dublin, and Ulysses<\/em>by Neil R. Davison (UP Florida, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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