286:". He is frequently generous with Stephen, lending him money and clothing, but also carelessly makes free with Stephen's own possessions and funds, importunities which Stephen seems to accept out of a sense of obligation. Mulligan also injures Stephen with callous remarks about Stephen's late mother and his conduct towards her. Although Stephen's mother has been dead for ten months, Stephen has seemingly never vocalised any grievances to Mulligan concerning these remarks until the opening chapter of
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some money out of him before his visit is over. The conversation later turns to the subject of
Stephen Dedalus's late mother, and Stephen, after some prodding from his companion, reveals that he has been nursing a year-long grievance against Mulligan, whom he overheard referring to Mrs. Dedalus as "beastly dead" shortly after her death. Mulligan is at first confused, then irritated and embarrassed by this accusation, but quickly recovers his
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326:. During breakfast he tries and fails to get Stephen to assist him in borrowing money from Haines, and subsequently arranges to meet Stephen at a pub called The Ship at half past twelve, where he intends to buy them all drinks with Stephen's teaching paycheck. He then asks Stephen to give him the key to the Tower and goes for his morning swim in the
365:, and others in the cafeteria of Holles Hospital, where he expounds on an entrepreneurial scheme to offer his personal fertilisation services to willing women and gives an account of Haines's intoxicated behaviour at the soiree he has recently left. At some stage during the medical students' ensuing drunken romp through
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and has brought back an
English friend, Haines, to stay at the Tower. Stephen, who has been wakened in the night by Haines's violent nightmares, threatens to leave the Tower if Haines remains there. Mulligan claims to dislike Haines, but seems reluctant to evict him, as he apparently hopes to wheedle
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Stephen, meanwhile, has come to regard
Mulligan as an antagonist, privately referring to him as "mine enemy." He interprets a request for the Tower key at the end of chapter one as an attempt by Mulligan to "usurp" the Tower from him, and eventually resolves to part company with Mulligan altogether.
150:
Buck
Mulligan is described as having a "face... equine in its length", a "sullen oval jowl", a "strong wellknit trunk", "light untonsured hair, grained and hued like pale oak", "even white teeth", and "smokeblue mobile eyes." He begins the morning in a yellow dressing-gown; later he dons a
138:
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Gogarty also resided for a time in the
Sandycove Martello Tower; unlike Mulligan, however, he paid the Tower's yearly rent himself. He had originally inquired after renting the Tower with an eye to sharing it with Joyce, who was in need of a place to live while he worked on
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disagreed, saying that "Joyce did an immense and cruel injustice in
Ulysses by presenting him to posterity as something approaching the nature of an insensitive lout whose only function in life was to offset the exquisite sensitivity and delicacy of Stephen Dedalus."
273:
Mulligan's attitude towards
Stephen in conversation is both playful and patronising; he alternately teases and compliments Stephen's physical appearance, and refers to him by such epithets as "Kinch" (in evocation of a knife-blade), "Wandering
467:: "When paid me the only kind of compliment he ever paid, and that is to mention a person in his writings, he described me shaving on the top of the tower. In fact, I am the only character in all his works who washes, shaves, and swims."
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Mulligan's finances appear to be at least partially dependent on the generosity of a wealthy, pious aunt; he is also mentioned as having a father who was a "counter-jumper" (i.e. sales clerk), a mother, and a brother.
463:, differed over the extent to which Buck Mulligan was a fair and accurate portrayal of Oliver Gogarty. Gogarty himself, though he held largely negative views on Joyce's work, once wrote positively of his role in
356:
Mulligan puts in a brief appearance in "Wandering Rocks", where he meets Haines at a bakery and vocalises the opinion that
Stephen Dedalus is insane. He then attends an evening gathering at the home of
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felt that Buck
Mulligan, in addition to being an accurate portrait of Gogarty's distinctive speaking-style and mannerisms, was in fact "much more alive than Oliver Gogarty in his later years", while
345:
with homosexual designs on
Stephen. He then waits for Stephen to finish his discussion, interrupting with occasional and largely irrelevant commentary, and composes a playbill for a mock-
129:, and is the subject of the novel's famous first sentence: "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."
452:, but the plan for cohabitation fell through after the pair quarrelled in August 1904. Joyce, however, did stay at the Tower for six days in September, together with Gogarty and an
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with his shaving-bowl. He then calls Stephen Dedalus up to the roof to keep him company while he shaves. During their discussion, it is revealed that Mulligan has recently been to
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with a cynical view of the human condition, which he describes as "a mockery and beastly". Paradoxically, he is also the most consistently cheerful character in
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Stephen also harbours feelings of insecurity about Mulligan's physical courage and fearlessness, traits which Stephen feels that he himself does not possess.
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Mulligan surfaces again in the chapter "Scylla and Charybdis" at the National Library, where Stephen is expounding his theories on
175:, and is portrayed as being in constant pursuit of the next opportunity to eat, drink, and make merry. He is widely regarded as a
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187:(who dismisses him as a "bastard" and a "contaminated bloody doubledyed ruffian"), and, to a lesser extent,
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at the time of his acquaintance with Joyce; he had also made the acquaintance of several classicists at
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341:, whom he has seen ogling the buttocks of the classical statues in the adjoining National Museum, is a
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442:" may also indicate that Gogarty, like Mulligan, used this phrase in reference to Joyce's own mother.
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260:, but his acquaintance with Stephen Dedalus has been of some substantial duration by the start of
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Everyman His Own Wife Or, A Honeymoon in the Hand: A National Immorality in Three Orgasms
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Various details of Mulligan's character parallel those of his real-life inspiration.
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456:friend who became the inspiration for Haines.
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141:Oliver St. John Gogarty photographed in 1897
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631:Complete text of Trieste notebook:
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373:and takes the night train back to
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369:, Mulligan meets Haines at
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436:The Ballad of Joking Jesus
179:for having saved men from
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743:O'Faolain, Sean (1964).
724:Irish Literary Portraits
705:Gogarty, Oliver (1948).
690:O'Connor, Ulick (1963).
644:Litz, A. Walton (1964).
430:, and was friendly with
268:Sandycove Martello Tower
387:Oliver St. John Gogarty
234:when in the company of
101:Malachi Roland St. John
54:In-universe information
1044:Fictional Irish people
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667:Joyce, James (1975).
493:Joyce, James (1990).
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151:distinctive primrose
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979:(2012 graphic novel)
922:Ulysses in Nighttown
371:Westland Row Station
194:Mulligan is an avid
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999:Lilac Bloomsday Run
146:Physical appearance
21:Fictional character
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933:(1967 film)
925:(1958 play)
914:Adaptations
828:The Citizen
813:Molly Bloom
792:James Joyce
381:Inspiration
335:Shakespeare
280:W. B. Yeats
224:hyperborean
163:Personality
113:James Joyce
91:Nationality
48:James Joyce
1033:Categories
800:Characters
480:References
401:, and two
328:Forty Foot
228:Übermensch
200:Hellenized
196:classicist
157:Panama hat
125:Telemachus
75:Occupation
44:Created by
994:Bloomsday
837:Locations
745:Vive Moi!
375:Sandycove
220:Nietzsche
204:Swinburne
153:waistcoat
893:Analysis
622:, p. 197
610:, p. 214
428:drowning
343:sodomite
298:Role in
284:dogsbody
216:ribaldry
181:drowning
109:Mulligan
59:Nickname
1006:Ulysses
969:Air War
938:Ulysses
930:Ulysses
787:Ulysses
620:Ulysses
608:Ulysses
598:, p. 22
596:Ulysses
584:Ulysses
569:Ulysses
559:, p. 88
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542:Ulysses
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495:Ulysses
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461:Ulysses
420:Trinity
412:Gogarty
399:Ulysses
395:Trieste
391:Gogarty
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263:Ulysses
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37:Ulysses
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367:Dublin
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83:Family
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864:Monto
94:Irish
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