300:". 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
452:", can be traced to Gogarty. Mulligan's full name, "Malachi Roland St. John Mulligan", contains allusions to Gogarty; in addition to sharing one of the same middle names, their full names have the same metrical arrangement, and "Roland" recalls Gogarty's first name by its popular association with the phrase "a Roland for an Oliver." A 1907 letter from Joyce to his brother stating that "OG's mother is 'beastly dead
340:. 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
379:, 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
335:
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
307:
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.
164:
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
459:
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."
152:
287:
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
481:: "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."
259:
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.
477:, 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
370:
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
485:
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
359:
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-
143:, 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."
466:, 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
331:
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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403:, a close companion with whom James Joyce fell out shortly before leaving Ireland. Joyce formed the intention of modelling a character on
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347:
Mulligan surfaces again in the chapter "Scylla and Charybdis" at the National Library, where Stephen is expounding his theories on
189:, 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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201:(who dismisses him as a "bastard" and a "contaminated bloody doubledyed ruffian"), and, to a lesser extent,
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421:-era character sketches feature subjects (called "Goggins" and "Doherty") who closely resemble Mulligan.
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432:
at the time of his acquaintance with Joyce; he had also made the acquaintance of several classicists at
94:
989:
355:, whom he has seen ogling the buttocks of the classical statues in the adjoining National Museum, is a
456:" may also indicate that Gogarty, like Mulligan, used this phrase in reference to Joyce's own mother.
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351:. He playfully berates Stephen for failing to meet him at the pub and expresses his suspicion that
284:, whose twelve-pound yearly rent the chronically impecunious Stephen has somehow contrived to pay.
274:, but his acquaintance with Stephen Dedalus has been of some substantial duration by the start of
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173:. His facial expressions often shift rapidly, and he is prone to sudden, energetic movements.
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Everyman His Own Wife Or, A Honeymoon in the Hand: A National Immorality in Three Orgasms
197:, and appears to be well liked by all the characters in the book, with the exception of
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Various details of Mulligan's character parallel those of his real-life inspiration.
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The Art of James Joyce: Method and Design in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
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216:". His speeches contain a barrage of quotations from poets (notably
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notebook contains a number of phrases that would later be used in
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very early in his writing career; an entry on Gogarty in his 1909
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Fictional character in James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses
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323:, opening the novel by ascending to the top of the
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26:
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682:
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399:The character of Buck Mulligan is partly based on
319:Buck Mulligan is the first character to appear in
212:and espouses the belief that Ireland ought to be "
761:. London: Little, Brown and Company. p. 353.
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473:Contemporaries of Joyce and Gogarty, on reading
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448:. The authorship of one of Mulligan's songs, "
470:friend who became the inspiration for Haines.
296:and to Stephen's demeanor whilst drunk), and "
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706:Oliver St. John Gogarty: A Poet and His Times
232:. He also seems to admire the philosophy of
224:), popular songs, and self-composed lines of
86:mother, father, sister, "wealthy, pious aunt"
8:
155:Oliver St. John Gogarty photographed in 1897
723:. New York: Creative Age Press. p. 47.
666:. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p.
268:Mulligan does not appear as a character in
135:. He appears most prominently in episode 1
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742:. New York: Taplinger Publishers. p.
1068:Characters in novels of the 20th century
1031:United States v. One Book Called Ulysses
708:. London: Jonathan Cape. pp. 78–82.
499:
271:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1063:Literary characters introduced in 1918
23:
511:. New York: Vintage Books. p. 3.
292:" (a dual reference to the poetry of
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645:Complete text of Trieste notebook:
440:, was known to have saved men from
689:. New York: Viking Press. p.
387:and takes the night train back to
280:. The pair share quarters at the
14:
264:Relationship with Stephen Dedalus
391:, leaving Stephen in the lurch.
244:." He expresses disdain for the
685:Selected Letters of James Joyce
327:and performing a parody of the
721:Mourning Became Mrs. Spendlove
240:" and (more facetiously) "the
1:
236:, referring to himself as a "
898:Museum of Literature Ireland
252:, but is socially active in
125:is a fictional character in
893:National Library of Ireland
383:, Mulligan meets Haines at
1084:
1053:Ulysses (novel) characters
450:The Ballad of Joking Jesus
193:for having saved men from
868:Howth Castle and Environs
734:Rodgers, William (1973).
873:Sandycove Martello Tower
757:O'Faolain, Sean (1964).
738:Irish Literary Portraits
719:Gogarty, Oliver (1948).
704:O'Connor, Ulick (1963).
658:Litz, A. Walton (1964).
444:, and was friendly with
282:Sandycove Martello Tower
401:Oliver St. John Gogarty
248:when in the company of
115:Malachi Roland St. John
54:In-universe information
1058:Fictional Irish people
156:
681:Joyce, James (1975).
507:Joyce, James (1990).
256:'s literary circles.
165:distinctive primrose
154:
993:(2012 graphic novel)
936:Ulysses in Nighttown
385:Westland Row Station
208:Mulligan is an avid
1018:Obscenity trial of
1013:Lilac Bloomsday Run
160:Physical appearance
21:Fictional character
863:Glasnevin Cemetery
157:
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1024:The Little Review
968:The Sensual World
883:Sandymount Strand
112:
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960:Blooms of Dublin
955:(1982 broadcast)
888:Sweny's Pharmacy
858:Davy Byrne's pub
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32:First appearance
27:Malachi Mulligan
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963:(1982 operetta)
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832:Stephen Dedalus
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183:medical student
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147:Characteristics
78:Medical student
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246:Celtic Revival
181:Mulligan is a
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978:(2003 film)
947:(1967 film)
939:(1958 play)
928:Adaptations
842:The Citizen
827:Molly Bloom
806:James Joyce
395:Inspiration
349:Shakespeare
294:W. B. Yeats
238:hyperborean
177:Personality
127:James Joyce
105:Nationality
97:, probably
48:James Joyce
1047:Categories
814:Characters
494:References
415:, and two
342:Forty Foot
242:Übermensch
214:Hellenized
210:classicist
171:Panama hat
139:Telemachus
75:Occupation
44:Created by
1008:Bloomsday
851:Locations
759:Vive Moi!
389:Sandycove
234:Nietzsche
218:Swinburne
167:waistcoat
907:Analysis
636:, p. 197
624:, p. 214
442:drowning
357:sodomite
312:Role in
298:dogsbody
230:ribaldry
195:drowning
123:Mulligan
99:agnostic
95:Catholic
91:Religion
59:Nickname
1020:Ulysses
983:Air War
952:Ulysses
944:Ulysses
801:Ulysses
634:Ulysses
622:Ulysses
612:, p. 22
610:Ulysses
598:Ulysses
583:Ulysses
573:, p. 88
571:Ulysses
556:Ulysses
544:Ulysses
527:Ulysses
509:Ulysses
479:Ulysses
475:Ulysses
434:Trinity
426:Gogarty
413:Ulysses
409:Trieste
405:Gogarty
321:Ulysses
314:Ulysses
302:Ulysses
277:Ulysses
222:Whitman
187:Ulysses
132:Ulysses
37:Ulysses
600:, p. 5
585:, p. 7
558:, p. 8
546:, p. 6
529:, p. 3
468:Oxford
438:Oxford
428:was a
381:Dublin
333:Oxford
290:Aengus
254:Dublin
226:parody
83:Family
67:Gender
1001:Other
975:Bloom
878:Monto
108:Irish
329:Mass
228:and
220:and
191:hero
169:and
119:Buck
70:Male
62:Buck
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