For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, Nuala O'Connor remembers James Joyce's own favourite Barnacle goose - listen to The True Ulysses Goose above...
There are sixteen geese in James Joyce's Ulysses. These are not accidental geese; Joyce fell in love with a goose when he found his Nora Barnacle, freshly flown east from Galway. You might call Nora the central goose in Ulysses, in the form of plump, warm Molly Bloom, the wife that Leopold Bloom cannot stop thinking about, and who eventually delivers her soliloquy from the nest of her bed...
Sunday Miscellany, RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday mornings at 9.10 am - listen back here.
