Leopold Bloom
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Leopold Paula Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses. His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale,
Plaque in memory of Bloom in his (fictional) ancestral home, Szombathely
Zero Mostel in costume as Bloom for the play Ulysses in Nighttown (1958)
Molly Bloom
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Molly Bloom is a fictional character in the 1922 novel Ulysses by James Joyce. The wife of main character Leopold Bloom, she roughly corresponds to Penelope in the Odyssey. The major difference betwee
Leopold Bloom
…and of Ellen Higgins, an Irish Catholic. He is uncircumcised. They lived in Clanbrassil Street, Portobello. Bloom converted to Catholicism to marry Marion (Molly) Tweedy on 8 October 1888. The couple has one daughter, Millicent (Milly), born in 1889; their son Rudolph (Rudy), born in December 1893, died after 11 days…
Molly Bloom's statue in her fictional home in Gibraltar
Nora Joyce, photographed in 1926