Abstract
This note outlines the methodology Joyce used in sourcing from lists the hundreds of names which appear in Ulysses . It was necessary for the scheme of the book to use so many characters as Joyce was depicting the whole city and not just a segment of it. Joyce had an obsession with lists. He obtained names from a variety of sources, including Thom’s Official Directory, The Irish Catholic Directory , newspapers and journals such as the Freeman’s Journal , the Irish Times , the Evening Telegraph , and the list of contents of magazines such as Dana . This essay also illustrates how Joyce drew heavily from the names of his father’s friends. He described his working methods as those of both ‘engineer’ and a ‘scissors and paste man’ and Ulysses ‘as a sort of encyclopaedia’ in a letter he wrote to Carlo Linati on 21 September 1920 when he sent him a schema of Ulysses .
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