Episode
6
In this episode Bloom joins the funeral procession of Paddy Dignam who died from a stroke.
Its destination is
Glasnevin Cemetery, the Hades of Ulysses.
The time is 11:05 – 12.00 noon. (>> click here)
Episode 6 was finished in Zurich in May 1918 and published in The Little Review, September 1918.
Many of the characters who inhabit the pages of Ulysses are buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Bloom muses: "how many! All these here once walked round Dublin."
No exact location for Paddy's Dignam's grave is given. However we do know that this episode is based
on the real funeral of a Matthew F.Kane, which took place in July 1904 which was attended by
many of the people who appear as characters in Ulysses, including
Alfred H. Hunter, a model for the Bloom character.
Kane's funeral was the model for Patrick Dignam's, and his grave is in the St. Brigid's section of the cemetery. It is as good a spot as any to designate as Dignam's final resting place.