Irish battleship to fly Munster flag as part of Bloomsday celebrations
by Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#5K3JQ)
Annual celebration of James Joyce's novel Ulysses will see dream of citizen' character played out for real
The cantankerous xenophobe referred to as the citizen" in James Joyce's novel Ulysses seems poised to finally get his wish after more than a century.
In Joyce's literary masterpiece, set in Dublin on 16 June 1904, the character rails against foreigners, Jews and the thicklugged" English and yearns for an Irish battleship to fly the flag of the province of Munster, which shows three crowns on a blue field.
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