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http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rac101/concord/texts/ulysses/

As a student (and a neurotic nutcase) this was a massively useful tool. Basically, if you click on any word, it will show you every instance of that word in Ulysses. The book has several significant words (I remember telling you about metempsychosis), and this helped me map them out. Use it if you feel the urge to.

One of the main reasons I love Ulysses is the music. I was jamming to these sick beats on YouTube as I first felt the mushrooms before my exam. Just listen to it, you might feel more resonance as you have some Irish blood in you after all.

A very cool online gallery of images related to Ulysses. You can actually look at these as you’re reading, but I always prefer to let my own imagination paint the first picture.

http://blog.frankdelaney.com/re-joyce/

Frank Delaney continues to publish 5 minute podcasts on Ulysses. Really nice little bits to keep you thinking about the book long after you’ve finished reading it.

Considering that there is an audiobook Ulysses selling for £55 on iTunes, this is fucking fantastic. More than adequate quality and all you really need to read Ulysses. Follow along with the text for a sound reading… no pun intended.

Fully marked up online copy of Ulysses, including Gifford’s annotations (widely held to be the best). I used this a hell of a lot, but only needed/found it when I started reading ‘Proteus’ (3rd chapter). The later chapters aren’t yet completed, and I doubt they ever will be. However, I found that by the time I’d reached those chapters, I’d become accustomed to Ulysses and felt brave enough to go on without them.

The original 1922 Paris edition in digital form, with annotations at the bottom of each page. Useful when you get to the later chapters.

Brief but very useful notes on each chapter, but look at them AFTER you reach each chapter. Make sure to look at the ‘Details that recur’ and ‘Joyce’s Schema’ pages in particular. Since you’re a classicist you’ll probably be more interested and the ‘Homeric parallels’ pages as well.

http://ulysses.bc.edu/

It’s like if all the characters in Ulysses had GPS tracking devices smartphones on them. Really really cool, but again, for more obvious reasons this time, look at the maps for each chapter only after you’ve read them.

BEFORE YOU READ

Read Portrait and if you can Dubliners (a lot of the characters reappear in Ulysses).

Be aware that Ulysses is in chapters, but the vast majority of editions do not separate them. Best thing to do is to use one of the annotations I’ve linked to below to make sure you know where these chapters start/end. Having said that, you don’t even really need to know where the chapters start/end…

Stumbled upon this list of resources for those who want a deep reading of Joyce's Ulysses, which I'd emailed to someone back in 2014. Initially, I thought I'd likely just copied and pasted these from course materials (at the time of sending, I was a third-year BA student of English), but after reading all the notes there are some dead giveaways which are somewhat cringe-worthy now.

You’re covered.

Strategic defence

of the unimportant.

Automatic updates

quarantine the mind virus.

PrEP for CyberAIDs,

a patch for the oblivious.

In the end

the elks were cloned,

Not in Minecraft,

let me pour a little salt inside.

Leave it there a while until

it soaks up a little of you

and you are well seasoned.

A prismatic flavour

lingers inside your cheeks.

You come to understand

that you need it, so hoarde