
Previously published material is here reprinted by permission of James Joyce Quarterly and the Irish University Review. A section of chapter 6 was delivered at the annual meetings of the Celtic Studies Association of North America at the University of Cincinnati and the annual meetings of the American Conference for Irish Studies in Dublin in 1987 it was published in the Irish University Review as "Molly's Gibraltar and the Morphology of the Irish Otherworld." Sections of chapter 7 have been published as "'The Broken Lights of Irish Myth': Joyce's Knowledge of Early Irish Literature" in James Joyce Quarterly. The principal argument of chapter 4 was presented at the 1983 meetings of the New England Committee for Irish Studies at the University of Connecticut at Storrs and subsequently published in James Joyce Quarterly as "Sovereignty Structures in Ulysses." Portions of chapter 3 were presented to the annual meetings of the American Conference for Irish Studies at Boston College in 1986, as well as given as addresses at Saint Olaf College, Carleton College, and the University of Minnesota in 1984. The initial part of chapter 2 was included in "Joyce and His Contemporaries: A Centenary Tribute," a conference held at Hofstra University in October 1982 this paper was later published in James Joyce Quarterly as "Symbolic Structures in Ulysses from Early Irish Literature" and reprinted in the proceedings of the conference.


Several of the chapters were presented in preliminary form at scholarly meetings, and the organizers of and participants in those conferences contributed to my work. This book has taken shape slowly over many years, in part because I am primarily a scholar of medieval literature I am therefore all the more indebted to many people.
