Molly Bloom in "Ulysses" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". Molly Bloom Molly Bloom is a fictional character in the novel "Ulysses" by James Joyce. The wife of main character Leopold Bloom, she roughly corresponds to Penelope in the "Odyssey". The major difference between Molly and Penelope is that while Penelope is eternally faithful, Molly is not. Molly is having an affair with Hugh 'Blazes' Boylan. Molly, whose given name is Marion, was born in Gibraltar on 8 September 1870, the daughter of Major Tweedy, an Irish military officer, and Lunita Laredo, a Gibraltarian of Spanish descent. Molly
Sebastian Barry known play, "The Steward of Christendom", which won the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. The main character, named Thomas Dunne in the play, was the chief superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan Police from 1913–1922. He oversaw the area surrounding Dublin Castle until the Irish Free State takeover on 16 January 1922. One of his grandfathers belonged to the British Army Corps of Royal Engineers. Both "The Steward of Christendom" and the novel "The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty", are about the dislocations (physical and otherwise) of loyalist Irish people during the political upheavals of the early 20th century. The title character of