As readers celebrate the day on which Joyce’s novel takes place, a study of real-life people in the book reveals Morny Cannon to be Piggott’s relative
A great uncle of the jockey Lester Piggott appeared as a character in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, according to a new book on the Irish author’s masterpiece.
As Joyce admirers around the world celebrate and even re-enact scenes from arguably the 20th century’s most famous novel, which is set on just one day, 16 June 1904, a fresh study of the 600-plus characters in the text has thrown up the connection with the racing champion’s family.
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