Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Calypso/055
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In the swim: collusion, secret or deceitful cooperation.
Potato: carried in Bloom’s pocket as a talisman.
Arthur Griffith: Irish politician and founder of the Irish political party for independence from the British, Sinn Féin(Ourselves or We Ourselves).
Ikey: anti-Semitic reference, possibly related to the bank of Ireland.