“I’m in awe of the prep work she does for each session and how she leads us. “I pestered Meg for years to teach a class about ‘Ulysses,’ and when she sort-of retired, I pushed my case even harder – and she kindly agreed,” McCarthy said. “A group of us at the Irish American Heritage Museum have been doing a very truncated reading from ‘Ulysses’ on Bloomsday, June 16, since 2016 at the museum,” said Meg Carroll, our leader and professor emeritus of English at the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Our gathering evolved from an annual celebration. “I tried it a couple of times, once even on an audio book, but didn’t make it more than about five pages.” “Ulysses is a book that as an Irish-American, has always been on my ‘Ought to Have Read’ list,” McCarthy said. Perhaps it was a bit of kismet (a word that pops up a few times in “Ulysses”) so I dove in. And a plan to visit Dublin next year was shaping up. Last year, my friend, Jessica DuPont, the owner of Half Moon Books in Kingston, showed me her rare first edition of “Ulysses.” And then another friend, Kathy McCarthy, invited me to read “Ulysses” with a group.
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