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for this right royal welcome to green Erin, the promised land of our common ancestors.

(The freedom of the city is presented to him embodied in a charter. The keys of Dublin, crossed on a crimson cushion, are given to him. He shows all that he is wearing green socks.)

tom kernan

You deserve it, your honour.

bloom

On this day twenty years ago we overcame the hereditary enemy at Ladysmith. Our howitzers and camel swivel guns played on his lines with telling effect. Half a league onward! They charge! All is lost now! Do we yield? No! We drive them headlong! Lo! We charge! Deploying to the left our light horse swept across the heights of Plevna and, uttering thier warcry, Bonafide Sabaoth, sabred the Saracen gunners to a man.

the chapel of freeman typesetters

Hear! Hear!

john wyse nolan

There’s the man that got away James Stephens.

a bluecoat schoolboy

Bravo!

an old resident

You’re a credit to your country, sir, that’s what you are.

an applewoman

He’s a man like Ireland wants.

bloom

My beloved subjects, a new era is about to dawn. I, Bloom, tell you verily it is even now at hand. Yea, on the word of a Bloom, ye shall ere long enter into the golden city which is to be, the new Bloomusalem in the Nova Hibernia of the future.

(Thirty two workmen wearing rosettes, from all the counties of Ireland,