ABSTRACT
This chapter examines two liminal Irish figures of the early twentieth century: the revolutionary Roger Casement and the celebrated writer James Joyce. Keeping in mind the way in which Joyce’s novel Ulysses (1922) is reread across different cultures, I argue that there are points of similarity between Joyce and Casement as transcultural figures. The focus of the chapter is on the way in which Casement is mentioned in the “Cyclops” episode of Ulysses, reflecting the construction of transcultural identities. With the support of transcultural theory, it will be demonstrated that if Joyce wrote Ulysses “to give a picture of Dublin so complete”, then, his choice to include Casement in it is not only a product of his transculturality, but it is also due to the fact that the nation Joyce imagines has Casement’s controversial ghost knocking on its door.
