The Invincibles were a group of radical Irish nationalists that briefly existed in the 1880s and committed the Phoenix Park murders.
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Invincibles Term Timeline in Ulysses
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Episode 7: Aeolus
...sent encoded information to New York about the 1881 Phoenix Park murders committed by the invincibles (a group of Irish nationalists). The phone rings, and MacHugh answers: it’s Bloom, calling for...
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Episode 16: Eumaeus
...then they reach the modest wooden cabman’s shelter, which is supposedly run by the famous Invincible Skin-the-Goat Fitzharris. Bloom and Stephen order food while the other patrons stare at them. Bloom...
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...witnessed in Italy and pulling out a knife to re-enact it. He comments on the Invincibles’ Phoenix Park murders, and Bloom and Stephen are glad to see that Skin-the-Goat doesn’t notice...
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