M’Coy is a small-time local conman and swindler who meets Bloom on the street in “Lotus Eaters.” He asks Bloom to put his name on the list of mourners at Paddy Dignam’s funeral (even though he’s not going), and he talks up his wife’s singing career, despite knowing that Molly Bloom is far more successful. Bloom idly tolerates M’Coy and avoids asking about his wife’s concerts, since he knows that M’Coy often makes up travel plans in order to justify borrowing suitcases that he never gives back.
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C.P. M’Coy Character Timeline in Ulysses
The timeline below shows where the character C.P. M’Coy appears in Ulysses. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Episode 5: Lotus Eaters
Bloom runs into his friend M’Coy and they idly chat about Dignam’s funeral. Bloom gets distracted watching a beautiful, well-dressed woman...
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Episode 6: Hades
...to disperse. Hynes, who works for the newspaper, is taking the mourners’ names. Bloom adds M’Coy’s, and Hynes comments that M’Coy was fired from the newspaper for stealing money. Hynes asks...
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Episode 10: Wandering Rocks
...a black skirt separately going to court. Nosey Flynn asks how Rochford’s invention works, while M’Coy and Lenehan leave and chat about how Rochford heroically saved someone who fell into a...
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...getting returned to the window of 7 Eccles Street. Then, it returns to Lenehan telling M’Coy about groping Molly Bloom in a car on the way back from dinner many years...
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...the barmaids Miss Kennedy and Miss Douce, Simon Dedalus, Reverend Hugh C. Love, Lenehan and M’Coy, Buck Mulligan and Haines, John Howard Parnell, Dilly Dedalus, John Henry Menton, Denis J. Maginni,...
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Episode 13: Nausicaa
...up for missing the woman in front of the Grosvenor Hotel during his chat with M’Coy. He thinks about how women are keen to show off their bodies, both through their...
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