A Visit to Glasnevin Cemetery

Taken from Explow website.
(Originally from www.jochenhertweck.com, but watch out for this site as I had a security warning pop up).

Chapter  6 takes place in Hades/Glasnevin Cemetery Dublin, where we learn more about Bloom's character and background. It carries on nicely from Bloom's visit to the church in the previous chapter as he continues to observe the world around him. Bloom is forced to endure an uncomfortable carriage ride with a group of men who are preparing to attend the internment of a person they knew, but were not really that close to. The carriage ride is evidently meant to represent the boat trip to Hades, allowing the occupants to tell some blackly humourous stories and for them to unwittingly disturb Bloom with their attitude to suicide. He makes some mental observations about people's ghoulish curiosity about death, in particular violent death and remembers both his son's death and  his father's suicide, dwelling on the decay of the body and Catholic funeral customs.  

In both this chapter and the next Joyce uses fresh narrative techniques, in this one a technique he referred to as incubism. This could be a lovley excuse for some dry ramblings, but alas, I am no cultural phenomenologist, just a former English grad with a desmond, so I liked this article better. Eishiro Ito gives a great background, and I particularly liked the way the article analysed the different drafts to show how Joyce intensified and darkened the chapter. Much easier to read than the other article!