High tide

In Telemachus the "boatman" who is looking out over the water where a man drowned nine days earlier comments that the body "will be swept up that way when the tide comes in about one"––an expectation repeated in Lotus Eaters when M'Coy begs off of attending Paddy Dignam's 11:00 AM funeral because "There's a drowning case at Sandycove may turn up and then the coroner and myself would have to go down if the body is found." Joyce has consulted the tide tables: on June 16 the high tide occurred at 12:42 PM. The slow rolling in of the tide also figures in Proteus and Nausicaa. 

John Hunt 2017

View across Sandymount Strand to the Poolbeg Generating Station, next to the now-decommissioned Pigeon House generating station of Joyce's day. Source: lostchildreninthewilderness.wordpress.com.