Garrett Deasy

Joyce modeled "Mr Deasy" on Francis Irwin, the owner and headmaster of the Clifton School in Dalkey, where he worked for several weeks or months in March-June 1904. Altering some details and keeping others, he created a vivid portrait of a blustery old man whose authoritative advice is undermined by frequent errors of fact.

John Hunt 2012

The Dalkey house that housed Francis Irwin's Clifton School for boys, as photographed in the 1950s by William York Tindall. Source: The Joyce Country.

Hecamede mixing drink for Nestor (according to one common scholarly interpretation of the scene depicted) in the tondo of an Attic cup from ca. 490 BC. Source: Wikimedia Commons.