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• Edmund Dwyer Gray (1845 – 1888): an Irish newspaper proprietor, politician and MP in the UK House of Commons. He was also Lord Mayor and later High Sheriff of the City of Dublin and became a strong supporter of Charles Stewart Parnel. He launched'the newspaper The Evening Telegraph in Dublin in 1871. The newspaper was Irish nationalist in its politics. It was originally a weekly newspaper but soon became daily (except Sundays).

• • Leopold Bloom sells advertising for the Evening Telegraph in Ulysses.
  • It is fitting that the Evening Telegraph is alluded to here (at the onset of evening) in this book of the night.