O'Dowd me not
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- Cornelius O"Dowd: pseudonum for Charles JamesLever (1806–1872), Irish novelist and essayist, author of such novels as Confessions of Con Cregan: the Irish Gil Blas (1849) and The Martins of Cro'Martin (1856).
- Mrs. O'Dowd: proprietress of the residence hotel Leopold Bloom once lived in:
- "it's a queer story, the old one, Bloom's wife and Mrs O'Dowd that kept the hotel." (Ulysses, 12)
- "Pisser Burke was telling me in the hotel the wife used to be in rivers of tears some times with Mrs O'Dowd crying her eyes out with her eight inches of fat all over her," (Ulysses, 12)
