I think the populist nationalism was the dominant mode of resistance to British rule-

rule-In Ireland during the period that Joyce is represented.

Um, and I think that populist nationalism is a, a form of national identity that lives through a certain kind of internal crisis.

Ireland was a land that was defined by frustration and failure in the political realm.

Frustration and failure with respect to its own colonial status.

And the effect of extended frustration and failure among a group of people, and I, I don't think this is just true of the Irish, I think we can think of this more generally, but certainly it's true of the Irish, is the need to find a reason outside of one's own or the community's own, uh, agenda for this frustration and failure.

And that usually leads to the slotting of certain groups within the community that are taken to be somehow outside the community that they are.

Oh, he's not Jewish." W- what is the emphasis on the importance of whether Bloom is Jewish or not in this setting of strong Irish nationalism, if I'm saying that correctly?