He is later present in Barney Kiernan's pub for an altercation between Bloom and The Citizen. Kitty Ricketts – a worker in Bella Cohen's brothel. and is a lover of another character, Lynch, being almost caught in the bushes with him by Father Conmee. She is thin in appearance and dresses with upwardly mobile aspirations. George William Russell (A.E.) who wrote with the pseudonym Æ (sometimes written AE or A.E.), was an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, artistic painter and Irish nationalist. His first book of poems, Homeward: Songs by the Way (1894), established him in what was known as the Irish Literary Revival, where Æ met the young James Joyce in 1902 and introduced him to other Irish literary figures, including William Butler Yeats. He appears as a character in the "Scylla and Charybdis" episode, where he dismisses Stephen's theories on Shakespeare. His collected poems was published in 1913, with a second edition in 1926. Cyril Sargent is a pupil of Stephen Dedalus and is an uncertain and mediocre student, reminding Dedalus of his own childhood and uncertainties. Florry Talbot is a worker in Bella Cohen's brothel. She plays an important role in the "Nighttown" sequence of the novel and is an overweight presence in the premises. She is concerned about the possible end of the world. Mrs. Mervyn Talboys is one of the fantasized sadistic women of "Circe" who accuse Bloom in the courtroom scene of having made sexual advances—in her case, of sending her an obscene postcard and urging her to soil the correspondence "in an unspeakable manner". Talboys announces that she will horsewhip Bloom: "To dare address me! I'll flog him black and blue in the public streets". She also features as a character in the play, Ulysses in Nighttown, having been played by Kathleen Barrington and Maire O'Neill at the Abbey Theatre. References Ulysses