This disgusting, fervently nationalistic anti-Semite, who can only see reality with one eye, is Joyce's take on the cyclops of today. After "The Cyclops," he tosses a biscuit tin at Bloom as Bloom rides away in a "chariot" and ascends into "heaven." The character of The Citizen is based on Michael ("Citizen") Cusack (1847–1907), whose life's work was to bring back Irish Gaelic games.