Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Calypso/055

Annotations
In the swim: collusion, secret or deceitful cooperation.

Potato: carried in Bloom’s pocket as a talisman.

Arthur Griffith: Irish politician and founder of the Irish political party for independence from the British, Sinn Féin(Ourselves or We Ourselves).

Ikey: anti-Semitic reference, possibly related to the bank of Ireland.