A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners - James Joyce [227]
Affluent suburb on the coast south of Dublin, in County Wicklow.
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County Offaly location of the Jesuit novitiate.
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Shelf within a fireplace.
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Hot whiskey punch, or “toddy.”
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The opening lines of matins, early-morning prayers.
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Peat, dried and burned as fuel.
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Village near Clongowes.
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Horse-drawn hackney coaches, or “hacks.”
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Prayer near the close of compline, the last prayer session of the day.
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Parish, including Sallins, in which Irish republican Wolfe Tone (see footnote on p.
162) is buried.
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Hill near the Sallins railway station.
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A practical joke.
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Malingering.
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The vice-rector of Clongowes.
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Member of the Jesuit order who has not taken priestly orders.
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Long cloak made from a semicircle of cloth.
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Raised platform upon which the body of the deceased is laid.
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Anonymous nursery rhyme.
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Beef bouillon.
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Athy, in County Kildare, is about 26 miles from Clongowes.
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Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847), chief architect of Catholic Emancipation (the return of civil rights to Catholics) in 1829.
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Essays written to set topics.
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Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell (see endnote 1) died on October 6, 1891.
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Footstool.
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Long, narrow mirror.
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Bray Head, geographic landmark at the southern end of Dublin Bay.
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Mr. Casey may be referring to the manufacture of explosives for terrorist violence.
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Folds of loose skin under the throat.
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Common Catholic grace said before meals.
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Small club, similar to the “blackjack,” made of a hard core of whalebone covered in leather.
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Waist-length black jacket with wide lapels; worn by the boys at Eton College preparatory school in England.
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Member of a religious order.
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Reference to the Bible, Luke 17:1-2.
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Fatty flap of skin over the rump of a roasted fowl.
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Stephen’s father is referring to William J. Walsh, archbishop of Dublin, and Michael Logue, archbishop of Armagh, in the province of Ulster, northern Ireland.
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A conservative politician and landlord, Leitrim was murdered in 1877 in County Donegal by a vengeful tenant farmer; his coachman attempted to defend him from the attack. The reference is to one who aids his oppressor.
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Part of the Appalachian mountain range in the eastern United States.
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Anotherword for trinkets.
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Thelitany often forms part of evening prayers; “tower of ivory,” “house of gold,” and “morning star” are among the phrases used to describe the Blessed Virgin’s glories.
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Tag.
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25miles south of Bray on the eastern coast of Ireland.
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Charles Stewart Parnell (see endnote 1).
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Hag.
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Chewing tobacco.
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Table; hospitality.
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Village near Killiney Hill, in County Wicklow.
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Irelandwas still part of the United Kingdom and Queen Victoria her queen. Mrs. Riordan (“Dante”) showed her Irish nationalist streak by attacking this show of loyalty to the crown.
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The Whiteboys were an eighteenth-century group of oppressed tenants organized against the abuses of British absentee landlords.
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Dining table.
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Mrs. Riordan misattributes this Old Testament passage (Zacharias 2:8) to Christ.
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(1803-1878); first Irishman named to the College of Cardinals; an ardent anti-nationalist.
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3 miles from Cellbridge, in County Wicklow.
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Stolen.
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Ran away.
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In a church, the storage area for sacred vessels and vestments.
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White vestments with loose sleeves, worn by those presiding over church services.
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Server at a Mass who carries the receptacle containing the incense to be burned in the censer.
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Terms for various types of cricket bowls.
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Open latrines.
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Said to be slang for a form of homosexual petting; what seems more significant here is the way it both names and refuses to name some form of forbidden activity, so that Stephen’s imagination is left to its own devices.
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Water closets; toilets.
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Figure in Caesar’s text on the Gallic wars, De Bella Gallico.
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A beating on the palms of the hands: six strokes on each, followed by eight on each.
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Strokes.
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Assistant