A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners - James Joyce [229]
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From the opera based on Dion Boucicault’s The Colleen Bawn (1860).
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Pantomime performance.
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Short laneway on the northern quays of the Liffey.
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Terminal for trains departing to the south.
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50 miles from Dublin on the route to Cork.
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145 miles from Dublin; 19 miles outside Cork.
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Popular ballads that often begin with the phrase “Come all you [for example, Irish men],” etc. Mr. Dedalus begins a satiric “come-all-you” during the Christmas dinner scene (p. 30): “0, come all you Roman catholics / That never went to mass.”
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Tune or melody.
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Type of blood sausage.
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Opened in 1849.
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A promenade.
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Classroom.
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Street urchins or beggars.
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Temperament, disposition.
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Little men (Anglo-Irish).
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Cork’s primary seaport, now called again by its Irish name, Cobh.
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Candy confection.
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Coin.
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Young boy (Anglo-Irish).
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Prancings.
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River that flows through Cork.
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Popular Latin phrasebook.
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Times change and we change with them (Latin); both Latin versions are correct.
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Suburb of Cork.
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From “To the Moon,” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).
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Writing contest.
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The Parliament House was made obsolete by the Act of Union in 1800; the building now houses the Bank of Ireland.
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The men Mr. Dedalus mentions are eighteenth-century members of the Irish Parliament known for their oratorical skills.
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A furrier in Grafton Street.
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Probably a work, originally by German dramatist E. F. J. von Munch-Bellinghausen, that was translated into English by Maria Lovell and performed as Ingomar the Barbarian in 1851.
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Drama (1838) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, employing characters and situations very similar to those in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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A serious, deliberately committed sin that deprives the sinner of sanctifying grace.
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Character in The Lady of Lyons who is roughly equivalent to Dumas’s Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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Dublin’s notorious “Nighttown,” now redeveloped.
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Funeral pyre or signal fire.
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An irrational number.
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An office is a form of religious observance performed at specified hours throughout the day; the reference here is to an eighth-century collection of prayers in honor of the Virgin Mary.
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Both the title of a devotional book by Saint Alphonsus Liguouri (1696-1787) and a sermon (“The Glories of Mary for the Sake of Her Son”) of John Henry Cardinal Newman (see endnote 8), which Stephen recalls below (pp. 102, 121).
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From Newman’s “The Glories of Mary,” quoted more fully at p. 121.
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Math problems.
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An allusion to James 2:10. “And whosoever shall keep the whole law, but offend in one point, is become guilty of all” (Douay version).
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The seven deadly sins, all mortal sins, are lust, gluttony, greed, envy, pride, sloth, and anger.
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Island off the coast of China.
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Hot desert wind.
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The particular and the general judgments are, respectively, God’s judgment of the individual soul at death and God’s judgment of the entire world at the apocalypse.
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An allusion to the final book of the New Testament, called Apocalypse or Revelation, chapter 6, verse 13.
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Place where, in the Bible (Joel 3), it is prophesied that God will judge all nations.
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Four among the epithets and titles of Jesus Christ.
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Quotation from Matthew 25:41 (Douay version).
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Critic and essayist Joseph Addison (1672-1719).
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The text is from I Corinthians 15:55, though the priest here quotes it in the version of Alexander Pope (1688-1744), in “The Dying Christian to His Soul.”
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From Newman’s “The Glories of Mary.”
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Allusion to the biblical flood described in Genesis 7-8.
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See Isaiah 14:12. The most extensive account of Lucifer’s pride and fall, and the basis for much of this sermon, is in John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667).
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Gallows.
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Narrow
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(1034-1109); Italian churchman.
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An allusion to Daniel 3.
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Burning sulphur.
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(1221-1274); professor of theology, general of the Franciscans, and