A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners - James Joyce [231]
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Crown or wreath (Greek).
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Loosely belted, single-breasted coat.
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Garland-bearing ox! Ox-souled! (Greek).
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Medieval Dublin was ruled by the Danes.
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Epithet for Stephen’s legendary Greek “father,” Dædalus.
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Another epithet for Dædalus.
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Graveclothes.
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The Hill of Howth, the geographical landmark framing the north side of Dublin Bay.
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Articles that the Dedalus family has pawned: “buskins” are boots; “articles and white” are undergarments.
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That is, God; an example of the Irish strategy of “dodging the curse,” substituting an innocuous word for a profane or irreligious one.
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(1862-1946); German dramatist, novelist, and poet.
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Mudflats where the Tolka River empties into Dublin Bay.
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(c.1255-1300); Italian poet and friend of Dante.
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Norwegian realist playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906); Joyce’s first published work was a review in 1900 of Ibsen’s play When We Dead Awaken.
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From The Vision of Delight (1617), by English playwright Jonson (1572-1637).
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Aristotle’s texts Poetics and De Anima.
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A Synopsis of the Scholastic Philosophy for the Understanding of Saint Thomas (Latin).
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Billboards.
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The jeweler Hopkins & Hopkins was located at the comer of Sackville Street (now O’Connell Street) and Eden Quay.
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St. Stephen’s Green, a public park bordered by the Grafton Street shopping area on the north and University College Dublin on the south.
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“Ivory” in French, Italian, and Latin.
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India sends ivory (Latin).
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Pieces of broken pottery.
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Backbone of an animal, used in cooking.
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The orator summarizes, the poet-prophets transform in their verses (Latin); from Emmanuel Alvarez’s book of Latin grammar.
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With such great discrimination (Latin).
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 B.C.), important Roman poet and satirist.
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Plant related to verbena, with elongated stalks of fragrant flowers.
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Trinity College, Dublin (also called the University of Dublin), the Protestant university founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I.
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Thomas Moore (1779-1852), author of the perennially popular Irish Melodies.
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In Irish legend, the Firbolgs were early inhabitants of Ireland, from around the fourth century B.C.
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Successors to the Firbolgs as rulers of Ireland.
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Founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1884), dedicated to the revival of traditional Irish sport in Ireland.
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Reference to the nightly curfews imposed in rural Ireland by the British during periods of Irish nationalist unrest.
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The Fenian Brotherhood, founded in 1858 by James Stephens; a revolutionary group dedicated to winning Irish independence; forerunner of the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.).
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A play on the Irish “wild geese,” expatriate Irish political figures.
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Irish game similar to field hockey and lacrosse.
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Two local, semi-professional teams.
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Swing.
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Or “hurley,” the hurling equivalent of a hockey stick.
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Thing (Anglo-Irish).
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5 miles east-southeast from Buttevant.
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Davin describes a route leading north from Buttevant.
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First sale of the day.
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Boisterous.
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(1763-1798); Irish revolutionary and a founder of the United Irishmen, an early republican group; he was instrumental in the failed rising (insurrection) of 1798, for which he was put to death.
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Long Live Ireland (French).
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Two late-eighteenth-century characters associated with University College.
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Assistant in the Temple.
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Clothing set by canon law for officiating at mass.
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Ornamental priestly garment.
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The beautiful are those things that, being seen, please (Latin).
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The good is that toward which the appetite tends (Latin).
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Like an old man’s walking stick (Latin).
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Two-week period.
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On the western coast of Ireland, south of Galway.
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(c. A.D. 55-c.135); Greek stoic philosopher; in his Discourses, he likened the soul to
a bowl of water.
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From Newman’s “The Glories of Mary.”
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Working-class neighborhood 2 miles from Dublin’s city center.
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Various sects that rebelled from the central control over