A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners - James Joyce [232]
lq
Practices and beliefs distinguishing various sects from the Church.
lr
Matthew; see Matthew 9:9.
ls
Lack of food and water.
lt
Through rough ways to the stars (Latin).
lu
Loud volley of applause produced by hands or feet.
lv
Horseracing track northwest of the city.
lw
Parody of language on baptism in the catechism.
lx
From Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera The Mikado (1885).
ly
American chemist.
lz
Moynihan plays on the call of a pub owner at closing time.
ma
I have (dog Latin).
mb
What? (Latin).
mc
For universal peace (Latin).
md
Russian Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918; ruled 1894-1917) initiated an international
petition for peace that resulted in the Hague Peace Conference (1899).
me
Drunken.
mf
I believe you are a bloody liar because your face shows you are in a damned bad humour (dog Latin).
mg
Who is in a bad humour, you or me? (dog Latin).
mh
William Thomas Stead (1849-1912), English journalist.
mi
Karl Marx (1818-1883) maintained that class conflict was inevitable.
mj
Practical joke.
mk
Anthony Collins (1676-1729), English theologian.
ml
Lottie Collins was a late-nineteenth-century music-hall performer, whose bestknown number was “Tra-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay.”
mm
That is, they are betting 5 shillings on each possible outcome.
mn
Peace all over this bloody globe (dog Latin).
mo
Let’s go play handball (dog Latin).
mp
Abbreviation for “matriculation,” or first-year, class.
mq
Reading through a daily selection of prayers and devotions.
mr
(1712-1778); French philosopher and writer who influenced the Romantics.
ms
On the spot (dog Latin).
mt
Insignificant person.
mu
The Irish name for the Fenians (see note on p. 159).
mv
Only those Jesuits who are ordained priests are properly addressed as “father”; others are called simply “mister.”
mw
Litter of pigs.
mx
According to Aristotle in the Poetics, pity and terror are proper concerns of tragedy; through the spectators’ vicarious participation in the story, they are purged of these emotions.
my
Horse-drawn carriage.
mz
A plaster copy of this statue was, at the time, on display in the National Museum, adjacent to the National Library.
na
Order founded in the twelfth century at Mount Carmel, Palestine.
nb
Although Plato makes assertions similar to this in both Phaedrus and Symposium, Joyce came upon the remark in one of Gustave Flaubert’s letters.
nc
Published in 1859 by Charles Darwin (1809-1882), the book establishes the concept of natural selection as the guiding factor in human evolution.
nd
Horse-drawn cart for hauling goods.
ne
Tell, my tongue, of the glory ... (Latin).
nf
“The Banners of the King Advance” (Latin), by Italian poet Venantius Fortunatus (c.540-c.600).
ng
Fulfilled is all that David told / In true prophetic song of old / Amidst the nations, God, saith he, / Hath reigned and triumphed from the Tree (Latin); this is the second stanza of “VexiUa Regis.”
nh
Park south of Dublin.
ni
Allusion to Shelley’s “A Defence of Poetry” (1821).
nj
Galvani (1737-1798) used the phrase to describe a physiological process witnessed during experimentation on frogs.
nk
(1777-1858); the notoriously ugly bust of this Dublin surgeon has since been removed.
nl
Street ballad from the early eighteenth century.
nm
Lawn beside the Duke of Leinster’s house, in the same block as the National Library and the National Museum.
nn
Founded in 1785 to promote the study of letters and sciences.
no
Mindless labor; “cramming.”
np
I believe that the life of the poor is simply awful, simply bloody awful, in Liverpool (dog Latin).
nq
The archangel who will herald the Last Judgment; he announced to the Virgin Mary that she was pregnant with Jesus, conceived by the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:26-38).
nr
Member of the seraphim, the highest order of angels.
ns
Poem usually comprising five tercets followed by a quatrain, based on two rhymes.
nt
Color illustration of Jesus, heart exposed, in token of His love for humankind.
nu
“Ballad of Agincourt” (1605), a poem by Michael