A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners - James Joyce [233]
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Imprisoned in the thirteenth century for heresy.
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Ballad by the popular Michael William Balfe (1808-1870).
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Small village in County Galway
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A lay is a simple narrative poem or song
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Walking stick.
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Omen.
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535), German physician, philosopher, and occultist.
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Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), Swedish scientist and mystic.
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Flexible twigs used for wicker work.
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Scribe of the Egyptian gods; depicted with the head of an ibis.
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From Irish writer W. B. Yeats’s play The Countess Cathleen, which on May 8,1899, opened the new national theater, the Irish Literary Theatre (which in 1904 became the Abbey Theatre); many in the audience thought the play was “anti-Irish,” and a loud protest ensued.
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Conservative Catholic paper.
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1819; one of Sir Walter Scott’s immensely popular novels.
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Little man.
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Anti-Parnellite politicians from Bantry, in the southwest of Ireland.
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That is, sexual intercourse.
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Common, working horse.
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King Leopold I of Belgium (1790-1865) was not descended from the House of Flanders.
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Gerald of Wales (c.1146-c.1223); Norman-Welsh author of the earliest accounts of Ireland by a foreigner.
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A noble and distinguished family (Latin).
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State resulting from a future act (Latin).
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Testicle.
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Special grammatical form of the plural, denoting just two or a pair.
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As Stephen later realizes, the line is actually “Brightness falls from the air”; it is from a song from Thomas Nashe’s Summer’s Last Will and Testament (1600).
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John Dowland (1563?-1626) was an English lutist; William Byrd (1543-1623), a composer of church music and madrigals; Thomas Nashe (1567-1601), an English poet.
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The reference is probably to James I, who took the throne in 1603.
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Stately dance music.
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Infected with venereal disease.
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(1567-1637); Jesuit author who maintained that some “creeping things”—like flies, maggots, and lice—were not created by God.
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Flagstones.
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Metal tip.
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Hotel near St. Stephen’s Green.
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Allusion to Mark 10:14.
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In Catholic teaching, unbaptized children go to limbo, not hell.
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Region bordering on hell set aside for unbaptized children and the righteous who died before the coming of Christ.
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Straw rope.
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That is, Sin.
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Baby stroller.
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County in central Ireland.
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Opening motif in Richard Wagner’s opera Siegfried (1871).
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Those who manage rental properties for absentee landlords.
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Hackney cab drivers.
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To make one’s confession and receive communion during the Easter season.
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Matthew 25:41 (Douay version).
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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French mathematician and philosopher.
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(1568-1591); Italian Jesuit.
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Jesus said (Matthew 23:27): “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men’s bones and of all filthiness” (Douay version).
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Scoundrel.
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Partake of the Eucharist.
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Late-sixteenth- and seventeenth-century period when the practice of Roman Catholicism was strictly proscribed in Ireland.
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District in southeast Dublin.
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Popular song.
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A woman is singing (Latin).
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The sufferings of Jesus, culminating in His crucifixion.
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Word accented on the second from last syllable.
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A distance of 9 miles through the Dublin mountains, south of the city.
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(1536-1624); Spanish Jesuit scholar.
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Arched front of a saddle.
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Contests between hunting dogs.
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Elderly parents of John the Baptist; see Luke 1:5-25.
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John the Baptist’s diet while living in the wilderness.
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Cloth similar to the one, given to Christ by Saint Veronica on his way to Calvary, on which the image of his face was imprinted.
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Beheading.
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Reference to Luke 9:59-60.
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Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Maternity hospital.
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Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), a heretic burned at the stake for his unorthodox views.
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Rice dish.