A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners - James Joyce [236]
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Radical London newspaper.
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Type of robe.
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Hot whiskey drink.
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A British ale.
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Room for returning empty bottles.
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An oath strong enough, during this period, that it almost prevented the publication of Dubliners.
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North Liffey quayside for eastern departures.
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lmposing building housing legal offices on the north side of the Liffey.
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Reveled.
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That is, in the Burlington Hotel and Restaurant, previously owned by Thomas
Corless.
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In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Atalanta is a virginal Greek princess.
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Member of a movement that attempted to revive traditional Irish language, arts, and culture; Joyce liked to refer to it with the derisive pun “cultic.”
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Mineral water.
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Without ice or water.
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A good situation (job).
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It oversaw the process of transferring Irish land from former landlords to tenants.
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Popular seaside holiday destination.
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Parisian nightclub renowned for its cancan dancers.
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Prostitutes.
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Odd.
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Word of honor (French).
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Appointment.
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lrish for “drink of the door”; that is, one for the road.
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The evening meal.
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Bewley’s Oriental Café, a downtown Dublin institution.
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Possibly tortoise shell.
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Rental, or rent-to-own.
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From Byron’s “On the Death of a Young Lady” (1802).
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From the Irish leanbhán (“small child”).
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Voice tube, an early forerunner of the intercom.
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O’Neill’s shop is a pub; the snug is a partitioned portion of the counter.
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Glass of porter, a dark ale.
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Dublin lingo for a bartender.
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To disguise the smell of alcohol on his breath.
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Hot whiskey drinks.
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Little man.
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Instantly.
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Pub; a licensed premises open to the public, as opposed to a private bar or club.
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Ask for a loan.
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Answer.
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Commercial area south of the Liffey and west of the Bank of Ireland.
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Pub off Grafton Street, between St. Stephen’s Green and Trinity College; made famous in Ulysses as the spot where Leopold Bloom eats his lunch.
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A glass (half-pint) of beer or ale.
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Large glasses.
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Gentleman.
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Headquarters of the Dublin Port and Docks Board.
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A pub.
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A music hall.
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Irish whiskey and mineral water.
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Hot whiskey punch.
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Dry ale.
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Freeloader.
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Mouth or speech.
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From the Irish smeachán (“little taste”).
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The Beggar’s Bush Infantry Barracks.
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Catholic devotional prayer beginning: “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.”
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The evening meal.
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From the Irish báirín breac; a brown cake similar to fruitcake.
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Mute.
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Fashionable southeast Dublin neighborhood.
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Nelson’s Pillar, honoring Admiral Lord Nelson; it stood at the center of Sackville (now O’Connell) Street until 1966, when the I.R.A. demolished it.
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Working-class neighborhood 2 miles north of Dublin’s city center.
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The Monday following Pentecost, the seventh Sunday after Easter.
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Founded in the 1850s with a mission to reform prostitutes.
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Cuttings.
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The one discovering the ring in her piece of barmbrack was supposed to marry
within the year.
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Halloweens.
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Dark ale.
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Raincoat.
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Dark, fortified wine.
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A traditional Irish dance tune.
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From the opera The Bohemian Girl (1843), with music by Irish composer Michael William Balfe, libretto by Alfred Bunn.
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Maria, whether through inadvertence or avoidance, sings the first verse twice.
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Western suburb of Dublin, not far from the large Phoenix Park.
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The standard Irish catechism.
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1900 German drama, which Joyce translated the following summer.
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Medicine sold to relieve gas.
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Gloomy.
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A grocery.
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Bland cookies.
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Performing arts venue at the north end of Sackville (now O’Connell) Street.
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Small audience.
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Short jacket made from the wool of young lambs.
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British name for the Italian seaport of Livorno.
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Near the main entrance to Phoenix Park, on the western boundary of Dublin.
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Two texts (1883-1892 and 1882, respectively) in which Friedrich Nietzsche elaborated his philosophy of the “will to power” and the eternal return,