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The conservative-leaning Dublin Evening Mail, which was published on light brown paper.

zf

Latin for “in secret”; that is, read silently, to oneself.

zg

Suburb southwest of the city center.

zh

Port city south of Dublin; now known once again by its Irish name, Dun Laoghaire.

zi

After the English fashion, the name of the Sinicos’ home.

zj

Seaport in the Netherlands.

zk

A temperance league (one that advocates not drinking alcohol).

zl

Village 4 miles west of Chapelizod.

zm

Whiskey punch.

zn

The Dublin Evening Herald, more nationalist than the Evening Mail.

zo

Phoenix Park, on the western outskirts of the city, the largest enclosed urban park in the world.

zp

Landmark in Phoenix Park.

zq

One of twenty administrative units in Dublin.

zr

Poor Law Guardian, elected to oversee public relief.

zs

The room in which the action of the story takes place, but also an allusion to Committee Room 15 in Westminster, where Charles Stewart Parnell was deposed in December 1890.

zt

The anniversary of Parnell’s death in 1891.

zu

Associated with the memory of Parnell.

zv

Brotherhood of Catholic laymen, founded in Waterford, County Munster, in 1802 by Edmund Ignatius Rice.

zw

Layabout.

zx

Meeting of the secret fraternal order of Free and Accepted Masons, regarded by Catholics as a Protestant sect.

zy

Gypsy.

zz

Pub owner.

aaa

The Dublin Corporation, the city’s governing body.

aab

Worthless men.

aac

Title.

aad

Laziness.

aae

That is, English King Edward VII, who was related to German royalty.

aaf

That of the Irish Parliamentary Party, opposed to English rule in Ireland.

aag

Money.

aah

From the Irish word tuig (“understand”).

aai

Freeloading.

aaj

Dublin Castle, home of the Dublin Corporation and the city’s municipal government.

aak

Head of the Dublin police who was instrumental in putting down the 1798 rebellion.

aal

A pub.

aam

From the Irish gasrán (“conversation”).

aan

Dwarf.

aao

Official residence of the Lord Mayor.

aap

A pun on “ermine,” the fur trimming of the Mayor’s robes.

aaq

Shelf within a fireplace.

aar

Gentleman.

aas

Taxpayer.

aat

Parnell had opposed a welcome for the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, back in 1885.

aau

Before his ascension to the throne, Edward’s life was the subject of public scandal and gossip.

aav

Hard liquor.

aaw

Libertine.

aax

Parnell.

aay

Cowardly.

aaz

lreland to Victory (Irish); a nationalist slogan.

aba

That is, a convent school.

abb

Candy made of fru juice and gelatin.

abc

The Royal Irish Academy of Music.

abd

Skcrries, Howth, Grcystoncs were well-to-do seaside communities near Dublin,

abe

An attempt to revive traditional Irish languAge, arts, and culture.

abf

A pro-cathedral is a parish church used as a cathedral (seat of a diocese); the reference here is to the Catholic St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, on the corner of Marlborough and Cathedral Streets; the city’s other two cathedrals (St. Patrick’s and Christ Church) are both Protestant.

abg

One who desires Irish independence from Britain; also, frequently, one who subscribes to the program of the Irish (or Celtic) Revival.

abh

Soft satin.

abi

Fashionable downtown department store.

abj

That is, the audience has been swelled with free tickets.

abk

Imposing building on Sackvillc (now O’Connell) Street, near Nelson’s Pillar, the geographic center of the city; during the Easter Rising in 1916, Irish rebels took over the G.RO. as their headquarters

abl

That is God; an example of the Irish strategy of dodging the curse,” substituting an innocuous word for a profane or irreligious one.

abm

1845 opera by Irish composer William Wallace.

abn

One of Dublin’s three major turn-of-the-century theaters.

abo

Annual Irish music festival, established in 1897; Joyce placed third for his singing in 1904.

abp

Reportcr for the Free,naniJournal, a Dublin newspaper.

abq

Official residence of the Lord Mayor.

abr

Song from Michael William Balfe’s innisfallen.

abs

Dublin lingo for “bartenders.”

abt

Wool