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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners - James Joyce [239]

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aeh

Long, narrow mirror.

aei

Assistant to the parish priest in a seaside resort north of Dublin.

aej

An examining college, established in 1879 for the purpose of granting degrees to students of University College Dublin, which Gabriel probably attended, and other Catholic universities.

aek

Another type of square dance.

ael

An identifiably Irish design.

aem

We would say a “bone to pick.”

aen

Dublin newspaper with Unionist leanings.

aeo

That is, an Irishman whose sympathies were more British than Irish.

aep

Debate regarding the proper role of religion and nationalism in Ireland’s universities.

aeq

Relatively undeveloped islands off the west coast of Ireland, near Galway.

aer

lreland’s western province; the seaport Galway is one of its principal cities.

aes

Ireland’s most important western seaport.

aet

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

aeu

Large obelisk in Phoenix Park, erected in 1817 in honor of the Duke of Wellington.

aev

Sound of musket fire.

aew

From Vincenzo Bellini’s I Puritani di Scozia (1835).

aex

She would never take my advice.

aey

A decree by Pius X in 1903 forbade women to sing or perform music in church services.

aez

That is, he is a Protestant.

afa

Irish for “blessings on you”; good-bye.

afb

Sweet, white pudding.

afc

Carbonated nonalcoholic beverages.

afd

Burned down in 1880.

afe

Another Dublin theater.

aff

Popular 1866 opera by Ambroise Thomas.

afg

Georgina Burns and the others named were notable nineteenth-century operatic singers.

afh

Song from Maritana, an 1845 opera by Irish composer William Wallace.

afi

1859 opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer.

afj

1833 opera by Gaetano Donizetti.

afk

Enrico Caruso (1873-1921), the most famous operatic tenor of his day.

afl

Identity uncertain.

afm

The Abbey of St. Bernard de Trappe, in County Waterford; Freddy is heading there to “dry out.”

afn

Misleading name for a 200-acre portion of the 1,760-acre Phoenix Park, used for military exercises.

afo

In Greek mythology, the daughters of Zeus and Eurynome—Aglaia (brilliance), Thalia (bloom), and Euphrosyne (Joy)—embodied refinement.

afp

Material made from the wool of young lambs.

afq

Statue of King William III, which stands on College Green, in front of Trinity College.

afr

Decorative window above the front door of a home.

afs

Complex of legal buildings on the north side of the Liffey.

aft

Full-length mirror with a pivot through its central axis.

afu

Convent school.

afv

Small town about 20 miles outside Galway.

afw

Large (370-square-mile) turf (peat) bog west of Dublin; near Clongowes Wood School, which Stephen Dedalus attends in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

afx

The estuary of the River Shannon, on the southwestern coast of Ireland.

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