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