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099.01bird! From golddawn glory to glowworm gleam. We were
–099.01+phrase from dawn to dusk: all day long
–099.01+Motif: alliteration (g)
–099.01+Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: late 19th century society for practice and study of ceremonial magic founded by Samuel Liddell Mathers (Yeats was initiated into it in 1890)
–099.01+John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi, IV, 2: 'Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright'
–099.01+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song The Young May Moon: 'The glow-worm's lamp is gleaming, love'
–099.01+Archaic gloam: gloaming, evening twilight
099.02lowquacks did we not tacit turn. Elsewere there here no con-
–099.02+loquacious, taciturn
–099.02+low quacks
–099.02+elsewhere
–099.02+concerning the genesis [030.02] [309.01]
099.03cern of the Guinnesses. But only the ruining of the rain has
–099.03+Guinness (family)
–099.03+Latin ruina: a falling down
099.04heard. Estout pourporteral! Cracklings cricked. A human pest
–099.04+French est tout pour: is all for
–099.04+Latin esto perpetua: be perpetual (said of Venice and also by Grattan at establishment of Irish parliament, 1782)
–099.04+stout, porter (beer)
–099.04+(telegraph) [098.04]
–099.04+crickled
–099.04+p + (Motif: 5 vowels) + st: E, I, A, U [.04-.06] (O may be 'Oh' [.07] or 'postern' [.16], or missing)
099.05cycling (pist!) and recycling (past!) about the sledgy streets, here
–099.05+French piste cyclable: bicycle track
–099.05+sludgy
099.06he was (pust!) again! Morse nuisance noised. He was loose at
–099.06+Danish puste: be out of breath
–099.06+(telegraph) [098.04]
099.07large and (Oh baby!) might be anywhere when a disguised ex-
–099.07+VI.B.8.154n (o): 'O baby'
–099.07+unknown newspaper 1923-5: (in a article about American Slang) '"Oh, baby!" murmured an American college boy in a flaming tie, when he was treating a girl to a view of the Tower of London recently... meaning a fondness for each other' (the quote is from The Hawera & Normanby Star (New Zealand), 4 Jan 1924, which is unlikely to have been Joyce's source)
099.08nun, of huge standbuild and masculine manners in her fairly fat
–099.08+Motif: mixed gender (nun, masculine)
–099.08+German Standbild: statue
–099.08+phrase fair, fat and forty (applied to attractive older women since the 18th century)
099.09forties, Carpulenta Gygasta, hattracted hattention by harbitrary
–099.09+Latin corpulenta: corpulent
–099.09+Greek gigas: giant [081.05]
–099.09+Jocasta: mother and wife of Oedipus
–099.09+Motif: alliteration (h)
–099.09+hat trick: three successes (e.g. goals) in a sports game
–099.09+Herbert Asbury: Hatrack (a story of a small-town prostitute; appeared in 1925 in American Mercury, barred in Boston, and the editor Mencken (also printed two stories from Joyce: Dubliners, 'A Little Cloud' and 'The Boarding House') arrested and tried) [553.06]
–099.09+attracted attention
–099.09+arbitrary
099.10conduct with a homnibus. Aerials buzzed to coastal listeners of
–099.10+on an omnibus, with an omnibus conductor
–099.10+Latin cum omnibus hominibus: with all men
–099.10+(telegraph) [098.04]
–099.10+Motif: alphabet sequence: ABC
099.11an oertax bror collector's budget, fullybigs, sporran, tie, tuft,
–099.11+Danish øre: ear
–099.11+wax
–099.11+Danish bror: brother
–099.11+Obsolete budget: leather pouch or wallet
–099.11+Motif: 7 items of clothing [.11-.12]
–099.11+Scottish filibeg: kilt
–099.11+sporran: small pouch worn in front of a kilt
–099.11+tuft: cap tassel
099.12tabard and bloody antichill cloak, its tailor's (Baernfather's) tab
–099.12+tabard: loose sleeveless upper garment
–099.12+VI.B.10.075i (r): 'tailor's tab'
–099.12+Bruce Bairnsfather's famous World War I cartoon 'If you know a better 'ole, go to it'
099.13reading V.P.H., found nigh Scaldbrothar's Hole, and divers
–099.13+V.P.H.: Victoria Palace Hotel, Paris, where Joyce lived in 1923-4 [284.F06] [286.L01]
–099.13+Scaldbrother's Hole: an old labyrinthine cavern on Arbour Hill, Dublin, named after Scaldbrother, a medieval robber, who was said to have hidden his plunder there
–099.13+diverse
099.14shivered to think what kaind of beast, wolves, croppis's or four-
–099.14+kind
–099.14+VI.B.14.043h (o): 'wolf or friar 4d each'
–099.14+Kinane: St. Patrick 184: (of attempts to crush Irish Catholicism) 'The same price was laid upon the head of a wolf or friar'
–099.14+Anglo-Irish croppies: rebels (after the participants of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, who wore their hair cut very short as a sign of sympathy with the French Revolution)
099.15penny friars, had devoured him. C. W. cast wide. Hvidfinns lyk,
–099.15+Motif: dark/fair (white, black) [.15-.16]
–099.15+Danish hvid: white
–099.15+Irish fionn: fair (of hair or skin), white
–099.15+Danish lykke: joy, luck, fortune
099.16drohneth svertgleam, Valkir lockt. On his pinksir's postern, the
–099.16+German dröhnen: to drone, to roar
–099.16+German drohen: to threaten
–099.16+Norwegian sverte: black [.15]
–099.16+German Schwert: sword
–099.16+valkyries: in Norse mythology, female attendants who choose and guide fallen heroes from the battlefield to Valhalla
–099.16+German lockt: (he/she/it) lures, tempts, entices
–099.16+Dutch Pinkster: Pentecost, Whitsun (a holiday celebrated on the seventh Sunday after Easter)
–099.16+VI.B.2.101f (b): 'the boys had it'
–099.16+The Leader 8 Sep 1923, 112/?: 'Our Ladies' Letter': 'I suppose ye up there have news about the results. The lads had it here yesterday that De Valera was in'
099.17boys had it, at Whitweekend had been nailed an inkedup name
–099.17+Whit-week: the week beginning with Whitsun (Whit Sunday)
–099.17+Motif: dark/fair (white, ink)
099.18and title, inscribed in the national cursives, accelerated, regres-
–099.18+VI.B.14.188i (o): ''national' hand'
–099.18+Studies, An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 13, no. 50, 194: Comments on the Foregoing Article (Daniel A. Binchy): 'Professor Paul Lehmann urged the need of a work... which would treat of... the rise of cursive writing among the Irish, the influence of the script upon the various "national" hands of Europe'
–099.18+VI.B.14.188e (o): 'cursive hand'
–099.18+Studies, An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 13, no. 50, 194: Comments on the Foregoing Article (Daniel A. Binchy): 'Professor Paul Lehmann urged the need of a work... which would treat of the origin of the Irish book script, the differences between it and the Anglo-Saxon hand, the rise of cursive writing among the Irish'
099.19sive, filiform, turreted and envenomoloped in piggotry: Move
–099.19+filiform: thread-like
–099.19+envenomed
–099.19+enveloped
–099.19+Richard Pigott attempted to implicate Parnell in the 1882 Phoenix Park Murders by means of forged letters
–099.19+purgatory
–099.19+bigotry
–099.19+VI.B.10.048h (r): 'Move up, Mick, Make room for Dick'
–099.19+Motif: Move up, Mick, Make room for Dick (a doggerel that appeared in Dublin shortly after Collins's assassination, referring to Michael Collins and to Richard Mulcahy, his successor as the commander of the pro-treaty forces in the Irish Civil War; quoted in Illustrated Sunday Herald, 26 Nov 1922)
099.20up. Mumpty! Mike room for Rumpty! By order, Nickekellous
–099.20+nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty
–099.20+Motif: Mick/Nick
–099.20+Danish rum: room
–099.20+Nicholas Proud: secretary of Dublin Port and Docks Board in Joyce's time
099.21Plugg; and this go, no pentecostal jest about it, how gregarious
–099.21+(no mistake)
–099.21+Greek grêgoros: quick, alert
099.22his race soever or skilful learned wise cunning knowledgable
–099.22+Weekly Irish Times 21 Jan 1933: article on the name O'Reilly: 'The most usually accepted is that the name comes from the Irish words for RAGHEALLACH — ragh, "a race", and eallach, "learned or skillful"'
–099.22+cunning [098.02]
099.23clear profound his saying fortitudo fraught or prudentiaproven,
–099.23+Latin Fortitudine et prudentia: By Fortitude and Prudence (the O'Reilly motto)
099.24were he chief, count, general, fieldmarshal, prince, king or Myles
–099.24+Weekly Irish Times 21 Jan 1933: article on the name O'Reilly: 'Count Alexander O'Reilly, who was a Spanish general; Count Andrew O'Reilly who was an Austrian Field-Marshal, who thereby exemplified the name "gregarious"' [.21]
–099.24+Weekly Irish Times 21 Jan 1933: article on the name O'Reilly: 'The family derives its descent from the O'Rourke's kingly line'
–099.24+the O'Reillys were Princes of East Breffni
–099.24+Myles the Slasher: Maelmora O'Reilly, chieftain
099.25the Slasher in his person, with a moliamordhar mansion in the
–099.25+O'Reilly sept traced to Milesius (Maolmordha) O'Reilly (Irish O Ragheallaigh)
–099.25+Anglo-Irish meila murder: great commotion, destruction, lamentation (from Irish míle: thousand and English 'murder')
099.26Breffnian empire and a place of inauguration on the hill of Tully-
–099.26+Breffni: an ancient name for an area now in County Cavan and County Leitrim (East Breffni was the territory of the O'Reillys, while West Breffni was the territory of the O'Rourkes; the enmity between Tiernan O'Rourke and Diarmaid MacMurrough, in part fueled by the latter's abduction of, or adultery with, the former's wife, eventually led to the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland)
–099.26+Tullymongan Hill: place of inauguration of O'Reilly chiefs, near Cavan [332.05]
099.27mongan, there had been real murder, of the rayheallach royghal
–099.27+VI.B.25.152l (r): 'there has been murder' ('murder' uncertain)
–099.27+Irish O Ragheallaigh: O'Reilly
–099.27+German lachen: laugh
–099.27+royal
099.28raxacraxian variety, the MacMahon chaps, it was, that had done
–099.28+Rosicrucian
–099.28+Reginald Fitz Urse, Becket's principal murderer, was said to have subsequently come to Ireland and founded the MacMahon family (*S*)
–099.28+on 24 March 1922, a band of men attacked the McMahon family, killing five of them
099.29him in. On the fidd of Verdor the rampart combatants had left
–099.29+field of valour
–099.29+Spanish verdor: greenness, verdure
–099.29+Verdun
–099.29+shield of the East Breffni O'Reillys: quarterly, one and four, vert, a dexter hand erect and apaumée couped at the wrist proper, dropping blood, supported by two lions rampant combattant or [100.11]
–099.29+Heraldry rampant: rearing up
099.30him lion with his dexter handcoup wresterected in a pureede
–099.30+lying
–099.30+Heraldry dexter: right
–099.30+resurrected
–099.30+French purée de pommes: applesauce
099.31paumee bloody proper. Indeed not a few thick and thin well-
–099.31+Heraldry apaumée: showing open palm
–099.31+Heraldry proper: in natural colouring
–099.31+phrase thick-and-thin: who do the same in both good and bad times, unwavering, steadfast
099.32wishers, mostly of the clontarfminded class, (Colonel John Bawle
–099.32+Milesius O'Reilly died at Battle of Clontarf
–099.32+John Ball: 14th century English rebel
–099.32+John Boyle O'Reilly of Irish Republican Brotherhood (his unit produced treasonable ballads)
099.33O'Roarke, fervxamplus), even ventured so far as to loan or beg
–099.33+Tiernan O'Rourke [.26]
–099.33+Latin ferox: wild, warlike
–099.33+for example
–099.33+Latin amplus: large, glorious
–099.33+VI.B.10.048g (r): 'bought a paper to see had he really committed suicide (W)' (last word not crayoned)
–099.33+Daily Mail 25 Nov 1922, 12/3-4: 'Wife's Story in Nullity Suit': 'She persisted in her refusal to marry him... Did you think he was going to commit suicide when he left you at Windermere. Yes I really did... I bought a paper to see if he had'
099.34copies of D. Blayncy's trilingual triweekly, Scatterbrains' Aften-
–099.34+VI.B.18.005c (k): 'D. Blaneys'
–099.34+Warburton, Whitelaw & Walsh: History of the City of Dublin I.47: 'the original inhabitants of Dublin... The Blanii, Eblani, or Deblani... It is probable they were ancient natives, and either gave the name of Eblana to the city, or took their names from their situation in or near it'
–099.34+Delaney or Delacey
–099.34+Hugh de Lacy murdered Tiernan O'Rourke [.33] [388.33]
–099.34+VI.B.6.001j (r): 'a triweekly of pertinent interest'
–099.34+triweekly: a periodical published every three weeks or three times a week [075.17] [078.19] [097.33]
–099.34+the Saturday Evening Post published in the 1930s stories by Clarence Buddington Kelland about 'Scattergood Baines'
–099.34+Danish aften: evening
099.35ing Posht, so as to make certain sure onetime and be satisfied of
–099.35+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...Posht, so...} | {Png: ...Posht so...}
099.36their quasicontribusodalitarian's having become genuinely quite
–099.36+Latin quasi cum tribus sodaliciarius: as it were comrade with three
–099.36+VI.B.3.007b (r): 'Yes, genuinely (T)' [065.27]


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