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211.01a collera morbous for Mann in the Cloack; a starr and girton for
–211.01+Coll (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.01+Italian collera: anger
–211.01+cholera morbus: an old name for gastroenteritis or any acute diarrhoea (not necessarily cholera)
–211.01+Aschenbach, the hero of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice (1912), dies of cholera
–211.01+James Clarence Mangan wrote under pseudonym 'Man in the Cloak' (after his story 'The Man in the Cloak' appeared in Dublin University Magazine in 1838) and died of cholera morbus in 1849
–211.01+Latin cloaca: sewer
–211.01+French Slang cloaque: brothel
–211.01+German starr: stiff
–211.01+Star and Garter (pub name)
–211.01+star and garter are among the insignia of the the Order of the Garter (so is collar)
–211.01+Swift's Stella (Italian stella: star)
–211.01+Tarrant (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.01+Girton: first women's college in Cambridge
211.02Draper and Deane; for Will-of-the-Wisp and Barny-the-Bark two
–211.02+Drapier: an epithet of Swift (in reference to the persona he adopted in Swift: Drapier's Letters)
–211.02+*C* and *V*
–211.02+The Dean: an epithet of Swift (in reference to his title as the dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin)
–211.02+Dean (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.02+George Bernard Shaw and William Butler Yeats received the Nobel Prize in Literature (Sweden)
211.03mangolds noble to sweeden their bitters; for Oliver Bound a
–211.03+mangold: mangel-wurzel, a variety of beet
–211.03+swede: rutabaga, a variety of turnip
–211.03+Bitter, United States (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.03+Olivera (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.03+Oliver Bond: 18th century Irish revolutionary, a member of the Society of United Irishmen, the main force behind the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (following which he was sentenced to hang, but died in prison of apoplexy)
211.04way in his frey; for Seumas, thought little, a crown he feels big;
–211.04+Inishfree: island, County Sligo
–211.04+Irish Seumas: James (pronounced 'shaymus')
–211.04+James Stephens: The Adventures of Seumas Beg (James Stephens was rather short and had a large bald crown)
–211.04+James the Little: brother or cousin of Jesus
–211.04+though
–211.04+Greek stephanos: crown
211.05a tibertine's pile with a Congoswood cross on the back for
–211.05+Tiber (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.05+tiburtine: travertine, a type of limestone
–211.05+libertine's
–211.05+Pile (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
–211.05+Congo (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.05+Clongowes Wood College: a Jesuit boarding school, where Joyce was a student from 1888 to 1892
–211.05+Wood (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.05+Cross of Cong: processional cross now in National Museum, Dublin
–211.05+Cross (Cluster: Rivers)
211.06Sunny Twimjim; a praises be and spare me days for Brian the
–211.06+when Joyce was a child, his family called him 'Sunny Jim' [305.05]
–211.06+twin
–211.06+slim jim: a type of soft candy sold in long narrow strips (Joyce: A Portrait IV: 'He saw himself walking about the grounds watching the sports in Clongowes and eating slim jim out of his cricketcap')
–211.06+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...Twimjim; a...} | {Png: ...Twimjim: a...}
–211.06+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song War Song: Remember the Glories of Brien the Brave
211.07Bravo; penteplenty of pity with lubilashings of lust for Olona
–211.07+Rio Bravo (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.07+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...Bravo; penteplenty...} | {Png: ...Bravo: penteplenty...}
–211.07+Motif: alliteration (p, l)
–211.07+Pente (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.07+Greek pente: five
–211.07+Pite, Sweden (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.07+Lubilash (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.07+Anglo-Irish lashings: plenty, lots
–211.07+Olona, Lena, Magdalena: Italian, Russian, Spanish equivalents of Magdalene
–211.07+Olona (Cluster: Rivers)
211.08Lena Magdalena; for Camilla, Dromilla, Ludmilla, Mamilla, a
–211.08+Lena (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.08+Magadalena (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.08+Cam (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.08+Camilla and Mamilla: Robert Greene heroines
–211.08+Drome (Cluster: Rivers)
211.09bucket, a packet, a book and a pillow; for Nancy Shannon a
–211.09+Shannon (Cluster: Rivers)
211.10Tuami brooch; for Dora Riparia Hopeandwater a cooling douche
–211.10+Tuam: town, County Galway
–211.10+Dora Riparia (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.10+Latin riparia: frequenting riverbanks
–211.10+Hope (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.10+soap and water
–211.10+French douche: shower
211.11and a warmingpan; a pair of Blarney braggs for Wally Meagher;
–211.11+VI.B.2.038f (r): 'wore out 2 pairs of Blarney trousers'
–211.11+Fitz-Patrick: The Life of the Very Rev. Thomas N. Burke I.307: (of an 1868 mission opened by Burke in London) 'The confessionals of Fr. Burke and his companions were crowded; countless conversions were made... Fr. Burke, with his wonted humour, declared that it had the effect of wearing threadbare two pairs of the finest Blarney cloth garments which he had just bought'
–211.11+Anglo-Irish Colloquial blarney: smoothly flattering talk (from the Blarney stone at Blarney Castle, County Cork)
–211.11+bragging
–211.11+Dialect breeks: Colloquial bags: breeches, trousers [061.21] [061.25]
–211.11+Walt [061.19] [061.25]
–211.11+Meagher (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin) [061.13] [214.04]
211.12a hairpin slatepencil for Elsie Oram to scratch her toby, doing
–211.12+Slang pencil: penis
–211.12+VI.B.10.054a (r): 'Elsie Oram'
–211.12+Eílís Oram: folktale character and notorious liar
–211.12+Slang toby: buttocks; female genitalia
211.13her best with her volgar fractions; an old age pension for Betty
–211.13+Best (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
–211.13+VI.B.1.088g (r): 'Volga craft built for 1 downstream voyage & then sold' (only first word crayoned)
–211.13+Volga (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.13+VI.B.1.137d (r): 'old age pension'
211.14Bellezza; a bag of the blues for Funny Fitz; a Missa pro Messa for
–211.14+Belle (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.14+Italian bellezza: beauty
–211.14+VI.B.1.140l (r): 'bluebag'
–211.14+blue bag: a bag containing a ball of blue dye, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white fabrics
–211.14+VI.B.1.141a (r): 'the blues'
–211.14+Colloquial the blues: low spirits, mental depression
–211.14+Misa (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.14+Latin missa pro messa: Mass for the harvest
–211.14+Motif: mishemishe/tauftauf
211.15Taff de Taff; Jill, the spoon of a girl, for Jack, the broth of a boy;
–211.15+Taff (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.15+nursery rhyme Jack and Jill
–211.15+[466.04]
–211.15+Slang spoon: flirt, sweetheart
–211.15+VI.B.3.062f-g (r): 'a slip of a boy — broth —' (first dash dittos 'a', second dash dittos 'of a boy') [042.29]
–211.15+Anglo-Irish broth of a boy: an outstanding person
211.16a Rogerson Crusoe's Friday fast for Caducus Angelus Rubicon-
–211.16+Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin (Cluster: Quays in Dublin)
–211.16+Friday: a local native and Robinson Crusoe's only human companion (and servant) in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (as well as in a pantomime based on the novel)
–211.16+Latin Caducus Angelus: Fallen Angel
–211.16+Rubicon (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.16+VI.B.1.138f (r): 'Robinson (Rubinstein)'
211.17stein; three hundred and sixtysix poplin tyne for revery warp in
–211.17+German Stein: stone
–211.17+366 = a year and a day; a leap year
–211.17+Atkinson's warehouse on Wellington Quay stored poplin ties
–211.17+Tyne (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.17+every
–211.17+phrase warp and woof: the lengthwise and crosswise threads, respectively, in a weaving loom; the essential foundation of any system
211.18the weaver's woof for Victor Hugonot; a stiff steaded rake and
–211.18+woof: woven fabric
–211.18+Victor Hugo: French novelist
–211.18+Victor Hugonot: Dublin tie salesman
–211.18+Huguenots introduced poplin manufacture in Dublin
211.19good varians muck for Kate the Cleaner; a hole in the ballad for
–211.19+I.S. Varian's brush factory, Dublin (trademark is a pig)
–211.19+Irish muc: pig
–211.19+VI.B.1.126j (r): 'muck'
–211.19+Katherine Strong: 17th century Dublin scavenger [079.27]
–211.19+when a singer forgets the next verse of a song he may say 'There's a hole in the ballad' [253.20]
211.20Hosty; two dozen of cradles for J.F.X.P. Coppinger; tenpounten
–211.20+Hosty [044.08]
–211.20+Walter A. Copinger: 19th century lawyer and bibliographer of incunabula (books printed before 1501, Latin 'things in the cradle'; Archdeacon J.F.X.P. Coppinger)
–211.20+ten pound ten (shillings)
211.21on the pop for the daulphins born with five spoiled squibs for
–211.21+Archaic French daulphin: French dauphin: the title of the eldest son of the king of France
–211.21+Dolphin's Barn: district of Dublin [275.F11]
–211.21+Joyce: Ulysses.8.383: 'give every child born five quid'
211.22Infanta; a letter to last a lifetime for Maggi beyond by the ashpit;
–211.22+infanta: the title of a daughter of the king of Spain or Portugal (similar to princess)
–211.22+(Motif: The Letter)
–211.22+Maggia (Cluster: Rivers)
211.23the heftiest frozenmeat woman from Lusk to Livienbad for Felim
–211.23+Lusk: a village north of Dublin
–211.23+Livia
–211.23+Marienbad: a Czech spa town, of great fame and popularty in the 19th and 20th century [.24]
211.24the Ferry; spas and speranza and symposium's syrup for decayed
–211.24+spa [.23]
–211.24+German Spaß: merriment
–211.24+Latin spes: hope
–211.24+Italian speranza: hope
–211.24+Speranza: pseudonym of Lady Jane Wilde, Oscar Wilde's mother, which she used for publishing her Irish nationalist poems [.29]
–211.24+Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Dublin Annals section 1780: 'Simpson's Hospital for the reception of poor, decayed, blind, and gouty men, incorporated'
211.25and blind and gouty Gough; a change of naves and joys of ills
–211.25+(from Phoenix Park (giant's feet) to Howth Head (giant's head); Motif: head/foot) [.25-.26]
–211.25+equestrian statue of Sir Hugh Gough, who was blind and partially deaf, in Phoenix Park
–211.25+Latin naves: ship
–211.25+name
–211.25+(Motif: O felix culpa!)
–211.25+choice
–211.25+Ill (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.25+hills
211.26for Armoricus Tristram Amoor Saint Lawrence; a guillotine
–211.26+the St. Lawrence family, the lords and barons and earls of Howth (on Howth Head) from the 12th century onwards, the first of which was Armoricus (Amory) Tristram
–211.26+Tristan (also known as Tristram) died in Brittany (previously known as Armorica)
–211.26+French amour: love
–211.26+Amur (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.26+Saint Lawrence (Cluster: Rivers)
211.27shirt for Reuben Redbreast and hempen suspendeats for Bren-
–211.27+Robin Redbreast
–211.27+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...and...} | {Png: ...und...}
–211.27+German Hemden: shirts
–211.27+(hanging (hemp rope))
–211.27+song Brennan on the Moor (Irish ballad about a highwayman who was caught and hanged)
211.28nan on the Moor; an oakanknee for Conditor Sawyer and mus-
–211.28+oaken
–211.28+Oconee (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.28+knee
–211.28+conditor: founder
–211.28+Jonathan Sawyer founded Dublin, Georgia, United States, on the Oconee river
–211.28+Mosquodoboit (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.28+mosquito bites
211.29quodoboits for Great Tropical Scott; a C3 peduncle for Karma-
–211.29+Motif: Picts/Scots
–211.29+Scott, Australia (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.29+VI.A.0984a (g): 'C3 arm (weak)'
–211.29+C3: unfit (according to World War I classification of men)
–211.29+C.3.3: Oscar Wilde's cell number at Reading Gaol, initially used as the pseudonym under which he published The Ballad of Reading Gaol [.24]
–211.29+peduncle: (flower) stalk
–211.29+Sanskrit karma: action, occupation
–211.29+Carmelite order
211.30lite Kane; a sunless map of the month, including the sword and
–211.30+Kan, China (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.30+Kane (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
–211.30+some Irish Free State stamps show map of Ireland, others the 'Sword of Light'
211.31stamps, for Shemus O'Shaun the Post; a jackal with hide for
–211.31+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...stamps, for...} | {Png: ...stamps for...}
–211.31+Shemus sells his soul (Countess Cathleen)
–211.31+Motif: Shem/Shaun
–211.31+Shaun the Post
–211.31+R.L. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
211.32Browne but Nolan; a stonecold shoulder for Donn Joe Vance;
–211.32+Motif: Browne/Nolan
–211.32+Dan Donnelly: 19th century Irish prizefighter, whose fossilised arm is still an attraction
–211.32+Don Giovanni and the statue
–211.32+William De Morgan: Joseph Vance (Joyce: Letters I.101: letter 09/04/17 to Ezra Pound: 'some time ago a person gave me a two-volume novel to read, Joseph Vance. I read it at intervals for some time, till I discovered that I had been reading the second volume instead of the first')
–211.32+Vance (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
211.33all lock and no stable for Honorbright Merreytrickx; a big drum
–211.33+Lock Hospital, Townsend Street, Dublin (for treating women for venereal disease)
–211.33+phrase lock the stable door after the horse has bolted: take precautions after the damage has already been done
–211.33+Honor Bright: prostitute found murdered in 1925 at Ticknock crossroads, County Dublin, probably for having infected some relation of her slayer with venereal disease (nickname derived from her use, in reply to most remarks, of Colloquial phrase honour bright!: upon my honour! (insisting on one's sincerity))
–211.33+Latin meretrix: whore, prostitute
–211.33+Lambeg drums played on the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, 1690, which was won by William III of Orange (a.k.a. King Billy)
211.34for Billy Dunboyne; a guilty goldeny bellows, below me blow
–211.34+William Dunbar: Lament for the Makers
–211.34+Dunboyne: town, County Meath
–211.34+gilt
–211.34+Goldene Aue, Germany (Cluster: Rivers)
211.35me, for Ida Ida and a hushaby rocker, Elletrouvetout, for Who-is-
–211.35+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...me, for...} | {Png: ...me for...}
–211.35+Ida (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.35+Verdi: Aida
–211.35+the Hushabys and Billy and Ellie Dunn are characters in Shaw's Heartbreak House
–211.35+nursery rhyme Rock-a-bye Baby
–211.35+Rock, United States (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.35+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...rocker, Elletrouvetout, for...} | {Png: ...rocker Elletrouvetout for...}
–211.35+French elle trouve tout: she finds all
–211.35+Verdi: Il Trovatore
–211.35+William Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona IV.2.39: 'Who is Silvia? What is she'
211.36silvier — Where-is-he?; whatever you like to swilly to swash,
–211.36+Swilly (Cluster: Rivers)
–211.36+swill: to drink alcohol greedily or to excess


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