Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 16: 'Mr Finagan' (song): 'Her father had castles of mud, Of which I wur fond of admiring'.
footback - A humorous formation after horseback; Chiefly in phr. on footback = (travelling) on foot.
owing to - in consequence of, on account of, because of
leak - an act of urination + lack
McCarthy - (1) when Roderick O'Connor fought the Angbo-Normans, one of his allies, Dermot Mac Carthy, deserted to the enemy; (2) when Parnell was disgraced in divorce court, most of his followers were led away by Justin M'Carthy (1830-1912) + Mac Carthaigh Mor (mok karhi mor) (gael) - Great son of Carthach ("loving"); Mac Carthaigh Mor is head of senior branch of McCarthys, chief family of the Eoghanacht (descendants of Eoghan Mor) + Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 8: McCarthy's Mare (song).
"Extended order simply means skirmishing order"
switchback - applied to a form of railway used on steep slopes, consisting of a zigzag series of lines connected by switches, at each of which the train or car is 'switched back' or reversed in direction.
slidder - a trench or hollow running down a hill; a steep slope + FSTD: had gone off with themselves [on footback down the switchback switchbackward rd] a tree's length from the longest way out when he was all alone by himself in the grand pile,
route - a way, road, or course + (Joyce's note): 'Trist wounded at Lansdowne Rd'.
Hibernia - Ireland + Haube (ger) - bonnet, hood.
village + AUBURN - Oliver Goldsmith's poem, "The Deserted Village" ("Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain").
Partholan - Scythian who invaded Ireland, 1500 B.c. Keating says he was a giant who invented Hebrew, Greek, Irish letters of the alphabet. Parthalonians, second group of Irish colonists, were followed by the Firbolgs, who were themselves defeated by the Tuatha Dé Danann (or Danaan)
mouldy - wretched, boring, depressing, gloomy, sick + mouldy (Slang) - drunk.
Firbolg - a name given in Irish legend to an early colonizing people of Ireland
Tuatha De Danann - in Irish mythology, a people who inhabited prehistoric Ireland
goog - an egg + googeen (Irish) - dim or light-headed person.
rambler - one who rambles. In later use, one who walks through the countryside on a specified route, freq. in company with others.
Clochan (klokhan) (gael) - Stepping-stones; common place-name; anglic. Clahane, Clane, etc. + Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 13: The Rambler from Clare (song).
ostensible - exhibited or put forth as actual and genuine: often implicitly or explicitly opposed to 'actual', 'real', and so = merely professed, pretended + FSTD: at the time after they were all of them the [unimportant] Parthalonians and [united] Firbolgs and Tuatha de Danaans [& the rest of the not muchers [googs and other slygroggers slygrogger [suburbanites he didn't care a spit out of his mouth for]]]
faix = fegs - As an (unmeaning) n. in exclamatory phrases expressing asseveration or astonishment; As simple asseverative + faex (l) - dregs.
heeltap - to delay; the liquor left at the bottom of a glass after drinking
spilth - that which is spilled
weevily - infested with weevils (any beetle classed under the group Rhyncophora, the larvæ of which, and sometimes the beetles themselves, are destructive by boring into grain, fruit, nuts, the bark of trees, etc.)
popcork - a cork which pops when drawn + (notebook 1922-23): 'weevily winecorks' → Daily Mail 23 Nov 1922, 8/5: 'What the Cork Tells': 'Wine coming from a well-kept cellar should show no sign of weevily corks'.
rollicking - extremely jovial or gay, boisterously sportive + A Right Down Regular Royal Queen (song).
toper - one who topes or drinks a great deal, a hard drinker + Round Table (King Arthur).
pullon - a garment without fasteners that is pulled on + FSTD: but faix he just went heeltapping through the winespilth & weevily winecorks round his own right royal round rollicking topers' table with his [Roderick Random [pullon]] hat at a cant on him and what do you think he went & did
Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 23: 'Lanty Leary' (song) + King Leary (Lughaire) - High King of Ireland at time of Saint Patrick's arrival + 7 items of clothing (motif).
Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 51: 'Mike Brady's Shirt' (song)
linnet - a common and well-known song-bird + linen + Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 10: 'The Green Linnet' (song): (refers to Napoleon).
collar - something worn about the neck + bow - a single-looped knot; a necktie, ribbon, etc., tied up in such a knot + collarbone - bone joining the shoulder and the breastbone.
gaunt - a yawn, a gape; gaping + John of Gaunt (Ghent, where he was born there).
Macclesfield, town, Cheshire
swash - nonsense, worthless stuff
readymade - Of made or manufactured articles: In a finished state, immediately ready for use.
pan-Presbyterian - of or pertaining to all Presbyterians
poncho - a South American cloak, consisting of an oblong piece of cloth with a slit in the middle for the head
the mother, you'd pity her (notebook 1922-23) → Leader 16 Dec 1922, 452/2: 'Our Ladies' Letter': 'a lady... and a little boy with her... and if we didn't have the chat with him! Like another thing, the mother you'd pity her, looking on and listening... and that she couldn't understand a word'.
the way the world is (notebook 1922-23) → Leader 11 Nov 1922, 327/1: 'Our Ladies' Letter': 'for fear people would think we had money; the way the world is, aweenoch, you wouldn't be safe'.
supereminent - exalted above others in rank or dignity; supremely exalted
blue ruin - gin, usually of bad quality (slang)
allocution - the action of addressing or exhorting; hortatory or authoritative address
bel canto - singing characterized by full, rich, and broad tone + Belcanto (or Bello) - Wyndham Lewis in The Childermass, uses this name to signify Joyce when he quarrels with a "rival clown," Chodoveo.
Oliverian - Cromwellian
drean = drain (obs.) + Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 44: 'MacKenna's Dream' (song).
ergon (gr) - work
thrum - to play (a stringed instrument, or a tune on it) idly, monotonously, or unskilfully; to recite or tell in a 'sing-song' or monotonous way; also, to hum over (a melody) + Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 45: 'Drimendroo' (song).
diversed - diversified, different
ould - a representation of an Ir. pronunciation of old
palsied - affected with palsy, paralysed; fig. deprived of muscular energy or power of action; rendered impotent + ould plaised (Irish Pronunciation) - old pleased.
drawl - a slow, indolent utterance + Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 50: 'The Ould Plaid Shawl' (song).
starken - to stiffen, to make stark or inflexible + Joyce's note: 'decorated by most regal of belches'.
regal - befitting a king; hence, splendid, magnificent, stately, etc.
Caiseal-magh (kashelma) (gael) - Stone-fort Plain + Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 26: 'Cushlamachree' (song) + song O Blarney Castle, My Darling [air: The Blackbird].
crooner - a singer who croons + croon - to sing (a song, tune, etc.) in a low murmuring undertone.
The Lark in the Clear Air (song)
Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 9: 'The Blackbird' (song)
I've a Terrible Lot to Do Today (song) + FSTD: when he was all alone by himself in the grand pile, the body, you'd pity him, [that joky old man, poor he, [the way the world is, [the Heart of Midleinster]] the King of them all [overwhelmed with ruin] smiling through his old tears broken by [regal] belches as he sang [in spite of his heavyg thickles] I've a terrible errible lot todo [todo todaytoday todo]]
exuberant - Of persons, their actions or expressions: Effusive in display of feeling; Now more usually, Abounding in health and spirits, overflowing with delight.
arrah (Irish) - but, now, really
be damn, but
finalize - to complete, bring to an end
lower - to drink (beer or other liquor); to empty (a bottle or glass of liquor) by drinking
woolly - having a soft and clinging texture
Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 41: 'What Can the Matter Be?' (song): 'I was in love - but myself, for the blood of me, Could not tell what I did all... Och! gramachree! what can the matter be? Bothered from head to the tail... Father, says I, make me soon my own man again, If you can find out what I ail'.
wisha - an exclamation indicating dismay, emphasis, or surprise + wisha (Irish) - well, indeed.
Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 48: 'What Irish Boys Can Do' (song, subtitled 'Answer to "No Irish Need Apply"').
sliogach (sligokh) (gael) - smooth, sleek + Mag Labhraidh (moglouri) (gael) - son of Labhraidh ("spokesman"); anglic. Magloory, etc. + Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 123: 'Smiggy Maglooral' (song).
suck up - to draw up into the mouth by suction
Trojan - a brave or plucky fellow; a person of great energy or endurance: usu. in phr. like a Trojan + tròia (Italian) - sow + (like a pig).
venerate - to regard with feelings of respect and reverence + FSTD: His [exuberant] Majesty faith be damn but lowering his woolly throat he sucked finalised by sucking up sure enough like a Trojan as keen as mustard [from his wonderful midnight thirst] in some particular cases with the assistance of his venerated tongue
surplus - that is in excess of what is taken, used, or needed
rotgut - an adulterated or unwholesome liquor; spec. bad small beer, or (in U.S.) inferior whiskey
sorra - dial. or colloq. f. sorrow (n.) + FSTD: one after the other in strict order of rotation whatever [surplus] rotgut happened to be left not sorra much by the lousy lazers
louser - one who spoils things; Used as a general term of abuse.
malt - malt liquor; Now usu. = malt whisky + Knights of Malta - the Knights Hospitallers, a medieval religious order.
churl - Used as a term of disparagement or contempt; base fellow, villain; In modern times usually: Rude low-bred fellow.
relinquish - to leave behind + replenished - full.
hogshead - a large cask for liquids; Applied to a person with allusion to the animal.
firkin - a small cask for liquids, fish, butter, etc.
sly grog - illicit, illegal