suburbanite - a resident in the suburbs + FSTD: in the different bottoms of the their various replenquished drinking utensils left there behind them on the premises by the departed honourable guests homegoers such as it was
fall about - to search around + Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 32: 'Morrisey and the Russian' (song): 'Up to the thirty-seventh round 'twas fall and fall about' + turn and turn about - the act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis.
brandish - to flourish one's weapons or limbs; to make a flourish or display; to swagger + brindisi (it) - toast.
charmed life - a life protected as if by magic charms, unaffected by dangers and difficulties + William Shakespeare: Macbeth V.8. MACDUFF: I have no words: / My voice is in my sword, thou bloodier villain / Than terms can give thee out! (Fight. Alarum.) MACBETH: Thou losest labour. / As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air / With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed. / Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests; / I bear a charmed life, which must not yield / To one of woman born.
testified - attested; made known, declared
rubicundus (l) - ruddy + Rubico (l) - "Ruddy": river Caesar crossed to start Civil War + cherubic countenance.
châteaubottled - (of a wine) bottled at the vineyard + chateau - a French vineyard, usu. in the neighbourhood of a château (a castle) + (notebook 1922-23): 'chateau-bottled' → Daily Mail 23 Nov 1922, 8/5: 'What the Cork Tells': 'With a château-bottled claret there is the... brand of the château, as all château-bottled wines are marked with this'.
PHOENIX BREWERY - Phoenix Porter Brewery Co, in James's Street, across Watling Street from Guinness's. Ca 1820 the brewery was owned by Daniel O'Connell, Jr, later by John Brennan, O'Connell's manager, who renamed it the Phoenix Brewery. Until it went out of business before WW I, the Phoenix Brewery brewed "O'Connell's Ale." Its premises were taken over by Guinness, and the brewing of O'Connell's Ale by D'Arcy's Anchor Brewery.
stout - strong dark heavy-bodied porter
Jameson - the proprietary name of a brand of Irish whiskey
cocoa + Coca-Cola + FSTD: either no matter whether it was chateaubottled Guiness's or Phoenix Brewery Stout it was or John Jameson and Sons or Roob Coccola
halibut - a large flat fish (Hippoglossus vulgaris), abundant in the northern seas, and much used for food
Jesuit's tea - South American tea substitute
fall back - something upon which one may fall back; a reserve + fullback - the position of a back on a football team.
amount - to rise in number or quantity so as to reach; to come to (a specified number or quantity) + FSTD: or for that matter the matter of that O'Connell's Dublin old ale and he wanted it (O like hell!) as a fallback of several different quantities amounting in all to I should say considerably more than the better part of an a gill or naggin of imperial dry and liquid measure.
gill - a measure for liquids, containing one fourth of a standard pint; 0.118 l. + one pottle = 1/2 gallon, 1 quart = 1/4 gallon, one pint = 1/8, one cup(ful ) = 1/16, one gill = 1/32, one glass = 1/64, one tablespoon(ful) = 1/320 = 1 ro, 1 teaspoon(ful) (U.S.) = 1/ 3 ro. Also, 1 Hogshead = 100 gallons, and one keg = 10 gallons.
naggin = noggin - a small quantity of liquor, usually a quarter of a pint + "Though it may be easier to calculate in decimals, it is difficult to work conveniently with the measures dictated by this system. The most brilliant scientist cannot easily visualise 117.46 liters. But any peasant can visualise precisely five gallons, two quarts, one pint and four tablespoons." (J.A. West: Serpent in the Sky)
Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 39: 'The Rising of the Moon' (song)
heavens + Kevin's → "but keepy little Kevin in the despondful surrounding" [110.32]
bacon and eggs + (sun).
chapel windows (stained glass windows)
hory - foul, dirty, filthy; slanderous + story told + historical.
The Letter: poor Father Michael
stamp - to strike the ground or floor forcibly with the sole of one's foot
aitch - "h" + eight o'clock Mass.
newsletter - a letter specially written to communicate the news of the day, common in the later part of the 17th and beginning of the 18th century; also, a printed account of the news (sometimes with a blank space left for private additions). Also, a periodical sent or handed out to subscribers, members of an organization, etc.
blazing - a flaming, burning + blessings
ould (Irish Pronunciation) - old + mouldy (Slang) - drunk + almighty
attend - to turn the energies to, give practical heed to, apply oneself to, look after
over opposite
fornenst - right opposite to, over against; facing + forenenst (Irish) - opposite.
stargaze - to gaze at or study the stars + staircase.
Catherine (with candle) → "there was a crick up the stirkiss and when she ruz the cankle to see," [557.03-557.04]
adornment - a thing employed to adorn; an ornament, a decoration
millions + pater familias (l) - father of a family.
come across - to come upon or meet obliquely, indirectly, or unintentionally
crupper - the hind-quarters or rump of a horse + proper
sate = seat
accommodation - room and suitable provision for the reception of people, lodgings
best + boat + boxing the compass (circled the table).
composs = compass - a corruption of compost (a composition, combination, compound), prevalent in 16-17th c. + compos (l) - having mastery, control or power over + compos mentis (l) - sane (literally 'having control over his mind').
become + And They Put/Piled Him Behind in/on the Fire/Pyre/Oasthouse/Outhouse.
trawler - a person or vessel that fishes by trawling + trawl - a strong net or bag dragged along the bottom of fishing-banks + 'cove & trawlers' (Joyce's note) + coat and trousers.
fo'c'sle = forecastle - Naut. A short raised deck at the fore end of a vessel + Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 49: 'Larry's on the Force' (song).
faugh - an exclamation of abhorrence or disgust + O'Byrne, Feagh MacHugh - Irish rebel chief, slain in Dublin in 1598, his attack on the English in 1580 is celebrated in song "Follow Me up to Carlow" + faugh a ballagh (Irish) - clear the way.
par (Portuguese) - pair + Follow Me up to Carlow, chorus: 'Curse and swear, Lord Kildare! Feagh will do what Feagh will dare: Now, Fitzwilliam have a care. Fallen is your star, low!'
tweedledum and tweedledee - in the earliest example used in reference to two rival musicians; tweedledee and tweedledum; used to suggest the contrast or combination of the sounds of high- and low-pitched musical instruments; two things or parties the difference between which is held to be insignificant.
flure - floor
off his feet
in the wake of - Naut. Immediately behind, and (properly) in the actual track made by, a vessel; in the direct line aft from (any object on board ship, or any specified part of her); in the line of sight of (an observed object); following as a result or consequence + Finnegan's Wake (song) + wax of his ears + Earwicker.
slump - to plump down, to fall or collapse clumsily or heavily + The Wild Man from Borneo (song): 'The flea on the hair of the tail of the dog of the nurse of the child of the wife of the wild man from Borneo has just come to town'.
stout - Of a ship: Strongly built, capable of bearing rough weather.
HOLE IN THE WALL - Public house, aka Blackhorse Tavern, halfway between Cabra Gate and Ashtown Gate in Blackhorse Lane, which runs along North wall of Phoenix Park. The name is probably from the turnstile in the park wall, although Chart's Dublin, 319, repents a popular explanation that voters there passed an empty hand through the wall and withdrew it filled with guineas. Nancy Hand was the proprietress from 1896 (Thom's Directory).
liff = life (obs.)
natten land (Norwegian) - land of night + lænder (Danish) - loins.
farvel (Danish) - farewell + Cape Farvel, Greenland + Six Hundred and Seventeen Irish Songs and Ballads 28: 'The Fairy Well' (song).
farer - a traveller + Faerøeren (Danish) - Faeroe Islands.
Tom Rochford: ...My turn now on. Follow me up to Carlow. (He executes a daredevil salmon leap in the air and is engulfed in the coalhole. Two discs on the columns wobble, eyes of nought. All recedes.) [Ulysses, p.387] + Follow Me up to Carlow, chorus: 'Fallen is your star, low!' + REFERENCE