rod - an instrument of punishment, either one straight stick, or a bundle of twigs bound together
virgin + P. Vergilius Maro (l) - Roman poet + verge (French Slang) - penis (literally 'rod') + (notebook 1930): 'vien vergin' + Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies: song: Take Back the Virgin Page.
chastener - one that chastens (to inflict disciplinary or corrective punishment on; to discipline, chastise)
country mouse - a rural species of mouse; also fig., a dweller in the country, esp. as unfamiliar with urban life + (notebook 1924): '*V* country mouse'.
alfa, beta, gama, delta + (taught her to read) + SDV: [I did learn my little country mouse her letters [alphabeater cameltenter [birch ashenbirch to hazelyou,]] with a rattan to on her drum, ooah oyir oyir oyir,]
Birke (ger) - birch + ailm, beith (gael imitation) - elm, birch: letters A, B.
teithne, ur (gael imitation) - furze, heath: letters T, U (last letters of Modern Irish 18-letter alphabet) + Tannen (ger) - pines.
mi-rath (mira) (gael) - misfortune, ill-luck
rattan - a switch or stick of rattan, used for beating a person or thing, or for carrying in the hand
atter - poison, venom; gall; fig. bitterness + at her
Dun Droma (dun drume) (gael) - Fort of the Ridge: S. Dublin suburb; anglic. Dundrum [(notebook 1930): 'Dundrum'].
Life (lifi) (gael) - Liffey River
loll - to recline or rest in a relaxed attitude, supporting oneself against something
Camomile Street and Primrose Street, London (near each other) + camomile rinse - old-fashioned cosmetic trick, in which blondes rinsed their hair with camomile tea to keep it from darkening.
coney (obs) - term of enderament for a woman; also, indecent name for a woman + Joyce's note: 'Coney Island' → Coney Island, New York City (famous for its brothels until late 19th century).
bound - to set bounds to, limit; to form the boundary of
Mulberry Bend Park (Joyce's note) → Mulberry Bend Park, New York City, built 1897, over crime-infested Mulberry Bend, part of the Five Points slum; referred to in Asbury's [099.09] The Gangs of New York as 'the Coney Island of the period' (early 19th century) + muliebris (l) - (of a woman) feminine.
blood + blade (of sword, grass).
blighty - affected with blight, blighted
acre - a field of pasture land + (notebook 1930): 'bled has bludded since the whole blighty place was bladdy well' ('has' not clear).
passover - the name of a Jewish feast, held on the evening of the fourteenth day of the (first) month Nisan, commemorative of the 'passing over' of the houses of the Israelites whose door-posts were marked with the blood of a lamb, when the Egyptians were smitten with the death of their firstborn; Contextually, The lamb sacrificed at the Passover, the Paschal lamb; fig. Applied to Christ, of whom the Paschal lamb was regarded as typical; a passing or going over, a passing from this world to the next, a going over from one religion to another.
selvage - the edge of a piece of woven material finished in such a manner as to prevent the ravelling out of the weft + Joyce's note: 'selvage' + selvagem (Portuguese) - savage.
Letchworth Garden City, commonly known as Letchworth, is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England + SDV: and I did spread for her my selvage mats of soft lawn
lawn - a kind of fine linen, resembling cambric
guerdon - a reward, requital, or recompense + Garden City, Long Island (near New York City).
mousseline - french muslin; also, a dress of this material + Mussolini, Benito - Italian dictator + Mausoleum (l) - tomb of King Mausolus of Caria (one of the seven wonders of the world).
beacon - a lighthouse or other conspicuous object placed upon the coast or at sea, to warn vessels of danger or direct their course + Pharos - island with lighthouse off Alexandria (one of the seven wonders of the world) + pharos (gr) - lighthouse.
Colossus - the bronze statue of Apollo at Rhodes, one of the seven wonders of the world, reputed to have stood astride the entrance to the Rhodian harbour (whence the ref. in Shaks.), and stated by Pliny to have been seventy cubits high.
pensile - hanging in the air or in space; suspended on arches, with void space beneath + pensilis (l) - hanging downward.
turris (l) - tower + terraces
Sumer - one of the districts of ancient Babylonia + Semiramis (b. 800 B.C.) - Assyrian princess to whom sexual excess and every stupendous work of Iranian antiquity have been ascribed.
esplanade - a levelled piece of ground; often, such a space intended to serve as a public promenade [(notebook 1930): 'esplanade' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 349d: 'in 1902-1903... new executive offices and a cabinet room were built and were connected with the White House by an esplanade'].
statuesque - having the qualities of a statue or of sculpture + statue of Zeus at Olympia - one of the seven wonders of the world.
Templeogue ('church of virgin') - district of Dublin + temple of Artemis at Ephesus - one of the seven wonders of the world.
Parnell Monument, north end of O'Connell Street + Parthenon (gr) - celebrated temple of Athena at Athens, a wonder of the classical world + (notebook 1930): 'pardon of Maynooth C.S.P.' (only first three words crayoned; 'C.S.P.' stands for 'Charles Stuart Parnell') → Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 48: (of the execution of the Irish garrison of Maynooth Castle by the lord lieutenant to which it was betrayed during the 1535 Kildare Rebellion) 'twenty-six of the garrison to be hanged, giving occasion for the proverbial expression 'a pardon of Maynooth' for a summary execution'.
A relief force, under the newly appointed Lord Deputy, William Skeffington, arrived and laid siege to Silken Thomas' Kildare stronghold of Maynooth Castle. When the occupants agreed to surrender terms, they were promptly put to death. This is still remembered as the 'Pardon of Maynooth'.
FATHER THEOBALD - The 19th-century temperance priest + Fra Teobaldo (it) - brother Theobald + Statue of Father Theobald Mathew (Irish temperance advocate), O'Connell Street.
Nelson's Pillar, O'Connell Street + (notebook 1930): 'rare Nelson'.
porte l'eau (fr) - (he/she/it) carries the water + Statue of Sir John Gray (head of Dublin waterworks), O'Connell Street.
O'CONNELL STATUE - The bronze statue of Daniel O'Connell, "the Emancipator," in his great cloak is at the South end of O'Connell Street facing O'Connell Bridge + Ulysses.6.249: 'the hugecloaked Liberator's form'.
The Maynooth Catechism, title page: 'ordered by the NATIONAL SYNOD OF MAYNOOTH... Imprimi Potest: GULIELMUS, Archiep. Dublinen., Hiberniae Primus' (James Joyce: Stephen Hero 'William, Primate of Ireland and Archbishop of Dublin') + Gulielmus (l) - William + Statue of William Smith O'Brien (leader of the 1848 'Cabbage Patch rebellion'), O'Connell Bridge.
caulis - Arch. Each of the four principal stalks which support the volutes and helices in a Corinthian capital + caulis (l) - cabbage, cabbage stalk.
eilig (ger) - hurried, quick
édicule (fr) - small building, public convenience + highly ridiculous.
Pass if you can (notebook 1930) → Cosgrave: North Dublin, City and Environs 33: 'a house at the corner of the road to Dunsoghly Castle called Pass-if-you-can, a name which does not suggest strict temperance principles' + Statue of Thomas Moore (in front of a public convenience), College Green.
gloriettas (notebook 1930) → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVIII, 'Mexico City', 345b: 'The Paseo de la Reforma, the finest avenue of the city... At intervals are circular spaces, called "glorietas," with statues'.
excelsior - higher + gloria in excelsis (l) - glory in the highest + gloria in excelsis Deo (l) - glory to God in the highest.
workdays + irk - to irritate or vex.
comple - to accomplish, complete (obs.) + compleanos (sp) - birthday.
annus (l) - year
calendario (it) - calendar
Gregorian Calendar - the modification of the Julian Calendar adapted to bring it into closer conformity with astronomical data and the natural course of the seasons, and to rectify the error already contracted by its use, introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in a.d. 1582, and adopted in Great Britain in 1752 + William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet.
Julian Calendar - that introduced by Julius Caesar b.c. 46, in which the ordinary year has 365 days, and every fourth year is a leap year of 366 days, the months having the names, order, and length still retained.
lisping - that lisps + Lisbon, Portugal.
quickset - cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines [(notebook 1930): 'quickset' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book IV, ch. V: 'William the Testy... conceived that the true wisdom of legislation consisted in the multiplicity of laws... By degrees the whole surface of society was cut up by ditches and fences, and quickset hedges of the law, and even the sequestered paths of private life so beset by petty rules and ordinances, too numerous to be remembered'].
vineyard - a piece of ground in which grape-vines are cultivated; a plantation of vines + SDV: and I planted for her a vineyard and fenced it about with Chesterfield elms
Chesterfield Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of (1694-1773) - the letter-writer. As a comparatively decent Irish viceroy, he beautified the Phoenix Park by planting elms and erecting the Phoenix Monument in 1745. Joyce wrote (Letters, I, 258): "As to 'Phoenix'. A viceroy who knew no Irish thought this was the word the Dublin people used and put up the mount [sic] of a phoenix in the park. The Irish was fiunish ue = clean water from a well of bright water theme." The viceroy was Chesterfield, and his mistake was useful to Joyce. Water, seen as woman and transmuted into whiskey, is the element of resurrection in FW (Glasheen, Adaline / Third census of Finnegans wake) + (notebook 1924): 'chesterfield elm Ph Park'.
Kentish - of county Kent, England. Kent is known for its hops, which are dried in oasthouses.
hop - a climbing perennial difcious plant (Humulus Lupulus, N.O. Urticaceæ, suborder Cannabineæ), with rough lobed leaves shaped like those of the vine
rig - Agric. A raised or rounded strip of arable land, usually one of a series (with intermediate open furrows) into which a field is divided by ploughing in a special manner.
barlow - a large single-bladed pocket-knife + barley + The Rakes of Mallow (song).
bowery - like a bower, leafy and shady + The Bowery, New York City.
nook - a corner or angular piece of land; a small triangular field
Greenwich - a town on the south bank of the Thames adjoining London on the east, famous for its astronomical observatory and its hospital formerly occupied by naval pensioners.
villa - any residence of a superior or handsome type, or of some architectural pretension, in the suburbs of a town or in a residential district
pampo (sp) - plain
animus (l) - spirit, mind, anger + animo (Portuguese) - life, vitality.
necessidade (Portuguese) - necessity + Paço das Necessidades - royal palace, Lisbon + necessary house (Colloquial) - a euphemism for lavatory (hence, the use of initials, as in W.C.).
ingles (Portuguese) - English + iglesia (sp) - church.
pon - pontoon + pons (l) - bridge.
aqueduct - an artificial channel for the conveyance of water from place to place; a conduit; esp. an elevated structure of masonry used for this purpose + água (Portuguese) - water.
Hawthornden (notebook 1930) → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 940d: 'The walk to Hawthornden, about 1 ½ m. distant, through the lovely glen by the river-side' + dene - the deep, narrow, and wooded vale of a rivulet.
glen - a mountain-valley, usually narrow and forming the course of a stream + Furry Glen, Phoenix Park.
vall - a valley (obs.) + Walhalla.
chace (notebook 1930) → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 943d: 'the abbey and the neighbouring chase' + deer chase.
Finmark, South Norway
howe - a hollow place or depression; esp. a hollow on the surface of the earth, a basin or valley + Howe - site of the Viking parliament (Thingmote) in Dublin + Howe - Lord Mayor of Dublin.
gleaner - one that gleans
magazine (notebook 1930) → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Dublin', 620c: 'To the west of the city lies the Phoenix Park. Here, besides the viceregal demesne and lodge and the magazine' + By the Magazine Wall, zinzin, zinzin (motif).
Queen's Garden at the Phoenix (notebook 1930) → Cosgrave: North Dublin, City and Environs 19: 'The new Park in referred to as "the Phœnix Park" in a record of 1675, and again in 1741. In 1711, during Queen Anne's reign, it is described as "the Queen's garden at the Phœnix"'.
Alpine - of or pertaining to the Alps
Joyce's note (notebook 1930): 'wigwarmer / wigwarmed' → Washington Irving: A History of New York 68: Thus benignly fostered by the good St. Nicholas, the infant city thrived apace. Hordes of painted savages, it is true, still pitched about the unsettled parts of the island [...] here and there might be seen on some sunny knoll, a group of Indian wigwams whose smoke arose above the neighboring trees, and floated in the transparent atmosphere.
speakeasy - a shop or bar where alcoholic liquor is sold illegally
Granville - Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
lionn dubh (linduv) (gael) - "black ale": porter, stout + SDV: and I brewed for her strong double x Dublin lindubl lindub [to split the spleen of her maw & I restored for her her paddypalace [& added therunto a [shallow] layer to put out her hellfire]
froh (ger) - happy
frothy - foamy
freshener - something that freshens + frothy freshener - porter.
puss (Anglo-Irish) - mouth (pejorative)
pussyfoot - one who moves stealthily or warily; an advocate or supporter of prohibition, a prohibitionist
spleen - excessive dejection or depression of spirits; gloominess and irritability; moroseness; melancholia
maw - the stomach (of men and animals); the throat, gullet
trotter - a horse (or other quadruped) which trots; spec. a horse especially bred and trained to the trot
Eblana - Ptolemy's name for Dublin
batter - to beat continuously and violently so as to bruise or shatter + STONEYBATTER - Road, North-West Dublin, a section of the main road to Navan. Its name combines English and Irish: bothar, Ir. "road." It has been conjectured that it was originally the route of Slighe Cualann, the ancient road from Tara through Dublin to South-East Ireland: hence the original "rocky road to Dublin."
waggonway - an artificial road or a line of rails in a colliery upon which the coal wagons are run; a road made for the passage of wagons + SDV: and I gave unto laid down before my eblanite waggonways [of the stone]
nord (fr) - north + sud (fr) - south.
circulum (l) - circle
Westland Row, Dublin + Westmoreland - Lord Lieutenant of Ireland + Eastmoreland Place and Westmoreland Street, Dublin.
boulevard - a broad street, promenade, or walk, planted with rows of trees + (notebook 1930): 'Boullawards' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXIII, 'Rio de Janeiro', 354a: 'a grand boulevard'.
suddenly + syd (Danish) - South + Sydney Parade, Dublin.
horseman - one who rides on horseback, a rider
OSLO - Capital of Norway. Founded by Harald Sigurdsson in 1048 AD as Opslo + up slow.
Storting - the Norwegian parliament and its building in central Oslo + starting + (shouting D.U.T.C. timekeeper).
whereon - on which
mantra + tram.
trueman - a faithful or trusty man; an honest man (as distinguished from a thief or other criminal) + The Memory of the Dead (song): 'true men, like you, men'.
yahoo - a man of savage, fierce, uncultured, or unruly nature or character + Yahoos in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
Dublin United Tramways Company (D.U.T.C.)
Fahrt (ger) - journey + all fares.
willkommen (ger) = velkommen (Danish) - welcome.
hanging (passengers holding straps)
vogn (Danish) = vogn (Norwegian) - carriage
HCE + Hosea, the prophet.
Clydesdale - a breed of heavy draught horses originally bred near the Clyde in Scotland + claudus (l) - lame.
Arab - an Arab horse (prized for pure breed and fleetness) + James Joyce, Dubliners: 'Araby': 'The Arab's Farewell to His Steed' + Arabian steeds.
steed - a high-mettled horse used on state occasions, in war, or in the lists; a great horse, as distinguished from a palfrey (obs.)
Romer Reich (ger) - "Roman empire"
ricksha - a light two-wheeled hooded vehicle having springs and two shafts, drawn by one or more men + ricky - feeble, shaky; lacking in strength or firmness + The fore legs [of oxen] are usually farther apart than the hind, but the hind at times, when the shaw or cod is large and fat, is as much and even more apart.
Hispanian - of or belonging to Spain, Spanish
trompater = trumpeter - one who blows or plays on a trumpet.
(notebook 1930): 'madridden' → one of two entries inspired by Madrid [543.21] + mad, ridden, bucking, restive (of horses).
mustang - the wild or half-wild horse of the American plains, esp. of Mexico and California; descended from the stock introduced by the Spanish conquerors.