Alfrids, beatties, cormacks and daltons.
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Jump to navigationJump to search- alpha, beta, gamma and delta: the first four letters of the Greek alphabet → the New Testament was written in Greek
- Alfred Chester Beatty: American philanthropist and industrialist who left his extensive collection of artworks and manuscripts to the Irish nation; his collection included some of the oldest fragments of the New Testament
- Cormac Mac Airt: a legendary High King of Ireland, contemporaneous with Finn Maccool
- Gorman: Herbert Gorman was Joyce's biographer; O'Gorman was the author of a medieval Martyrology → Joyce's first draft of this phrase had gormons
- D'Alton: John D'Alton (1792-1867), Irish historian, author of History of the County of Dublin
- Dalton: John Dalton (1766-1844), father of the modern atomic theory → daltonism = a form of colour-blindness
