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  • Clontarf: old name for Dublin; most famous for the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 where Brian Boru defeated the Viking invaders. The Battle of Clontarf is seen as marking an end to the Irish-Viking Wars.
  • Clane: a town in County Kildare, Ireland, near Clongowes Wood College, where both Joyce and Stephen Dedalus were educated.
  • clean turf: an oxymoron