Lili O'Rangans

Lillie Langtry: the Jersey Lily; Lillie Langtry was the theatrical name of Emily Charlotte Le Breton (1853-1929), the daughter of the Dean of Jersey; She married Edward Langtry in 1874; after his death in 1897 she married Hugo de Bathe in 1899, becoming Lady Bathe on his accession to a baronetcy in 1907; she caused a sensation in 1881 by becoming the first socialite to go on the stage, her first important role being in Oliver Goldsmith's comedy She Stoops to Conquer at the Haymarket Theatre in London; among her admirers was Edward VII

Beatrice Gladys Lillie: an American comic actress (1894-1989), whose theatrical soubriquet was “Bea Lillie” (“be a Lily”); she began her stage career as a singer of sentimental ballads; she married Sir Robert Peel in 1920 becoming Lady Peel → orange peel?

Orange Lily, O: (song) a political song celebrating William of Orange's victory at the Battle of the Boyne → the House of Orange → foreign invaders & Protestants (HCE is both) → the song is sung to the tune Green Grows the Rushes, O, thus combining the green and the orange
- The Orange Lilly, O

The French Invasion: (song) a political song celebrating the failure of the United Irishmen's rebellion in 1798 and Robert Emmet's rising in 1803 → the chorus mentions the Orange Lilly → note also the allusion to hanging rebels on trees (Iris Trees)
- The French Invasion, 1797

Lillibulero: (song) a Protestant song celebrating the Orange victory over the Jacobites at the battle of the Boyne in 1690
- Lillibullero

lily: a flowering plant → Issy as a flower maiden → the lily is a white flower → the green trees, white lily and oranges symbolize the Irish tricolour → the heraldic fleur-de lis, borne by the kings of France → sometimes identified as a lily → the French Royal Coat of arms has three fleurs-de-lis

loyal: in Irish politics, this word usually refers to the Orange Protestant faction

ringing: sound characterizes Shem, who has a good ear but bad eyes → hence Lily O'Rangans contains both Shem and Shaun as well as Issy → ringing has been compared to the tinkling of the two girls' urination in the Phoenix Park → ringing of belles → belles → pealing of bells = appealing belles → peeling (stripping, exposing themselves to HCE) → orange peel

Lili O'Rangan: one half of Issy's split personality → one of the two girls HCE encounters in the park

orangutan: in Dublin zoo? hanging from Irish trees? → HCE's primate ancestry (Chimpden = chimpanzee)

Lilith: Adam's first wife in Eden (Edenborough mentioned on the previous page) → this would identify Eve with Iris Trees, pulling in allusions to the Forbidden Fruit and the Trees of Knowledge and of Life

ii: the ii in Lili is emblematic of Issy in Fw → explained by John Gordon in his A Wake Newslitter monograph "Notes on Issy" (monograph 7, 1982): the two dots of ii = the morse code for I; two i's = 11, a Wakean number of renewal; two i's = the two girls, the dots, their vaginas; two i's = two eyes - Joyce’s daughter Lucia, a primary model for Isabel, was named after St Lucia, patron saint of light and vision, so named as a guardian of superstitious Joyce’s failing vision

gans: (German) goose → Barnacle goose → Nora Barnacle, Joyce's wife → Wild Geese = Irish Jacobites who fled south to Europe after defeat (like Joyce and Nora fleeing into exile, or the "three of crows" who "have flapped it southenly" after the battle (FW 011.01)

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