Pike and fork

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  • knife and fork
  • If only you’d come out [in the 1916 Rising] with knives and forks: Eamonn De Valera, criticizing the citizenry of Dublin for not supporting the rising
  • to put down one’s knife and fork: (slang) to die
  • pike: the principal weapon of the United Irishmen during the 1797 rebellion, whence the rebels are sometimes referred to as "the pikemen of '97"
  • pike: a species of fish, also known as luce → Lucia Joyce
  • fork: a junction where a road divides in two → there is one in Chapelizod outside the Mullingar Inn