Shouldering Berkeley Alley

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  • shoulder: (military) to place one's weapon on one's shoulder (2) to move someone aside by pushing against them with one's shoulder
  • Bishop George Berkeley: Irish philosopher, known for his theory esse est percipi, viz. that the material Universe exists only because it is being continually perceived by God → the fifth in a list of scholars representing the Seven Liberal Arts
  • Berkeley Road: a street on Dublin's Northside
  • along Isaac Newton Avenue: Joyce's First-Draft version of this phrase