Difference between revisions of "Alfrids, beatties, cormacks and daltons."
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* '''Cormac Mac Airt:''' a legendary High King of Ireland, contemporaneous with Finn Maccool | * '''Cormac Mac Airt:''' a legendary High King of Ireland, contemporaneous with Finn Maccool | ||
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160151&q1=Cormac Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160151&q1=Cormac Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
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| + | * '''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''' | ||
| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0068&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=M A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake] | ||
* '''D'Alton:''' John D'Alton (1792-1867), Irish historian, author of ''History of the County of Dublin'' | * '''D'Alton:''' John D'Alton (1792-1867), Irish historian, author of ''History of the County of Dublin'' | ||
Latest revision as of 15:12, 7 November 2010
- 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
