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* '''Tim Finnegan:''' the [[Dublin]] hod-carrier who fell drunk from his ladder and apparently died in the popular Irish-American street ballad from the 1850s [[Finnegan's Wake]]. At his wake, a bottle of whiskey broke on his coffin and he "came back to life". Much of the text of the ballad is echoed in the first chapter of FW.
 
* '''Tim Finnegan:''' the [[Dublin]] hod-carrier who fell drunk from his ladder and apparently died in the popular Irish-American street ballad from the 1850s [[Finnegan's Wake]]. At his wake, a bottle of whiskey broke on his coffin and he "came back to life". Much of the text of the ballad is echoed in the first chapter of FW.
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegan%27s_Wake ''Finnegan's Wake''] → "Finn again is awake" → a reference to the common legend that great heroes of the past are not dead but merely asleep, ready to return in their country's hour of greatest need (e.g. King Arthur)
 
  
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* '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fionn_mac_Cumhail Fionn mac Cumhail]:''' (earlier ''Finn'' or ''Find mac Cumail'' or ''mac Umaill'', pronounced roughly "Finn m'Cool") a legendary hunter-warrior of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_mythology Irish mythology], also known in Scotland and the Isle of Man as Fingal. The stories of Fionn and his followers, the Fianna, form the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenian_cycle Fenian cycle], much of it supposedly narrated by Fionn's son, the poet Oisín. The Fenian Brotherhood took their name from these legends.
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* '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fionn_mac_Cumhail Fionn mac Cumhail]:''' (earlier ''Finn'' or ''Find mac Cumail'' or ''mac Umaill'', pronounced roughly "Finn m'Cool") a legendary hunter-warrior of Irish mythology, also known in Scotland and the Isle of Man as Fingal.  
  
 
* '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckleberry_Finn Huckleberry Finn]:''' character who features in several books by [[Mark]] Twain; a friend of Tom [[Sawyer]]
 
* '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckleberry_Finn Huckleberry Finn]:''' character who features in several books by [[Mark]] Twain; a friend of Tom [[Sawyer]]
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* '''Finn’s Hotel:''' a hotel in Dublin, where Nora Barnacle worked when Joyce first met her
 
* '''Finn’s Hotel:''' a hotel in Dublin, where Nora Barnacle worked when Joyce first met her
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[[Category: Finnegan]]

Revision as of 11:08, 25 July 2006

  • I finn: white, pale, fair (e.g. fair hair); pure, true, blessed → Finnegan = fairheaded
  • G root Finn-: designates moist-swampy places and rotten smell
  • G Finne: pimple; blotch
  • Tim Finnegan: the Dublin hod-carrier who fell drunk from his ladder and apparently died in the popular Irish-American street ballad from the 1850s Finnegan's Wake. At his wake, a bottle of whiskey broke on his coffin and he "came back to life". Much of the text of the ballad is echoed in the first chapter of FW.
  • Fionn mac Cumhail: (earlier Finn or Find mac Cumail or mac Umaill, pronounced roughly "Finn m'Cool") a legendary hunter-warrior of Irish mythology, also known in Scotland and the Isle of Man as Fingal.
  • US Sl fin: a colloquial term for the five-dollar bill bearing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln
  • Finland
  • Finn: a giant who, according to folk mythology, built the cathedral in Lund
  • Finn: a Frisian lord who appears in Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg
  • finicky
  • Finn’s Hotel: a hotel in Dublin, where Nora Barnacle worked when Joyce first met her
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