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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. | ||
| − | * '''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/Fionn_mac_Cumhail Wikipedia] | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fionn_mac_Cumhail Wikipedia] | ||
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160180 Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160180 Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130439 A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130439 A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ||
| − | * '''Finn | + | * '''Finn:''' a Frisian lord who appears in ''Beowulf'' and ''The Fight at Finnsburg'' |
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn_(Frisian) Wikipedia] | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn_(Frisian) Wikipedia] | ||
* '''fin:''' (''French'') end → [[Mister Finnagain!]] | * '''fin:''' (''French'') end → [[Mister Finnagain!]] | ||
| − | * ''''' | + | * '''Michael Finnegan:''' (''song'') eponymous character in the popular song ''[[Michael Finnegan]]'' → [[Mister Finnagain!]] |
* '''finicky''' | * '''finicky''' | ||
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[[Category: Finnegan]] | [[Category: Finnegan]] | ||
| + | [[Category: Song lyrics]] | ||
Revision as of 10:41, 24 November 2006
- finn: (Irish) white, pale, fair (e.g. fair hair); pure, true, blessed → Finnegan = fairheaded
- Finn-: (Germanic root) designates moist-swampy places and rotten smell
- Finne: (German) 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.
- fin: (US Slang) 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, Sweden → sometimes identified (probably erroneously) with Finn MacCool
- Finn: a Frisian lord who appears in Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg
- fin: (French) end → Mister Finnagain!
- Michael Finnegan: (song) eponymous character in the popular song Michael Finnegan → Mister Finnagain!
- finicky
- Finn’s Hotel: a hotel in Leinster Street, Dublin, where Nora Barnacle worked when Joyce first met her
