Difference between revisions of "Finnegan"

Revision as of 11:10, 25 July 2006

Tim Finnegan: hero of the street ballad Finnegan's Wake; he is supposedly an Irish emigreacute; who is working as a labourer in New York (Cf. Third Census of Finnegans 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, Finn MacCool)

Finn MacCool: Irish mythical hero, sometimes portrayed as a giant (Cf.Third Census of Finnegans Wake)

Fionn or Finn is actually a nickname meaning "fair" (in reference to hair colour), "white" or "bright".

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 * '''Tim Finnegan''': hero of the street ballad [[Finnegan's Wake]]; he is supposedly an Irish emigreacute; who is working as a labourer in New York (Cf. [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160181&isize=M&q1=Finnegan Third Census of Finnegans Wake])
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegan%27s_Wake ''Finnegan's Wake''] &rarr; "Finn again is awake" &rarr; 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, Finn MacCool)
+* '''''Finnegan's Wake''''' &rarr; "Finn again is awake" &rarr; 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, Finn MacCool)
 * '''[[Finn MacCool]]''': Irish mythical hero, sometimes portrayed as a giant (Cf.[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160180&isize=M&q1=Finnegan Third Census of Finnegans Wake])