Difference between revisions of "Fr'over the short sea"

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Short Sea: a nautical synonym for the Irish Sea. [Note: so wrote Roland McHugh in the first edition of his Annotations to Finnegans Wake; but the annotation does not appear in the second or third edition. Was it an error?]
- Wikipedia
- A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

Seoirse: (Irish) George → St George's Channel, the southern part of the Irish Sea, which Tristram crosses on his return to Cornwall
- A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

sea → the watery element connects this, the first of seven clauses in the second paragraph of FW 003, with riverrun, the first of seven elements in the first paragraph → the 1st of 7 elements in a second circuit of HCE's bedroom

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 ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130409&q1=Irish%20Sea A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
-* '''''I'' Seoirse:''' George &rarr; St George's Channel, the southern part of the Irish Sea, which [[Tristram]] crosses on his return to Cornwall
+* '''Seoirse:''' (''Irish'') George &rarr; St George's Channel, the southern part of the Irish Sea, which [[Tristram]] crosses on his return to Cornwall
 ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130526&q1=St%20George's A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]