Fr'over the short sea

• 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?]
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  • 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

• short sea: a nautical term for a sea with close waves

• 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