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* green = catholic faction
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* '''on the green always & ever''' → '''laid on the green ever & evermore''' → '''have been laid to rust upon the green'''
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
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* '''green:''' symbolic of Ireland's Catholic, Nationalist or Republican faction (especially in Ulster) → [[ALP]] is a Catholic
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* '''green:''' a village green
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** '''there were wigs on the green:''' there was a public altercation; scuffles broke out
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** '''''[[Ulysses]]'' 337.27:''' "there'd be wigs on the green"
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* '''oranges ... upon the green:''' [[HCE]], a Protestant, having sexual intercourse with his wife [[ALP]], a Catholic
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* '''Song of Solomon 1:16: '''"Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green."'''[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_%28King_James%29/Song_of_Solomon]

Latest revision as of 09:16, 27 September 2009

  • green: symbolic of Ireland's Catholic, Nationalist or Republican faction (especially in Ulster) → ALP is a Catholic
  • green: a village green
    • there were wigs on the green: there was a public altercation; scuffles broke out
    • Ulysses 337.27: "there'd be wigs on the green"
  • oranges ... upon the green: HCE, a Protestant, having sexual intercourse with his wife ALP, a Catholic
  • Song of Solomon 1:16: "Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green."[1]