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* '''Beatrice Gladys Lillie:''' an American comic actress (1894-1989), whose theatrical soubriquet was “Bea Lillie” (“be a Lily”); she began her stage career as a singer of sentimental ballads; she married Sir Robert Peel in 1920 becoming Lady Peel → orange peel? | * '''Beatrice Gladys Lillie:''' an American comic actress (1894-1989), whose theatrical soubriquet was “Bea Lillie” (“be a Lily”); she began her stage career as a singer of sentimental ballads; she married Sir Robert Peel in 1920 becoming Lady Peel → orange peel? | ||
| − | * '''''Orange Lily, O'':''' (''song'') | + | * '''''Orange Lily, O'':''' (''song'') a political song celebrating William of Orange's victory at the Battle of the Boyne → the House of Orange → foreign invaders & Protestants ([[HCE]] is both) → the song is sung to the tune ''Green Grows the Rushes, O'', thus combining the green and the orange |
| − | ** [http://www.archive.org/stream/standardorangeso00armauoft#page/38/mode/2up The French Invasion, 1797] | + | ** [http://www.archive.org/stream/standardorangeso00armauoft#page/88/mode/2up ''The Orange Lilly, O''] |
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| + | * '''''The French Invasion'':''' (''song'') a political song celebrating the failure of the United Irishmen's rebellion in 1798 and Robert Emmet's rising in 1803 → the chorus mentions the Orange Lilly → note also the allusion to hanging rebels on trees (Iris Trees) | ||
| + | ** [http://www.archive.org/stream/standardorangeso00armauoft#page/38/mode/2up ''The French Invasion, 1797''] | ||
* '''''Lillibulero'':''' (''song'') a Protestant song celebrating the Orange victory over the Jacobites at the battle of the Boyne in 1690 | * '''''Lillibulero'':''' (''song'') a Protestant song celebrating the Orange victory over the Jacobites at the battle of the Boyne in 1690 | ||
Revision as of 08:43, 5 April 2011
- Lillie Langtry: the Jersey Lily; Lillie Langtry was the theatrical name of Emily Charlotte Le Breton (1853-1929), the daughter of the Dean of Jersey; She married Edward Langtry in 1874; after his death in 1897 she married Hugo de Bathe in 1899, becoming Lady Bathe on his accession to a baronetcy in 1907; she caused a sensation in 1881 by becoming the first socialite to go on the stage, her first important role being in Oliver Goldsmith's comedy She Stoops to Conquer at the Haymarket Theatre in London; among her admirers was Edward VII
- Beatrice Gladys Lillie: an American comic actress (1894-1989), whose theatrical soubriquet was “Bea Lillie” (“be a Lily”); she began her stage career as a singer of sentimental ballads; she married Sir Robert Peel in 1920 becoming Lady Peel → orange peel?
- Orange Lily, O: (song) a political song celebrating William of Orange's victory at the Battle of the Boyne → the House of Orange → foreign invaders & Protestants (HCE is both) → the song is sung to the tune Green Grows the Rushes, O, thus combining the green and the orange
- The French Invasion: (song) a political song celebrating the failure of the United Irishmen's rebellion in 1798 and Robert Emmet's rising in 1803 → the chorus mentions the Orange Lilly → note also the allusion to hanging rebels on trees (Iris Trees)
- Lillibulero: (song) a Protestant song celebrating the Orange victory over the Jacobites at the battle of the Boyne in 1690
- Lily: symbol of Hera, wife of Zeus and goddess of marriage → ALP
- lily: a white flower → the green trees, white lily and oranges symbolize the Irish tricolour
- lille: (Danish) little
- ranges mountain ranges → Shaun (stone)
- Lili O'Rangan: one half of Issy's split personality?
- One of the two women HCE encounters in the park?
- orangutan: in Dublin zoo? hanging from Irish trees? → HCE's primate ancestry (Chimpden = chimpanzee)
- orang: (Malay) man → HCE as the Wild Man from Borneo
- Iris trees and Lili O'Rangans: histories of little men
