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Malachus Micgranes: perhaps a play on Carolus Magnus, or a near-anagram of Charlemagne → see Baddelaries for futher commentary
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Malachy I: Máel Sechnaill mac Maíl Ruanaid, a 9th-century High King of Ireland
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Malachy II: 11th-century High King of Ireland, a rival of Brian Ború
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St Malchus: a saint martyred (he was exposed to wild beasts) by Valerian in 260 in Caesarea with SS Priscus and Alexander

malchus: (French) a type of sword → Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais (Paris 1922)

Malchus of Carthage: a ruling magistrate of Carthage from about 580 BC; he defeated the Greeks in Sicily, conquering most of the island; but he was vanquished in Sardinia, and exiled by the Carthaginian senate as a result; in 550 BC he besieged Carthage, but was captured and executed

Malchus: Biblical character → John 18.10: "Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus."
- FW 585.11: "As well as his auricular of Malthus..."
- A First-Draft Version of FW 265.18: "replaceable as the ear of Malthas..."

Malachi Mulligan: a character in Ulysses based on the writer Oliver St John Gogarty
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Porphyry of Tyre: Neoplatonic philosopher and mathematician. "Porphyry's name in the Syrian town was originally Malchus (this word means "king"), but Longinus gave him the name of Porphyry, thus making it indicate the colour of imperial attire".[1] Created an arbor porphyriana or Porphyrian tree, a hierarchical (tree structured) ontology, construction in logic consisting of three rows or columns of words; the middlemost whereof contains the series of genus and species, and bears some analogy to the trunk. The extremes, containing the differences, are analogous to the branches of a tree.
- FW 100.16: "...seventh gable of our Quintus Centimachus' porphyroid buttertower..."
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Master McGrath: famous Irish greyhound who won the Waterloo Cup three times → Waterloo
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- Master McGrath: a song
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migraine: (French) a fire grenade → Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais (Paris 1922)

Magravius: a character who appears later in FW (FW 572.30 → a Shem-Shaun composite (File:Shem-Shaun.PNG)
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 * '''Malachi Mulligan:''' a character in ''[[Ulysses]]'' based on the writer Oliver St John Gogarty
 ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0289&isize=L&q1=Mulligan Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
+* '''Porphyry of Tyre:''' Neoplatonic  philosopher and mathematician. "Porphyry's name in the Syrian town was originally '''Malchus''' (this word means "king"), but Longinus gave him the name of Porphyry, thus making it indicate the colour of imperial attire".[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/pearse/morefathers/files/eunapius_02_text.htm#PORPHYRY] Created an arbor porphyriana or Porphyrian tree, a hierarchical (tree structured) ontology, construction in logic consisting of three rows or columns of words; the middlemost whereof contains the series of genus and species, and bears some analogy to the trunk. The extremes, containing the differences, are analogous to the branches of a tree.
+** '''[[Page_100|FW 100.16]]:''' "...seventh gable of our Quintus Centimachus' porphyroid buttertower..."
+** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0325&isize=L Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
+** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyry_%28philosopher%29 Wikipedia]
+** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbor_porphyriana Wikipedia]
 * '''Mallarm&eacute;:''' French poet