Malachus Micgranes

• Malachus Micgranes: perhaps a play on Carolus Magnus, or a near-anagram of Charlemagne → see Baddelaries for futher commentary
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• Malchus: Bishop of Lismore

• St Malachy: Bishop Malchus’s pupil
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• Malachy I: 9th-century High King of Ireland
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• Malachy II: 11th-century High King of Ireland, a rival of Brian Ború

• 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."
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• Malachi Mulligan: a character in Ulysses based on the writer Oliver St John Gogarty
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• Mallarmé: French poet

• Master McGrath: famous Irish greyhound who won the Waterloo Cup three times → Waterloo
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• Master McGrath: a song

• migraine: (French) a fire grenade → Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais (Paris 1922)

• migraines: headaches

• Magravius: a character who appears later in FW 9FW 572.30 → a Shem-Shaun composite (File:Shem-Shaun.PNG)
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