Rory end

• bad luck → worse bloody end → rory end
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926: "rory = Irish = red; rory = Latin, roridus = dewy; At the rainbow's end are dew and the colour red: bloody end to the lie in Anglo-Irish = no lie"
  • rory: (obsolete, rare) dewy → from roridus: (Latin) dewy → Mildew Lisa
  • bloody end to the lie = no lie → hence, "rory end to the..." means "no end to the..." → the cyclical history of FW goes on and on

• rory: (dialect) (1) loud or gaudy in colour; rory-tory; (2) noisy, boisterous → FW 041.28: roaratorios

• Rory, Ruaidhrí, Roderic: variants of an Irish name which means "red-haired"

• Rory O'Connor, or Ruaidhrí Ua Conchubair: High King of Ireland when Henry II came from the East; he was the last native King of Ireland, hence "Rory end"
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake
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• nary an end: (Scots) never an end
  • A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake

• bloody end to the...: (Anglo-Irish) damn the..., to hell with the...
  • Ulysses 293.03: "Arrah! bloody end to the paw..."
  • Ulysses 241.23: "blooming end to it"

• gory: bloody → red

• Rosy: red (or pink)

• Roderic: the last Visigothic king of Spain
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