Rory end

• L roridus: dewy
  • "At the rainbow's end are dew and the colour red": Joyce, letter, 15/11/26 to Harriet Shaw Weaver

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

• Rory O'Connor, or Ruaidhrí Ua Conchubair, was 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

• "bloody end to the lie = no lie" - Joyce, letter, 15/11/26 to Harriet Shaw Weaver
  • Hence, "rory end to the..." means "no end to the..." → the cyclical history of FW goes on and on
  • cf. Scots nary an end: never an end

• AngI bloody end to the...: 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

• Roderic: last Visigothic king of Spain