Since devlinsfirst loved livvy

• Devlin: Dublin

• Basque word for orange etymologised "the fruit which was first eaten" (McHugh) → the Forbidden Fruit in the Garden of Eden

• Devlin: Joseph Devlin, Irish politician; founder of the Ancient Order of Hibernians
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• Dyflin: (Old Norse) Norse name for Dublin

• Fürst: (German) prince → HCE

• Devlin: Anne Devlin, Irishwoman, Robert Emmet's housekeeper; she was drawn into the events of Emmet's rising of 1803 → Anna Liffey, a nickname of the River Liffey from the Irish Abhainn Life → ALP
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• Devlin River: a tributary of the River Boyne
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• Delvin River: a small river which forms part of the boundary between Dublin an Meath
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• devlinsfirst: may have been corrupted in transmission from Joyce's devlins first

• Devils → possible reference to Protestants (as in opposition to Catholics)?
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake