Since devlinsfirst loved livvy

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

• Joseph Devlin: Irish politician; founder of the Ancient Order of Hibernians

• ON Dyflin: Norse name for Dublin

• G Fürst: prince → HCE

• 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

• Devlin River: tributary of the River Boyne
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

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