Difference between revisions of "Where oranges"

Revision as of 10:50, 14 June 2006

orange: symbolic of Ireland's Protestant, Loyalist or British faction (especially in Ulster) → after the colour of the Dutch royal House of Nassau (or House of Orange), a Protestant dynasty whose prince became William III (William of Orange, King Billy) of England, Ireland and Wales, and defeated the Catholic monarch James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, thus securing the Protestant succession; as King Billy he became a hero to the Protestants of Ireland → HCE is a Protestant
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake

oranges: the orangepeel that the hen scratches up from the kitchen midden in the backyard when she finds the remains of ALP's letter (FW 110.29)

in Basque the word for orange means "the fruit which was first eaten" → the Forbidden Fruit in the Garden of Eden

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-* orange = protestant faction
+* orange: symbolic of Ireland's Protestant, Loyalist or British faction (especially in Ulster) &rarr; after the colour of the Dutch royal House of Nassau (or House of Orange), a Protestant dynasty whose prince became William III (William of Orange, King Billy) of England, Ireland and Wales, and defeated the Catholic monarch James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, thus securing the Protestant succession; as King Billy he became a hero to the Protestants of Ireland &rarr; [[HCE]] is a Protestant
-* orange and green, as used here, perhaps symbolize colors in the Irish flag, or the protestant faction and a traditional, very Irish color.
+** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160397&q1=William Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
+* oranges: the orangepeel that the hen scratches up from the kitchen midden in the backyard when she finds the remains of ALP's letter (FW 110.29)
+* in Basque the word for ''orange'' means "the fruit which was first eaten" &rarr; the Forbidden Fruit in the Garden of Eden