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* '''knock''' → Castleknock Hill and Windmill Hill (now Mount Hybla) are identified with Finn MacCool's (and [[HCE|HCE's]]) two feet | * '''knock''' → Castleknock Hill and Windmill Hill (now Mount Hybla) are identified with Finn MacCool's (and [[HCE|HCE's]]) two feet | ||
− | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.McHughSigla&entity=JoyceColl.McHughSigla.p0021&isize=L The Sigla of Finnegans Wake] → p. 13n: "In the time of D'Alton, ''The History of the County of Dublin'' (Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1838), p. 641, these were prominent, one crowned with a tower, the other with a castle | + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.McHughSigla&entity=JoyceColl.McHughSigla.p0021&isize=L The Sigla of Finnegans Wake] → p. 13n: "In the time of D'Alton, ''The History of the County of Dublin'' (Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1838), p. 641, these were prominent, one crowned with a tower, the other with a castle" |
* '''knock''' → hill (''Irish'' '''cnoc''', "hill"; ''Anglo-Irish'' '''knock''', "hill") | * '''knock''' → hill (''Irish'' '''cnoc''', "hill"; ''Anglo-Irish'' '''knock''', "hill") |
Revision as of 07:14, 30 April 2009
- Castleknock: a village west of Phoenix Park
- knock → Castleknock Hill and Windmill Hill (now Mount Hybla) are identified with Finn MacCool's (and HCE's) two feet
- The Sigla of Finnegans Wake → p. 13n: "In the time of D'Alton, The History of the County of Dublin (Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1838), p. 641, these were prominent, one crowned with a tower, the other with a castle"
- knock → hill (Irish cnoc, "hill"; Anglo-Irish knock, "hill")
- Knockmaroon: (Irish Cnoc na Marbhán, "the hill of the corpses") a locality in the northwest corner of Phoenix Park
- knock: to knock down → Humpty Dumpty
- knock out: to knock someone out, to render them unconscious → in Sheridan Le Fanu's 1861 novel The House by the Churchyard, a character is attacked and left for dead in the Hollow in the Phoenix Park
- knocked out: unconscious, like Tim Finnegan, Finn MacCool, and HCE
- knock out: a knock-out in a boxing match