Difference between revisions of "Is at the knock out in the park"
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− | * '''Castleknock''' | + | * '''Castleknock:''' a village west of [[Phoenix Park]] |
+ | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castleknock Wikipedia] | ||
+ | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130295 A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ||
− | * Castleknock Hill and Windmill Hill (now Mount Hybla) are identified with Finn | + | * '''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&entity=JoyceColl000700070021 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 ('' | + | * '''knock''' → hill (''Irish'' '''cnoc''', "hill"; ''Anglo-Irish'' '''knock''', "hill") |
− | * '''Knockmaroon:''' ('' | + | * '''Knockmaroon:''' (''Irish'' '''Cnoc na Marbhán''', "the hill of the corpses") a locality in the northwest corner of [[Phoenix Park]] |
+ | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130421 A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ||
* '''knock:''' to knock down → [[Humpty Dumpty]] | * '''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 | + | * '''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]] |
* '''knock out:''' a knock-out in a boxing match | * '''knock out:''' a knock-out in a boxing match |
Revision as of 11:01, 20 October 2006
- 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
- knock out: a knock-out in a boxing match