by James Joyce
xc Dublin lingo for a bartender.
xd To disguise the smell of alcohol on his breath.
xe Hot whiskey drinks.
xf Little man.
xg Instantly.
xh Pub; a licensed premises open to the public, as opposed to a private bar or club.
xi Ask for a loan.
xj Answer.
xk Commercial area south of the Liffey and west of the Bank of Ireland.
xl Pub off Grafton Street, between St. Stephen’s Green and Trinity College; made famous in Ulysses as the spot where Leopold Bloom eats his lunch.
xm A glass (half-pint) of beer or ale.
xn Large glasses.
xo Gentleman.
xp Headquarters of the Dublin Port and Docks Board.
xq A pub.
xr A music hall.
xs Irish whiskey and mineral water.
xt Hot whiskey punch.
xu Dry ale.
xv Freeloader.
xw Mouth or speech.
xx From the Irish smeachán (“little taste”).
xy The Beggar’s Bush Infantry Barracks.
xz Catholic devotional prayer beginning: “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.”
ya The evening meal.
yb From the Irish báirín breac; a brown cake similar to fruitcake.
yc Mute.
yd Fashionable southeast Dublin neighborhood.
ye Nelson’s Pillar, honoring Admiral Lord Nelson; it stood at the center of Sackville (now O’Connell) Street until 1966, when the I.R.A. demolished it.
yf Working-class neighborhood 2 miles north of Dublin’s city center.
yg The Monday following Pentecost, the seventh Sunday after Easter.
yh Founded in the 1850s with a mission to reform prostitutes.
yi Cuttings.
yj The one discovering the ring in her piece of barmbrack was supposed to marry
within the year.
yk Halloweens.
yl Dark ale.
ym Raincoat.
yn Dark, fortified wine.
yo A traditional Irish dance tune.
yp From the opera The Bohemian Girl (1843), with music by Irish composer Michael William Balfe, libretto by Alfred Bunn.
yq Maria, whether through inadvertence or avoidance, sings the first verse twice.
yr Western suburb of Dublin, not far from the large Phoenix Park.
ys The standard Irish catechism.
yt 1900 German drama, which Joyce translated the following summer.
yu Medicine sold to relieve gas.
yv Gloomy.
yw A grocery.
yx Bland cookies.
yy Performing arts venue at the north end of Sackville (now O’Connell) Street.
yz Small audience.
za Short jacket made from the wool of young lambs.
zb British name for the Italian seaport of Livorno.
zc Near the main entrance to Phoenix Park, on the western boundary of Dublin.
zd Two texts (1883-1892 and 1882, respectively) in which Friedrich Nietzsche elaborated his philosophy of the “will to power” and the eternal return, and described the figure of the Ubermensch (superman).
ze The conservative-leaning Dublin Evening Mail, which was published on light brown paper.
zf Latin for “in secret”; that is, read silently, to oneself.
zg Suburb southwest of the city center.
zh Port city south of Dublin; now known once again by its Irish name, Dun Laoghaire.
zi After the English fashion, the name of the Sinicos’ home.
zj Seaport in the Netherlands.
zk A temperance league (one that advocates not drinking alcohol).
zl Village 4 miles west of Chapelizod.
zm Whiskey punch.
zn The Dublin Evening Herald, more nationalist than the Evening Mail.
zo Phoenix Park, on the western outskirts of the city, the largest enclosed urban park in the world.
zp Landmark in Phoenix Park.
zq One of twenty administrative units in Dublin.
zr Poor Law Guardian, elected to oversee public relief.
zs The room in which the action of the story takes place, but also an allusion to Committee Room 15 in Westminster, where Charles Stewart Parnell was deposed in December 1890.
zt The anniversary of Parnell’s death in 1891.
zu Associated with the memory of Parnell.
zv Brotherhood of Catholic laymen, founded in Waterford, County Munster, in 1802 by Edmund Ignatius Rice.
zw Layabout.
zx Meeting of the secret fraternal order of Free and Accepted Masons, regarded by Catholics as a Protestant sect.
zy Gypsy.
zz Pub owner.
aaa The Dublin Corporation, the city’s governing body.
aab Worthless men.
aac Title.
aad Laziness.
aae That is, English King Edward VII, who was related to German royalty.
aaf That of the Irish Parliamentary Party, opposed to English rule in Ireland.
aag Money.
aah From the Irish word tuig (“understand”).
aai Freeloading.
aaj Dublin Castle, home of the Dublin Corporation and the city’s municipal government.
aak Head of the Dublin police who was instrumental in putting down the 1798 rebellion.
aal A pub.
aam From the Irish gasrán (“conversation”).
aan Dwarf.
aao Official residence of the Lord Mayor.
aap A pun on “ermine,” the fur trimming of the Mayor’s robes.
aaq Shelf within a fireplace.
aar Gentleman.
aas Taxpayer.
aat Parnell had opposed a welcome for the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, back in 1885.
aau Before his ascension to the throne, Edward’s life was the subject of public scandal and gossip.
aav Hard liquor.
aaw Libertine.
aax Parnell.
aay Cowardly.
aaz lreland to Victory (Irish); a nationalist slogan.
aba That is, a convent school.
abb Candy made of fru juice and gelatin.
abc The Royal Irish Academy of Music.
abd Skcrries, Howth, Grcystoncs were well-to-do seaside communities near Dublin,
abe An attempt to revive traditional Irish languAge, arts, and culture.
abf A pro-cathedral is a parish church used as a cathedral (seat of a diocese); the reference here is to the Catholic St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, on the corner of Marlborough and Cathedral Streets; the city’s other two cathedrals (St. Patrick’s and Christ Church) are both Protestant.
abg One who desires Irish independence from Britain; also, frequently, one who subscribes to the program of the Irish (or Celtic) Revival.
abh Soft satin.
abi Fashionable downtown department store.
abj That is, the audience has been swelled with free tickets.
abk Imposing building on Sackvillc (now O’Connell) Street, near Nelson’s Pillar, the geographic center of the city; during the Easter Rising in 1916, Irish rebels took over the G.RO. as their headquarters
abl That is God; an example of the Irish strategy of dodging the curse,” substituting an innocuous word for a profane or irreligious one.
abm 1845 opera by Irish composer William Wallace.
abn One of Dublin’s three major turn-of-the-century theaters.
abo Annual Irish music festival, established in 1897; Joyce placed third for his singing in 1904.
abp Reportcr for the Free,naniJournal, a Dublin newspaper.
abq Official residence of the Lord Mayor.
abr Song from Michael William Balfe’s innisfallen.
abs Dublin lingo for “bartenders.”
abt Wool overcoat.
abu The heart of Dublin’s upscale shopping district.
abv Type of jaunting car.
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sp; abw Headquarters of the Dublin Port and Docks Board.
abx His role model.
aby The police force for all of Ireland outside Dublin; “Dublin Castle” here represents British Rule in Ireland.
abz Church on the coast in south Dublin.
aca Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a devotional discipline.
acb From the Irish phrase bean sí (“fairy woman”).
acc The main conservative Dublin paper.
acd Alcoholic beverages could be sold outside of regular pub hours to genuine travelers ; some determined drinkers “traveled” for the sake of exploiting this loophole of the law.
ace The river running west to east through downtown Dublin, dividing it into south and north.
acf Lending money at excessive rates of interest.
acg Taxes.
ach From the Irish word bastún (“blockhead”).
aci From the Irish word amadán (“fool”).
acj Thick, dark Irish beer.
ack A grocery and pub.
acl Period of withdrawal for the purpose of spiritual reflection and teaching.
acm Irish dance.
acn The Society of Jesus, an order within the Catholic Church founded by Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556); its members are known especially for their learning.
aco Fictional character.
acp (1830-1883); popular Dominican fundraiser who combined spiritual and nationalist appeals in Ireland.
acq Leo XIII (1810-1903; pope 1878-1903).
acr A Unionist; one favoring the continued union of Ireland with Great Britain.
acs Wine and spirits merchant.
act Pub.
acu (1792-1878); as pope (1846-1878), he promulgated the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and papal infallibility.
acv A brick of peat (turf) fuel under his arm.
acw Paraphrase from John Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel (1681): “Great Wits are sure to Madness near ally’d.”
acx From the throne (Latin); the dogma of papal infallibility holds that when the pope speaks about matters of church doctrine, he is infallible.
acy Johannes Josef Ignaz von Döllinger (1799-1890), far from participating in the First Vatican Council (1869-1870), was excommunicated for his refusal to accept its decrees.
acz (1791-1881); Irish archbishop who opposed English influence in Ireland.
ada 1816-1875; well-known owner of the Freeman’s Journal; a Protestant, he supported repeal of the Union of England and Ireland; his statue still stands on O’Connell Street.
adb 1845-1888; Sir John’s son, owner of the Freeman’s Journal and a Nationalist.
adc Jesus’ words to Peter in Matthew 16:23.
add Part of a church that crosses the nave at right angles to main length of the building.
ade Member of a religious order who has not taken priestly vows.
adf Figure of five points: the four corners of a square and the center.
adg White vestment with loose sleeves worn by those presiding over church services.
adh Riches.
adi Quotation from Luke 16:8-9.
adj On the south bank of the Liffey, west of the city center.
adk A south-bank quay of the Liffey, near Phoenix Park.
adl Broker between grower and wholesaler.
adm Served as organist.
adn The Royal Irish Academy of Music.
ado Train line to the affluent seaside communities of Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire) and Dalkey, south of Dublin.
adp Thick, dark Irish beer.
adq Drunk.
adr Sweet talk.
ads (1812-1889); preeminent English poet.
adt Thomas Moore’s Irish Melodies, a popular (and less difficult) alternative to the poetry of Browning.
adu Affluent coastal suburb south of the city center.
adv Merrion Square, fashionable neighborhood east of St. Stephen’s Green.
adw Hot cereal.
adx A rubber-like material.
ady Blackface vaudeville entertainers.
adz One of Dublin’s most elegant hotels, on Upper O’Connell Street.
aea Delicacies.
aeb Dry ale.
aec A carbonated lemon-lime beverage.
aed “Type of square dance.
aee The temperance pledge—that is, to not drink alcohol.
aef The two sons of English King Edward IV, rumored to have been murdered in the Tower of London in 1483 by their uncle, Richard III.
aeg Material like damask, popular for embroidery.
aeh Long, narrow mirror.
aei Assistant to the parish priest in a seaside resort north of Dublin.
aej An examining college, established in 1879 for the purpose of granting degrees to students of University College Dublin, which Gabriel probably attended, and other Catholic universities.
aek Another type of square dance.
ael An identifiably Irish design.
aem We would say a “bone to pick.”
aen Dublin newspaper with Unionist leanings.
aeo That is, an Irishman whose sympathies were more British than Irish.
aep Debate regarding the proper role of religion and nationalism in Ireland’s universities.
aeq Relatively undeveloped islands off the west coast of Ireland, near Galway.
aer lreland’s western province; the seaport Galway is one of its principal cities.
aes Ireland’s most important western seaport.
aet Phoenix Park, on the western outskirts of the city; the largest enclosed urban park in the world.
aeu Large obelisk in Phoenix Park, erected in 1817 in honor of the Duke of Wellington.
aev Sound of musket fire.
aew From Vincenzo Bellini’s I Puritani di Scozia (1835).
aex She would never take my advice.
aey A decree by Pius X in 1903 forbade women to sing or perform music in church services.
aez That is, he is a Protestant.
afa Irish for “blessings on you”; good-bye.
afb Sweet, white pudding.
afc Carbonated nonalcoholic beverages.
afd Burned down in 1880.
afe Another Dublin theater.
aff Popular 1866 opera by Ambroise Thomas.
afg Georgina Burns and the others named were notable nineteenth-century operatic singers.
afh Song from Maritana, an 1845 opera by Irish composer William Wallace.
afi 1859 opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer.
afj 1833 opera by Gaetano Donizetti.
afk Enrico Caruso (1873-1921), the most famous operatic tenor of his day.
afl Identity uncertain.
afm The Abbey of St. Bernard de Trappe, in County Waterford; Freddy is heading there to “dry out.”
afn Misleading name for a 200-acre portion of the 1,760-acre Phoenix Park, used for military exercises.
afo In Greek mythology, the daughters of Zeus and Eurynome—Aglaia (brilliance), Thalia (bloom), and Euphrosyne (Joy)—embodied refinement.
afp Material made from the wool of young lambs.
afq Statue of King William III, which stands on College Green, in front of Trinity College.
afr Decorative window above the front door of a home.
afs Complex of legal buildings on the north side of the Liffey.
aft Full-length mirror with a pivot through its central axis.
