A Wild Mountain Air (song)
ductor - a leader, the leader of a band of music
fezzy - furnished with or wearing a fez
fuzz - a mass of fine, light, fluffy particles; the beard of an adolescent boy + (elevation of host and ritual of chalice in Wagner's Parsifal).
bludgeon - a short stout stick or club, with one end loaded or thicker and heavier than the other, used as a weapon
signum - sign, signature
chase + (knights of the Grail).
Longfellow + (singer).
silentium in curia (l) - silence in the court
maypole - a tall pole in an open place and wreathed with flowers forming a center for may day sports
canto - a song, ballad (obs.); one of the major divisions of a long poem
chorussed - singed in chorus
christen - baptize, to give a name to
tollgate - a point where vehicles pause to pay toll
Annona (l) - goddess; Roman corn-goddess + Saint Andrew's Street and Church - site of Thingmote, Norse parliament in Dublin.
rann - a stanza of a song, a verse + 'rann' (Joyce's note) → Fitzpatrick: Ireland and the Making of Britain 164: 'Crimthann... gained victories and extended his sway over Alba, Britain and Gaul, as the Shanachie tells us in the following rann: "Crimthann, son of Fidach, ruled The Alban and the Irish lands, Beyond the clear blue seas he quelled The British and the Gallic might"'.
rann (ger) - flowed + ran + Joyce's note: 'Hosty's ballad wrapt round a barrel'.
buachaill (bukhel) (gael) - boy
caile (kalyi) (gael) - girl, wench
vier (German, Dutch) - four + skirts and breeches, versified and persified (? Persse/Percival).
stoney = stony + story
here lie the remains of
mote = moot - to argue, to plead, to discuss, dispute, esp. in a law case.
Mike - an Irishman; a Roman Catoholic
dub - to name, style, nickname
llyn - a lake or pool in Wales + O Fhlainn (o lin) (gael) - descendant of Flann ("Ruddy"); anglic. Lynn + Dublin.
Fionn (fin) (gael) - fair + Finn.
Lug on Lugh (known as Lamhfada or "long armed," and as Lugaid) - Gaelic sungod
bog (bug) (gael) - soft + bog (Serbian) - god.
Dunlop, Daniel - the Dunlop of Ulysses (183), president of the Dublin Theosophical Society when AE was vice-president, founder of the British Anthropological Society + Dunlop (tyres) + Daniel O'Connell.
lex - law
lax - salmon
Gunn, Michael - manager of The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
Guinness, Arthur - founder of the Guinness brewery
apt - to make fit, adapt (to), prepare suitably (for)
Art (art) (gael) -
stone; bear + arth
(Welsh) - bear.
Bartholomew Vanhomrigh - father of Swift's Vanessa
coll (kol) (gael) -
hazel tree; letter C
noll - head + 'Old Nol' -
nickname of Cromwell.
parse - to describe (a word
in a sentence) grammatically, by stating the part of speech, inflexion, and
relation to the rest of the sentence +
I'll Name the Boy Dennis, or No Name at All (song).
Patrick Henry Pearse (10
November 1879 – 3 May 1916) was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer,
nationalist and political activist who was one of the leaders of the Easter
Rising in 1916. Following the collapse of the Rising and the execution of
Pearse, along with his brother (Willie Pearse) and fourteen other leaders,
Pearse came to be seen by many as the embodiment of the rebellion.
Michael Joseph O'Rahilly
(22 April 1875 - 29 April 1916) self-described as The O'Rahilly was an Irish
nationalist who took part in the Easter Rising, during which he was killed in
the fighting + perce-oreille (French) - earwig.
arrah - exp.
of surprise or excitement
frosty - affected with or
characterized by frost; reduced to a temperature at or below freezing-point;
ice-cold + FDV: Sure leave it to Hosty, frosty
fiddler, leave it to Hosty he's the man to
ran
run
the rann, the wran of all ranns.
rann (Anglo-Irish
Pronunciation) - wren + Irish children used to carry a dead wren on a stick
from door to door collecting money on Saint Stephen's Day (26 December) + Ulysses (15): (BLOOM’S
BOYS): 'The wren, the wren, / The king of all birds, / Saint Stephen's his day,
/ Was caught in the furze'. ha - have
han't - have
not, has not
"I'am shooting my load... I'am coming I'am coming I'am
-" (Bret Easton Ellis: Glamorama) brum - to murmur,
hum + brummen (German) - to buzz, to grunt, to snarl + brimming + General
Cambronne was said to have shouted 'merde' at the battle of Waterloo [009.27]
clip clop
- imitations of sounds of alternating rhythm
glass crash
(Joyce's note)
→ Fay: A Short Glossary of Theatrical
Terms 16: 'Glass Crash. -- A quantity of broken glass
emptied from a bucket on to a piece of sheet iron used to give the illusion of
breaking glass'.
khlopat (Russian) - clap
Klatsch (ger) - applaud
battere (fr) - to clap
krotoi (gr) - loud explosive
noises greadadh (gradu)
(gael) - clapping
ardite! (it) - dare!, be brave!
+
ardite (it) - brave women + audite! (l) - hear!, listen! (plural) + arduigh e (Irish)
- lift it (masculine).
arditi (it) - brave men, brave ones (name applied to
special assault units of the Italian army in World War I) +
Luigi Arditi - 19th century Italian conductor and composer, based in London but
touring worldwide, including Dublin (Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and
Topographical Account 267: 'the veteran conductor Signor Arditi was as well
known in Dublin as the Nelson Pillar'; his picture appears on Souvenir of the
Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Opening of The Gaiety Theatre 14) + arduigh
i (Irish)
- lift it (feminine).
musique (fr) - music +
cue - humour, disposition, mood, frame of mind (proper to any action) + Joyce's
note: 'Music Cue' →
Fay: A Short Glossary of Theatrical
Terms 19: 'Music Cue. -- A note on the prompt copy of a play to indicate where
music is to be used either on the stage or in the orchestra'.
FDV: Have you heard of
a
one
Humptydumpty / How he fell with a roll and a rumble / And
hifat
lay low
like old Oliver Crumple /
Behind