A child of Maam

• mam
• ma'am
• man/ma'am: both male and female
• child of man: Jesus is repeatedly called the "Son of man" in Matthew, Mark, and Luke
• child of Miriam: possibly a reference to Miriam, who hid her baby brother Moses
• Maam or + Maamtrasna: a village in County Galway, origin of the Joyce family. Joyce, then, is a child of Maam.
  • Joyce in his 1907 essay 'Ireland at the Bar': "Several years ago a sensational trial was held in Ireland. In a lonely place in a western province, called Maamtrasna, a murder was committed. Four of five townsmen, all belonging to the ancient tribe of the Joyces, were arrested. The oldest of them, the seventy year old Myles Joyce, was the prime suspect. Public opinion at the time thought him innocent and today considers him a martyr. Neither the old man nor the others accused knew English. The court had to resort to the services of an interpreter. The questioning, conducted through the interpreter, was at times comic and at times tragic. On one side was the excessively ceremonious interpreter, on the other the patriarch of a miserable tribe unused to civilized customs, who seemed stupefied by all the judicial ceremony.[...] The figure of this dumbfounded old man, a remnant of a civilization not ours, deaf and dumb before his judge, is a symbol of the Irish nation at the bar of public opinion