Bar of his bristolry
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- bar: Dublin bar, a sandbank which partially blocked the mouth of the Liffey before the construction of the North and South Walls; it could only be crossed by vessels at high tide
- bar: a toll-house gate or barrier → there used to be one near the Mullingar Inn in Chapelizod, the principal model for HCE's tavern
- Bristol: English city; Henry II granted Dublin “to my men of Bristol” in 1172
- Bristols: (Cockney rhyming slang) breasts (Bristol cities → titties)
- hostelry: an inn
