Belling him up and filling him down

• building him up and felling him down

• boiling him down and filling him up

• Sir Edward Bellingham: Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1548-49
  • Wikipedia
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake → Glasheen confuses him with Daniel Bellingham

• Sir Daniel Bellingham: first Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1665
  • Mayors and Lord Mayors of Dublin

• bell: to bellow, roar

• filling him → Finnegan
  • filling him down: Finnegan lying down, i.e., dead in the coffin

• Belling him up and filling him down: eulogizing him