Hoolivans

• hooligan: a tough and aggressive or violent youth
  • According to the OED, the origin of the term is unknown; apparently it appeared in 1898 in London police reports, and it has been suggested that hooligan might be a corruption of Hooley or Hooley's gang; the OED further notes that the name Hooligan was used in the late 19th century for a comic Irish character and a "rowdy Irish family"
  • "The original Hooligans were a spirited Irish family of that name whose proceedings enlivened the drab monotony of life in Southwark about fourteen years ago" – Ernest Weekley, The Romance of Words (1912)

• Miss Hooligan's Christmas Cake → Fillagain's chrissormiss wake

• holy ones

• Sullivans & Doyles: The Twelve (O)
  • FW 142.26-27: "doyles when they deliberate but sullivans when they are swordsed"
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• Sullivans: a Bantry family including prominent antiparnellites
  • FW 573.06-07: "and leader of a band of twelve mercenaries, the Sullivani"

• Sullani: (Latin) the discharged troops and political supporters of the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla, who were rewarded for their loyalty with estates in the Italian countryside, the existing inhabitants being ruthlessly evicted to make way for them

Commentary

• The Twelve are called Sullivans and Doyles because ultimately they are simply HCE's fob-watch (559.15, ticker) beside his bed. The twelve Roman numerals on the face of the watch suggest the Twelve Tables of Roman Law and the twelve jurymen who dispense that law.

• The siglum that represents the Twelve is a circle, like the face of a watch. Sullivan in Irish is Ó Súilleabháin ("grandson of the little dark-eyed one"), which sounds like súil amháin ("one eye"): a circle looks like one eye. The face of a watch is called a dial, which, in parts of Ireland, is pronounced like Doyle.

• The term Sullivans and Doyles is also clearly reflective of Gilbert & Sullivan's work with the D'Oyle Carte Opera Company, in that they speak in the manner of Gilbert & Sullivan rhymes (which often reuse rhymes such as "-ation"). Also note that Gilbert & Sullivan's first major work was 'Trial by Jury', again connecting to the theme mentioned above of jurymen who dispense the law.