Kate Strong

• Introduced initially as a janitrix named Kathe on Page 8.

• The letter "K" is the 11th number of the alphabet, "11" is another number of renewal.

• Kathleen Ni Houlihan (also Cathleen Ni Houlihan, or Sean-Bhean Bhocht, the "Poor Old Woman") is a mythical symbol and emblem of Irish nationalism sometimes found in literature, art, and various media representing Ireland as a personified woman. She is generally depicted as an old woman that needs the help of young Irish men willing to fight and die as martyrs to free Ireland from colonial rule. In the days before the Anglo-Irish War, the colonial power was the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. After the Anglo-Irish War, Kathleen Ni Houlihan was a figure more associated with the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland, especially during the Troubles. The figure of Kathleen Ni Houlihan was famously used by Yeats in his play Cathleen Ni Houlihan. Joyce introduces characters named Kathleen and Mr Holohan in his story "A Mother" (in "Dubliners") to illustrate the ideological shallowness of an Irish revival festival. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Ni_Houlihan