Kathe
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Kate: the introduction of the character, Kate, an elderly servant in HCE's tavern (siglum: K)
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake
- For further reading, visit this external link to Kate the Cleaner in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake by Pauline Escudero Shafer
- K-K-K-Katy: (song) → Brékkek Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek! Kóax Kóax Kóax!
- Katherine Strong: Kate appears again as a widow named Kate Strong on Page 79. In both instances, she gives the reader (or dreamer) a narrative for an image, the druiodrama, similar to the images she explained in the Museyroom. The original Kate Strong was a a despised Dublin tax collector and city scavenger.
- kathairō (καθαιρω): (Greek) I cleanse → Kate is a cleaning lady
- K: the letter "K" is the 11th letter of the alphabet; in FW "11" signifies renewal
- Kathleen Ni Houlihan: (also Cathleen Ni Houlihan, or Sean-Bhean Bhocht, the "Poor Old Woman"), a mythical symbol and emblem of Irish nationalism, representing Ireland as a personified woman. She is 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. (cf. Grace O'Malley, another female representation of Ireland)
- cat → poussepousse pousseypram and Tip
