Lunguam again
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Jump to navigationJump to search- linguam (Latin): (with the) tongue
- lingam: phallus-shaped representation of the Hindu deity Shiva
- longaim (Irish): I lap up
- "Sláinte and sláinte and sláinte agin:" from a song, "Father O'Flynn", by poet Alfred Percival Graves, father of Robert Graves
Heres a health to you, Father OFlynn, Slainte and slainte and slainte agin; Powrfulest preacher, and tenderest teacher, And kindliest creature in ould Donegal
Joyce apparently detested the song and wrote a parody, aimed at English novelist Ford Madox Ford, called "Father O'Ford"
Oh Father O’Ford you’ve a masterful way with you. Maid, wife and widow are wild to make hay with you.