Metalmen

• The Metal Man: a beacon on Rosses Point, County Sligo, close to William Butler yeats's home; it appears in Jack B Yeats’s painting of Rosses Point
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• middlemen → there is a foliation of commercial terms in this passage → in Gerald Griffin's The Collegians and Dion Boucicault's The Colleen Bawn, Kyrle Daly's father is a middleman

• metalmen → faces on coins

• metalmen: knights in armor