Playing Wharton's Folly
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Jump to navigationJump to search- playing: performing a musical composition → there is a musical foliation in this paragraph → the music is played by the military band during a Military Review in the Phoenix Park
- Thomas Wharton: author of the political ballad Lillibullero, which was adopted as a sort of anthem by the Williamite forces during the Williamite War in Ireland (which included the Battle of the Boyne) → Wharton's Folly = Lillibullero
- Wharton’s Folly: nickname of the Star Fort, an unfinished fortess in the Phoenix Park
- wharton’s jelly: soft connective tissue in the umbilical cord, named after the English anatomist Thomas Wharton