Roundhead

• round up → roundhead
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• Roundheads: 17th Century Puritans in the English Civil War; they supported Parliament and Oliver Cromwell, and opposed Charles I and the Cavaliers; the name was originally a derisive reference to page-boy haircuts popular among Puritans → eggheads → Humpty Dumpty

• roundhead: a type of screw? Roundheads and staples are used in the building trade.

• rounded

• Roundhead staple: Round Table Conferences 1930-33: a series of three conferences held in London to discuss constitutional reform in India; during the second and third conferences, the Viceroy and Governor General of India was Freeman-Freeman Thomas, Lord Willingdon → 004.18 freemen's maurer

• Roundhead staple: Round Table Conference, 1887: a conference held in 1887 when the Whigs and Liberals split over Gladstone's Home Rule Bill (which proposed to grant a measure of independence to Ireland); it was chaired by William Harcourt (Harcourt Street, Dublin, takes its name from Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1772-76)

• Roundhead staple: the Round Table of Arthurian legend

• Howth: the name derives from the Danish hoved, head; Howth is round in appearance