Roundthehead

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  • Roe Head: a school attended by Charlotte (who also taught there) and Anne Brontë → see FW 007.20 ff. for a Brontë cluster
  • Roughead: William Roughead, a Scottish criminologist who wrote accounts of famous murder trials, including that of William Burke Kirwan for the the murder of his wife Maria Louisa Kirwan in 1852 on Ireland's Eye → ireglint's eye
    • William Roughead, The Fatal Countess and Other Studies (Edinburgh, 1924), which includes "The Secret of Ireland's Eye: A Detective Story"
  • roundhead's parliamentarians who overthrew King Charles during the civil war and installed Oliver Cromwell as dictator → place of the roundtheheads is parliament (compare with Baron Oath)
  • round the head: you have to "round the head" of Howth if sailing into Dublin Bay from the north