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* '''Wellington Monument:''' not a museum but an an obelisk in the [[Phoenix Park]], erected in 1817 to commemorate the Duke of Wellington; variously known as the Wellington Testimonial, the Welliington Monument and the Wellington Memorial; popularly known as the "overgrown milestone"; an obviously phallic symbol representing [[HCE|HCE's]] morning erection (in his guise as a giant interred in the Irish landscape, with his head under [[Howth]] and his feet in Castleknock) ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130586&q1=Wellington A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] [[Category: Wellington]] * '''Wellington Museum:''' a museum in Apsley House, 149 Piccadilly, Hyde Park Corner, London; the house was designed by Robert Adam ([[Page_559|FW 559.02-03:]] [[Adam's mantel]]) between 1771-78; the Duke of Wellington bought it and enlarged it in 1817; the Wellington Gallery was built for his extensive collection of pictures, sculptures, furniture, silver, porcelain, caricatures, medals and memorabilia ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsley_House Wikipedia] * '''Wellington Museum:''' a museum established at Mont St Jean near Waterloo by Sergeant-Major Cotton of the 7th Hussars, who fought in the Battle of Waterloo under Wellington; the museum no longer exists but was visited by Victor Hugo, whose account of the battle in ''Les Misérables'' (Part II, ''Cosette'', Book I, ''Waterloo'', which comprises Chapters 60-78) is an important source for Joyce's description at [[Page_8|FW 008.09]] - [[Page_10|FW 010.23]] * '''Wellington:''' Arthur Wesley (later Wellesley), 1st Duke of Wellington, was born in Ireland (probably Dublin); he defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, and later became Prime Minister; he was an elitist Tory → [[HCE]] ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160390&q1=Wellington Third Census of Finnegans Wake] * '''National Museum of Ireland:''' the main section of the museum is on Kildare Street, but the Natural History Museum on Merrion Square may also be relevant (note the reference to dinosaurs on the preceding page: [[brontoichthyan]]) * '''Wallenstein:''' Habsburg general during the Thirty Years War; he was assassinated by the Irish Guards ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160388&q1=Wallenstein Third Census of Finnegans Wake] * '''Stonewall Jackson:''' confederate general in the American Civil War ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160228&q1=Jackson Third Census of Finnegans Wake] * '''Pont National:''' a bridge in Paris ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130486&q1=Pont A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] * '''Wallinstone national museum''' → the museum, or [[museyroom]], is the outhouse in the backyard behind [[HCE|HCE's]] tavern; a WC (water closet) or loo (possibly from the French ''l'eau'', "the water" or ''lieu'', "place"), the outhouse naturally brings Waterloo to mind, and becomes the place (''lieu'') in which the battle is fought; the following two-and-a-half pages consist of (1) a tour through the museum; (2) a detailed account of the Battle of Waterloo, (3) a descrption of HCE urinating, defecating and masturbating in his outhouse; (4) a depiction of [[HCE]] and [[ALP]] making love * '''Williamstown:''' the former name of a residential suburb (a "maritime village" according to ''Thom's Official Directory'') of Dublin between Booterstown and Blackrock; Joyce originally wrote, "Williamstown national museum" ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130589&q1=Williamstown A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=goto&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=M&submit=Go+to+page&page=49 A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake]

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