Difference between revisions of "Dirty MacDyke"
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160169&q1=Dyke Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160169&q1=Dyke Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
| − | * '''dirt''' → associated with [[Shem]] | + | * '''dirt''' → associated in FW with [[Shem]] rather than [[Shaun]]? |
Latest revision as of 04:54, 5 August 2006
- dyke: a lesbian → MacDyke would then mean "Son of Lesbian" → the Irish poet Thomas Moore was married to a Bessy Dyke, so their children could be called FitzThomas or MacDyke; they had five children: two daughters died in infancy; a third died when she was sixteen; their two sons also predeceased them, one in 1841 and the other, Thomas, in Africa from consumption in 1845 → Touchole Fitz Tuomush
