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* '''New Bridge:''' a bridge over the River Liffey in Leixlip; sometimes said to be the oldest surviving bridge in Ireland, hence "old but new"
 
* '''New Bridge:''' a bridge over the River Liffey in Leixlip; sometimes said to be the oldest surviving bridge in Ireland, hence "old but new"
 
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130426&isize=M A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
 
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130426&isize=M A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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* '''Pont Neuf:''' (''French'': "New Bridge") a bridge in Paris
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130486 A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
  
 
* '''Isaac Butt:''' the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party before he was ousted by Charles Stewart Parnell → [[Page_3|FW 003.11]] [[buttended]]
 
* '''Isaac Butt:''' the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party before he was ousted by Charles Stewart Parnell → [[Page_3|FW 003.11]] [[buttended]]
 
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160134 Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
 
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160134 Third Census of Finnegans Wake]

Revision as of 10:46, 14 October 2006

  • old but new
  • butte: isolated hill with steep sides
  • Old Bridge: the old name of Whitworth Bridge (now Father Mathew Bridge) over the River Liffey in Dublin; it was probably the first stone bridge in Dublin to cross the river
  • New Bridge: a bridge over the River Liffey in Leixlip; sometimes said to be the oldest surviving bridge in Ireland, hence "old but new"