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* ''celtic root'', designates fair hair.
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* '''finn:''' (''Irish'') white, pale, fair (e.g. fair hair); pure, true, blessed → ''Finnegan'' = fairheaded
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* ''germanic root'', designates moist-swampy places and rotten smell.
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* the [[Dublin|Dubliner]] Tim Finnegan, a hod carrier who fell drunk from his scaffold an dies. On his wake, a bottle of whiskey broke on his coffin and he came back to life. The event is depicted in a popular American street ballad from the 1850s called "Finnegan's Wake ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegan%27s_Wake text and background information]).  
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* '''Finn-:''' (''Germanic root'') designates moist-swampy places and rotten smell
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fionn_mac_Cumhail Fionn mac Cumhail] (earlier Finn or Find mac Cumail or mac Umaill, pronounced roughly "Finn mac Cool") was a legendary hunter-warrior of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_mythology Irish mythology], also known in Scotland and the Isle of Man. The stories of Fionn and his followers, the fianna, form the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenian_cycle Fenian cycle], much of it supposedly narrated by Fionn's son, the poet Oisín. The Fenian Brotherhood took their name from these legends.
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckleberry_Finn Huckleberry Finn], character in a book by [[Mark]] Twain, friend of Tom [[Sawyer]]
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* '''Finne:''' (''German'') pimple; blotch
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* Finn may be a variant of fin, a colloquial term for the U.S. five dollar bill bearing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
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* part of the name of the country Finland
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* '''Tim Finnegan:''' the [[Dublin]] hod-carrier who fell drunk from his ladder and apparently died in the popular Irish-American street ballad from the 1850s [[Finnegan's Wake]]. At his wake, a bottle of whiskey broke on his coffin and he "came back to life". Much of the text of the ballad is echoed in the first chapter of FW.
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* Finn is the name of the giant who, according to folk mythology, built the cathedral in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lund Lund].
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn_(Frisian) Finn] is a Frisian lord who appears in Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg.
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* '''Fionn mac Cumhail:''' (earlier ''Finn'' or ''Find mac Cumail'' or ''mac Umaill'', pronounced roughly "Finn m'Cool") a legendary hunter-warrior of Irish mythology, also known in Scotland and the Isle of Man as Fingal.
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*Finnegan: Fin (french, 'end') again:  A circular conception of history; also like a refrain in a song.
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fionn_mac_Cumhail Wikipedia]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0180&isize=L&q1=Finn Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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* '''Huckleberry Finn:''' character who features in several books by [[Mark]] Twain; a friend of Tom [[Sawyer]]
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckleberry_Finn Wikipedia]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0180&isize=L&q1=Finn Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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* '''fin:''' (''US Slang'') a colloquial term for the five-dollar bill bearing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln
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* '''Finland'''
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0359&isize=L&q1=Finland A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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* '''Finn:''' a giant who, according to folk mythology, built the cathedral in Lund, Sweden → sometimes identified (probably erroneously) with Finn MacCool
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lund Wikipedia]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0263&isize=L&q1=Lund Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0439&isize=L&q1=Lund A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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* '''Finn:''' a Frisian lord who appears in ''Beowulf'' and ''The Fight at Finnsburg''
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn_(Frisian) Wikipedia]
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* '''fin:''' (''French'') end → [[Mister Finnagain!]]
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* '''Michael Finnegan:''' (''song'') eponymous character in the popular song ''[[Michael Finnegan]]'' → [[Mister Finnagain!]]. Each verse of the song ends "Poor old Michael Finnegan/Begin Again," creating a cyclical structure like that of Vico and FW.
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* '''finicky'''
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* '''Finn’s Hotel:''' a hotel in Leinster Street, Dublin, where Nora Barnacle worked when Joyce first met her
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0359&isize=L&q1=Finn%27s%20Hotel A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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[[Category: Finnegan]]
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[[Category: Songs and lyrics]]

Latest revision as of 15:25, 19 January 2014

  • finn: (Irish) white, pale, fair (e.g. fair hair); pure, true, blessed → Finnegan = fairheaded
  • Finn-: (Germanic root) designates moist-swampy places and rotten smell
  • Finne: (German) pimple; blotch
  • Tim Finnegan: the Dublin hod-carrier who fell drunk from his ladder and apparently died in the popular Irish-American street ballad from the 1850s Finnegan's Wake. At his wake, a bottle of whiskey broke on his coffin and he "came back to life". Much of the text of the ballad is echoed in the first chapter of FW.
  • Fionn mac Cumhail: (earlier Finn or Find mac Cumail or mac Umaill, pronounced roughly "Finn m'Cool") a legendary hunter-warrior of Irish mythology, also known in Scotland and the Isle of Man as Fingal.
  • fin: (US Slang) a colloquial term for the five-dollar bill bearing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln
  • Finn: a Frisian lord who appears in Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg
  • Michael Finnegan: (song) eponymous character in the popular song Michael Finnegan → Mister Finnagain!. Each verse of the song ends "Poor old Michael Finnegan/Begin Again," creating a cyclical structure like that of Vico and FW.
  • finicky
  • Finn’s Hotel: a hotel in Leinster Street, Dublin, where Nora Barnacle worked when Joyce first met her
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