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* '''Clontarf:''' the scene of the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, in which Brian Ború defeated the Danes but lost his life; Clontarf means "Bull's Meadow" (Irish: ''Cluain Tairbh'')
 
* '''Clontarf:''' the scene of the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, in which Brian Ború defeated the Danes but lost his life; Clontarf means "Bull's Meadow" (Irish: ''Cluain Tairbh'')
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130309&q1=Clontarf A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0309&q1=Clontarf A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
  
 
* '''bull’s-eye:''' the centre of a target
 
* '''bull’s-eye:''' the centre of a target
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* '''bullet'''
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*'''Taurus'''

Latest revision as of 12:40, 17 February 2018

  • John Bull: a personification of England
  • Clontarf: the scene of the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, in which Brian Ború defeated the Danes but lost his life; Clontarf means "Bull's Meadow" (Irish: Cluain Tairbh)
  • bull’s-eye: the centre of a target
  • bullet
  • Taurus