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* '''Ireland's Eye:''' a small island off the coast of Dublin; in 1852 it was the site of the alleged murder of Maria Louisa Kirwan; her husband William Burke Kirwan was convicted and sentenced to death (commuted to penal servitude for life) | * '''Ireland's Eye:''' a small island off the coast of Dublin; in 1852 it was the site of the alleged murder of Maria Louisa Kirwan; her husband William Burke Kirwan was convicted and sentenced to death (commuted to penal servitude for life) | ||
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130408&isize=M&q1=Ireland's%20Eye A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130408&isize=M&q1=Ireland's%20Eye A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ||
| + | ** [http://www.chapters.eiretek.org/books/General/eyemurder.htm The Ireland's Eye Tragedy] | ||
* '''to ireglint's eye''' → to east (Ireland's Eye lying to the east of [[Foot_of_the_bill|Castleknock]]) | * '''to ireglint's eye''' → to east (Ireland's Eye lying to the east of [[Foot_of_the_bill|Castleknock]]) | ||
Revision as of 11:31, 14 July 2006
- Ireland's Eye: a small island off the coast of Dublin; in 1852 it was the site of the alleged murder of Maria Louisa Kirwan; her husband William Burke Kirwan was convicted and sentenced to death (commuted to penal servitude for life)
- to ireglint's eye → to east (Ireland's Eye lying to the east of Castleknock)
- glint: 1) a momentary flash of light; 2) A faint or fleeting indication; a trace
- ire: anger
