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* '''Saint Laurence O'Toole:''' Archbishop of Dublin (1161-1180), and the city's patron saint; he gave rise to Ireland's canonical independence from Canterbury | * '''Saint Laurence O'Toole:''' Archbishop of Dublin (1161-1180), and the city's patron saint; he gave rise to Ireland's canonical independence from Canterbury | ||
**[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09091b.htm St Laurence O'Toole] | **[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09091b.htm St Laurence O'Toole] | ||
− | **[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity= | + | **[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0248&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&isize=L Third Census of Finnegans Wake] |
* '''St Lawrence:''' family name of the Earls of [[Howth]] (after the Spanish Saint Lawrence) | * '''St Lawrence:''' family name of the Earls of [[Howth]] (after the Spanish Saint Lawrence) | ||
− | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity= | + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0340&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&isize=L Third Census of Finnegans Wake] |
* '''larron:''' (''French'') a thief → Jacob, the thief of Esau’s birthright | * '''larron:''' (''French'') a thief → Jacob, the thief of Esau’s birthright |
Revision as of 03:38, 11 April 2010
- Saint Laurence O'Toole: Archbishop of Dublin (1161-1180), and the city's patron saint; he gave rise to Ireland's canonical independence from Canterbury
- St Lawrence: family name of the Earls of Howth (after the Spanish Saint Lawrence)
- larron: (French) a thief → Jacob, the thief of Esau’s birthright
- lashings of toilers: lots of workers
- tooler: one who works with a tool
Commentary
FW 005.03-04: with larrons o'toolers clittering up and tombles a'buckets clottering down.
As Lawrence O'Toole was rising to power in Ireland, Thomas a Becket was falling from King Henry's grace in England