Triangular Toucheaterre

• Angleterre: (French) England → the source of most of Ireland's foreign invaders

• touche-à-tout: (French) meddler

• Trinacria: an island in the Odyssey on which Odysseus (Ulysses) and his men are marooned; the island belongs to Hyperion, the Sun, whose sacred oxen live there → Trinacria was (erroneously) identified with Sicily, another triangle-shaped island, by later Homeric commentators → Episode 15 of Joyce's novel Ulysses was originally called The Oxen of the Sun and is lossley modelled on its Homeric counterpart

• triangular Spain: Joseph Mary Flood, Ireland: Its Saints and Scholars (1917), p. 27, who says of St Columcille: "His reputation for sanctity spread far abroad, and in the words of Adamnan: "Though he lived in this small and remote island of the British Sea, his name not only became illustrious throughout the whole of our own Ireland and Britain, but reached even to triangular Spain and Gaul and Italy, and also to the city of Rome itself, the head of all cities"." → according to Ireland's mythological history the Milesians, or Gael, came from Spain
  • Ireland: Its Saints and Scholars

• Delta: the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet resembles an equilateral triangle in its uppercase form: Δ
• touche a terre: the land of what is "hit" or "touched" - France (invaded by the Normans/Vikings) (expressed also by the "triangular"/tricolor flag of France)