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*as a boy [[Parnell]] was called "butthead"
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* Butthead: [[Charles Stewart Parnell's|Parnell]] boyhood nickname
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* buttended: struck with the butt-end of a gun
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* "Parnell ousted Isaac Butt from leadership [of the Irish Parliamentary Party]" – Joyce in a letter of 15 November 1926 to [[Harriet Shaw Weaver]]
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* Butt Bridge, Dublin
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* butted → goat → Jacob's goatskin (Genesis 27) → Capricorn?
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* pretended?
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* [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160310&isize=M&q1=Parnell Third Census of Finnegans Wake]

Revision as of 08:25, 12 June 2006

  • buttended: struck with the butt-end of a gun
  • "Parnell ousted Isaac Butt from leadership [of the Irish Parliamentary Party]" – Joyce in a letter of 15 November 1926 to Harriet Shaw Weaver
  • Butt Bridge, Dublin
  • butted → goat → Jacob's goatskin (Genesis 27) → Capricorn?
  • pretended?