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| − | * '''Tim Finnegan''': hero of the street ballad [[Finnegan's Wake]]; he is supposedly an Irish emigreacute; who is working as a labourer in New York | + | * '''Tim Finnegan''': hero of the street ballad [[Finnegan's Wake]]; he is supposedly an Irish emigreacute; who is working as a labourer in New York (Cf. [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160181&isize=M&q1=Finnegan Third Census of Finnegans Wake]) |
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* '''[[Finn MacCool]]''': Irish mythical hero, sometimes portrayed as a giant (Cf.[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160180&isize=M&q1=Finnegan Third Census of Finnegans Wake]) | * '''[[Finn MacCool]]''': Irish mythical hero, sometimes portrayed as a giant (Cf.[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160180&isize=M&q1=Finnegan Third Census of Finnegans Wake]) | ||
* '''''F'' fin''': end → fin-again → the end of another [[Vico|Viconian cycle]] | * '''''F'' fin''': end → fin-again → the end of another [[Vico|Viconian cycle]] | ||
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| + | * Fionn or Finn is actually a nickname meaning "fair" (in reference to hair colour), "white" or "bright". | ||
Revision as of 10:03, 25 July 2006
- Tim Finnegan: hero of the street ballad Finnegan's Wake; he is supposedly an Irish emigreacute; who is working as a labourer in New York (Cf. Third Census of Finnegans Wake)
- Finn MacCool: Irish mythical hero, sometimes portrayed as a giant (Cf.Third Census of Finnegans Wake)
- F fin: end → fin-again → the end of another Viconian cycle
- Fionn or Finn is actually a nickname meaning "fair" (in reference to hair colour), "white" or "bright".
