Difference between revisions of "Mecklenburk"

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Mecklenburgh Street: a street on Dublin's northside, the centre of the city's redlight district in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries; formerly known as Great Martin's Lane, in 1765 it was renamed Mecklenburgh Street; in 1887 the name of one section of the street was changed to Tyrone Street (a vain attempt to rid the street of its unsavoury reputation); finally Tyrone Street became Railway Street; Bella Cohen's brothel, in which much of Circe – Ulysses, Chapter 15 – is set, was No. 82 Tyrone Street
- A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

Mecklenburgh: a county in North Carolina; the first declaration of independence in the USA was made there on 20 May 1775

The mother of King William IV (who appears on Page 31) was Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, consort of George III.

burka: a loose garment, with veiled eyeholes, covering the whole body, worn in public by Muslim women → derryjellybies

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 ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130451&q1=Mecklenburgh A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
-* '''Mecklenburgh:''' a town in North Carolina; the first declaration of independence in the USA was made there on 20 May 1775
+* '''Mecklenburgh:''' a county in North Carolina; the first declaration of independence in the USA was made there on 20 May 1775
-* The mother of King William IV (who appears on [[Page 31]]) was Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
+* The mother of King William IV (who appears on [[Page 31]]) was Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, consort of George III.
 * '''burka:''' a loose garment, with veiled eyeholes, covering the whole body, worn in public by Muslim women &rarr; [[derryjellybies]]