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* '''Alf Bergan:''' a law clerk in City Hall, Dublin (on Cork Hill)
 
* '''Alf Bergan:''' a law clerk in City Hall, Dublin (on Cork Hill)
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160117&q1=Bergin Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0117&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&isize=M Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
 
** '''''[[Ulysses]]'' 152:''' "U. P: up. I'll take my oath that's Alf Bergan or Richie Goulding."
 
** '''''[[Ulysses]]'' 152:''' "U. P: up. I'll take my oath that's Alf Bergan or Richie Goulding."
  

Latest revision as of 09:54, 20 October 2010

  • Berge: (German) mountains
  • burghers
  • violinsL/R split → the first of five members of a chest of viols, continuing the musical foliation in this paragraph
  • virgins
  • berger: (French) shepherd
  • -ín: (Irish) a diminutive suffix → Berg-ín = hill, small mountain → see heegills and collines five lines above