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**'''filling him down:''' Finnegan lying down, i.e., dead in the coffin | **'''filling him down:''' Finnegan lying down, i.e., dead in the coffin | ||
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Latest revision as of 07:46, 2 June 2019
- building him up and felling him down
- boiling him down and filling him up
- Sir Edward Bellingham: Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1548-49
- Wikipedia
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake → Glasheen confuses him with Daniel Bellingham
- Sir Daniel Bellingham: first Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1665
- bell: to bellow, roar
- filling him → Finnegan
- filling him down: Finnegan lying down, i.e., dead in the coffin
- Belling him up and filling him down: eulogizing him
