With his broad and hairy face

• With his broad and hairy face, to Ireland a disgrace: the sentiment and the rhythm recall Hosty's ballad in the second chapter

• His father ... had a hairy face: Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist As A Young man 1 → the quote comes at the beginning just after Once upon a time and a very good time it was

• Makroprosopos: (Greek) the Great Face → in the Kabbalistic work Ha Idra Rabba Qadisha, this is God the Father as creator, from the strands of whose beard the whole world proceeds

• hairy face: recalls Michael Finnegan's beard in the popular round: There was a man called Michael Finnegan, He grew whiskers on his chin-egan, The wind came along and blew them in-egan, Poor old Michael Finnegan beginagain, etc → compare beginagain with haltagain (see There from)