Rory end
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- "At the rainbow's end are dew and the colour red": Joyce, letter, 15/11/26 to Harriet Shaw Weaver
- Rory, Ruaidhrí, Roderic: variants of an Irish name which means "red-haired"
- Rory O'Connor, or Ruaidhrí Ua Conchubair: High King of Ireland when Henry II came from the East; he was the last native King of Ireland, hence "Rory end"
- "bloody end to the lie = no lie": Joyce, letter, 15/11/26 to Harriet Shaw Weaver
- Hence, "rory end to the..." means "no end to the..." → the cyclical history of FW goes on and on
- cf. Scots nary an end: never an end
- A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake
- AngI bloody end to the...: damn the..., to hell with the...
- Ulysses 293.03: "Arrah! bloody end to the paw..."
- Ulysses 241.23: "blooming end to it"
- gory: bloody → red
- Rosy: red (or pink)
- Roderic: last Visigothic king of Spain