Bar of his bristolry

• bar: HCE's public house or tavern

• bar: Dublin bar, a sandbank which partially blocked the mouth of the Liffey before the construction of the North and South Walls; it could only be crossed by vessels at high tide

• bar: a toll-house gate or barrier → there used to be one near the Mullingar Inn in Chapelizod, the principal model for HCE's tavern

• Bristol: English city; Henry II granted Dublin “to my men of Bristol” in 1172

• hostelry: an inn