Anna Rayiny

• rainy year → torrential rain in the morning delayed the battle of Waterloo (recounted at FW 008.09 - FW 010.23), ensuring Napoleon’s defeat → like Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, FW ends with a flood, which not only accounts for the allusions to Noah's rainbow in the opening chapter, but also explains why the ground is still wet the following morning
  • A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake: "Rainy"

• I abha, abhainn: river → the Irish Abhainn Life ("River Liffey") was Anglicized as Annie Liffey, personifying the river

• s Little Annie Rooney → little Anny Ruiny