Finn

• finn: (Irish) white, pale, fair (e.g. fair hair); pure, true, blessed → Finnegan = fairheaded

• Finn-: (Germanic root) designates moist-swampy places and rotten smell

• Finne: (German) pimple; blotch

• Tim Finnegan: the Dublin hod-carrier who fell drunk from his ladder and apparently died in the popular Irish-American street ballad from the 1850s Finnegan's Wake. At his wake, a bottle of whiskey broke on his coffin and he "came back to life". Much of the text of the ballad is echoed in the first chapter of FW.

• Fionn mac Cumhail: (earlier Finn or Find mac Cumail or mac Umaill, pronounced roughly "Finn m'Cool") a legendary hunter-warrior of Irish mythology, also known in Scotland and the Isle of Man as Fingal.
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  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• Huckleberry Finn: character who features in several books by Mark Twain; a friend of Tom Sawyer
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  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• fin: (US Slang) a colloquial term for the five-dollar bill bearing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln

• Finland
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• Finn: a giant who, according to folk mythology, built the cathedral in Lund, Sweden → sometimes identified (probably erroneously) with Finn MacCool
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  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• Finn: a Frisian lord who appears in Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg
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• fin: (French) end → Mister Finnagain!

• Michael Finnegan: (song) eponymous character in the popular song Michael Finnegan → Mister Finnagain!. Each verse of the song ends "Poor old Michael Finnegan/Begin Again," creating a cyclical structure like that of Vico and FW.

• finicky

• Finn’s Hotel: a hotel in Leinster Street, Dublin, where Nora Barnacle worked when Joyce first met her
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer