Kennedy bread

• Kennedy’s Bread: made by a Dublin baker → Eucharistic bread → Mastication of the host
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• ceann: (Irish) head → Joyce originally wrote, Keannedy's bread
  • A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake

• bread: the miracle of Jesus and the loaves and fishes, found in all four gospels, is echoed here. That miracle is generally seen as prefiguring the Eucharist, also present in this passage.