Mecklenburk

• Mecklenburgh Street: a street on Dublin's northside, the centre of the city's redlight district in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries; formerly known as Great Martin's Lane, in 1765 it was renamed Mecklenburgh Street; in 1887 the name of one section of the street was changed to Tyrone Street (a vain attempt to rid the street of its unsavoury reputation); finally Tyrone Street became Railway Street; Bella Cohen's brothel, in which much of Circe – Ulysses, Chapter 15 – is set, was No. 82 Tyrone Street
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• Mecklenburg: a duchy in northern Germany
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• Mecklenburgh: a county in North Carolina; the first declaration of independence in the USA was made there on 20 May 1775

• The mother of King William IV (who appears on Page 31) was Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, consort of George III.

• burka: a loose garment, with veiled eyeholes, covering the whole body, worn in public by Muslim women → derryjellybies

• berk: an idiot

• Burke and Hare: grave robbers and murders

• Edmund Burke: irish politician of 17C, supporter of the tories, denounced the French Revolution.