To Ireland a disgrace

• With his broad and hairy face, to Ireland a disgrace: the sentiment and the rhythm recall Hosty's ballad in the second chapter

• disgrace: in FW, the real original sin was the creation of the World by God → see James S. Atherton, The Books at the Wake

• Grace: Grace O'Malley, the Irish freebooter, on whom the Prankquean of chapter 1 (021.05 ff) is based, is invoked in this paragraph by the phrases pint of porter place and shot, which echo similar phrases in the Prankquean episode