Finnegan

• Tim Finnegan: hero of the street ballad Finnegan's Wake; he is supposedly an Irish emigreacute; who is working as a labourer in New York (Cf. Third Census of Finnegans Wake)

• Finnegan's Wake → "Finn again is awake" → a reference to the common legend that great heroes of the past are not dead but merely asleep, ready to return in their country's hour of greatest need (e.g. King Arthur, Finn MacCool)

• Finn MacCool (Irish Fionn mac Cumhail: Irish mythical hero, sometimes portrayed as a giant (Cf.Third Census of Finnegans Wake)

• F fin: end → fin-again → the end of another Viconian cycle

• Fionn or Finn is actually a nickname meaning "fair" (in reference to hair colour), "white" or "bright".

• Solomon was the third and last King of Israel.

• The young Fionn mac Cumhail met the poet Finneces, or Finnegas, near the river Boyne and studied under him. Finneces had spent seven years trying to catch the salmon of knowledge, which lived in a pool on the Boyne: whoever ate the salmon would gain all the knowledge in the world. Eventually he caught it, and told the boy to cook it for him. While cooking it Fionn burned his thumb, and instinctively put his thumb in his mouth, swallowing a piece of the salmon's skin. This imbued him with the salmon's wisdom. He then knew how to gain revenge against Goll, and in subsequent stories was able to call on the knowledge of the salmon by sucking his thumb.