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• Butthead: Parnell boyhood nickname

• buttended: struck with the butt-end of a gun

• "Parnell ousted Isaac Butt from leadership [of the Irish Parliamentary Party]" – Joyce in a letter of 15 November 1926 to Harriet Shaw Weaver

• Butt Bridge, Dublin

• butted → goat → Jacob's goatskin (Genesis 27) → Capricorn?

• pretended?

• Third Census of Finnegans Wake