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* '''Castleknock:''' a village west of [[Phoenix Park]]
 
* '''Castleknock:''' a village west of [[Phoenix Park]]
 
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castleknock Wikipedia]
 
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castleknock Wikipedia]
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130295 A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0295&q1=Castleknock A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
  
 
* '''knock''' → Castleknock Hill and Windmill Hill (now Mount Hybla) are identified with Finn MacCool's (and [[HCE|HCE's]]) two feet
 
* '''knock''' → Castleknock Hill and Windmill Hill (now Mount Hybla) are identified with Finn MacCool's (and [[HCE|HCE's]]) two feet
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* '''Knockmaroon:''' (''Irish'' '''Cnoc na Marbhán''', "the hill of the corpses") a locality in the northwest corner of [[Phoenix Park]]
 
* '''Knockmaroon:''' (''Irish'' '''Cnoc na Marbhán''', "the hill of the corpses") a locality in the northwest corner of [[Phoenix Park]]
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130421 A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0421&q1=Knockmaroon A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
  
 
* '''knock:''' to knock down → [[Humpty Dumpty]]
 
* '''knock:''' to knock down → [[Humpty Dumpty]]

Revision as of 14:29, 10 June 2008

  • knock → Castleknock Hill and Windmill Hill (now Mount Hybla) are identified with Finn MacCool's (and HCE's) two feet
    • The Sigla of Finnegans Wake → p. 13n: "In the time of D'Alton, The History of the County of Dublin (Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1838), p. 641, these were prominent, one crowned with a tower, the other with a castle
  • knock → hill (Irish cnoc, "hill"; Anglo-Irish knock, "hill")
  • knock out: to knock someone out, to render them unconscious → in Sheridan Le Fanu's 1861 novel The House by the Churchyard, a character is attacked and left for dead in the Hollow in the Phoenix Park
  • knock out: a knock-out in a boxing match