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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castleknock Wikipedia] | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castleknock Wikipedia] | ||
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* '''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 |
Revision as of 17:24, 27 September 2009
- Castleknock: a village west of Phoenix Park
- 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")
- Knockmaroon: (Irish Cnoc na Marbhán, "the hill of the corpses") a locality in the northwest corner of Phoenix Park
- knock: to knock down → Humpty Dumpty
- 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
- knocked out: unconscious, like Tim Finnegan, Finn MacCool, and HCE
- knock out: a knock-out in a boxing match