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* '''Castleknock''' is a village west of [[Phoenix Park]]. (Cf. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castleknock Castleknock at Wikipedia], [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130295&q1=Castleknock Castleknock at the ''FW Gazetteer'']) | * '''Castleknock''' is a village west of [[Phoenix Park]]. (Cf. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castleknock Castleknock at Wikipedia], [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130295&q1=Castleknock Castleknock at the ''FW Gazetteer'']) | ||
− | * | + | * Castleknock Hill and Windmill Hill (now Mount Hybla) are identified with Finn Mac Cool's (and [[HCE]]'s) two feet. [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl000700070021&q1=hill The Sigla of Finnegans Wake] 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. |
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− | * '''Knockmaroon:''' (''I'' Cnoc na Marbhán: "the | + | * '''knock''' → hill (''I'' cnoc: "hill", ''AngI'' knock: "hill") |
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+ | * '''Knockmaroon:''' (''I'' Cnoc na Marbhán: "the hill of the corpses") locality in the northwest corner of Phoenix Park (Source: [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130421&q1=Knockmaroon ''FW Gazetteer'']) | ||
* '''knock:''' to knock down → [[Humpty Dumpty]] | * '''knock:''' to knock down → [[Humpty Dumpty]] | ||
− | * '''knock out:''' to knock someone out, to render them unconscious → in Sheridan Le Fanu's novel ''The House by the Churchyard'', a character is attacked and left for dead in the Hollow in the Phoenix Park | + | * '''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 | * '''knock out:''' a knock-out in a boxing match |
Revision as of 09:38, 25 July 2006
- Castleknock is a village west of Phoenix Park. (Cf. Castleknock at Wikipedia, Castleknock at the FW Gazetteer)
- Castleknock Hill and Windmill Hill (now Mount Hybla) are identified with Finn Mac Cool's (and HCE's) two feet. The Sigla of Finnegans Wake 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 (I cnoc: "hill", AngI knock: "hill")
- Knockmaroon: (I Cnoc na Marbhán: "the hill of the corpses") locality in the northwest corner of Phoenix Park (Source: FW Gazetteer)
- 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
- knock out: a knock-out in a boxing match