Difference between revisions of "Is at the knock out in the park"

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** [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=104906204603482351224.00044dd3c29086b77cf0f&ll=53.37442,-6.357479&spn=0.030313,0.110378&z=13 Google Maps]
 
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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
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* '''knock''' → Castleknock Hill and either Windmill Hill (now Mount Hybla) or another hill 200 m east of Castleknock Hill are identified with Finn MacCool's (and [[HCE|HCE's]]) two feet
 
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.McHughSigla&entity=JoyceColl.McHughSigla.p0021&isize=L 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"
 
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.McHughSigla&entity=JoyceColl.McHughSigla.p0021&isize=L 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"
  

Revision as of 09:26, 14 December 2018

  • knock → Castleknock Hill and either Windmill Hill (now Mount Hybla) or another hill 200 m east of Castleknock Hill 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