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| + | * [[Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926]]: ''"Isthmus of Sutton a neck of land between [[Howth Castle and Environs|Howth] head and the plain"'' | ||
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* '''Isthmus of Sutton:''' a narrow isthmus located about 12km from the centre of Dublin at the base of the [[Howth]] [[peninsula]]. It is a tombolo and connects [[Howth]] to the mainland. | * '''Isthmus of Sutton:''' a narrow isthmus located about 12km from the centre of Dublin at the base of the [[Howth]] [[peninsula]]. It is a tombolo and connects [[Howth]] to the mainland. | ||
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0552&isize=L&q1=Sutton A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0552&isize=L&q1=Sutton A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ||
Revision as of 11:08, 25 September 2009
- Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926: "Isthmus of Sutton a neck of land between [[Howth Castle and Environs|Howth] head and the plain"
- Isthmus of Sutton: a narrow isthmus located about 12km from the centre of Dublin at the base of the Howth peninsula. It is a tombolo and connects Howth to the mainland.
- isthmos (ισθμος): (Greek) neck; peninsula → scraggy
- eastmost: (adj) easternmost, farthest east
