Paddyplanters

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  • Paddy: generic name for an Irishman
  • paddy fields
  • planters: British colonizers of forfeited Irish lands in the 17th century → the plantations of Ireland
  • paddy planters walked bowed: a note in one of Joyce's FW notebooks (VI.B.45.148)