Wallinstone national museum
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- Wellington Museum: a museum in Apsley House, 149 Piccadilly, Hyde Park Corner, London; the house was designed by Robert Adam (FW 559.02-03: Adam's mantel) between 1771-78; the Duke of Wellington bought it and enlarged it in 1817; the Wellington Gallery was built for his extensive collection of pictures, sculptures, furniture, silver, porcelain, caricatures, medals and memorabilia
- Wellington Museum: a museum established at Mont St Jean near Waterloo by Sergeant-Major Cotton of the 7th Hussars, who fought in the Battle of Waterloo under Wellington; the museum no longer exists but was visited by Victor Hugo, whose account of the battle in Les Misérables (Part II, Cosette, Book I, Waterloo, which comprises Chapters 60-78) is an important source for Joyce's description at FW 008.09 - FW 010.23
- Wellington: Arthur Wesley (later Wellesley), 1st Duke of Wellington, was born in Ireland (probably Dublin); he defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, and later became Prime Minister; he was an elitist Tory → HCE
- National Museum of Ireland: the main section of the museum is on Kildare Street, but the Natural History Museum on Merrion Square may also be relevant (note the reference to dinosaurs on the preceding page: brontoichthyan)
- Wallenstein: Habsburg general during the Thirty Years War; he was assassinated by the Irish Guards
- Stonewall Jackson: confederate general in the American Civil War
- Pont National: a bridge in Paris
- Wallinstone national museum → the museum, or museyroom, is the outhouse in the backyard behind HCE's tavern; a WC (water closet) or loo (possibly from the French l'eau, "the water" or lieu, "place"), the outhouse naturally brings Waterloo to mind, and becomes the place (lieu) in which the battle is fought; the following two-and-a-half pages consist of (1) a tour through the museum; (2) a detailed account of the Battle of Waterloo, (3) a descrption of HCE urinating, defecating and masturbating in his outhouse; (4) a depiction of HCE and ALP making love
- Williamstown: the former name of a residential suburb (a "maritime village" according to Thom's Official Directory) of Dublin between Booterstown and Blackrock; Joyce originally wrote, "Williamstown national museum"
