![]() ![]() ![]() The buff Mail the Dublin Evening Mail, which was printed on buff (brownish-yellow) paper. Harford and his friends "travel" to the suburbs so as to be allowed to drink legally on Sundays.īreviary a book containing the Psalms, readings, prayers, and so on of the Divine Office. Characters throughout Dubliners refer to songs from this opera.īona-fide travelers inns and pubs were allowed to serve alcohol to travelers before or after hours during which it was generally legal to do so thus, Mr. The Bohemian Girl a popular nineteenth-century light opera composed by Dublin musician Michael William Balfe. The Bank the Bank of Ireland originally the Irish Parliament Building.īarmbracks cakes, traditionally served in Ireland on Halloween, in which symbolic objects (a ring, for example) have been baked.īarracks buildings on Shelbourne Road for housing British soldiers.īile Beans a popular patent medicine in Ireland during Joyce's day.īlackthorn stick a cane or stick made from the stem of the blackthorn, a thorny, white-flowered prunus shrub with purple or black plumlike fruit.īlackwhite apparently a renowned Irish salesman.īlancmange a sweet, molded, jellylike dessert made with starch or gelatin, milk, flavoring, and other ingredients.īlessed Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–90) a French nun beatified in 1864 and canonized in 1920.īlind a dead-end A dead-end features prominently in "Two Gallants," as well. ![]() The motif of Greek mythology (including the image of the golden apple) will reappear in Gabriel Conroy's speech in "The Dead."īalfe Michael William Balfe composer of The Bohemian Girl.īallast Office the location of the Dublin Port and Docks Board in "The Dead," Gabriel Conroy's father is said to have worked there.īallast Offices the location of the Dublin Port and Docks Board, where the father of Gabriel Conroy (protagonist of "The Dead") is said to have worked.īallsbridge a suburb southeast of Dublin. "Arrayed for the Bridal" a song from I Puritani, an opera by Vincenzo Bellini.Īstrakhan a wool fabric with a pile cut and curled to look like a loosely curled fur made from the pelt of very young lambs originally bred near Astrakhan, a city and port in southwest Russia.Ītalanta a beautiful, swift-footed maiden who offers to marry any man able to defeat her in a race: Hippomenes wins by dropping three golden apples, which she stops to pick up, along the way. The area of a house a space providing light and air to the basement of a house.Īreas spaces providing light and air to the basements of houses. The Arab's Farewell to His Steed a poem by Irish poet Caroline Norton (1808–77). ? apparently the boy's aunt seeks to establish that last rites were bestowed upon Father Flynn by a priest before death only a profoundly disgraced priest would be refused last rites, so the fact that she has to ask implies much about Father Flynn's misbehavior. Across the water (Irish slang) in England.Īdam and Eve's a nickname for the Church of the Immaculate Conception, in southwest-central Dublin.Īdvanced Nationalist a supporter of the Irish Parliamentary Party, which sought independence for the country.Īnd everything. ![]()
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