cue a pass;"" victim of xenophobia and in ,he IICCOOd a
sadistic
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake
Durina tile inlerval
belWttn 1. 4 and tho prClCnt all 1\. 01 bttn tr:msfilJUred, as II. illus- trsl. . in 540-4J. He mentions \he disappearance 0( . harpoho<Ken,
founded hospitals and l ubdued rebeh. In iii. mayonl capacity be pt;rfotttwxl tile ceremony 0( 'rlclinl tile franclli. . . '. William Enalioh WI. bailiffin 14118 durina tIIis ptrambulation of tilt city boundaries. At one poinl the procnlion ""'r"Clled 'lOUlhwltd I I fl. n William Englisb IIi. oouse, wlli~1I they PISSed tllrough, mounting over the roofofanolh. er 0001"", and p. . . inj alto tllrou'"
tIIugt. ndiq>crs fromtheJU<<tI (540-19-32). W. bear
linl finance(s,. 4'. 07-'4)andhis'lfuul'"apinttfor. ilIl. windle" and V"1kine raidttlo (S4Q. 14- :W). He built "". . enrorb (s,p. 04-7), m,mo,ltotds,cotreehouJelandthe'ten. H. P""publiconrions,
"'"it
<S.
,we! -
? several gardens, until 'My came to the Coomb. ''' Thi' features . '543. ,6-,8 and kad. directly into a . ummary of ,be unbygienic conditions prevailing in a . ingle dweUing.
Mr Atherton bu Ixgun ,be ,,"ollotirut "f 543. n- 545. u wi,b pbrase, taken from B. S. Rownt"",'. P",,? nly. In view of tit<: amnunt written aboul tit<: obsession witb ,,! uolor in UIy. . . . it i. strange to find the only extensive use of tbi, sort of IItlIteriol in FW deriving from a . tudy nor of Dublin but of York. But Rown_ tree's rca",m for Klc. :ting Yorl< wu iu lotal unexccptionobility.
Ifconditionl in York were as bad as Rownttee seemed to be prov- ing, the overaie British town-dwell. . at the tum (Jf the century looked in a pre,ty bid way. This i. tbe universal citizen of m. univenal city. m concludes (S45. 1. ~-23) by quoting Henry II's charter grantins Dublin to tit<: ciIi""n, of Bri'tol (Tolbris Mre). He relItllins unaffocted by the ruinous housing: 'Thus Ix hd<' be
eventually say. (s. . 6. 1}).
The remainder of the chapter is overshadowed by the marrLage
of the ci,y and the river, beglnning at 546. 29. Had the Liffey ( A) turned her hack and left her bed, one might ",It wbat rival intlu- encc drew her. But it was vasdy (Jlherwise. m oonfined the river beTWccn banks and walls, lea ding her from Leix! ip {o the Looplinc Bridge (s. . 7"5- ,6). At RinR'end he perfonned another part of Ihe fraru;biK ceremony: 'he Lord ~yor burls a apear int" Ihe Ka tu delimit the ciIY" extension ('my dart '" Ihmw', 547. 20).
Land was rttlairned in thi. region (547. 23-4) and the len bridges between OJapcliwd and the river'. mouth were built (547. 29-30).
Ships' siren. were heard. m proceed. to detail his beautification of the city for hi. bride: M mentio"" the manufacture of women', dothing, fasbions, novelties, tbe importation of e. otic food, the pr<>CC1'inn. of tit<: Dublin trades guilds, exhibitions, millie halls ~ndpm",,,,imes. Next(55'? 2'-552. 07)heOOmes'". . . entialcivic architecture, lhe oomtruction of tbe Grand and Royal Canal. ,
public convenience" universities, tbe Bank of Ireland (formerly die Parliament HouK), railway termini and catbedral? . He gives
a roU ofhonour ofarchil<<=lund sculp. o,. . : Richard C. . . . . . d s, Mary Redmond, James Gandon, Sir Thorn. . Deane, Oliver Shepperd, Edward Smyth, Parke Neville, Thorn. . Heaton, B. B. Sloney, John Henry Foley, Sir Thoma, Fam:ll, Jobn Van NoS! , Homo T homeycrofl and John Hogan (552. 10- 12).
The f"",1paragraph orcS urbaniution brought 10 the point
" ) . W. . ""rton, Reo. J WIrit<. . . . . m<I Rev. R. Wd. h, A H,,,ory of'''' G,IY of DwM;. I, 95-8 t<<>>UII" the """''''''r?
TbeCity 21
? 22 The Sigla of Fim"gtms W". k~
whore t1u: injuries vi. ited by mon the ri""r', flanks are so extensive that IK> blade ofgra. . can <merge further from the stony scar ti. ,ue (553,06), S""en W<lndrous stalUes ar<: set up whilst an aureole of distant barl<ryfield$ ,upplies IJ1llrerial f"" the ""st Guinnesi ! lre_ wery, AI . he end m stands back like a rill8JIl'lSler warehing the (ir~'Ulati<m of the populace, drawn by . . varkty of (ircus hoeses,
Tbe priorities and juxtap"'itions in 'Havelh Otilders' IJ1lly appear grotesque, ignoble, sid: "" aff~. <<l. T o under-stand Joyce'. ca<icarur<: of hi, na. iv. city we should com""r<: the Dublin of
Uly. . . . as tre-. . ted by J. C. C. May,,"
Hi, commitment to Parnellism in the face of praclical alrerruttives must be =gni~ed as another an<mpt 10 view . . puresituation what historically i. partofan ongoing pro- cess, thereby relievinj hi. char. ocu:. . of the n. . . d to commil
them'l<'lves 'l<'rio""ly to the nighnn. a. r<: of history. The division betWttn '904 and the time when the book was
writt. . , and published W<lrx, to a like end. Intervening ""ents . tf~I such IJ1lllter-s as lone-for instance the "". ious ironies of'Aeol",,' ar<: augmented by iii location in an ar<:a of the city . ince halk,w<:d by na,i<)IU. lisl sen. imenl-bm such ironies are in themselves disahling: (hey do n<lt comp~ca. e bycutting across obvious surface meanings, but instead ~r . i,uationsallthe mor<: completely from their intended conscqucnttund enable them to be exploited as more or less pure medium. Dublin, in 1oyce's exiled vision, moves into an ar<:. between dream and fac\. Phy,ical
absence and t<mporal dis! aru:<: eTUlb! e a focus a<) con- <x. n""ed tha. the city must have seemed 10 bim "Imoo! like. """Ie model of. reality that was in itself tOO close and 100 intense.
AbrMhMm Bradley King
Ifwecont". . ! themofbooI<1withthatofbookIIIwe$tt in the firs!
cue a pass;"" victim of xenophobia and in ,he IICCOOd a sadistic in. trument of "Ppression. In 111. 4 Oppr<:ni(ln proceeds on a priva. e instead of a public leveL Comparing 111. 3 with 1. 3- 4 we may call if ITT'. comment on the populace u """"",,d 10 their et>mment 00 bim. Similarly Wt can compar<: 111. 4 with 1. ,-1: it il . gain a guKfcd tOur. Tlu: landscap<: bow"". . is no longer primi-
>O'Som<~""tbtDub! ;"of(J! ),-",,',in'(J! ),-,,. ,'"-"'. . . . op<u, <<I. L- 1Ioruw:o_ (Pam, Di<licr '9"14), \>>.
? ? ? ? ? ? ? live, bUI Ihorouahly Iubdutd and dtcllCiriclt. d. 111-4 """. . . witb ? revinv of pe. . . . . . wirin who ""0 be raptttivdy r<<Ogiuttd u
lC"A,C,"'\. ,K,0. 0,mand. . . . ~ t. . . . ,. itionr. . . . . . ,111. 3may b<o "UUtstW in VUl. l'_206;
m talks then pietur.
A ludden di,location at 558. 32 Iran,port. UI to a bedroom M:t. Can\(:nmen are aiven inStruclioruo and the tint of the four tableaux of 111. 4 begin? . AI Jack Dalton hat ,! >own," eKb tableau openJ with. notational anagram of 'HCH', theM: oocur at 55\1. 21-1.
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Abraham Bradley Ki"ll 13
~ PI--"i. Parl<'. ftomDillonCoooJn~,N",rJt[)J,I,. . CilJ'
P~ . ,
a>td &r. W_ (Dublin, Co<hoIic T",do Socioty ,. ,. . ,,). n. . chun:b a. . adjoi. . . "'"'Hou! cby,heCburdoyard';die,. ,. . . ;. tho M'I,ri. . . Fon. Noo. . aloo """ S,. . Fon (Whanon'. F,,",, : OIL '), >. . t6. 0(), Buloher". Wood (0&0. 011), The"~A=s (Il,. " ], the Kina'> Hou. . (>4>>), FIItf)' GI. n(]. o. o,-''',}7j. p, S26. 1. . . . l),ao. . netftdd Rood ('6. . . . '0), Vicuepl Lod. . (,64. ')), 0Ii<f Sca-ctory'. LodF ('6. . . . I, ) ond Half Mil< Hollow (s/i,. <>1 ).
" ? MUilc I. . <u<c', in A WOot< 1"'"'_ oc! . Oi. . Hart""" Prj", Scm, 1J-16.
? ? 2~ The Sill. of FiffMI~'" W. . . t.
}64-<l4, S82. 30 and SI)O. l. 4. TMy ~ KCOmpanicd by lIilLs 0( m and . . . in dilf=1 rdaovoc positions. They tthibi, IlICCflIivdy wider foci. ibc firs, tableau taUs in only Ihe interior of m'l houx or pub. This, aC(:Ol"ding to 06. . j. Q9, might be the Mullinpr Inn in ChopeH:wd, a region 0( Dublin namt<! from bolde, who wa, said to ",,"ve ",,"d a bower and a chapel tllere. A letter of S May
1933 f. . . . . . . . LuciaJoyce to Fnnk Budgen confirm, ,IIi,: 'The pdn- cipal bistro, lie [Joyce1 SlY", W I. the MuUinjOar Inn, of which in
W. LP. \Work in Prog'H. 1Ihe big man Is . . . urncd '" be land_ lord. '" ibc second tlIblcau extend. til the adja""nt Phoenix Park. Fii;ur< , will be found u. m. 1 in undcntandinl the survey 0( the Pari< in S6-4-<l4-S6S. oS.
belWttn 1. 4 and tho prClCnt all 1\. 01 bttn tr:msfilJUred, as II. illus- trsl. . in 540-4J. He mentions \he disappearance 0( . harpoho<Ken,
founded hospitals and l ubdued rebeh. In iii. mayonl capacity be pt;rfotttwxl tile ceremony 0( 'rlclinl tile franclli. . . '. William Enalioh WI. bailiffin 14118 durina tIIis ptrambulation of tilt city boundaries. At one poinl the procnlion ""'r"Clled 'lOUlhwltd I I fl. n William Englisb IIi. oouse, wlli~1I they PISSed tllrough, mounting over the roofofanolh. er 0001"", and p. . . inj alto tllrou'"
tIIugt. ndiq>crs fromtheJU<<tI (540-19-32). W. bear
linl finance(s,. 4'. 07-'4)andhis'lfuul'"apinttfor. ilIl. windle" and V"1kine raidttlo (S4Q. 14- :W). He built "". . enrorb (s,p. 04-7), m,mo,ltotds,cotreehouJelandthe'ten. H. P""publiconrions,
"'"it
<S.
,we! -
? several gardens, until 'My came to the Coomb. ''' Thi' features . '543. ,6-,8 and kad. directly into a . ummary of ,be unbygienic conditions prevailing in a . ingle dweUing.
Mr Atherton bu Ixgun ,be ,,"ollotirut "f 543. n- 545. u wi,b pbrase, taken from B. S. Rownt"",'. P",,? nly. In view of tit<: amnunt written aboul tit<: obsession witb ,,! uolor in UIy. . . . it i. strange to find the only extensive use of tbi, sort of IItlIteriol in FW deriving from a . tudy nor of Dublin but of York. But Rown_ tree's rca",m for Klc. :ting Yorl< wu iu lotal unexccptionobility.
Ifconditionl in York were as bad as Rownttee seemed to be prov- ing, the overaie British town-dwell. . at the tum (Jf the century looked in a pre,ty bid way. This i. tbe universal citizen of m. univenal city. m concludes (S45. 1. ~-23) by quoting Henry II's charter grantins Dublin to tit<: ciIi""n, of Bri'tol (Tolbris Mre). He relItllins unaffocted by the ruinous housing: 'Thus Ix hd<' be
eventually say. (s. . 6. 1}).
The remainder of the chapter is overshadowed by the marrLage
of the ci,y and the river, beglnning at 546. 29. Had the Liffey ( A) turned her hack and left her bed, one might ",It wbat rival intlu- encc drew her. But it was vasdy (Jlherwise. m oonfined the river beTWccn banks and walls, lea ding her from Leix! ip {o the Looplinc Bridge (s. . 7"5- ,6). At RinR'end he perfonned another part of Ihe fraru;biK ceremony: 'he Lord ~yor burls a apear int" Ihe Ka tu delimit the ciIY" extension ('my dart '" Ihmw', 547. 20).
Land was rttlairned in thi. region (547. 23-4) and the len bridges between OJapcliwd and the river'. mouth were built (547. 29-30).
Ships' siren. were heard. m proceed. to detail his beautification of the city for hi. bride: M mentio"" the manufacture of women', dothing, fasbions, novelties, tbe importation of e. otic food, the pr<>CC1'inn. of tit<: Dublin trades guilds, exhibitions, millie halls ~ndpm",,,,imes. Next(55'? 2'-552. 07)heOOmes'". . . entialcivic architecture, lhe oomtruction of tbe Grand and Royal Canal. ,
public convenience" universities, tbe Bank of Ireland (formerly die Parliament HouK), railway termini and catbedral? . He gives
a roU ofhonour ofarchil<<=lund sculp. o,. . : Richard C. . . . . . d s, Mary Redmond, James Gandon, Sir Thorn. . Deane, Oliver Shepperd, Edward Smyth, Parke Neville, Thorn. . Heaton, B. B. Sloney, John Henry Foley, Sir Thoma, Fam:ll, Jobn Van NoS! , Homo T homeycrofl and John Hogan (552. 10- 12).
The f"",1paragraph orcS urbaniution brought 10 the point
" ) . W. . ""rton, Reo. J WIrit<. . . . . m<I Rev. R. Wd. h, A H,,,ory of'''' G,IY of DwM;. I, 95-8 t<<>>UII" the """''''''r?
TbeCity 21
? 22 The Sigla of Fim"gtms W". k~
whore t1u: injuries vi. ited by mon the ri""r', flanks are so extensive that IK> blade ofgra. . can <merge further from the stony scar ti. ,ue (553,06), S""en W<lndrous stalUes ar<: set up whilst an aureole of distant barl<ryfield$ ,upplies IJ1llrerial f"" the ""st Guinnesi ! lre_ wery, AI . he end m stands back like a rill8JIl'lSler warehing the (ir~'Ulati<m of the populace, drawn by . . varkty of (ircus hoeses,
Tbe priorities and juxtap"'itions in 'Havelh Otilders' IJ1lly appear grotesque, ignoble, sid: "" aff~. <<l. T o under-stand Joyce'. ca<icarur<: of hi, na. iv. city we should com""r<: the Dublin of
Uly. . . . as tre-. . ted by J. C. C. May,,"
Hi, commitment to Parnellism in the face of praclical alrerruttives must be =gni~ed as another an<mpt 10 view . . puresituation what historically i. partofan ongoing pro- cess, thereby relievinj hi. char. ocu:. . of the n. . . d to commil
them'l<'lves 'l<'rio""ly to the nighnn. a. r<: of history. The division betWttn '904 and the time when the book was
writt. . , and published W<lrx, to a like end. Intervening ""ents . tf~I such IJ1lllter-s as lone-for instance the "". ious ironies of'Aeol",,' ar<: augmented by iii location in an ar<:a of the city . ince halk,w<:d by na,i<)IU. lisl sen. imenl-bm such ironies are in themselves disahling: (hey do n<lt comp~ca. e bycutting across obvious surface meanings, but instead ~r . i,uationsallthe mor<: completely from their intended conscqucnttund enable them to be exploited as more or less pure medium. Dublin, in 1oyce's exiled vision, moves into an ar<:. between dream and fac\. Phy,ical
absence and t<mporal dis! aru:<: eTUlb! e a focus a<) con- <x. n""ed tha. the city must have seemed 10 bim "Imoo! like. """Ie model of. reality that was in itself tOO close and 100 intense.
AbrMhMm Bradley King
Ifwecont". . ! themofbooI<1withthatofbookIIIwe$tt in the firs!
cue a pass;"" victim of xenophobia and in ,he IICCOOd a sadistic in. trument of "Ppression. In 111. 4 Oppr<:ni(ln proceeds on a priva. e instead of a public leveL Comparing 111. 3 with 1. 3- 4 we may call if ITT'. comment on the populace u """"",,d 10 their et>mment 00 bim. Similarly Wt can compar<: 111. 4 with 1. ,-1: it il . gain a guKfcd tOur. Tlu: landscap<: bow"". . is no longer primi-
>O'Som<~""tbtDub! ;"of(J! ),-",,',in'(J! ),-,,. ,'"-"'. . . . op<u, <<I. L- 1Ioruw:o_ (Pam, Di<licr '9"14), \>>.
? ? ? ? ? ? ? live, bUI Ihorouahly Iubdutd and dtcllCiriclt. d. 111-4 """. . . witb ? revinv of pe. . . . . . wirin who ""0 be raptttivdy r<<Ogiuttd u
lC"A,C,"'\. ,K,0. 0,mand. . . . ~ t. . . . ,. itionr. . . . . . ,111. 3may b<o "UUtstW in VUl. l'_206;
m talks then pietur.
A ludden di,location at 558. 32 Iran,port. UI to a bedroom M:t. Can\(:nmen are aiven inStruclioruo and the tint of the four tableaux of 111. 4 begin? . AI Jack Dalton hat ,! >own," eKb tableau openJ with. notational anagram of 'HCH', theM: oocur at 55\1. 21-1.
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Abraham Bradley Ki"ll 13
~ PI--"i. Parl<'. ftomDillonCoooJn~,N",rJt[)J,I,. . CilJ'
P~ . ,
a>td &r. W_ (Dublin, Co<hoIic T",do Socioty ,. ,. . ,,). n. . chun:b a. . adjoi. . . "'"'Hou! cby,heCburdoyard';die,. ,. . . ;. tho M'I,ri. . . Fon. Noo. . aloo """ S,. . Fon (Whanon'. F,,",, : OIL '), >. . t6. 0(), Buloher". Wood (0&0. 011), The"~A=s (Il,. " ], the Kina'> Hou. . (>4>>), FIItf)' GI. n(]. o. o,-''',}7j. p, S26. 1. . . . l),ao. . netftdd Rood ('6. . . . '0), Vicuepl Lod. . (,64. ')), 0Ii<f Sca-ctory'. LodF ('6. . . . I, ) ond Half Mil< Hollow (s/i,. <>1 ).
" ? MUilc I. . <u<c', in A WOot< 1"'"'_ oc! . Oi. . Hart""" Prj", Scm, 1J-16.
? ? 2~ The Sill. of FiffMI~'" W. . . t.
}64-<l4, S82. 30 and SI)O. l. 4. TMy ~ KCOmpanicd by lIilLs 0( m and . . . in dilf=1 rdaovoc positions. They tthibi, IlICCflIivdy wider foci. ibc firs, tableau taUs in only Ihe interior of m'l houx or pub. This, aC(:Ol"ding to 06. . j. Q9, might be the Mullinpr Inn in ChopeH:wd, a region 0( Dublin namt<! from bolde, who wa, said to ",,"ve ",,"d a bower and a chapel tllere. A letter of S May
1933 f. . . . . . . . LuciaJoyce to Fnnk Budgen confirm, ,IIi,: 'The pdn- cipal bistro, lie [Joyce1 SlY", W I. the MuUinjOar Inn, of which in
W. LP. \Work in Prog'H. 1Ihe big man Is . . . urncd '" be land_ lord. '" ibc second tlIblcau extend. til the adja""nt Phoenix Park. Fii;ur< , will be found u. m. 1 in undcntandinl the survey 0( the Pari< in S6-4-<l4-S6S. oS.
