“..., from M'Gillicuddy's reeks the inaccessible and lordly Shannon the unfathomable, ...”
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U12.186: the Bank at Monte Carlo
... the Man for Galway, The Man that Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, The Man in the Gap, ...
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U12.195: Valentine Greatrakes
“From his girdle hung a row of seastones which jangled at every movement of his portentous frame an on these were graven with rude yet striking art the tribal images of many Irish heroes and heroines of antiquity, ...”. Valentine Greatrakes is among them.
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U12.460: when they hanged Joe Brady
Marwood, executioner of Joe Brady
“God's truth, says Alf. I hear that from the head warder that was in Kilmainham when they hanged Joe Brady, the invincible. He told me when they cut him down after the drop it was standing up in their faces like a poker.”
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U12.495: Jacobs' tin
“Then he starts scraping a few bits of old biscuit out of the bottom of Jacobs' tin he told Terry to bring.”
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U12.1302: Queenstown, Kinsale, Galway, ...
U12.1392: the flatulent old bitch
— And as for the Prooshians and the Hanoverians, says Joe, haven't we had enough of those sausageeating bastards on the throne from George the elector down to the German lad and the flatulent old bitch that's dead?
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| Queen Victoria; photo by Lafayette |
— And as for the Prooshians and the Hanoverians, says Joe, haven't we had enough of those sausageeating bastards on the throne from George the elector down to the German lad and the flatulent old bitch that's dead?
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U12.1399: Edward the peacemaker
“Well, says J. J. We have Edward the peacemaker now.”
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U12.1438 ff.: ancient Irish facecloth
The muchtreasured and intricately embroidered ancient Irish facecloth attributed to Solomon of Droma and Manus Tomaltach og MacDonogh, author of the Book of Ballymote, was then carefully produced and called forth prolonged admiration.
The Book of Ballymote weighs 8 kg. It was published in 1897 and was the first manuscript to be completely reproduced by photography. In the brief introduction to the huge volume Solam (Solomon) O Droma, Manus O Duigenan and Robert Mac Sithigh are named as the scribes. The book was commissioned by Tomaltach Mac Donogh and the work was done apparently in Ballymote Co. Sligo c. 1391 AD.
The entire manuscript of the Book of Ballymote can be viewed on
U12.1442:
No need to dwell
on the legendary beauty
of the cornerpieces, the acme of art,
wherein one can distinctly discern each of the four evangelists in turn presenting to each of the four masters his evangelical symbol, a bogoak sceptre, a North American puma (a far nobler king of beasts than the British article, be it said in passing), a Kerry calf and a golden eagle from Carrantuohill.
U12.1446:
The scenes depicted on the emunctory field,
showing our ancient duns and raths and cromlechs and grianauns and seat of learning and maledictive stones, are as wonderfully beautiful and the pigments as delicate as when the Sligo illuminators gave free rein to their artistic fantasy long long ago in the time of the Barmecides.
Glendalogh,
the lovely lakes of Killarney,
the ruins of Clonmacnois,
Cong Abbey,
Glen Inagh
and the Twelve Pins,
Ireland's Eye,
the Green Hills of Tallaght,
Croagh Patrick,
the brewery of Messrs Arthur Guinness,
Son and Company (Limited),
Lough Neagh's banks,
the vale of Ovoca,
Isolde's tower,
the Mapas obelisk,
Sir Patrick Dun's hospital,
Cape Clear,
the glen of Aherlow,
Lynch's castle,
the Scotch house,
Rathdown Union Workhouse at Loughlinstown,
Tullamore jail,
Castleconnel rapids,
Kilballymacshonakill,
the cross at Monasterboice,
Jury's Hotel,
S. Patrick's Purgatory,
the Salmon Leap,
Maynooth college refectory,
Curley's hole,
the three birthplaces of the first duke of Wellington,
the rock of Cashel,
the bog of Allen,
the Henry Street Warehouse,
Fingal's Cave
– all these moving scenes are still there for us today rendered more beautiful still by the waters of sorrow which have passed over them and by the rich incrustations of time.
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U12.1404: The earl of Dublin
“And what do you think, says Joe, of the holy boys, the priests and bishops of Ireland doing up his room in Maynooth in His Satanic Majesty's racing colours and sticking up pictures of all the horses his jockeys rode. The earl of Dublin, no less.”
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U12.1574: Bloom gave the ideas to Griffith
The Resurrection of Hungary (1904), written by Arthur Griffith,
appeared originally as a series of articles in his newspaper The United Irishman.
“So anyhow when I got back they were at it dingdong, John Wyse saying it was Bloom gave the ideas for Sinn Fein to Griffith to put in his paper all kinds of jerrymandering, packed juries and swindling the taxes off of the government and appointing consuls all over the world to walk about selling Irish industries.” (see also U12.1635)
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U12.1652: Neave's food
“I met him one day in the south city markets buying a tin of Neave's food six weeks before the wife was delivered.”
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U12.1723: Omnes de Saba
“And as they wended their way by Nelson's Pillar, Henry street, Mary street, Capel street, Little Britain street chanting the introit in Epiphania Domini which beginneth Surge, illuminare and thereafter most sweetly the gradual Omnes which saith de Saba venient they did divers wonders such as casting out devils, raising the dead to life, multiplying fishes, healing the halt and the blind, discovering various articles which had been mislaid, interpreting and fulfilling the scriptures, blessing and prophesying.”
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U12.1729: Bernard Kiernan and Co, limited, 8, 9, and 10 Little Britain street
An example of the label used by Barney Kiernan on his Guinness bottles, ca. 1900. ©
“And when the good fathers had reached the appointed place, the house of Bernard Kiernan and Co, limited, 8, 9 and 10 Little Britain street, wholesale grocers, wine and brandy shippers, licensed for the sale of beer, wine and spirits for consumption on the premises, the celebrant blessed the house and censed the mullioned windows and the groynes and the vaults and the arrises and the capitals and the pediments and the cornices (...)”
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U12.1830: Three Rock Mountain
Three Rock Mountain viewed from Sandymount strand
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