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U17.167  the Dargle

From Roundwood reservoir in county Wicklow of a cubic capacity of 2400 million gallons, percolating through a subterranean aqueduct of filter mains of single and double pipeage constructed at an initial plant cost of £5 per linear yards by way of the Dargle, Rathdown, Glen of the Downs and Callowhill to the 26 ace reservoir at Stillorgan ...

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U17.745 ff.: What points of contact existed between these languages and between the peoples who spoke them?

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their archaeological, genealogical, hagiographical, exegetical, homiletic, toponomastic, historical and religious literatures comprising the works of rabbis and culdees, Torah, Talmud (Mischna and Ghemara), Massor, Pentateuch, Book of the Dun Cow: 

lithograph of 1870

Book of Ballymote: 

Garland of Howth: 

chromolithograph from c. 1866

Book of Kells:

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U17.1357ff.:  Bloom's library (what could be found of it so far)

What final visual impression was communicated to him by the mirror?

The optical reflection of several inverted volumes improperly arranged and not in the order of their common letters with scintillating titles on the two bookshelves opposite.

Catalogue these books.

Thom's Dublin Post Office Directory, 1886:

Denis Florence M'Carthy's Poetical Works (copper beechleaf bookmark at p. 5):

Shakespeare's Works (dark crimson morocco, goldtooled):

The Useful Ready Reckoner (brown cloth):

The Secret History of the Court of Charles II (red cloth, tooled binding):

The Child's Guide (blue cloth):

When We Were Boys by William O'Brien M. P. (green cloth, slightly faded, envelope bookmark at p. 217):

Thoughts from Spinoza (maroon leather):

The Story of the Heavens by Sir Robert Ball (blue cloth):

Ellis's Three Trips to Madagascar (brown cloth, title obliterated):

The Stark-Munro Letters by A. Conan Doyle:

property of the City of Dublin Public Library, 106 Capel street, lent 21 May (Whitsun Eve) 1904, due 4 June 1904, 13 days overdue (black cloth binding, bearing white letternumber ticket):

Lockhart's Life of Napoleon (cover wanting, marginal annotations, minimising victories, aggrandising defeats of the protagonist).

Soll und Haben by Gustav Freytag (black boards, Gothic characters, cigarette coupon bookmark at p. 24):

Hozier's History of the Russo-Turkish War (brown cloth, 2 volumes, with gummed label, Garrison Library, Governor's Parade, Gibraltar, on verso of cover):

Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland by William Allingham (second edition, green cloth, gilt trefoil design, previous owner's name on recto of flyleaf erased):

A Handbook of Astronomy (cover, brown leather, detached, 5 plates, antique letterpress long primer, author's footnotes nonpareil, marginal clues brevier, captions small pica):

The Hidden Life of Christ (black boards):

In the Track of the Sun (yellow cloth, titlepage missing, recurrent title intestation):

Physical Strength and How to Obtain It by Eugen Sandow (red cloth):

Short but yet Plain Elements of Geometry written in French by F. Ignat. Pardies and rendered into English by John Harris D. D. London, printed for R. Knaplock at the Bishop's Head, MDCCXI, with dedicatory epistle to his worthy friend Charles Cox, esquire, Member of Parliament for the burgh of Southwark and having ink calligraphed statement on the flyleaf certifying that the book was the property of Michael Gallagher, dated this 10th day of May 1822 and requesting the person who should find it, if the book should be lost or go astray, to restore it to Michael Gallagher, carpenter, Dufery Gate, Enniscorthy, county Wicklow, the finest place in the world:

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U17.1775: Vere Foster's handwriting copybook

“What did the first drawer unlocked contain?

A Vere Foster's handwriting copybook, property of Milly (Millicent) Bloom, certain pages of which bore diagram drawings, marked Papli, which showed a large globular head with 5 hairs erect, 2 eyes in profile, the trunk full front with 3 large buttons, 1 triangular foot”

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U17.1865: dockets of the Catholic Cemeteries

“dockets of the Catholic Cemeteries' (Glasnevin) Committee, relative to a graveplot purchased”

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U17.1614: Kingstown

“mentioned in court and fashionable intelligence (Mr and Mrs Leopold Bloom have left Kingstown for England).”

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U17.1974: Connemara

In Ireland?

The cliffs of Moher, the windy wilds of Connemara, lough Neagh with submerged petrified city, ...