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[Derived largely from Chester Anderson's notes [cga] [Amazon] plus Kershner's [BK]]
Epigraph: "Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes"
Ovid on Daedalus: "applying his mind to obscure arts" [etext]
7.01 "Once upon a time"
Kenner claims the first two pages "enact the entire action in microcosm." [cga]
7.04 "tuckoo"
81-year-old John S Joyce wrote to JAJ, 31Jan 1931: "I wonder do you recollect the old days in Brighton Square, when you were Babie Tuckoo, and I used to take you out in the Square and tell you all about the moo-cow that used to come down from the mountain and take little boys across?" [L3-212. JSJ would surely have read at least the first paragraph of Portrait c1915] [cga]the Joyces lived at Brighton square [pic] ditto [map] [tour] from autumn 1882 to spring 1884, soon after JAJ's 2nd birthday [pic]
cuckoo: "...he is not truly of the family into which he was born.. he is... the cuckoo's fledgling in the cowbird's nest" [cite]
7.06 "a glass"
a monocle [cga] j&c think he had just started using it around this time (1884) because of weak eyes and a taste for dramatic style
7.06 "hairy face"
just a bushy moustache [pic]
7.08 "lemon platt"
twisted stick of lemon candy [cga]
7.09 "the wild rose blossoms"
"The song is an old sentimental favorite, "Lily Dale". [lyric&midi] [midi] The second line ought to be 'On the little green grave,' but this is a song taught to a very small child and so for grave is substituted the neutral place. What counts, however, is that as he sings it he confuses red and green into one image, the green rose." [cite]
7.13 "first it is warm then it gets cold"
Aristotelian dialectic
7.15 "He danced"
in later life, a party wasn't a party until JAJ got tipsy enough to dance in his own wild style
7.21 "Uncle Charles"
based on JSJ's mother's brother William O'Connell, born c1820, lived with the Joyces some time after his wife's death in 1881, stayed until just before his death in 1892 [PC}
7.21 "Dante"
Mrs. 'Dante' (ie, aunty) Hearn Conway heiress from Cork, ex-nun in the USA, husband disappeared with her fortune, joined Joyce family along with Uncle Bill O'Connell [PC]
7.23 "press"
closet
7.24 "Michael Davitt"
[bio&pic] [bio] 1888 bio&pic, 1884 speech
7.25 "Parnell"
[Joycean profile] saga ditto multipage
7.25 "cachou"
French breath-freshening candy [buy] [tin] [poster]
7.26 "tissue paper"
Stannie explains this as wrapping paper from parcels, and implies she was embarrassed for strangers to know about this offer (could she have used it as toilet paper?) [mbk11]
8.01 "Vances"
Protestant neighbors in Bray [pic] old pix [Bray history], father James Vance a chemist, daughter Eileen was JAJ's first girlfriend
8.07 "the eagles will come and pull out his eyes"
early epiphany: "Bray: in the parlour of the house in Martello Terrace.
Mr Vance (comes in with a stick): "...O, you know, he'll have to apologise, Mrs Joyce."
Mrs Joyce: "O yes... Do you hear that, Jim?"
Mr Vance: "Or else-- if he doesn't the eagles'll come and pull out his eyes."
Mrs Joyce: "O, but I'm sure he will apologise."
Joyce (under the table, to himself):
"Pull out his eyes,
Apologise,
Apologise,
Pull out his eyes.Apologise,
Pull out his eyes,
Pull out his eyes,
Apologise."
8.16 "playgrounds"
Clongowes: [homepage] (w/Flash) [pic] [map]when JAJ started in 1888 he was not yet 7yo, two years younger than the normal starting-age. there were about 300 students total at that time. Tom Kettle hadn't started there yet, nor Oliver Gogarty who attended for a year in 1895-96.
8.17 "prefects"
teachers with authority over a class [cga]
8.18 "pale... chilly... greasy... bird"
these concepts are all major leitmotifs that will recur thruout the book
8.20 "the fringe of his line"
Higher Line boys at Clongowes were 15-18yo, Lower Line were 13-15, and Third Line were 9-13 [pic] [cga]
8.22 "small and weak"
the original title of PoA was 'Stephen Hero', in reference to a folk-ballad about a thieving rogue. [more] in that version of Joyce's Clongowes experience he may have been much less of a vulnerable victim and much more of a clever, mischievous outlaw.
8.24 "Rody Kickham"
[pic] Real Clongowes classmate: Rodolph Kickham, Dublin, years of attendance: 1888-1893 [cga] (called 'Rody Greets' in the manuscript) [genealogy]
8.26 "Nasty Roche"
[pic] George Reddington Roche, Athenry 1883-1889 [cga]
8.27 "greaves in his number"
shinguards in his locker [cga]
8.27 "hamper in the refectory"
a private supply of treats in the dining hall {BK]
8.28 "He called the Friday pudding dog-in-the-blanket."
(Joyce's most distinctive trait as a stylist in his adult writings was noticing how personality is expressed in the words a person chooses-- part of his "writer's ear")
8.33 "Dedalus"
[info] ditto
9.13 "And belt was also to give a fellow a belt"
Joyce the philologist (scientist of words and meanings)
9.14 "Cantwell"
John Cantwell, Dublin, 1888-1889; or Thomas Cantwell Clonmel, 1885-1891 [cga]
9.17 "Cecil Thunder"
Cecil Thunder, Dublin, 1889-1894 [cga]
9.21 "the castle"
[pic]
9.25 "not so nice when she cried"
(in later years she was reportedly something of a shrew)
9.26 "two fiveshilling pieces"
about $50 in today's equivalents [more]
9.28 "peach on"
inform on [OED]Joyce considered betrayal of its heroes a distinctively Irish character flaw.
9.29 "the rector"
Reverend John S. Conmee, SJ
9.30 "soutane"
[pic]
10.02 "Jack Lawton's"
John Lawton, Midleton, 1890-1896 and 1898 [cga]
10.05 "It was useless to run on."
seriously depressed at age six!
10.07 "change the number"
Joyce started Clongowes on 1 Sept 1888. Xmas holidays would start on 20 December. this suggests the date is Thursday 4 Oct 1888. [cga] calendar
10.11 "Hamilton Rowan"
[info] ditto Ellmann: "Hamilton Rowan, a patriot and friend of Wolfe Tone, fled to the castle after his conviction in 1794 for sedition. He shut its door just as the soldiers were shooting, so that their bullets entered the door, then he threw his hat on the haha as a decoy, and let himself through a secret door into a tower room. His pursuers were fooled, thinking he had left, and he was able afterwards to make good his escape to France." [cga]Joyce gave the name Richard Rowan to the hero of Exiles. [cga]
10.12 "haha"
[info&pix] a wall set in a declivity for esthetic reasons (eg around a garden or park so as not to obstruct the view from within) [cga] [pix] pic ditto
10.12 "had there been flowerbeds at that time"
historical imagination, composition of place
10.19 "Doctor Cornwell's Spelling Book"
James Cornwell, PhD, edited an educational series for young people [cga] [Bibliofind]
10.22 "Wolsey"
[bio&pic] [Cath] [long bio etext]
10.29 "Wells"
[pic] Charles Wells, Dublin, 1888-1890; or H. Wells, Dublin, 1888-1890 [cga]
10.29 "square ditch"
according to CGA the cesspool of a school outhouse, which they called 'the square' (but this seems far too awful for the context!?)there is a ditch at the front edge of the Clongowes grounds, that would be plenty unpleasant to fall in, when full
10.30 "snuffbox"
"When Joyce was at Clongowes he had a tiny snuffbox in the form of a little black coffin. [cf Dickens] [cf eBay] In later life [long after PoA was written] Joyce dreamed that Molly Bloom threw a black coffin at Bloom and the little snuffbox at him, saying to each, 'I have done with you.'" [cga]
10.31 "hacking chestnut"
for the game of conkers [pic&info] [world championship] [NewSci] [memoir] One contestant holds his conker still, at what ever height best suits his opponent, while the other attempts to strike it using a swinging downward movement.not: [etext]
10.31 "conqueror of forty"
CGA wonders if it might only have smashed, eg, four others which were each 'conquerors of ten', but mathematically this can't work-- the numbers would grow ever larger [countercite]. cf "it required a valiant heart to enter a new and untested challenger against a veteran with more victories than could be counted on the fingers of two hands" [cite]
10.34 "Brigid"
the Joyces still had servants at Bray. [cga]
10.36 "Dante knew"
Stannie: "besides teaching my brother to read and to write, with some elementary arithmetic and geography, she inculcated a good deal of very bigoted Catholicism and bitterly anti-English patriotism" [cga]
11.01 "Mozambique Channel"
[map&info] CGA speculates she might have been tracing the voyage of St Francis Xavier [Cath]
11.02 "the longest river in America"
CGA suggests the Mississippi was explored by French Catholics [Cath]
11.03 "the highest mountain in the moon"
only recently determined, on the dark side, 'Beta' in the Leibnitz Range, 36,000 feet [cite] [topo map] [map] [map]CGA suggests a Jesuit, Riccioli of Bologna in 1651 [history] [Cath] named features after other Jesuits, but I'm skeptical [not mtns?] ditto
11.03 "Father Arnall"
[pic] Father William Power, SJ
11.10 "lower and third lines"
see above 8.20
11.15 "without even answering the fellow"
this 'salute' motif in all Joyce's works reveals status-relations among characters
11.15 "Simon Moonan"
still Simon Mangan in late drafts [cga]
11.18 "McGlade's"
Andrew Macardle, SJ [cga]
11.18 "suck"
probably 'sycophant' [cga]Joyce may be making the point here that Clongowes boys haven't accepted the English public schools' "abominable system of fags, that makes a boy the slave of older boys" [wp240]
11.20 "prefect's false sleeves"
"The soutanes of the Jesuits in Joyce's day had a piece of material hanging from each shoulder down the back" cf: [pic] [cga]
11.23 "Wicklow Hotel"
was in Wicklow Street, near #13 on this map
12.03 "Go ahead, York! Go ahead, Lancaster!"
"the Jesuits' encouragement of scholastic rivalry... based on the Ratio Studiorum. Father Arnall, oblivious of the part played by Ireland in the War of the Roses, treats York and Lancaster impartially. But Stephen wears the white rose of York, the traditional Irish side, while the leader of the Lancastrians, Jack Lawton, has a name which suggests the 'new English' rather than Gael, Norman, Norse, or Fleming." [cga]
12.07 "He was no good at sums"
Joyce's exam scores in math were usually mediocre [tables]
12.10 "a wax"
a rage {BK]
12.17 "elements"
English, math, geography, history, Latin {BK]
12.25 "beautiful colours to think of"
esthetic escape?
12.31 "But perhaps somewhere in the world you could."
building on Dante's geography?
13.03 "Saurin"
Michael Saurin, Hill of Down, Westmeath, 1887-1893. His father was a magistrate [cga]
13.12 "Fleming"
Aloysius Fleming, Youghal, 1891-1894 [cga]
13.21 "shut and opened the flaps of his ears"
Stephen Hero p184 has a flashback of this scene: "He saw far away amid a flat rain-swept country a high plain building with windows that filtered the obscure daylight. Three hundred boys, noisy and hungry, sat at long tables eating beef fringed with green fat like blubber and junks of white damp bread, and one young boy, leaning upon his elbows, opened and closed the flaps of his ears while the noise of the diners reached him rhythmically as the wild gabble of animals."
13.25 "at Dalkey the train"
[train info] [map] [pic]cf Ulysses "THE MOTHER: Who saved you the night you jumped into the train at Dalkey with Paddy Lee?" {Circe]
13.31 "Paddy Rath"
Patrick Rath, Enniscorthy and Argentina, 1886-1891 [cga]
13.31 "Jimmy Magee"
James Magee, Dublin, 1889-1892. cricket star [cga]
13.32 "the Spaniard"
Jose Arana y Lupardo, Bilbao, Spain, 1890-1892 [cga]
13.35 "every single fellow had a different way of walking"
Joyce's "writer's eye" paralleling his writer's ear
13.36 "pretending to watch"
performance/mimickry motif
14.04 "Tullabeg"
"The Jesuit novitiate is at Tullabeg. It was formerly the site of St. Stanislaus College, begun in 1818 and merged with Clongowes" in 1886 [cite]. [cga]
14.07 "do you kiss your mother"
"St. Aloysius Gonzaga, patron saint of James Aloysius Augustine Joyce, was too 'pure' to kiss his mother. St. Alphonsus Liguori says that 'St. Aloysius Gonzaga did not dare to raise his eyes to look even at his own mother....'" [cga]anticipates (non-) Aristotelian logic
14.23 "Wells must know the right answer"
this illusion is just the sort of 'net' he'll spend the rest of the book (or at least the last half?) trying to free himself from
15.29 "Class of Elements"
"The Ratio Studiorum of Ignatius Loyola recommends that lower classes of a college be divided into five grades: three of grammar, one of rhetoric, and one of humanities. Covering the matter of the lowest grammar grade should take, he says, two years; apparently, one of rudiments, one of elements." [cga]
15.30 "Clongowes Wood College/Sallins/County Kildare"
"Clongowes Wood College was founded in 1813, in the pleasantest part of Kildare, and stands in the midst of beautiful and well-wooded grounds of 500 acres in extent. It is placed between the Great Southern and Midland Lines of Railway, Sallins [map], on the Great Southern, being 3 1/2 miles, and Maynooth and Kilcock each 5 miles distant by road." [cga]
16.01 "a cod"
a joke or prank [BK]
16.07 "read the verses backwards"
experimental philology
16.34 "Mr Casey"
the Fenian John Kelly [info]
17.03 "poetry and rhetoric"
see 15.29 above
17.26 "marbles"
"The interior of the old chapel at Clongowes-- floor, pillars, gallery, etc.-- is made of wood, though the wood of the pillars is painted to simulate marble. Clongowians sometimes remember the pillars as being marble." [cga]
17.30 "hob"
a projection at the back or side of a fireplace on which something may be kept warm
17.30 "punch"
"a hot drink, probably a mixture of whisky, hot water, sugar, and lemon juice" [cga] cf [glossary]
18.06 "Clane"
parish and village [map] ditto [tourist] "The Clongowes chapel, now as in Joyce's day, is the parish church for Clane." [cga]
18.07 "woman standing at the halfdoor... the road there between the trees"
echoes Betty Byrne and the moocow from page one
19.05 "the boys in the dormitory"
Joyce stayed with a nurse, Nannie Galvin, in the infirmary, until his seventh birthday
19.15 "ironingroom"
room where armor was formerly stored [BK]
19.17 "A figure came up the staircase"
"...the servants assembled there were much astonished to see enter the hall, an officer, fully accoutred, holding his hands to his breast, from which blood was flowing and staining his white uniform. Immediately afterwards they followed him upstairs " [cite]
20.02 "the cars"
"four-wheeled hackney carriages, used at Clongowes to drive the three and one-half miles to the Sallins railroad station" [cga] [info]
20.08 "Bodenstown"
parish containing Sallins [map]
20.15 "chocolate train"
'chocolate-colored' in Stephen Hero according to Colum [cga]
20.20 "Hill of Allen"
[pic] [pic source-slow] features a pillar honoring Finn MacCool (who supposedly lived there) [myth] [tourist] [cga]
22.18 "Father Minister"
vice-rector or master of the house, probably Father T.P. Brown SJ (not their confessor though, in fact) [cga]
22.37 "Brother Michael"
Brother John Hanly, SJ [cga]
24.03 "when Little had died"
Peter Stanislaus Little, Monkstown, Dublin, 1886-90. His grave reads "Sacred to the memory of Peter Stanislaus Little who died 10th December 1890 aged 16 years. RIP." [cga]
24.06 "cope of black and gold"
[pix] "The color of the cope is usually the color of the day in the Church calendar, but black and gold are the colors for the burial of the dead no matter what day it is." [cga]
24.10 "the main avenue of limes"
[pic] "A long arch of linden trees (limes) lines the road leading to Clongowes Castle." [cga] (in the manuscript these were 'chestnuts')
24.15 "Dingdong! The castle bell!"
sheetmusic has apparently been found [cite]
25.01 "Athy"
[map]
26.12 "his granduncle had presented an address to the liberator there fifty years before"
"The grand-uncle (actually Joyce's greatgrand-uncle) was John O'Connell, father of William ('Uncle Charles'). The Liberator was Daniel O'Connell, who successfully advocated the 'Repeal of the Union' between Ireland and Great Britain in 1834." [cga] [more]
26.16 "blue coats with brass buttons and yellow waistcoats and caps of rabbitskin"
"According to the Clongowes Record, the uniform for festivals during the period from about 1816 to 1840 was 'a cap made of rabbit-skin, a blue cloth coat with brass buttons, yellow cashmere waistcoat and corduroy trousers.' The uniform was gradually modified and then abolished in 1850." [cga]
26.24 "a legend"
a saint's legend [cga]
27.13 "Parnell! He is dead!"
6 Oct 1891 "On Sunday morning, October 11, the 'Ireland' steamed into Kingstown bringing home the dead Chief. In the forenoon there was a Lying-in-state in the City Hall. In the afternoon, followed to his last restingplace by a vast concourse of people... Charles Stewart Parnell was laid in the grave." [cga]
27.29 "toasted boss"
JAJ: "This is a kind of foot-stool with two ears, stuffed without a wooden frame. The term is childish and popular. Compare the word 'hassock.'" [L3-129]
27.30 "pierglass"
a tall mirror filling the space ('pier') between (eg) two windows [cga]
28.09 "a birthday present for Queen Victoria"
Ellmann: "Kelly was in prison several times for Land League agitation, and John Joyce regularly invited him to recuperate from imprisonment... at the house in Bray. In jail three fingers of his left hand had become permanently cramped from picking oakum, and he would tell the children that they had become so while he was making a birthday present for Queen Victoria."
28.16 "the Head"
Bray Head was visible from the Joyce house in Martello Terrace. [cga]
28.37 "jack foxes"
male foxes [BK]
29.24 "Bless us, O Lord"
The grace ordinarily said in Catholic families. [cga]
29.32 "Dunn's of D'Olier Street"
Still doing business as a poulterer and game dealer at 26 D'Olier Street. [cga]
29.36 "the real Ally Daly"
genuine article [def]
30.01 "Mr Barrett"
maybe Patrick Barrett, SJ, who taught Stannie at Belvedere in 1893-94 [cga]
30.10 "brothers and sisters"
reallife names and approx ages: Poppie 7yo, Stannie 6yo, Charlie 5yo, Georgie 4yo, Eileen 3yo, May 1yo, Eva 2 months
30.32 "Mary"
Joyce's mother's maiden name was Mary Jane 'May' Murray [cga]
31.23 "political discussion"
"John Joyce, James's father, was a fervent follower of Parnell for whom he worked as an election agent, an occupation for which his sociable temperament and ready tongue made him very suitable. In 1880 he had succeeded in getting two Parnellites elected as M.P.'s for the city of Dublin and, partly as a reward for this feat, had been appointed Collector of Taxes for the city...." [cga]
32.03 "The bishops and priests"
Ellmann: "...the day before Christmas of... 1889, Captain William Henry O'Shea filed a petition for divorce from his wife Kitty on the ground of her adultery with Parnell. He had tolerated the affair for ten years, and in 1866 accepted a seat in Parliament from Galway as a reward for keeping still. The decree was granted without contest on November 17, 1890. At first Parnell showed surprising strength in holding his party together; his lieutenant Tim Healy staunchly declared that the leader should not be abandoned 'within sight of the Promised Land.' But soon the pressure of Davitt, of Gladstone, of the Catholic bishops, and then of Tim Healy and other close political associates accomplished its purpose and, as Yeats put it, 'dragged this quarry down.'" [cga]
32.16 "Woe be to the man"
Luke 17: 1-2. [cga]
32.33 "the pope's nose"
[pic] the turkey's tail or rump-- almost entirely fat [background]
33.18 "Billy with the lip"
Archbishop William J. Walsh [Cath]
33.18 "tub of guts up in Armagh"
Michael Logue [Cath]
33.21 "Lord Leitrim's coachman"
"Lord Leitrim, a landlord of evil repute, was murdered in 1877 with two attendants who tried to defend him in County Donegal by a farmer's son revenging a wrong suffered by his sister. The incident caused a fierce debate in the House of Commons." [cga]
34.27 "county Wicklow"
[map]
35.23 "convent in the Alleghanies"
see 7.21 above. "The convent may be the first foundation of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy, from Dublin, which was in Pittsburgh, Pa." [cga]
35.24 "chainies"
worthless ornaments [cga]
35.30 "litany of the Blessed Virgin. Tower of Ivory... House of Gold"
an evening prayer [etext] [history]
36.01 "tig"
aka 'tag' [cga] or hide-and-seek [BK]
36.06 "Arklow"
[map]
36.20. "The Paris Funds! Mr Fox! Kitty O'Shea!"
in 1890, Parnell was accused of embezzling the funds of the Irish National League [background] 'Mr Fox' was one of the pseudonyms he used in his affair with O'Shea [cga]
37.24 "the Cabinteely road"
[map]
37.26 "one night at the band on the esplanade she had hit a gentleman on the head with her umbrella"
confirmed by Stannie [cga]
38.05 "condemned to death as a whiteboy"
[info] [contemporary]
38.06 "two feet under his mahogany"
ie, seated at his dinner table. cf [Trollope], passim
38.21 "the time of the union"
1801, creating the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [more]
38.22 "bishop Lanigan presented an address of loyalty to the Marquess Cornwallis"
"John Lanigan (1758-1828). Charles Cornwallis was viceroy to Ireland at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. He helped put down the Wolfe Tone rebellion of 1798, and he proposed the legislative union of Ireland and England in the last session of the Irish Parliament (1800-1801)" [cga]
38.24 "in return for catholic emancipation"
[history] "As Catholics won the right to elect men of their own religion to Parliament many of them lost the right to vote at all. The fortyshilling freeholders-- small landholders, of whom there were some one hundred and ninety thousand-- were disenfranchised in Ireland. Wellington had insisted on this minimum safeguard." [cga]
38.25 "fenian movement"
the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood [history]
38.27 "Terence Bellew MacManus"
"the Fenians had wide support [but] the Catholic Church was one of its greatest enemies. This was seen when Cardinal Cullen refused a funeral service to Terence Bellew MacManus, whom the Fenians had brought to Dublin for burial all the way from San Francisco." [cite]
38.31 "Paul Cullen"
[Cath]
40.03 "Hill of Lyons"
three miles south of Celbridge [map] [cga]
40.11 "fecked"
stole [info]
40.13 "Kickham's brother"
Alexander Kickham, Dublin, 1886-1890 [cga]
40.16 "scut"
uncertain: the short upright tail of a deer, hare, or rabbit, so that perhaps 'turned tail and ran' [cga]
40.35 "surplices"
[pic] "Stephen probably wore one as boatbearer" [cga]
41.01 "boatbearer"
Joyce was boatbearer during his first year at Clongowes. "The incense boat is a receptacle in which the incense is kept before it is placed in the censer to be burned" [cga]
41.03 "censer"
vessel in which incense is burnt; thurible [cga] [pic in use] catalog
41.13 "sprinter"
someone training in short-distance bicycle racing [BK]
41.22 "prof"
captain of cricket team [BK]
41.23 "rounders"
British ball game [BK]
42.15 "Smugging"
cf U-Cyclops "hugging and smugging" [etext] CGA says "Clongowes slang for a mild form of homosexual petting" but cf [def]
43.18 "Balbus"
Julius Caesar had a Spanish henchman called Balbus whom Cicero defended [info] "see Cicero's Letters to Atticus, XII, 2, where Cicero complains that during the many Roman troubles of 47 B.C., while others are feasting or playing games, 'Balbus is building [new mansions for himself]: for what cares he?' ...The elder Balbus was... tried on obscurely motivated charges and was a considerable sinner. He kept a diary of his life and Caesar's which became the basis of Book VIII of Commentarii de Bello Gallico, probably written by his friend Hirtius." [cga]
43.23 "The Calico Belly"
joke on Caesar's Comentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic Wars) [BK]
43.33 "six and eight"
three blows on each hand, followed by four more on each hand [cga]
43.35 "old Barrett"
cf 30.01
43.36 "the note"
telling the prefect (in Latin) the number of pandies to be given [cga]
44.02 "prefect of studies"
general assistant to the rector, not responsible for corporal punishment [cga, contradicts 43.65]
44.16 "Mr Gleeson"
real name, excelled at cricket [cga]
44.18 "able for"
capable of handling [cga]
44.26 "twice nine"
nine strokes on each hand (the maximum) "It is the only pandying that also requires the student to 'bend over' and receive blows on his backside." [cga]
45.04 "pandybat"
[pic] "A pandy is a stroke upon the extended palm with a leather strap or tawse, ferrule, or rod. The word 'pandy' is from the Latin pande, 'Stretch out!', the imperative of pandere (cf Father Dolan's order, 'Hold out!' as he pandies Fleming)" [cga] cf [logbook pic]
45.30 "yet he felt a feeling of queer quiet pleasure inside him to think of the white fattish hands, clean and strong and gentle"
Joyce here is studying the origins of his own masochistic urges, I think
46.02 "Mr Harford"
James Jeffcoat, SJ, (b1866) master of the Rudiments grade in Clongowes during Joyce's time there [cga]Joyce had used the name in 'Grace' as well [etext]
46.16 "monstrance"
"An open or transparent vessel of gold or silver, in which the host is exposed. The monstrance is often highly polished and decorated with cut diamonds and rubies." [cga] [pic in use] [pic] [catalog]
46.20 "benediction"
"The official Roman Catholic ceremony called Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament ('Benediction' for short) is usually performed in the evening. The Blessed Sacrament is incensed, removed from the tabernacle, placed in a monstrance, elevated, and adored by those participating in the devotion." [cga]
46.22 "Dominic Kelly"
Dominick Kelly, Waterford, 1886-1890 [cga]
47.09 "Gentlemen, the happiest day of my life was the day on which I made my first holy communion"
implausible. cf? Bourgine, Premiere communion et fin chretienne de Napoleon (Tours, 1897) [cite]Catholics normally receive first communion at age seven-- 'the age of reason' [cga]
47.19 "decline the noun mare"
'sea' [declension] more
48.10 "minister... rector... provincial... general of the jesuits"
accurate as order of command within the Company of Jesus, erroneous as hierarchy of confessors [cga]
49.20 "Father Dolan"
Father James Daly [cga]
49.25 "Tom Furlong's"
Thomas Furlong, Dublin, 1889-1894 was Joyce's reliable partner in mischief. Ellmann: "...caught out of bounds raiding the school orchard, and word went round that 'Furlong and Joyce will not for long rejoice,' a pun that he became fond of in later life." [cga] (could Fleming's and Furlong's names be swapped here?)
49.26 "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow"
Macbeth, V, v, 19. [cga]
53.30 "Peter Parley's Tales about Greece and Rome"
cf [etext] [Bibliofind] Samuel Griswold Goodrich (Amer 1793-1860) wrote schoolbooks as Peter Parley [cga]
53.32 "a broad hat like a protestant minister and a big stick"
(when he wrote this, Joyce definitely foresaw echoing this image in Ulysses with Stephen Dedalus's ashplant and latin quarter hat)
55.35 "Ignatius Loyola"
[Cath]
55.35 "Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam"
For the Greater Glory of God (motto of Jesuits) [info]
56.01 "Francis Xavier"
[Cath]
56.02 "Lorenzo Ricci"
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56.03 "Kostka"
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56.03 "Gonzaga"
[Cath]
56.04 "Berchmans"
[Cath]
56.06 "Father Peter Kenny"
purchased Clongowes grounds for Jesuit order in 1813 [history]
59.16 "the pavilion"
across the playing field from the castle [cga] (cricket pavilion? cf [pic])
59.17 "gallnuts"
[info&pix] ditto
59.18 "long shies"
long hits by the batsman in cricket [BK]
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