Tuesday, April 29, 2014

[Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's "The House by the Churchyard" in Finnegans Wake]

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213.01 Lefanu (Sheridan's)
265.04 the loftleaved elm Lefanunian

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References have been found in every FW chapter except: I.6, II.4, and III.3. The richest are in II.2 (9), then II.1 (8) and II.3 (4). We can speculate that he added them all at the same time, late in the process of composition. (Contrast his adding all Moore's song titles?)


"The House by the Churchyard"

034.08 the old house for the chargehard
096.07 the old house by the churpelizod
213.01 Lefanu (Sheridan's) old House by the Coachyard
221.15 whouse be the churchyard
245.36 De oud huis bij de kerkegaard.
454.36 No petty family squabbles Up There nor homemade hurricanes in our Cohortyard
621.34 In the church by the hearseyard.

205.25 Phoenix Tavern
265.08 the phoenix
321.16 in the Phoenix!
(ambiguous) Phoenix Tavern: pub in Chapelizod mentioned 50 times

025.14 in the Salmon
prologue: The Salmon House

265.04 the loftleaved elm Lefanunian
293.15 the Great Ulm
prologue: "One glance, however, before you go, you will vouchsafe at the village tree—that stalworth elm. It has not grown an inch these hundred years. It does not look a day older than it did fifty years ago"

299.27 be the powers of Moll Kelly
425.12 by the power of blurry wards
prologue: "'Be the powers o' war! here's a battered head-piece for yez,' said young Tim Moran, who had picked up the cranium, and was eyeing it curiously, turning it round the while. 'Show it here, Tim;' 'let me look,' cried two or three neighbours, getting round as quickly as they could. 'Oh! murdher;' said one. 'Oh! be the powers o' Moll Kelly!' cried another. 'Oh! bloody wars!' exclaimed a third."

246.07 In thundercloud periwig.
prologue: 'a thunder-cloud periwig'

181.26 lyow why a stunk
Lowe, Hyacynth O'Flaherty, Sturk

183.05 your brass castle or your tyled house in ballyfermont?
Dangerfield lives in the Brass Castle, Mervyn in the Tyled House in Ballyfermot

017.14 from sturk to finnic
Doctor Sturk

027.23 Ezekiel Irons
Zekiel Irons

034.09 Roche Haddocks off Hawkins Street. Lowe, you blondy
Father Roach: a parish priest
Oliver Lowe: a magistrate

080.08 that dangerfield circling butcherswood where fireworker oh flaherty engaged a nutter of castlemallards and ah for archer stunned 's turk, all over which fossil footprints, bootmarks
Mr Dangerfield stuns Dr Sturk in Butcher's Wood
Mr Nutter, Lord Castlemallard's agent, fights an abortive duel with Lt Hyacinth 'Fireworker' O'Flaherty
ch53: drawing of a footprint left by Nutter's boot at the scene of a murder

219.19 the Ballymooney Bloodriddon Murther by Bluechin Blackdillain
a man near Ballymooney, Was guilty of a deed o' blood
Blue Chin
Black Dillon

ch1 (begins): "A.D. 1767"
035.24    K. O. Sempatrick's Day and the fenian rising)
[Saint Patrick's Day, 17 March (17) + Fenian Rising, 1867 (67) = 1767]
072.20 Kimmage Outer 17.67

340.22 he devoused the lelias on the fined
ch1: "pretty Lilias, his only child"

265.18 tho if it theem tho and yeth if you
ch3ff: "in 'thpite of hith lithp'" (Puddock)

563.20 What Gipsy Devereux vowed to Lylian
ch4?: "Handsome Captain Devereux!—Gipsy Devereux, as they called him for his clear dark complexion—was talking a few minutes later to Lilias Walsingham."
(wiki: "There is one serious subplot: the ill-starred romance between the alcoholic but romantic rake Captain Devereux and the virtuous Lily Walsingham. Their romance is scuppered when he is accused of "ruining" a young girl and having promised to marry her (he denies the latter, at least). Lily turns down Devereux's offer of marriage, and eventually pines away and dies. Devereux makes attempts to reform himself, but it is too late.")

245.26 You took with the mulligrubs
ch25: (quoting Swift's Polite Conversation) 'What, you are sick of mulligrubs, with eating chopt hay?'

285.13 twalegged poneys
ch35: (of men carrying a sedan-chair) "the two-legged ponies"

111.08 a goodish-sized sheet of letterpaper
ch53: 'The sod just for so much as a good sized sheet of letter-paper might cover, was trod and broken'

245.27 we lack mulsum?
ch56: 'mulsum'

283.10 rakehelly
ch71: "rakehelly" = scoundrel

294.26 thunder and turf
ch77: "breathing turf and thunder"

331.28 when capriole legs covets limbs of a crane
ch86: "the capriole-legged old mahogany table"

246.04 Between the starfort and the thornwood brass castle flambs with mutton candles
ch98: 'His usual path was by the Star Fort, and through the thorn woods'
ch86, ch92: The Brass Castle is Dangerfield's house (mutton candles flare there)

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