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"Have similar orders been issued for the slaughter of human animals who dare to play Irish games in the Phoenix park?" (U12.869) |
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"Mr Allfours: The answer is in the negative.
Mr Cowe Conacre: Has the right honourable gentleman's famous Mitchelstown telegram inspired the policy of gentlemen on the Treasury bench? (O! O!) Mr Allfours: I must have notice of that question." (U12.872) |
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"- Put it there, citizen, says Joe. You were and a bloody sight better.
- Is that really a fact? says Alf. - Yes, says Bloom. That's well known. Did you not know that? So off they started about Irish sport" (U12.886) |
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"shoneen games the like of the lawn tennis" (U12.889)
Shoneen (Anglo-Irish, derogatory) is one who prefers English attitudes, customs or lifestyle to Irish ones. This is a PC of famous English stage actress Marie Studholme (1874-1930) posing in a tennis outfit. |
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"The Irish Caruso-Garibaldi was in superlative form and his stentorian notes were heard to the greatest advantage in the timehonoured anthem sung as only our citizen can sing it. " (U12.919) |
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"His superb highclass vocalism, which by its superquality greatly enhanced his already international reputation," (U12.922)
An advertisement for Caruso's records (LHJ, June 1904). |
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"was vociferously applauded by the large audience among which were to be noticed many prominent members of the clergy as well as representatives of the press and the bar and the other learned professions. The proceedings then terminated." (U12.923) |
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"Amongst the clergy present were the very rev. William Delany, S.J., L.L.D.; the rt rev. Gerald Molloy, D.D.; the rev. P.J. Kavanagh, C.S.Sp.;" (U12.928)
C.S.Sp. stands for Congregatio Sancti Spiritus = the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, commonly known as the Spiritans. The Spiritans were founded in Paris by the Breton Claude-François Poullart des Places (1703). The purpose of the congregation was to minister to the poor, and to provide chaplains in hospitals, prisons, and schools. It quickly grew a missionary role (initially to the French colonies, India and China, and later all over the world). The Spiritans came to Ireland in 1859, when Pere Jules Lenan was entrusted with establishing a house to recruit and train missionaries for the English colonies. However, he saw the Irish Catholics' own need for education and secondary schools, and evident lack of missionary zeal in the wake of the Penal Laws and the famine. Instead he launched schools for the benefit of Ireland (and with the ulterior purpose of training priests for missions). Thus were founded Blackrock College (1860), Rockwell College in Cashel (1864), and St Mary's College in Rathmines (1890). The back of this Dublin CDV identifies Rev. P. Kavanagh -the same one? |
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"And says Bloom:
- What I meant about tennis, for example, is the agility and training of the eye." (U12.944) |
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"God, he gave him one last puck in the wind. Queensberry rules and all, made him puke what he never ate." (U12.957)
The Queensberry rules are a code of popular boxing rules, written by John Graham Chambers in 1865, and published in 1867. They were so named because the 9th Marquess of Queensberry publicly endorsed them. They include: 1. the size of the boxing ring 24-foot, or as near that size as practicable, 2. No wrestling or hugging allowed, 3. the rounds to be of 3 minutes duration, and 1 minute between rounds, 4. if either man falls through weakness or otherwise, he must get up unassisted, 10 seconds allowed him to do so etc. Though modified over time, the rules have paved the way for modern boxing. |
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"The Englishman, whose right eye was nearly closed, took his corner where he was liberally drenched with water and, when the bell went, came on gamey and brimful of pluck, confident of knocking out the fistic Eblanite in jigtime. It was a fight to a finish and the best man for it." (U12.974) |
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"Pride of Calpe's rocky mount, the ravenhaired daughter of Tweedy. There grew she to peerless beauty where loquat and almond scent the air. The gardens of Alameda knew her step: the garths of olives knew and bowed. The chaste spouse of Leopold is she: Marion of the bountiful bosoms." (U12.1003) |
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"Pawning his gold watch in Cummins of Francis street where no-one would know him in the private office when I was there with Pisser releasing his boots out of the pop." (U12.1026) |
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"What's your name, sir? Dunne, says he. Ay, and done says I. Gob, ye'll come home by weeping cross one of those days, I'm thinking." (U12.1028) |
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"- How half and half? says Bloom. Do you mean he...
- Half and half I mean, says the citizen. A fellow that's neither fish nor flesh. - Nor good red herring, says Joe. - That what's I mean, says the citizen. A pishogue, if you know what that is." (U12.1055) |