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Glasheen, Adaline / Third census of Finnegans wake
(1977)

M,   pp. 176-203


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178 THIRD CENSUS OF FINNEGANS WAKE 
which Joyce used in FIN I,iv. 87.12 (see O'Donnell). 
MacDonnell, Sorley Boy—see Sonley. 
MacDougal (sometimes MacDougall, Macdougal), Johnny—the 4th of the
Four (q.v.) Elders (q.v.). As Evangelist (q.v.), he is St John, whose heraldic
beast is the eagle. I cannot account for the name MacDougal—it is sometimes
said to be Scottish. He is the province of Connaught, places in Conmaught;
west and the west wind; the element water; the iron age; Joyce's 4th age—rebirth.
In the geographical anatomy of Paracelsus (q.v.), he is the human bottom—
hence waste-west land. He is a little separate from the other old men, and
has a wilder and more distinct personality than they. His eternal claim of
success in love may tie him to Don Juan (q.v.). 
 Because his name is John, it is perhaps Shaun (q.v.) in old age, and at
475.29—30 he is called Shunny. If he melts into Shaun or is reborn,
it is at the bottom of p.399. I have found no place where Shaun is called
"Johnny." J. Macdougal leads the ass (q.v.), who is Shem (q.v.), and this
suggests that Johnny and the ass may be the twins (q.v.)—the one disguised
in age, the other as abeast. 184.35 (Aguilar); 210.13 (see Walker); 214.36;
+290.9 (see McAdoo); 368.33—34; +377.32 (see Justinian); 384.14; 386.6,12;
387.15; 389.17—18; 391.4,5; 395.3; 397.2; 398.2 (Podex); +399.36—with
James and John, John-a-Dreams (q.q.v.); 405.5—6; 475.29—30; 476.27—28;
+482.9,11,14— with Milton (q.v.; whose father's shop was at the sign
of the Spread Eagle,.l5; see also Don Juan, Don Quixote, Schott); 521.10;
526.18; +533.21—with Bach (q.v.); 573.28; 590.23. 
MacDowell, Gerty—Nausicaa (q.v.) in 
Ulysses. I am not sure any of the following refer to her. 144.27; 211.1;
+287.19—with Gertrude, Gertrude 
Stein (q.q.v.); 349.21; +618.3—with 
Gretel (see Hansel). 
Macduff—Thame of Fife inMacbeth (q.v.). 
+77.14—with Hamlet (q.v.); 250.34; 
302.n. 1; 411.11; +469.20,21—with 
McAdam (q.v.). 
*MacDyke, Dirty—in context, the Dick of Tom Dick Harry (q.v.). 8.27.
*MacElligut, Mn, 365.26. 
*McJ~dicoth, 277.n. 4 (see Roe). 
*MacFarlane, 180.10. 
*MacFarlane, poor Piccolina Petite—may connect with Santime's novel
Picciola (1836) in which a prisoner saves his reason by tending a poor little
flower that turns into a beautiful dream girl. 
210.10. 
MacFarlane's Lament—air to T. Moore's (q.v.) "Shall the Harp Then Be
Silent." 
100.3. 
*MacFearsome, Shrove Sundy—Macpherson (q.v.)? 227.3 1—32. 
*MacFewney, MacGarath O'Cullagh O'Muink—Magrath (q.v.). 622 .4-5. 
*Mac Gale, Gush, 87.17. 
*MacGarry, Moth, 526.23—24. 
*Mac Garvey—Thom's, 1907, lists a plumber of this name, or maybe Cathal
McGanvey's tobacco shop where nationalists met in Dublin. 176.18. 
McGee, Thomas D'Arcy(1825—68)—a poet of the Nation. 231.14 (horsery
megee). 
*MacGhimley_Luke Tarpey (q.v.) as the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet,
gimel. President McKinley? 290.7. 
*M'Gillicuddy Reeks—the highest mountain range in Ireland, in Kerry,
near Killarney. Joyce uses it as a personal name—Letters, I, 389—and
maybe it is. 92.26; 518.9. 
McGinty—"Down Went." 366.32. 
*MacGi~lly, Jolly—maybe Johnny MacDougal (q.v.). 395.3. 
*McGree, Graw—Magrath (q.v.). 488.36. 
*MacGregor, Fat her—M att Gregory (q.v.)? 520.4,10. 
McGuckin, Barton—Dublin tenor who believed John Joyce's (q.v.) voice
was better than his own. + 180.8—with Gluck (q.v.). 
*MacGuiney's_MacGuimness? 381.19. 
*Mac Gurk, Mr—maybe the Professor of Moral Philosophy mentioned in
Gogarty's (q.v.)As I Was Going Down Sackville Street. 365.24-25; 378.25—26.
*Mac Gusty—maybe Johnny MacDougal 
(q.v.) as the sense of taste. 305.n. 3. 
Mach, Ernst (1838—1916)—Austrian physicist, mathematician, psychologist,
who concluded all existence is sensation. 150.11. 
Mac Hamiltan, Hannibal—see Hannibal, 
Hamilton. 274.9. 
MacHammud—Mohammed (q.v.). 156. 
22. 
Machiavelli, Niccolè (1469—1527)— 


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