A Finnegans Wake Gaarden
PREFACE | ABBREVIATIONS | APPENDIX A | APPENDIX B | APPENDIX C | APPENDIX D | BIBLIOGRAPHY | REFERENCES | IRISH ALPHABET

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M
N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

Letters of the 
Modern Irish Alphabet


A =  ailm   = elm
B =  beit   = birch
C =  coll   = hazel tree
D =  dair   = oak tree
E =  eadad  = aspen
F =  fearn  = alder tree
G =  gat    = ivy
H =  uat    = whitethorn
I =  ioda   = ivy and/or yew tree
L =  luis   = quicken tree, rowan tree, juniper, mountain ash
M =  muin   = vine
N =  nuin   = ash
O =  oir    = broom
P =  peit   = dwarf elder
R =  ruir   = elder
S =  sail   = willow
T =  teitne = furze
U =  ur      = heath

The Irish-English Dictionary has been used to translate from the Irish to the English; accuracy of the transliteration cannot be vouched for.
The reference source for this tree alphabet is Rev. Patrick S. Dinneen's An Irish-English Dictionary.  In A Gaelic Lexicon for Finnegans Wake (p. 125.), Brendan O Hehir notes that Dinny Finneen (FW 232.6) is "Prof. Dinneen who was a professor of Irish during Joyce's time at University.  Robert Graves (The White Goddess, NY:  Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1948, rpt. 1997 pp. 165 ff.) describes the Beth-Luis-Nion Alphabet.