The Finnegans Wake Society of New York -- The Wake All Year

The Celtic Tree Calendar	A Companion Calendar to Finnegans Wake (a continuing project) November and December
		September 1st is the first day of the Byzantine calendar; accordingly, this companion calendar to Finnegans Wake begins with September 1, 2001. A familiarity with the Wake will be presumed -- the focus will be on historic events which trigger associations that relate to the text of the Wake, with some entries more specific, some more tangential. Comments, contributions, criticisms, and questions are encouraged. --Patricia Berger & Faith Steinberg factferreters (55.13)
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	1 1841 2 1650 1651 1658	Irish Race Convention in Dublin. Oliver Cromwell wins Battle at Dunbar. Oliver Cromwell wins Battle at Worcester. Death of Oliver Cromwell.

	1751 1933 3 1898 4 1607 5 1896 1907 1914 1931	British Act for reform of calendar in Great Britain, Ireland, and the American Colonies, decreeing the next day to be September 14th. United Irish Party launched under presidency of O'Duffy. Queen Victoria visits Ireland for 23 days. Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell secretly sail from Lough Swilly in the Flight of the Earls. Final Report of Childers Commission appointed to inquire into financial relations between Great Britain and Ireland. The name Sinn Fein adopted. First Battle of the Marne. First number of *The Irish Press*, founded by Eamon de Valera.
	6 1701 7 8 9 1845 10 1763 11 1923 12 13 14 1914 15 1898	James II dies at St. Germains. Arrival of potato blight reported in press. First number of *Freeman's Journal*. Irish Free State admitted to League of Nations. Cromwell takes Droghede by storm. First Battle of the Aisne. Wolfe Tone Day.
	1924 16 17 1630 1930 18 1914 19 20 1803	Opening of Belfast Station (2BE) of the B.B.C. Boston founded by John Winthrop. Irish Free State elected to council of League of Nations. Third Home Rule bill receives royal assent, but its operation is suspended. Robert Emmet executed for high treason. One of four statues of Robert Emmet created by Jerome Connor in 1916; it was donated to the Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, California) in 1919 by James D. Phelan, and stands in front of the California Academy of Sciences building.
	1920 21 1170 22 23 24 1913 25 26 1932 27 28 29 1155 30	Black & Tan raid on Balbriggan, south Dublin. About the Black & Tans: from the site A History of Ireland in Song, which includes "Come Out, Ye Black and Tans" by Brendan Behan's brother Dominic: Dublin falls to the Normans. About this period of Ireland's history. Provisional Government of Ulster is provided for. Eamon de Valera given inaugural speech as Chairman of the League of Nations. About de Valera: About the League of Nations: Proposal for invasion of Ireland by Henry II discussed at Winchester but rejected. More information with maps here and a chronology of the times here.
with her mug of October (a pots on it!) 144.321
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	2 1394	Richard II arrives at Waterford.
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	6 1891	Death of Parnell at Steyning near Brighton.
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	10 1921	Impact of Ibsen on American drama seen in host of domestic dramas.
	1928	Irish Manuscript Commission appointed.
Parnell's Funeral W.B. Yeats Under the Great Comedian's tomb the crowd. A bundle of tempestuous cloud is blown About the sky; where that is clear of cloud Brightness remains; a brighter star shoots down; What shudders run through all that animal blood? What is this sacrifice? Can someone there Recall the Cretan barb that pierced a star? Rich foliage that the starlight glittered through, A frenzied crowd, and where the branches sprang A beautiful seated boy; a sacred bow; A woman, and an arrow on a string; A pierced boy, image of a star laid low. That woman, the Great Mother imaging, Cut out his heart. Some master of design Stamped boy and tree upon Sicilian coin. An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives. But popular rage, Hysterica passio dragged this quarry down. None shared our guilt; nor did we play a part Upon a painted stage when we devoured his heart. Come, fix upon me that accusing eye. I thirst for accusation. All that was sung. All that was said in Ireland is a lie Bred out of the contagion of the throng, Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die. Leave nothing but the nothings that belong To this bare soul, let all men judge that can Whether it be an animal or a man. II The rest I pass, one sentence I unsay. Had de Valera eaten Parnell's heart No loose-lipped demagogue had won the day. No civil rancour torn the land apart. Had Cosgrave eaten Parnell's heart, the land's Imagination had been satisfied, Or lacking that, government in such hands. O'Higgins its sole statesman had not died. Had even O'Duffy -- but I name no more -- Their school a crowd, his master solitude; Through Jonathan Swift's dark grove he passed, and there Plucked bitter wisdom that enriched his blood	11 1644 1891 1932	Cromwell takes Wexford. Funeral for Parnell in Dublin. Television first used in political campaign in U.S.
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	14 1066 1601	Battle of Hastings General Mountjoy has nearly 7,000 soldiers in Cork to fight the Spanish who had landed at Kinsdale on September 21.
	15 1925	Dirigible ZR-3 completes flight from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, N.J.
	16 1797	Lord Cardigan born. Leader of the Charge of the Light Brigade; died March 28, 1868 after a fall from his horse.
	17 1171	Henry II lands near Waterford.
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	19 1649	New Ross surrenders to Cromwell.
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	21 1803	Thomas Russel dies and with him the Society of United Irishmen.
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	23 1918	Charles Chaplin marries 16-year-old starlet Mildred Harris.
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	27 1881	Rioits between Parnellites and anti-Parnellites in Cork.
	28 1919	Troops withdrawn from Murmansk and Archangel.
	29 1787	Mozart's "Don Giovanni" first performed in Prague's National Theatre. (more contemporary pictures)
	30 1918 1921	Armistice agreed between allied powers and Ottoman government. Ku Klux Klan march in Jacksonville, Florida, arouses press attention.
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