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A Companion Calendar
to
Finnegans Wake
(a continuing project)
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1394
 
Richard II arrives at Waterford.
 
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1891
 
Death of Parnell at Steyning near Brighton.
 
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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.

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.

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 cII
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 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

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Whether it be an animal or a man.

 

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1644

 

 

 

 


       

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Cromwell takes Wexford.

 

 

1891
Funeral for Parnell in Dublin.
1932
Television first used in political campaign in U.S.
 
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1066
Battle of Hastings

 

1601

General Mountjoy has nearly 7,000 soldiers in Cork to fight the Spanish who had landed at Kinsdale on September 21.
 

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1925

Dirigible ZR-3 completes flight from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, N.J.
 
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1797

Lord Cardigan born.  Leader of the Charge of the Light Brigade; died March 28, 1868 after a fall from his horse.
 
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1171
 
Henry II lands near Waterford.
 
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1649
 
New Ross surrenders to Cromwell.
 
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1803

Thomas Russel dies and with him the Society of United Irishmen.
 
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1918
 
Charles Chaplin marries 16-year-old starlet Mildred Harris.
 
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1881
 
Rioits between Parnellites and anti-Parnellites in Cork.
 
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1919
 
Troops withdrawn from Murmansk and Archangel.
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1787

Mozart's "Don Giovanni" first performed in Prague's National Theatre. (more contemporary pictures)

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1918


Armistice agreed between allied powers and Ottoman government.
 
1921
Ku Klux Klan march in Jacksonville, Florida, arouses press attention.

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