This is in line with Joyce's reference in Ulysses (the Cyclops chapter) to the character "the citizen" whom Bloom meets in a pub. The citizen is described as wearing images of the many Irish heroes and heroines of the past, including Christopher Columbus, Charlemagne, The Last of the Mohicans, Bonaparte, Caesar, Muhammad (sic), Patrick W. Shakespeare, Herodotus, the Queen of Sheba .....
- Bill Jim Devine wrote:
Moneygall is a small village in County Offaly , Ireland , It has a population of approximately 300 people. Moneygall has a Roman Catholic church, five shops, a post office, a national school, a police station and two pubs (of course). President-elect of the United States of America Barack Obama's great great great grandfather, Falmouth Kearney, emigrated from Moneygall to New York City at the age of 19 in 1850 and eventually resettled in Tipton County , Indiana . Kearney 's father had been the village shoemaker, then a wealthy skilled trade. And now for the SONG... Click on the link below and you'll have to smile and also admire the new US president also for his sense of humor that we catch glimpses of in the video.... http://www.oneeyedparrot.org/obama.html
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