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The bottom of this page records some milestones in the history of the website going back to 2009. Above it is a list of notes uploaded since January 2021, including some older ones that have been substantially revised. (All notes are by John Hunt unless otherwise indicated.)

October 2024

Tramp, tramp, tramp

September 2024

British Beatitudes
Nameless one (revised)
Puke like christians
Geraghty and Herzog
Johann Most

August 2024


Hard hat
Creed (revised)
Merrion Hall
Ghoststory (revised)
Grandmother
Slattery's mounted foot
Denzille lane boys
Latin quarter hat (revised)
Scrum in
Buster
We're nae tha fou
Ever tremendously conserve
Ruddy birth
Bluebottle (revised)
Burke's
Closingtime
Battered naggin
Stopped short
Leith police

July
2024


Pflaap!
Slips
In Troy
Bodily shame
Cranly's arm (revised)
Our servants
Catheter
Sizar's laugh
John Eglinton
Cornfield

June
2024

Mr Best
Archbishop of Armagh
Ashpit

May
2024

Wax and rosewood (revised)
Hungered flesh

April 2024

Viceregal cavalcade
Wicklow Street
God's curse
Merrion Square
D. B. C. (revised)

March 2024

Henry Clay cigars
Castleyard gate
Bullockbefriending (revised)
Watchman
Ibsen, associated with Baird's
Flesh of a different man (revised)
Mockery (revised)
Must get glasses
Nacheinander (revised)
Fortyfoot hole (revised)
Coactus volui

February 2024

Farrell
Metal bridge
Bedford Row
Dillon's auctionrooms
Turkish costume
So Thursday sixteenth June

January 2024

Sardines (revised)
Stage Irishman
Tenebrosity of the interior
This meanwhile
Young Boasthard
Malachias' tale (revised)
Concentric circles (John Hunt and Russell Raphael)
Sacred Heart of Jesus

December 2023

Waistcoat (revised)
Wandering Rocks
To Artane (revised)
Wellington Quay
Crampton Court
Saint Mary's Abbey (revised)
Lynam's (revised)
D'Olier Street
Goldsmith's knobby poll
Thornton's
Closesteaming kitchen
MacConnell's Corner
O'Neill's

November 2023

Cunnythumb (revised)
Almidano Artifoni (revised)
James's gate (revised)
Larry O'Rourke
Ben Dollard
Shah of Persia
Griped
Kraandl
Pprrpffrrppffff
Fifenote
Imperthnthn
Picking chips
Dark and evil days (revised)

October 2023

Hornmad
Very peripatetic
Plato's world of ideas
Light of love (revised)
Fellowcraft
Venus and Adonis
A ghost by absence
Marina
Philip Beaufoy

September 2023

Nice piece of wood
Tomkin-Maxwell ffrenchmullan Tomlinson
One thinks of Homer
Awfully good
Rip van Winkle
College Green
Trinity's surly front

August 2023


Alice Ben Bolt
Enoch Arden
General Post Office
Toppling masonry
Weave the wind (revised)
Aungier Street (revised)

July 2023

Sinkapace
Purgatory
Four Courts
Reuben J Dodd
Ministering angel
Up the quay
Throb
Done

June 2023

Simple substance
Erin's King
Powerhouse
Fancy bread
Edge of the paper
Eyes of a toad (revised)
Portals of discovery
Greaseabloom
Barabbas
Bethel (revised)

May 2023

Amiens Street
Eumaeus
Photo Bits (revised)
London via long sea

April 2023

Stench
Nymph
The best death
Saint Mark's (revised)
Like snuff at a wake
Tay Pay
Drouth
Rhymes and reasons
British or Brixton
General Bobrikoff
Xenophon looked on Marathon
See it in your face (revised)
Onehandled adulterer
O, harp Eolian!
Green gem of the silver sea
Timekeeper
I'll tell you

March 2023

Or was it you?
Yes, we will not
Tram it
Rows of cast steel
Madam, I'm Adam
Brother-in-law of Chris Callinan
If you want to draw
Fragment of Cicero's
More Irish than the Irish
They had no idea
The lamb and the cat and the dog
Parable of the Plums
Youth led by Experience
Simon Dedalus
Two strong shrill whistles (revised)
I will not say
Far and wide
Never you fret
Call it, wait
Like a cock's wattles
Mighty people
With a heart and a half
Nannan
Co-ome thou lost one
'Mid mossy banks
Sudden-at-the-moment
Joe Miller
On our shore he never set it
He looked (though he was not)

February 2023

Grandeur that was Rome
Old ancient ancestors
It is meet to be here
Remember that time?
Heartburn on your arse
Almost human
It wasn't me, sir
Working away, tearing away
Strong weakness
Clever, very
Only for...
Let there be life
Newsboys
Much, much to learn
Vast, I allow: but vile
Imperial, imperious, imperative
Feetstoops
Broadcloth back
It was revealed to me
Come on! (revised)
Seems to be
Child bit by a bellows
The crozier and the pen
Knees, legs, boots
Clamn dever
Vibration
Dullthudding barrels
The moon
Sunphone
Neck fat neck (revised)
Boosing shed
Bingbang
Slowed, shunted, changed
In the heart (revised)
Slumming

January 2023

Submerged tenth
Germans
Yeates and Son
Pointsman
Catalectic (revised)
Eton suit
Cypherjugglers
Picnic
Greystones
Nuncle
Whooping cough
Gaslight

December
2022

Jack Power
Man in the macintosh
This side idolatry
Sacred Heart that is
Crape

November
2022

Blowing the bellows
No mistakes
Armstrap
Windingsheet
Piles
Print anything now
Unweeded garden
Witching hour
Huggermugger (revised)
Matcham's Masterstroke (revised)
Moore

October
2022

How many!
Drago's
Absolute zero
Cold of interstellar space
Utopia
Heaventree
Exodus
He thought that he thought

September
2022

Master Bloom
Russians

August
2022

What kind of voice is it?

July
2022

Huguenots
Freemasons
Stream of life
Father Vaughan
Benedictine and Chartreuse
Alchemists
Prescott's dyeworks
Flat Dublin voices
Opoponax (revised)
Glimpses of the moon
James Carey
Clery's summer sales
Mrs Fleming
Soap
Map of it all
Hornblower

June 2022

Blazes Boylan
Like a cod in a pot
Alec Bannon
Old Glynn
Stabat Mater
Communion
Into the choir
Father Farley
Celestials
Dame's school
Irish church
Sodality
Conversion
Cousins

May
2022

Hoppy Holohan (revised)
Wicklowmen
Curran
Testicles
Conolly Norman
Collard grand
Buck

April
2022

McCann
Fred Ryan
Spindle
Bob Reynolds
Mrs MacKernan
Temple
Vico Road (revised)
Lynam's
Gold Cup
Pugnose
Bantam Lyons

March 2022

Esprit de corps
Lotus Eaters (revised)
Lord Iveagh and Lord Ardilaun
Heathen Chinee
An ounce of opium
Sir Peter Teazle (revised)
Mass for Pope Marcellus (revised)
Only one skin
Aq. Dist. Fol. Laur. Te Virid
Sweny's

February 2022

Ashtown
Tooraloom
Local colour
Conway's
He was a woman
Smallpox
Westland Row
Townsend Street
Who's getting it up?
Corny Kelleher
Trapeze (revised)
Ulster Hall
This is my body

January 2022

M'Carthy took the floor
Far east
Weight
Hoardings
Union (revised)
Dan Tallon
Findlaters (revised)
Handmaid of the moon (revised)
Bank holiday (revised)
Seem to like it (revised)
Language of flowers
Concentration camp
Broadstone terminus

December 2021

Wisdom Hely's
Vailed eyelids
Alive all the time
Bad gas
Twenty millions of Irish
Footleaf (revised)
Foostering
Cunnythumb
Mount Jerome
Braided drums

November 2021

Gramophone
Parsee tower of silence
Almidano Artifoni (Marco Fulvio Barozzi and John Hunt)
Tam
Joggerfry (revised)
Brunetto
Down, sir!
Koehler
D. B. C.

October 2021

Father Conmee
Martha Clifford
Boustrophedonic cryptogram (revised)

September 2021

Savingsbox (revised)
Janey Mack
The castle was opened

August 2021

Deshil Holles Eamus (revised)
Very little perceptive (revised)
The best historians
Before born
Everyman
Dewy

July 2021

Crouched in flight
Delta of Cassiopeia
Composition of place
Gas: then solid: then world

June 2021

She knew at once
Parallax (revised)
Bretelles

May 2021

A cenar teco

April 2021

Cuckstool
Querulous brogue
Synge
J. C. Doyle
Pishogue

March 2021

Mauve
Scottish Widows
A caution to rattlesnakes
Don Quixote
No thoughts
Old Professor Goodwin

February 2021

Mistaken identity (John Hunt and Senan Molony)
Punched tickets (Senan Molony)
Meade’s timberyard (Senan Molony and John Hunt)
Increase and multiply
Old Mrs Riordan
Hazard
National Schools
Whelps and dams

January 2021

Sjambok
Hypnotic suggestion


August 2023
Subject Index loaded, replacing Subjects in the Notes (JH)
November 2022
About the Notes page revised (JH)
July 2022
Notes for Lotus Eaters completed (JH)
March 2022
Subjects in the Notes file posted (JH)
January 2021
Downloadable Book installed (Sahas Subramanian and JH)
September 2019
Proofing of episodes 1-18 completed (Ole Bønnerup and JH)
October 2018
Proofing of existing notes completed (Ole Bønnerup and JH)
September 2018
Index of Titles installed (JH)
March 2018
New pagination code installed (Andy Han)
July 2017
Notes for Calypso completed (JH)
March 2017
Notes for Proteus completed (JH)
March 2016
Mobile version launched (Patrick Boe)
January 2015
Pagination for Episodes 16-18 installed (JH)
November 2014
Pagination for Episodes 11-15 installed (JH)
September 2014
Pagination for Episodes 1-10 installed (JH)
January 2013
Times in the Novel posted (JH)
October 2012
People in the Novel posted (Barb Nelson)
September 2012
Site version 2.0 launched (Alex Hunt and JH)
June 2012
Notes for Nestor completed (JH)
March 2012
Text of Episodes 15-18 installed (Barb Nelson)
August 2011
Text of Episode 14 installed (Barb Nelson)
July 2011
Notes for Telemachus completed (JH)
July 2011
Text of Episode 13 installed (Barb Nelson)
May 2011
Text of Episode 12 installed (Barb Nelson)
April 2011
Text of Episodes 1-11 installed (Barb Nelson)
December 2009
Site version 1.0 launched (Tom Seiler and JH)