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Off Grafton Street is Kehoe’s (South Anne Street), a favorite watering spot; and on Duke Street are two pubs with with Ulysses connections — Davy Byrne’s, where Leopold Bloom ate a gorgonzola sandwich and drank a glass of wine, and Bailey’s, a busy, trendy pub on the site of Leopold Bloom’s house.
Memorizing words is not the point of this book which, in addition to two titles, has a subtitle: “A literary distillation of The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Webster's International , and Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words .” The book is a list of words, with remarkably succinct definitions, that have captured the author's fancy for one reason or another.
With a hopeless bod like that, it's no surprise that the devil would rather look like Gabriel Byrne.
It's terribly tasteful and grown-up, but not half as compelling as musketeer Gabriel Byrne's fervid declaration to foxy Queen Mother Anne Parillaud in The Man in the Iron Mask : "To love you is a treason against France--not to love you a treason against my heart."
Byrne, as D'Artagnan, the fourth musketeer, torn between his loyalty to the king and to his all-for-one/one-for-all compatriots, has the most complicated role and carries it off with real dignity and discernment (which means, of course, that he's just a teeny bit dull).