AtDtDA23: Wolfe Tone O'Rooney

[Dave Monroe]

"'Well, you got me, sure.  Wolfe Tone O'Rooney, sir ...'" (AtD, Pt. III, p. 641)


Eusebio Gómez

EUSEBIOS
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ευσεβιος (Ancient Greek)
Derived from Greek ευσεβης (eusebes) meaning "pious". This was the
name of several saints.

http://www.behindthename.com/name/eusebios

Saint(s) Eusebius

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Eusebius
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/e.htm

Gomez

Definition: Derived from the given name, Gome, meaning "man."

http://genealogy.about.com/library/surnames/g/bl_name-GOMEZ.htm

P. Eusebio Gómez Navarro, OCD

http://www.eusebiogomeznavarro.org/

http://www.reddemusicacatolica.com/profiles/224.asp?x=1

Alexander Hamilton v. Eusebio Gomez and Alexander Hamilton v. Eusebio
Gomez and Joseph H. Hernandez, File H 3, Superior Court, St. Johns
County, Fla.

http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/SpanishLandGrants/wpa_index/boc_eastflorida.cfm

http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/SpanishLandGrants/wpa_index/images/6_board_of_commissioners-east_florida/xlv.jpg

There's a publisher, Eusebio Gomez de la Puente, active in Mexico City
for at least the first decade and a half or so of the 20th century as
well, but ...

Well, lots of hits, but hablo no Español, so ...


"at the docks on the Pánuco"

Río Pánuco, a river in Veracruz state, east-central Mexico. It is
formed by the junction of the Moctezuma and Tamuín rivers on the San
Luis Potosí-Veracruz state line, the Pánuco meanders generally
east-northeastward past the town of Pánuco to the Guld of Mexico about
6 miles below Tampico.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_615-643#Page_640


"Mondragóns will get you through"

Echoes the wonderful 1970s slogan "Dope will get you through times of
no money better than money will get you through times of no dope."

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_615-643#Page_640


"a hidalgo"

Coin with a portrait of Miguel Hidalgo (1753 – 1811), hero of the
Mexican war of independence against Spain.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_615-643#Page_640


Wolfe Tone O'Rooney

370; "travelling insurrectionist" in Maman in New Orleans; "Way of the
Potato" 373; "after weapons for the Irish cause" 642; Theobald Wolfe
Tone, commonly known as Wolfe Tone (1763-1798) was a leading figure in
the United Irishmen Irish independence movement and is regarded as the
father of Irish republicans. He died, allegedly by cutting his own
throat, following an illness after being sentenced to death for his
part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798; 890;

A wolf tone, or simply a "wolf", is a noise that is produced when a
note played on a stringed instrument matches the natural resonating
frequency of the instrument, producing a tone that is loud and harsh,
and basically unwelcomed by most musicians.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=O

Theobald Wolfe Tone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobald_Wolfe_Tone

Wolf Tone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_tone

Also ...

Winsome, Gouveneur ("Roony") (b. 1923)

http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=W
http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/alpha/w.html
http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/v/winsomeapt.html

Mickey Rooney

http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_371-383#Page_382


"the Flor de Coahuila and the end of Stoat Fresno"

Flor de Coahuila
Flower of Coahuila. Coahuila is Mexico's third largest state

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_460-488#Page_477

Fresno, Sloat Eddie
Deuce Kindred's sidekick, 195; 261; killed by Frank Traverse, 395; 478;

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=F


"the gathering revolution here" (p. 642)

http://www.mexonline.com/revolution.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Revolution
http://www.mexconnect.com/MEX/austin/revolution.html

In 1910, the Mexican Revolution began. It was the 20th Century's first
modern social revolution, destined to change Mexico's society and
economy. It would result in a flood of Mexican immigrants into the
United States....

http://www.pbs.org/kpbs/theborder/history/timeline/14.html