A Man of Property
(title of a novel), 212
A Tale of Two Cities
(Dickens novel), 287
Abbey [Church], 134
Absalom, 129
Admiralty, 15
Albert Hall, 287
Albert Memorial, 287
Alice (novel’s narrator and protagonist), 12
Alice in Wonderland (character in Lewis
Carroll’s books), 160
American (as adj.), 67
American (as noun), 13
Ancient Husband (epithet used by Mrs. Coughlan
to describe her
husband), 61
Anglo-Irish, 3
Anglo-Irish War (referred to as “the Troubles”),
313
Anna of the Five Towns
(novel by Bennett), 305
Anna’s (poss. of main character of Anna of
the Five Towns), 305
April (in 1916), 195
Ascot, 289
Asgard, (name of a ketch),
13
Ashbourne, 232
Asquith, Prime Minister, 238
Assistant Commissioner of Police, 292
Athenry, 232
Atlantic (the ocean), 47
Aud (name of a trawler),
175
August (in 1915), 92
August (in 1916), 270
Australia, 260
Austro-Hungarian Empire, 24
Auxiliaries, 96
Badminton (name of Duke of Beaufort’s estate),
38
Bagnold, General Sir Percival, 138
[Bagnold], Grandmother [Verena], (sometimes
later referred to as
“Lady Bagnold”), 7
Bagnolds (as a family group), 138
Balkans, 23
Ballinamona Park, 97
Ballydavid, 6
Banna Strand, 177
Battle of Britain, 276
Battle of Waterloo, 302
Belgians, 225
Benedict (Alice’s mother’s horse), 133
Bennett, Arnold (novelist), 290
Berlin, 32
Bishop of Winchester, 292
Black and Tans, 96
Black Diaries (of Casement), 292
Blaine, Captain, 310
Blavatsky, Madame, 190
Blitz (as in the German “Blitz” during WW II),
208
Blossom (Alice’s father’s epithet for Alice), 29
Blucher, Count, 91
“Bluebeard” (name given to the Hassard by
Katie), 45
Boadicea (name of ancient British queen), 136
Bobby (nick-name of Alice’s father), 27
Boer (as adj.), 90
Boer War, 14
Boston (as adj.), 13
Botanical Gardens, 3
Bowen-Colthurst, Captain, 235
Bridie, 12
British Army, 14
British Consular Service, 33
British Embassy (in NYC), 175
British Empire, 70
British Isles, 83
British Israelites, 242
British Legation, 33
Brits (slang for the English), 311
Brixton Prison, 274
Brussels (adj.—as in Brussels sprouts), 154
Bryce, Captain, 137
[Bryce], Clodagh, 105
Bryce, Mrs. Elaine, 244
Bryces (as in “the Bryces”), 244
Buckingham Palace, 287
Burke, Major Laurence, 139
Cairo (in Egypt), 59
Cambridge, 308
Casement,
Sir Roger, 2
Catholicism, 121
Catholics, 118
Caxton Hall, 38
Celtic, 139
Changing of the Guard, 287
Childers, Erskine, 13
Childers, Molly, 13
[Childers], Robert, 14
Children of the New Forest
(book title), 241
China, 16
Chinese (n., meaning the Chinese language), 16
Chinese Customs (also called Chinese Customs
Service), 16
Chinese Emperor, 16
Christian (as adj.), 159
Christian Brothers (name of a school), 125
Christianity, 253
Christians (plural noun), 240
Christiansen, Adler, 15
Christmas (as adj.), 18
Christmas (as n.), 143
Church of England (as adj.), 292
Church of Ireland (should be Church IN Ireland?
Actual Ch of I
not Catholic but
splintered from Ch of E—still
Anglican—Author
queried), 118
Churchill, 276
Civil War (as “the Civil War” in Ireland after
independence), 313
Clancys, (plural—a family name), 132
Clan-na-Gael, 71
Clarke, Tom, 248
Coeur de Lion, Richard, 240
Collins, Michael, 2
Colonel (as in Uncle William’s story about “the
Colonel”), 205
Commons (short form for the House of Commons),
232
Congo [Belgian Congo], 15
Connolly, James, 248
[Conroy], Gabriel (character in The Dead),
193
Conroy, Gretta (character in The Dead),
193
Corballymore, 306
Cork (adj. from County Cork), 39
Cork (as name of city/town), 68
Coughlan, Major (mentioned not directly but
implicitly), 12
Coughlan, Mrs. [Seraphina], 10
Countess (as a title), 277
Countess (as in letter-salutation “Dear
Countess”), 178
County Clare, 192
County Cork, 150
County Waterford, 117
Court of Criminal Appeal, 294
Crawford, Mrs. (defendant in Dilke divorce
case), 293
Critchley, Miss (a friend of Rosamund Gwynne),
299
Crotty, Father, 91
Crown (as in “the Crown”), 142
Crusades (as in “the Crusades”), 240
Dardanelles, 93
Darling, Mr. Justice (one of appeal judges at
Casement’s appeal
trial), 294
Dartmouth, Lady, 299
Dartmouths (plural of family name), 299
de Bromhead’s, Mrs. (poss.), 279
de Courcy, Inez, 300
de Courcy, Jarvis, 118
de Courcy, Mrs., 118
de Courcys (plural—members of that family), 118
De La Salle College, 137
de Valera, Eamon, 2
Dear (a commonly used epithet or kinship name),
59
Debussy, Countess, 159
December (in 1914), 90
December (in 1915), 93
Defarge, Madame (character in A Tale of Two
Cities), 287
Delphic Oracle, 250
Derby (a well-known horse racing event in
England), 230
Devoy, 71
Dickens, Charles, 287
Dilke, Sir Charles, 293
Donegal (as adj.), 14
Dorcas, Cousin (a relative of Alice), 219
Dorchester, 299
Dover, 291
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 225
Dublin Bay, 13
Dublin Castle, 226
Dublin, 66
Duchess of Richmond’s (poss.), 302
Duke of Beaufort, 38
Dungarvan (name of a road), 312
Dunlaorighe (town where the older Alice now
teaches), 31
Dunmore, 143
East (as in “the East”—usually referring to
Asia), 265
Easter Monday (in 1916), 213
Easter Rising (in 1916), 174
Easter Sunday (in 1916), 175
Edward (Alice’s younger brother), 6
Edward VII, 289
Emden, 176
Emily (Alice’s recently born sister), 170
England, 13
English (adj.), 3
English Channel, 90
Englishman, 96
Enniscourty, 232
Fairyhouse, 184
February (in 1916), 145
Fermoy (as adj.), 226
Ferns, 232
Findlay (English diplomat), 33
Florence (cousin of Grandmother), 262
Foreign Office, 32
Fox’s Walk, 54
France, 16
French (as adj.), 215
French (as collective noun), 92
French (as language), 240
French Revolution, 287
Gaelic American
(title of a newspaper), 175
Gaelic, 66
Gallipoli, 142
Gaultier Hounds (name of a hunt), 146
General (epithet for Alice’s maternal
grandfather), 20
German (as adj.), 68
German (as noun—the language), 32
German Embassy (in NYC), 175
Germany, 13
Gibbon, Major, 65
Glasnevin Cemetery, 2
Glenbeg, 127
Good Friday (in 1916), 177
Gort, 225
Great Pyramid, 242
Great War (as in “the Great War”), 307
Great Western (name of one of several passenger
ferries in
Britain), 43
Greeners (plural of a brand of pistols, rifles,
or shotguns?
Trademark? An active
one? Author queried.), 231
Greenwich (as in “Greenwich time”), 304
Gwynne, Rosamund, 201
Hall, Margaret (the woman whom Uncle
Saint/Sainthill had
intended to marry),
192
Hampshire (name of ship), 276
Hanged Man (as in “the Hanged Man”—one of the
cards in the
tarot deck), 274
Harrington, Tiny, 205
Hassard, 45
Heligoland, 176
Henson, Canon, 293
Herald’s Cross, 146
Hibernia (ancient name for Ireland), 70
Highland (as adj.), 46
Hindu (as adj.), 241
Hitchcock, Mrs. [Consuelo], 150
Holmes, Sherlock (character in Doyle’s novels),
225
Holy Land, 240
Home Rule, 49
Horan, Patrick, 146
Horridge (a judge at Casement’s trial), 285
House of Commons, 238
House of Lords, 232
Howth, 13
Hubert [Bagnold], Uncle, 16
Hugh (another name for Uncle Hubert), 202
India, 71
Indian (adj. describing a native of the
subcontinent), 60
Indo-china, 202
Inge, Dean, 293
IRA (abbreviation for Irish Republican Army), 69
IRB (abbreviation for Irish Revolutionary
Brotherhood), 175
Ireland, 3
Irish (as adj. and n.), 2, 3
Irish Channel, 296
Irish College, 91
Irish Distressed Ladies (as in “a fund for Irish
Distressed
Ladies”), 240
Irish Distressed Ladies Fund, 258
Irish Nationalist (as adj.), 15
Irish Parliamentary Party, 49
Irish Republican (as adj.), 96
Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, 92
[Irish Sea] (author queried about adding it to
text of page)], 37
Irish Sea, 208
Irish Times, 2
Irish Volunteers, 14
Irish-Americans, 32
Irish-speaking (as adj.), 91
Israelites, 242
Ivanhoe (by Sir Walter
Scott), 289
Jacobs, Doctor/Dr. (Alice’s family physician),
173
Jacobs’ (name of biscuit factory), 232
January (in 1915), 91
January (in 1916), 145
Japan, 16
Japanese, 138
Jewess, 59
Jock, 7
Jonathan, 119
Jove (as in “by Jove”), 280
Joyce, James, 193
July (in 1915), 69
June (as month customarily set aside for
weddings), 265
June (in 1915), 69
June (in 1916), 246
Kathleen (Alice’s parents’ servant in London),
29
Kathleen (the Coughlans’ servant), 59
Kelpie (name of a yacht), 14
Kew Gardens, 287
Kildare Street Club, 193
Kilkenny, 137
King David’s (poss.), 242
King’s (as in “the King’s shilling”), 142
Kingsley, Miss, 134
Kinsale, 67
Kitchener’s (poss. of Kitchener, renowned
British military
officer), 49
Kowloon (in China), 202
Ladyship (as in “your Ladyship”), 106
Lancia (make of an automobile ca. 1916—a
Trademark? An
active one? Author
queried), 309
Larne, 14
late-Victorian (adj.), 123
Lavery, John (a painter), 294
Leinster (name of a torpedoed
ship), 275
Liberty Hall, 232
Limburg (in Germany), 90
Liverpool, 68
Lodge, Sir Oliver, 110
London, 15
“Lord Ulin’s Daughter,” 242
Lusitania, 67
Macbeth, Lady, 287
Madame (as a title), 276
Madame Debussy (epithet for Countess Debussy),
276
Madame Souris (French
textbook title), 190
Mademoiselle (Countess Debussy’s apparent reference
to
Rosamund Gwynne), 209
Maggie, 9
Mall (a main shopping area in Waterford), 45
Manchuria, 158
[Markievicz], Casimir (husband of the countess),
248
Markievicz, Countess, 2
Marriot, Captain (author), 241
[Martyn], Great Aunt Katie (also later called
Aunt Katie or Katie),
10
[Martyn], Uncle Jack (late husband of Aunt
Katie), 110
[Martyn], William, Uncle [and Major], 97
Mary (Alice’s mother’s first name), 13
Mary, Queen of Scots, 229
Mass (as RC ritual), 90
Maxwell, Sir John, 232-233
May (in 1915), 94
May (in 1916), 245
MC (abbreviation for Military Cross), 191
McBride, Major John, 90
McLeod, Mr. (a portrait-painter), 101
Melbourne (name of close friend and advisor of
Queen Victoria),
229
Michael (the “red-haired boy”), 108
Michaelmas, 138
Military Cross (a medal), 102
Miss Alice, (epithet used, by O’Neill at
Herald’s Cross hunt, to
call Alice), 151
Miss Hall (the way Grandmother refers to
Margaret Hall), 192
Molly, Aunt (late elder sister of Grandmother and
Aunt Katie),
204
Mongolia (Aunt Katie’s term for “Manchuria”),
199
Monteith, Robert, 92
Montmartre, 23
Morell, Lady Ottoline, 198
Morning Post, 27
MP (capitalized abbreviation for Member of
Parliament), 139
Mullingar, 221
Mummy (epithet used often for “Mother”), 241
Murlough Bay, 3
Nanny (capitalized epithet for Alice’s nanny in
London), 28
National Gallery, 287
National School (as in “National School
handwriting”), 146
Nationalist (as adj.), 2
NCOs (abbreviation for non-commissioned
officers), 91
Ned, 56
Nelson’s Column, 287
New Testament, 240
New York City, 32
New Zealander (n.), 20
Noreen (a butter maker at Ballydavid), 303
Norman (as adj.), 71
Normans (as noun), 72
North (name of geographic region, designating
North part of
Ireland), 263
North County Dublin, 232
North of Ireland, 3
North Sea, 13
Northern Ireland, 225
Norway, 33
Norwegian, 32
November (in 1915), 133
Noyes, Alfred (poet), 293
O’Neill, 7
O’Neill, Mrs., 106
[O’Neill], Tom (O’Neill’s son), 45
Officers’ Mess, 204
Old Head, 67
Omdurman (in the Sudan—Kitchener “the hero of
Omduran”),
276
Oonagh, 8
Orkneys, 92
Oscar II (name of a ship), 33
Ouija (see under Trademarks), 158
Paddington, 37
Palace Gardens Terrace (location of Alice’s
mother’s and father’s
house in London), 17
Paris, 23
Parisian, 23
Parnell, 49
Pat (gardener at Ballydavid), 56
Patience (name of a pony at Ballydavid), 45
Pearce, Patrick, 248
[Pearce], Willie (brother of Patrick), 248
Pentonville, 2
Philimore Gardens, 20
Pig Boat (epithet for one of the Great Western’s
ferries), 277
Plunkett, Joseph, 248
Polish, 158
“Poor Old Woman” (Casement’s epithet for Ireland
ca. 1915), 71
Post Office Rising, 232
Potteries (epithet for the “Five Towns” about
which Bennett often
wrote), 291
Prince of Darkness, 110
Protestant (adj. and n.), 3
Putumayo, 35
Putomayo Mission Fund, 91
Quaker (as adj.), 137
Queen Elizabeth, 229
Queen Victoria, 229
Queen’s County, 270
Queenstown, 67
R. M. (abbreviation for Resident Magistrate),
312
Racksole, Nella (character in The Grand
Babylon Hotel by
Bennett), 291
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 253
Redmond (leader of IRB), 48
Republican (as adj.), 2
Resident Magistrate (capitalized in
English-Irish usage), 149
Rice, Mary Spring, 14
Rice, Sir Cecil Spring (British ambassador to U.
S. ca. 1916), 292
Richard III, 252
Rising (as in “the [Easter] Rising”), 236
Roehampton Golf Club, 287
Roman Catholic (as noun), 32
Roman Catholicism, 237
Romans, 136
Rome (Italy), 91
Ross, 149
Rossduff, 66
Rowe, Nicholas, 54
Rowe’s Lane, 54
Rowes (as in “the Rowes”), 70
Royal College of Surgeons, 232
Royal Flying Corps, 14
Royal Mail, 49
Russia, 16
Russian (adj.), 23
Russian Revolution, 296
Russians, 92
Sackville Street, 193
Sacred Heart (as in “the Sacred Heart”), 221
Saint Multose (a church), 68
Saint (Alice’s uncle—her mother’s younger
brother—
sometimes referred to
as Uncle Saint: sometimes called
Sainthill (or Uncle
Sainthill)—an inconsistency or just
another name by which
he is known? The reader may not
be sure. Author
queried.), 18
Sainthill (see above and p. 18), 48
Saint-Simon, Duc de, 212
Sandycove, 2
Scotland Yard, 293
Scottish, 101
Second World War, 95
Secretary of War (an office held by Kitchener),
276
Sennelager Camp, 90
September (in 1915), 105
Shaw, Bernard, 285
Sheehy-Skeffington, Francis, 234
Shephard, Gordon, 14
Shetland Islands, 288
Shieman, Professor, 92
Singapore, 118
Slavic, 283
Sleeping Beauty’s (poss.), 95
Slieverue, 134
Smith, F. E. (Attorney General), 293
Snow White, 135
Society for Psychical Research, 110
Somerville, 149
Somerville, Major, 143
Sonia (name used by Alice to refer to Countess
Debussy), 185
South America, 15
South of Ireland, 284
Southern Ireland, 14
Southern Irish (adj.), 49
Spenser, Major, 149
Spindler, Captain (of the Aud), 177
St. George’s Channel, 275
St. George’s Hanover Square (in London), 265
St. Petersburg, 262
St. Steven’s Green, 238
Stilton (a kind of English cheese), 154
Suir (name of a river), 128
Sullivan, Sergeant (Casement’s legal counsel),
295
Sunbeam (a make of automobile ca. 1915), 8
Swinburne, 23
Swiss (as adj.), 90
Switzers (a shop—author queried to verify
spelling), 110
Tchnikov, Madame [Mara] (Uncle Hubert’s friend),
19
The Dead (by James Joyce), 193
The Dean, 300
The Grand Babylon Hotel
(by Bennett), 291
The Gresham (name of a hotel), 193
The Hanged Man (from T. S.
Eliot’s The Wasteland—later
without italics—The
Hanged Man—see p. 274), 273
The Riddle of the Sands,
(novel by Erskine Childers), 13
The Shelbourne (name of a hotel), 192
The Thirty-nine Steps
(title of a novel), 212
The Wasteland (poem by T. S.
Eliot), 273
Theosophy (capped, in the way it is used here),
190
Thomson, Basil (Assistant Commissioner of
Police), 292
Tidworth (an officer training camp), 81
Times (as in “the Times”),
90
Tipperary, 270
Titanic, 67
Tower (as in “the Tower of London”), 252
Tower of London, 237
Tralee Bay, 175
Troubles (as in “the Troubles”—epithet for the
Anglo-Irish War),
96
Turkish (adj.), 52
Turks, 93
U20 (as in ms now—name of a German U-boat—or correctly
spelled U-20?—Author
queried), 176
U-boat, 68
Unionist Ulster Volunteers, 14
United Kingdom, 3
United States, 68
Versailles, 23
Vicereine (as in “the Vicereine”), 317
Vienna, 258
Volunteers, 49
Wales, 40
Washington (D. C.), 292
Water Park, 137
Waterford Bridge, 137
Waterford, 6
Waterford-Dunmore (as adj.), 66
Waterford-Woodstown (name of a road), 319
WC (abbreviation for Water Closet), 42
Weisbach, Captain Raimund, 176
Welsh, 40
Western (as proper adj. referring to the western
hemisphere), 204
Westminster, 70
Westminster Abbey, 293
White Russian (as adj., 19)
Wigmore Hall, 316
Wilde, Oscar, 293
Wilhelmstrasse, 92
Woodstown (as adj.), 54
Woodstown (as noun), 76
Woodstown Strand, 282
Yorkshire (as in “Yorkshire pudding”), 258
Zedekiah, 242