The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly
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The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly
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The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly is a song in book one of James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake, where the protagonist H.C.E. has been brought low by a rumour which begins to spread across Dublin, apparently concerning a sexual trespass involving two girls in Phoenix Park; however details of HCE's transgression change with each retelling of events. Most of chapters 1.2 through 1.4 follow the progress of this rumour, starting with HCE's encounter with "a cad with a pipe." The cad asks the time, but HCE
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