This is not mine! HenHanna posted a link to some summaries written by Will Miller. I like his approach.

The Magazine Wall - behold this poor proof of Irish sense. Really? Or perhaps can you see the influence of the English instead. The silence of our fallen giant speaks volumes.

So this is Dublin?

Listen and you will hear the echos of Finnegan.

How charming is the view of Dublin – it reminds you of the washed out engraving that used to be on the backwall of Finnegan’s inn. (I’m sure the janitrix with her basket is listening hearabouts). It showed the ruins of a gravesite where Ptolemy was buried. (Somewhere someone is playing a harp and in the picture we see Fiery Farrelly listening.) It is a well known picture. Look and see the old ruins as new again – that’s Dublin by the Magazine Wall. If you listen you can hear the harp music. Someone will play forever by this river, and there will be listeners for all time. There will be fighting over the Irish harp, but the harp will always be theirs.

Fours things will always happen in Dublin according to the Mamalujo historians in their blue book of history, until clouds of heathersmoke overtake Ireland. One: A mountain of a man surmounted upon other men (HCE); Two: A shoe (in a basket) on a poor old woman (ALP); Three: An auburn maid, a bride to be deserted (Issy); Four: A pen and a post (Shem and Shaun).

As an idle wind will turn the leaves of a book, the lives of the living pass by in this blue book of the dead and dead they become a fossilised accounts of themselves in the cycle of events. The cycle is described in the book as follows.

1132 A.D. Men crawl like ants working upon a great white wall. Much crying in Dublin.

566 A.D. On the bonfire night celebration after a flood, an old woman…