| 1. | From the reports of eyewitnesses it transpires that the seismic waves were accompanied by a violent atmospheric perturbation of cyclonic character. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 2. | The observatory of Dunsink registered in all eleven shocks, all of the fifth grade of Mercalli's scale, and there is no record extant of a similar seismic disturbance in our island since the earthquake of , the year of the rebellion of Silken Thomas. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |