Table of Contents
List of Illustrations viii
About Longman Cultural Editions ix
About this Edition x
Introduction xiii
Illustration: James Joyce, 1904 xviii
Table of Dates xix
Dubliners 1
The Sisters 2
An Encounter 11
Araby 20
Eveline 27
After the Race 32
Two Gallants 38
The Boarding House 49
A Little Cloud 57
Counterparts 72
Clay 83
A Painful Case 90
Ivy Day in the Committee Room 100
A Mother 117
Grace 129
The Dead 152
Contexts 193
Life in Edwardian Dublin 194
Currency 194
Incomes and Living Expenses 194
Pubs 196
The Catholic Church 197
Home Rule and Empire 199
Parnell's Speech Delivered in Cork, from the Cork Examiner, January 22, 1885 Charles Stuart 200
From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) James Joyce 203
The Irish Revival 212
From W. B. Yeats The Celtic Twilight (1893) 214
The Hosting of the Sidhe 214
This Book 215
A Teller of Tales 215
Belief and Unbelief 217
Illustration: First Program of the Irish National Theatre Society (1904) 218
Douglas Hyde's Speech, "The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland" (1892) 219
"Political and Intellectual Freedom" (1904) Frederick Ryan 224
"The Soul of Ireland" (1903) James Joyce 229
After the Famine: Emigration and Exile 232
"More Starvation" from the Cork Examiner (1846) 233
"The Depopulation of Ireland" from The Illustrated London News (1851) 234
Illustration: The Deserted Village of Moveen, London Illustrated News, December 22, 1849 236
Illustration: Population of Ireland (Republic), 1841-1946 236
"The Double Leak," from Ireland at the Cross Roads (1903) Filson Young 237
Composition, Publication, Early Reviews 243
Order of Composition 243
Publication and Reception 244
"A Curious History" (1913) James Joyce 245
Unsigned Review of Dubliners from The Times Literary Supplement (1914) 248
"Dubliners and Mr. James Joyce," from The Egoist (1914) Ezra Pound 249
The Stories in Context 253
The Sisters 253
Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy (1844) 257
An Encounter 258
Illustration: Cover from Pluck 259
Araby 259
Araby Catalog (1894) 259
"Araby's Daughter" (1817) Thomas Moore 260
"I'll Sing Thee Songs of Araby" (1877) 262
"An Arab's Farewell to his Steed" (1869) Caroline Norton 262
Eveline 264
The Twelve Promises of the Sacred Heart of Jesus as Given to Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque 264
"Come with the Gypsy Bride" (1843) 265
"The Lass That Loves a Sailor" (1803) Charles Dibdin 265
Illustration: "The Second Meeting," from Clifford G. Roe, Horrors of the White Slave Trade: The Mighty Crusade to Protect the Purity of Our Homes (1911) 266
After the Race 267
"Motor Race," from the Leicester Leader (1903) 267
"The Motor Derby: Interview with a French Champion," from the Irish Times (1903) James Joyce 268
The Boarding House 270
"A Dublin Boarding House," from Personal Sketches and Recollections of His Own Times (1827) Jonah Barrington 270
"I'm a Naughty Girl" (1898) 272
A Little Cloud 274
"On the Death of a Young Lady, Cousin to the Author and Very Dear to Him" (1802) Lord Byron 274
Clay 275
"I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls" (1843) 275
A Painful Case 275
Friedrich Nietzsche, from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (trans. Alexander, Tille 1896) 276
Ivy Day in the Committee Room 278
A Mother 278
Grace 278
Dante Alighieri, from The Inferno, Canto III (trans. Ichabod Charles Wright, 1833), lines 1-18 279
The Deharbe Catechism 279
"Parable of the Unjust Steward," Luke 16: 1-10 279
The Dead 280
"Arrayed for the Bridal" (1835) 280
"The Lass of Aughrim" 281
"O Ye Dead" Thomas Moore 282
Further Reading, Viewing, Listening 283
Credits 288
